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Nvidia driver dev interview

http://www.gamedev.net/topic/666419-.../#entry5215019


The first lesson is: Nearly every game ships broken. We're talking major AAA titles from vendors who are everyday names in the industry. In some cases, we're talking about blatant violations of API rules - one D3D9 game never even called BeginFrame/EndFrame. Some are mistakes or oversights - one shipped bad shaders that heavily impacted performance on NV drivers. These things were day to day occurrences that went into a bug tracker. Then somebody would go in, find out what the game screwed up, and patch the driver to deal with it. There are lots of optional patches already in the driver that are simply toggled on or off as per-game settings, and then hacks that are more specific to games - up to and including total replacement of the shipping shaders with custom versions by the driver team. Ever wondered why nearly every major game release is accompanied by a matching driver release from AMD and/or NVIDIA? There you
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Couldn't find a source so this is still speculative but it seems the Star Citizen will be a hefty client in size. Approx 100gb :O

The in development crowd funded space sim Star Citizen is likely to require a 100GB download for the client software.

Roberts Space Industries director of game operations Jeremy Masker revealed the unusually high size on the official forums, rebutting a previous estimate of around 30-40GB. The large client size is simply because of the size and number of assets that need to be delivered.
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More R9 300 series rumors/stuff..

http://techreport.com/news/27954/latest-radeon-rumor-points-to-april-release-for-r9-370

Videocardz has images of an apparent product listing for the Radeon R9 370, which is pegged for an early April release.
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I don't know about other people, but I always find this time to be kind of interesting. We know they're close to launching something, we just don't know what exactly or when.

Is it me or does AMD attract so much more speculation, discussion and rumors than Intel/Nvidia when they come up to releasing something new?
 
Warchild said:
For the readers among us.

Terry Pratchett R.I.P

I loved his books :(

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Damn shame, RIP.

I enjoyed many of his books :(

Zoot said:
More R9 300 series rumors/stuff..

http://techreport.com/news/27954/latest-radeon-rumor-points-to-april-release-for-r9-370



I don't know about other people, but I always find this time to be kind of interesting. We know they're close to launching something, we just don't know what exactly or when.

Is it me or does AMD attract so much more speculation, discussion and rumors than Intel/Nvidia when they come up to releasing something new?
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The specifications matrix also indicates that the card has only one PCIe power connector and a single fan. Odds are it's easy to keep cool.
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now that's interesting...
 
That socket looks so weird lmao... Interesting though... definitely interesting although I doubt it'll work very well. Maybe if they used a dual-layer PCB and the sense that they've basically got two stacked ones to make up for the space taken up by the socket.

Or the solutions that Asus and MSI are going for now. Actually, I'm surprised ASRock didn't for that.
 
Mainboards for Intel ‘Skylake’ chips to hit the market in September


With 14nm fabrication process finally mature enough for production of high-end microprocessors, Intel Corp. feels itself pretty comfortable. With no or little competitive pressure from Advanced Micro Devices, the world’s largest chipmaker can release new products when it makes the most business sense for it. The company takes advantage of this situation and has no intention to rush its next-generation “Skylake” processors to the market.
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We've seen a lot of rumour and hear say regarding the Titan X, but that is now firmly over here we have the FACTS as they came in, from the horses mouth with NVIDIA CEO and Co-founder Jen-Hsun Huang, while at the GPU Technology Conference.

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Titan X is our new flagship GeForce gaming GPU, but it’s also uniquely suited for deep learning.

We gave a sneak peek of TITAN X two weeks ago at the Game Developers Conference, in San Francisco, where it drove a stunning virtual reality experience called “Thief in the Shadows,” based on the dragon Smaug, from “The Hobbit.”

The latest AAA titles are breathtaking on TITAN X in 4K. Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, for example, runs at 40 frames per second on high settings with FXAA enabled, compared with 30fps on the GeForce GTX 980, released in September.

Built on the NVIDIA Maxwell GPU architecture, TITAN X delivers twice the performance and double the power efficiency of its predecessor by combining 3,072 processing cores for 7 teraflops of peak single-precision performance with 12GB of onboard memory.

With that processing power and 336.5GB/s of memory bandwidth, it can rip through the millions of pieces of data used to train deep neural networks. On AlexNet, an industry-standard model, for example, TITAN X took less than three days to train the model using the 1.2 million image ImageNet dataset, compared with over 40 days for a 16-core CPU.

Available today, TITAN X is selling for just $999
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If that's not enough awesome factoids for you how about this build of awesomeness called the Digits DevBox? It makes the recent Overkill3D that our very own Guvnor did seem a bit tiny...

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But for $15000 it's probably not going to adorn many desks.

Source: NVIDIA GPU Devloper Conference.
 
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Ahh would of though it would of been an end of the year job, well might give it to the end of the year to upgrade depending on bugs an stuff
 
Microsoft are willing to forgo legality checks and allow users with illegal copies of Windows to upgrade to windows 10.. also for free.

they report that 3/4 of PC users in China, use illegal versions of windows.

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Warchild said:
Microsoft are willing to forgo legality checks and allow users with illegal copies of Windows to upgrade to windows 10.. also for free.

they report that 3/4 of PC users in China, use illegal versions of windows.

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This seems a bit too generous. There HAS to be a catch with this.
 
Witcher 3 4k screenshot.. i don't have a 4k screen so i can't see it in its true glorly

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Basically there 2 camps. Some say they love it. Others say they aren't impressed. Personally, i think trees and grass aren't the best screenshot examples and reserve my judgement until something more screenshot worthy pops up. Still excited for the game though!

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Ah so thats where the 4K screenshot official article came from. I don't agree with taking someone elses findings and writing an official article on it tbh.

Or at the very least, thank the person and say it will be written up.
 
NeverBackDown said:
Witcher 3 4k screenshot.. i don't have a 4k screen so i can't see it in its true glorly

The_Witcher_3_Wild_Hunt_War_ravaged_these_lands,_nobody_lives_here_anymore.png


Basically there 2 camps. Some say they love it. Others say they aren't impressed. Personally, i think trees and grass aren't the best screenshot examples and reserve my judgement until something more screenshot worthy pops up. Still excited for the game though!

Source: Witcher 3 4k
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ShaunB-91 said:
Ah so thats where the 4K screenshot official article came from. I don't agree with taking someone elses findings and writing an official article on it tbh.

Or at the very least, thank the person and say it will be written up.
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When I wrote my article I had not read the Quick news thread. As many of you can imagine I read a lot of news from most of the main PC news outlets, which includes PCgamer.

However I now know that NeverBackDown had found the news and delivered it to OC3D forum First and has since been credited in the article for the find and has been sent a PM of notifying him of the situation and apologising for any offence.
 
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