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17-Mar-2007, 14:22
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meandering Velosoph
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R600: Exclusive Cooperation Valve & AMD?
http://www.pcgameshardware.de/?article_id=571781
In an interview with AMD Technical Program Manager Lars Weinand the German based website PC Games hardware unearthed that AMD is working closely with game developers with regard to the eagerly awaited launch of its R600 GPU. As expected game devs had already access to the R600 for quite a while in order to test DX10 methods and effects. While Weinand didn't want to name a concrete developer, PC games hardware speculates that it could in fact be none other than Valve Software.
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17-Mar-2007, 14:32
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Artist formely known as Vysez
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I see smoke, could there be a fire underneath it?
With that said, if this marketing deal is true, what will be the game Valve will show for this R600 deal? HL²... Again?
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17-Mar-2007, 14:48
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Regular
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What have Valve got coming up? AFAIK, it's Team Fortress 2, Portal, and HL Episode 2, none of them massively cutting edge when it comes to graphics.
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17-Mar-2007, 14:59
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Maybe they've got some tech demo or oddball game using havok GPU physics? That could be it. Valve have a good history with their havok. I'm sure AMD would love to appear to be the first with HavokFX up and running, with a big name developer providing the experience. If popular conception was that only R6xx could do these spectacular things with upcoming source games, it would shift a lot of cards for them. Last edited by bigtabs; 17-Mar-2007 at 15:05. |
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17-Mar-2007, 15:03
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Meh
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I guess they got tired of seeing Nvidia at the top of the Steam charts
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17-Mar-2007, 15:45
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Well, Many new features have been added to the source engine latetly : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_engine
and http://www.halflife2.net/forums/show...&postcount=861 http://forums.steampowered.com/forum...0&postcount=32 |
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17-Mar-2007, 15:53
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It's not going to be a DX10 powerhouse like Crysis though is it? It's not even DX9 manditory like UT3/Crysis. I suppose they might be rustling up something special like Lost Coast, but it's not the same as a big launch with an upcoming triple-A game to say "look at this great game, works best on our hardware as endorsed by the devs." It's really just a tech demo if there isn't a full game showcasing the hardware. |
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