Recent content by demalion

I think the perceived quiet is a combination of Creative's domination and tendency towards stagnation. By this latter, I mean sticking with the same hardware for so long, and when finally providing a jump into new hardware technologies, doing so out of sync with the rest of the industry's "new...

Thoughts about site design On my 20" monitor I quite enjoy the site layout, though I have some concerns about a lack of graphical separators and distinct graphical cues for: posting order, separation of postings, the navigation bar selections, and distinguishing the more minor or unconfirmed...

I'm interested in some detailed impressions of these (apparently) new products from what appears to be a planned Borland spin-off dedicated to IDE products. Here is a link to the website dedicated to the products and their free version downloads available now ("Explorer", analogous to Visual...

How effective can motion blur be by simply tagging on simple blend type effects, to current rendering? Viable as a readily tangible and problem free improvement? More to current thoughts, how about as an SLI/Xfire feature, for CPU and/or Refresh rate limited displays? Seems a natural fit...

PP, take a careful look at the Boxplot and explanation Fodder linked, and think up some ways to graphically present it. I think you will find it efficiently conveys the information you are trying to get across, in a graphically expressive way.

Yas There was a talk of clock speed based increase in "pipelines" with the R420 launch, hints at "double pumped", comparisons to Intel's Netburst, and agreements concerning design tools to achieve significantly higher speed operation Viewing the numbers listed, the base number seems to be...

Does anyone have any info on the nuts and bolts of the sound chip processing functionality? I'm wondering about the relationship to 3dlabs Pxx chip functionality and how much of the announced featureset is an adaptation of such.

Baseline fill rate tests, then exploration of differing performance characteristics in pixel and multitexturing fill rate, as well as varying pixel shading loads, possibly including usage of super sampling with each. Z and stencil characteristics would be interesting as well, probably...

Well, I don't see where something as ambitiously flexible as that would fit for desktop motherboards, at least with where I expect Windows to take things. I could see some possibilities for expanded AIW functionality while maintaining competitive adaptibility (codec evolutions and...

Similar implementation to ATI's temporal AA in principle (temporal jittering): switching between different colors to create the appearance of a distinct new color intermediate, in this case with an intensity that it isn't actually possible for the hardware to create. Seems like a pretty...

Congratulations. :)

One thing I've noticed is one metric of "better" that seems like it is going to be haunting us for a while: "stands out more" = "better". I think this is a result of the perspective of being in a transition from "low detail unreleastic" rendering to adding more detail...by looking especially...

Thanks for the bulletin.

I think the "2" setting for Normal Compression is sufficient quality for Doom 3 at the resolutions I've used (up to 1280/960). I think it unfortunate that higher detail on some surfaces was not offered, because I found some surfaces lacking in detail, and I wonder if it was content creation...

Aside from the other potential, one thing that seems ignored in this discussion so far is that the cost won't be double for incremental upgrading, as the cost of the 2nd should be significantly less if purchased later. SLI can keep an open door for changing from "mid end" performance to high...