Cascades - NVIDIA's first DX10 demo available

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Cascades, the first NVIDIA DirectX 10 demo is up for grabs!

http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_cascades_home.html
http://us.download.nvidia.com/downloads/nZone/nvidia/nzd_CascadesSetup.exe

Minimum System Requirements: GeForce 8-Series, Windows Vista, ForceWare Drivers 100.64 or higher, 512MB system memory, 256MB video memory
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http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x86_100.64.html
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x64_100.64.html

Demo author page: http://www.geisswerks.com/ryan/whatsnew-graphics.html

Press release: http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_39921.html
 
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Well, it is tragically short of balloon-chested babes. :cry:

But it is working here and seems to bring the pre-tay. I reccomend the CTRL-CLICK myself (add waterfalls where you like). :D

Newest Fraps seems to not like Vista tho? So I can't tell you how fast it is at 1920x1200.

And it seems to only go up to 4xaa currently in the app settings. Wassup with that?

Edit:
http://www.beyond3d.com/images/news/Cascades1.png 1920x1200 0xaa/16xaf
http://www.beyond3d.com/images/news/Cascades2.png 1920x1200 4xaa/16xaf

X2 4200@2640, 2GB RAM.

4xaa is noticeably slower in my estimation. Fwiw.
 
They showed this demo at launch day, I wasn't very impressed. It was jerky and not any more detailed than a non-procedurally generated geometry load.
 
I was running low 40's on my X2@2640. If it is dual core aware, then it is hitting the second core much less than the first.
 
neliz said:
The E6400 clocks over 3Ghz on air.. I'd like to see CPU-Z running next to it. (chips.de "Der neue Übertaktungskönig" frontpage)
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Stock clocks are 2.130 MHz though - and that was the freq it was running at.
 
I like it! Runs well here (8800GTX, E6600 @ 3Ghz). Making waterfalls is way too much fun ;)

Actually I really like the water rendering and physics, even if it is simple. It gives a fairly convincing effect from even a fairly close distance. Very well done - kudos to Ryan.
 
Quasar said:
Yep, Vista itself is no problem (even 64-Bit), but D3D10 is a no-go.
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Ah, that makes sense. Thanks. Hopefully they'll get that addressed sooner rather than later as some samples to test with (like this demo) become available.
 
2* 8800 GTX - E6600 Sli failure

After enabeling SLI on the 8800 GTX my system froze. after rebooting it there was no possibility to gain access to the nvdidia control panel.

The control panel application starts and keeps on running at 50 % cpy load ( dual core ). The demo runs fine without SLI :) its nice, but would really like to see it running in SLI.

Also enabling SLI when 4 monitors are connected and enabled renders the driver into error. Just after the reboot it will be in SLI mode.

Any body have a solution to get the control panel fixed?
 
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