Digital Foundry Article Technical Discussion Archive [2014]

[DJ12]

Well I got the game for Xmas and laa-yosh I'd have to say no lol
Luckily I also got gta5

 

[Laa-Yosh]

I was kinda referring to DF posting yet another update

 

[psorcerer]

filling registers

There are no "registers" in GCN.

sets up shader constants

Hence there are no shader constants. They are emulated, on CPU.

Therefore the whole process of rendering something has no similarity to any DirectX one.
But people still use shader constants today, on PS4.

ModEdit: off-topic stuff moved https://forum.beyond3d.com/threads/dummies-for-programming-or-programming-for-dummies.56364/