half-life 2 and TWIMTBP

[silhouette]

I know the subject is stupid, but half-life 2 is listed in the nvidia's n-zone with a TWIMTBP mark next to it.. Does Nvidia allow to do something like that?

If they can, why doesn't ATI list all new coming games in their sites?

Maybe the guys from ATi can answer this... Just out of curiosity...

 

[Pete]

Maybe, as a condition to getting help from nV in writing shaders, devs/publishers must allow nV to list their games in the TWIMTBP page?

 

[jimbob0i0]

lmao - I didn't realise that HL2 was meant to be a TWIMTBP game..... I would have thought NV would have attempted to disuade Valve from using any floating point render targets early on if that was the case..... ah well... nevermind eh?

 

[Miksu]

Afaik, HL2 isn't a TWIMTBP-product but Steam is.

 

[digitalwanderer]

Afaik, HL2 isn't a TWIMTBP-product but Steam is.

How do you play Steam? :|

 

[Arun]

Afaik, HL2 isn't a TWIMTBP-product but Steam is.

How do you play Steam? :|

Good point Hmm... Well... I guess they could say NVIDIA is revolutionizing the notion of gaming!
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[Simon F]

How do you play Steam? :|

Just put Peter Gabriel's "Us" album in a CD player and select track 9.

 

[Captain Chickenpants]

Sounds more like a guitar with some distortion and some synths to me.

CC

 

[kyleb]

How do you play Steam? :|

open youir freinds list, right click on a name and select "play board game". i recomend chess.

 

[Fafnir]

If they can, why doesn't ATI list all new coming games in their sites?

ATI dont list all games but they do have a section on their website dedicated to upcoming games ATI have been helping out with.

http://www.ati.com/gitg/gaming/gamemaker/

 

[LeGreg]

lmao - I didn't realise that HL2 was meant to be a TWIMTBP game..... I would have thought NV would have attempted to disuade Valve from using any floating point render targets early on if that was the case..... ah well... nevermind eh?

As far as I know, they aren't using floating point render targets.

Do you know a site that is called beyond 3d they had this in their news section :

[Gary McTaggart] Actually, with ATI, we use 16 bit integer buffers. We don't use a float buffer. NVIDIA is adding support for buffers that are lower than 16-bit integer.

 

[jimbob0i0]

lmao - I didn't realise that HL2 was meant to be a TWIMTBP game..... I would have thought NV would have attempted to disuade Valve from using any floating point render targets early on if that was the case..... ah well... nevermind eh?

As far as I know, they aren't using floating point render targets.

Do you know a site that is called beyond 3d they had this in their news section :

[Gary McTaggart] Actually, with ATI, we use 16 bit integer buffers. We don't use a float buffer. NVIDIA is adding support for buffers that are lower than 16-bit integer.

Um this makes no sense to me now - can any knowledgable correct my information? I though floating point render targets were being used for HDR with HL2? Also I thought some of the other effects *required* FP to work correctly and hence were being cut down or removed from the mixed mode and DX8/8.1 modes?