Not to be pedantic, but fixed-function usually refers to something else entirely with GPUs i.e. pre-DX8 cards
Discrete pixel/vertex-shader architecture might be better, if a slight mouthful!
Is the PS3 on track to deliver full specs?
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Not to be pedantic, but fixed-function usually refers to something else entirely with GPUs i.e. pre-DX8 cards
Discrete pixel/vertex-shader architecture might be better, if a slight mouthful!
You're right. Bad choice of words on my part.
MasterDisaster
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so if all those demos ran on 420mhz prototypes and the current speculated final speed is 500mz, then that would mean a bump in speed
if you are refering to ps3 dev kits, I don't know the clock of rsx, but if I remember well, the dev kit that runs the demos have 2 GB of ram + 512 MB of GDDR3, this is not under NDA, so any dev can confirm?
Do you have a list of things we can say and things we cannot say? cause if you have such a list I'd want one as well
That's correct. But I suspect MS was at least a bit worried about PS3 turning up with more RAM though. That would have been a major difference.
Don't you just love competition...
Do you have a list of things we can say and things we cannot say? cause if you have such a list I'd want one as well
why didnt you ask me ? if have that list and you can definitly talk about
PS3 technical specs regarding the speed of different parts of the machine and about the online part
So you signed a NDA without knowing what it encompasses ? Does the NDA allow talking about the NDA ?
Last NDA I signed personally:
1) was pretty much all-encompasing, thus when things were/are actually made public, it's still not clear whether or not we can start talking about them (generally the answer is still no, even if that seems a little strange).
2) explicitly didn't allow discussion of the NDA, neither with random people, nor even with other people I may suspect of being under the same NDA (including people belonging to the same company as me or people quite obviously involved intimately with the thing the NDA covered). In fact I'm technically not even allowed to say "I'm under NDA". Oops.
3) had all kinds of serious penalties spelled out for what would happen to me if I broke the terms of the NDA. It's obviously partially scare tactics to make you take it seriously - but it worked.
Usually an NDA is in the contract you have with your employer anyway, and unless you're personally in on that very early stages of development for the latest greatest console (a few companies will be let in early on, and it's person-by-person, seperate NDA time), your company itself will have some kind of high-level confidentiality agreement with Sony or MS or Ninty. Really our contracts are pretty vague and if we followed them to the letter we'd never talk about anything, ever, to anyone.
So I don't know about nAo, but I've certainly signed serious looking documents without having a clear idea of their extent, and I've just broken the conditions by telling you
Note that I'm not admiting what the NDA was for though... so I reckon "anonymous person breaks some kind of NDA about something by talking about NDA" is probably safe.
MasterDisaster
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MasterDisaster
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it's no safe to discuss of the performance of ps3 compared to 360, and this is OT and can lead the thread off topic in a second..
look this:
http://www.beyond3d.com/articles/xenos/index.php?p=09
Yep, no one is perfect..
little OT: are you italian nAo?
Dev kits tend to have extra RAM for debug and development purposes. A dev wouldn't be using more than the allocated RAM for PS3 for the execution of the game regardless of how much RAM is in the SDK. Unless they're really stupid, create texture packs with 512 MB GDDR in mind, and levels with AI pointers and whatnot for 512 MB's XDR, and then find they have to halve everything to fit it in the final console. But to do that you'd have to be really stupid!
ShootMyMonkey
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No, that was from a dev document that was leaked with tips on how to use the CPU and a chart comparing performance with the PowerPC's in the dev kits.
It stated 3.0Ghz for the CPU speed, and was obviously just a typo, most people didnt even catch it.
MasterDisaster
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After the rumors from this last E3 you have to wonder how much lead time they do get at times though. The loss of rumble and the addition of 3D tilt seemed to be last minute to many.
