Beyond3D Featured ContentClassic: Real-Time Ray Tracing: Holy Grail or Fool's Errand?
This article by Deano Calver, former Lead Programmer for Heavenly Sword, was published in October 2007 as a counter to the raytracing hype sponsored by Intel that was going on at the time. It also spawned an extremely interesting discussion thread on the matter (which was lost in a database failure but revived almost completely with the help of the community).
ATI have released new drivers for their Radeon products, bringing the first shot at OpenGL 3.0 support since the Khronos Group took the lid off the new standard at SIGGRAPH recently.
NVIDIA has released another set of beta Forceware drivers to the Geforce 8, 9, and 200 series owning masses, bumping the version number to 177.79.
Never letting the beat drop, the red --and somehow at the same time
green-- team of mad MCs at AMD released yesterday the second version
(the .2) of their 2008 series (the 8) of catalyst drivers for
Radeon-family graphics cards.
AMD has released another update to the Catalyst Software Suite, bringing the all-in-one Radeon driver and utility package up to version 7.12, making this the final official Catalyst release for 2007.
NVIDIA has released version 100.14.19 of it display driver for Linux (x86 and x64) and Solaris (x86 and x64 too).
NVIDIA have released a ForceWare 163.69 display driver, WHQL-certified for Windows Vista. It makes us lament that there never was a 69.69 driver release, but we digress.
NVIDIA have made available 163.67 in beta form, improving compatibility and perf for Crysis and BioShock in the main.
NVIDIA dropped us a line to say that they'd be releasing a new Vista
driver in the next few days that adds SLI support for GeForce 6 and 7
hardware, including 7950 GX2. The driver also supposedly offers OpenGL
performance improvements, improved 8-series SLI performance at high
resolutions, and a…
Yesterday NVIDIA released an updated set of ForceWare drivers for
Geforce 8800 users who jumped on the Vista bandwagon. The drivers
primarily add support for the 8800 GTS 320MB, but also feature a few
game and control panel fixes, among other things.
As expected, NVIDIA officially released ForceWare version 100.54 for
Vista for the 8800 GTX and 8800 GTS. NVIDIA's download page still
points to 97.46 as the driver of choice for any earlier cards under
Vista, so while 100.54 supports the GeForce 6 and 7 series, it might
not be a…
NVIDIA have released a beta driver supporting most of the new OpenGL 3.0 specification. Sadly, it's Windows-only.
The guys at SuSE (and other collaborators on the open project) have released a new RadeonHD drive revision in the last couple of weeks that adds better support for RV6xx variants and some other tweaks here and there.
Phoronix are reporting that AMD have released the next round of GPU spec docs for the open source community to use to develop truly open source display drivers for Radeon graphics processors.
Are you a fan of PT Boats: Knights of the Sea, or Team Fortress 2? Does the PC you play said games on sport an NVIDIA graphics chip? If both conditions evaluate to true, you might fancy taking a look at 163.71.
Novell have released the first alpha-quality display driver for R5xx and R6xx-based Radeon graphics products, for openSUSE, following the release of register specifications by AMD.
As promised by AMD, register specifications for their modern graphics processors are starting to become available. Today saw the availability of the 2D, VIP and bringup registers for RV630 and M56 (Mobility Radeon X1600), on x.org.
It's Monday, it's the 10th of the month, and there's a north-westerly
blowing past my office window. "What could that mean?!", I hear you
all cry. Why, Catalyst 7.9 of course.
Making good on a prior promise for WHQL-certified Windows Vista drivers for their G80-based products, NVIDIA have them available for both 64-bit and 32-bit versions of said OS.
Nab the 64-bit version of Forceware 100.65…
Nab the 64-bit version of Forceware 100.65…
Not satisfied with just one release of drivers for their flagship GeForce 8800 line during Vista launch week, NVIDIA have thrown down with a second set today. These are the 100.59 ForceWare, for both x86 and