Fuck AMD and Nvidia with coming up with hardware specific libraries instead of just using a open solution that can work on all cards..........
Depending on how you read this sentence, I just wanted to point out that it is potentially hyperbole given that OpenCL was only first created in 2009, and not really put into use until a few years after that.
I was just thinking about this the other day now. In the days of OpenCL and the newer OpenGL standards that also add some more GPGPU features, I would love to see an OpenCL/GL standard for hardware-accelerated physics. The timing is right.
Hopefully TressFX isn't exclusive.
And I bet my nVidia card wont be able to activate the features.
Great. Now I know how AMD users feel.
Honestly I'm more excited that this means AMD 8000 series may be announced as I'm itching for a new PC build.
Bummer I likely won't be able to get the fancy hair on my 670, physx now works for AMD users right? So perhaps once glorious day more games will have Alice: Madness Returns hair ;-; Which by the way, was there ever any discussion of how they achieved that hair? Looked amazing on consoles and PC, didn't seem to use any special tech either.
Bummer I likely won't be able to get the fancy hair on my 670, physx now works for AMD users right? So perhaps once glorious day more games will have Alice: Madness Returns hair ;-; Which by the way, was there ever any discussion of how they achieved that hair? Looked amazing on consoles and PC, didn't seem to use any special tech either.
Fuck AMD and Nvidia with coming up with hardware specific libraries instead of just using a open solution that can work on all cards..........
Cmon AMD, give PC users awesome explosion/smoke tech from PS4.
I honestly hope their tressFX is just a code name for a broader more powerful physics engine (running on an open standard so we might see it in more things?) and not simply hair. Hair is cool and all... but I want more and as an entitled gamer I demand it!
Guns with hair.
Now your guns can have hats.
Cmon AMD, give PC users awesome explosion/smoke tech from PS4.
That's because there isn't anything special about it. Nvidia has demonstrated advanced hair rendering in the past with PhysX tech demos. I really doubt ATI/AMD have invented some amazing new method of rendering hair which is revolutionary and never before seen.
Hm...
"all new & top secret DX11 effect"?
Could it be..? Physics on Lara's hair?
http://www.overclock.net/t/1364404/gpu-physx-coming-to-amd/0_100#post_19374275We're not going to do the same, because we don't believe in cutting out half of the market with proprietary technologies. The OpenCL/DirectCompute capabilities of Graphics Core Next, or your friendly local processor, are capable of everything PhysX is doing without locking users out of features they should be able to run if it weren't for a silly and arbitrary lockout.
Few people know that PhysX is a carbon copy of OpenCL with a handful of NVIDIA-specific features. That means if PhysX can do it, OpenCL can do it. Gamers should be asking game developers to do more open physics work, because that is the roadblock.
AMD's marketing manager for high end discrete GPUs commented on this topic at OCN:
http://www.overclock.net/t/1364404/gpu-physx-coming-to-amd/0_100#post_19374275
It sounds like this won't be a proprietary technology.
AMD: "This is *my* laboratoire!"
Seeing AMD's connection with next-gen system, could we see this feature or something like it in the coming consoles? I am soooo tired of bald space marines. Good hair and cloth animation goes a long way.
I thought the 8000 series was going be delayed until 2014? I know the AMD guy kind of walked it back. But all he said was he didn't say that, but he also didn't deny it.
I would be kind of surprised if the 8000 series was announced this soon. Just me though.
It actually wouldn't be that unusual. They typically do annual releases. 7000 series was January 2012. If they announced new GPUs, it wouldn't be widely available until May-June.
I'm just assuming that it's tied to a physics processor, which means new hardware. AMD is also packing in 3 free games with GPUs and the AMD guy dancing around the question suggests they are trying to clear inventory. Also hopeful because I have 6950x2. Totally not worth it to pay $750 to get 2x that with 7970x2. Rather wait for 8970.
I know it's not unusual, but word on the street was that they were delaying these series to Q4 this year vs Q2 (which is when they usually come out).
What will be the difference between 7970 and 8970. Has there been any rumors? I thought the 8000 series was just going to be a re-release of the 7000 series, slightly tweaked. Could have sworn I read that somewhere.
Bummer I likely won't be able to get the fancy hair on my 670, physx now works for AMD users right? So perhaps once glorious day more games will have Alice: Madness Returns hair ;-; Which by the way, was there ever any discussion of how they achieved that hair? Looked amazing on consoles and PC, didn't seem to use any special tech either.
And I bet my nVidia card wont be able to activate the features.
Great. Now I know how AMD users feel.
Cmon AMD, give PC users awesome explosion/smoke tech from PS4.