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    Image of fuchikoma fuchikoma
    05/19/09

    In reply to The Glorious, Hulking History of 3D Graphics
    It all started to go wrong when certain programs required a VGA card to be on a VESA bus...


    Then you had to have the right proprietary mix and match of parts to play games you wanted until... about DirectX 5 since the earlier ones were kinda brutal and crash-prone.


    This often meant a Sound Blaster sound card and a 3dfx video card, otherwise your games like MechWarrior 2, Tomb Raider, or Carmageddon wouldn't be 3D accelerated at all, and you couldn't guarantee you'd have sound effects.

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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    05/19/09

    In reply to The Glorious, Hulking History of 3D Graphics
    When will we have sentient AI chips for our PCs?
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    Image of EVEs_Mako EVEs_Mako
    05/19/09

    In reply to The Glorious, Hulking History of 3D Graphics
    I cry out for my old Voodoo! VOODOO!


    Good times.....good times.

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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    05/19/09

    @EVEs_Mako: Yeah, what happened to 3dfx? (and Matrox and S3 for that matter).
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    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    05/19/09

    In reply to The Glorious, Hulking History of 3D Graphics
    I remember every one of those cards. Clearly the Voodoo revolutionized 3D acceleration.


    Now, let's talk about sound cards. Anyone remember the AdLib synthesizer on a card?

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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    05/19/09

    @FrankenPC: I remember that, and Roland-something or other. But really, Soundblaster was the one that made the most difference. It let the computer play actual sound clips, not just synthesized sounds. Pew pew pew!
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    Image of Inception Inception
    05/19/09

    In reply to The Glorious, Hulking History of 3D Graphics
    Haha, the funny thing is that I actually use an S3 Virge card at work. Works with old linuxes out of the box! :D
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    05/19/09

    @Inception: What? Does your computer have a "turbo" button too?
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    Image of Monty Monty
    05/13/09

    In reply to Giz Explains: GPGPU Computing, and Why It'll Melt Your Face Off
    Matt, you get my eternal gratitude for starting the article mentioning the Amiga as the start of graphics co-processors. It is exciting to have a platform that will help blaze the way on finding solutions to our multi-processor problems. While it might be much easier to split up a graphics task into a million simultaneous pieces, the mother-lode will be to find that same process for all programming, and I have no doubt there are more than a few minds working on that problem right now.
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    Image of Nick Sweet Nick Sweet
    05/13/09

    In reply to Giz Explains: GPGPU Computing, and Why It'll Melt Your Face Off
    Mythbusters explains GPU vs CPU with extreme prejudice:

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    05/13/09

    @Nick Sweet: you're the best facebooker ever.
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    Image of Dr. H. F. Danger Dr. H. F. Danger
    05/13/09

    In reply to Giz Explains: GPGPU Computing, and Why It'll Melt Your Face Off
    needs more "!!!"


    GPGPU!!!

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    Image of Nick Nick
    05/13/09

    In reply to Giz Explains: GPGPU Computing, and Why It'll Melt Your Face Off
    alright, we need to brainstorm and find a way to pronounce this GPGPU. i ain't spendin the rest of my years saying each letter.
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    05/13/09

    @Texas, Texas yee haw_Nick: jeep-jeep-u
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    Image of Xeno Xeno
    05/13/09

    In reply to Giz Explains: GPGPU Computing, and Why It'll Melt Your Face Off
    It looks like she's listening to a Zakk Wylde solo.
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    05/13/09

    @Xeno wishes there was a preview button: and or he's just finnishing up that solo ;)
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    Image of admoseremic admoseremic
    05/13/09

    In reply to Giz Explains: GPGPU Computing, and Why It'll Melt Your Face Off
    Too bad there are again multiple standards working against the consumers. I've read somewhere that Nvidia was in talks with AMD to bring CUDA to the ATI cards, but I don't have much hope for that.


    We need an OPEN standard for GPGPU and another for Physics on the GPU. And no, DirectX doesn't count.

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    Image of Nick Nick
    05/13/09

    @admoseremic: does dire . . . oh.
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    05/13/09

    In reply to Giz Explains: GPGPU Computing, and Why It'll Melt Your Face Off
    apple core
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    you!
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    Image of onewiththewurlitzer onewiththewurlitzer
    05/13/09

    In reply to Giz Explains: GPGPU Computing, and Why It'll Melt Your Face Off
    We have more to look forward to with next-gen gaming consoles.
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    Image of Dexomega Dexomega
    05/13/09

    @onewiththewurlitzer: GPU's are already utilized in the XBox 360 and PS3. Sorry, nothing to look "forward" to.
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    Image of kagekiri kagekiri
    05/13/09

    @Dexomega: Do they use GPGPUs in the manner that the article is talking about?


    I'm more worried how long it's going to take game devs to program these sorts of games. As we reach near-real graphics, all the textures and artwork is only going to become a greater burden in terms of time spent, and I'm afraid that will lead to even longer game dev cycles (which I feel are a little too long already).


    Obviously, they could forgo hyper-detail work in favor of stylized art, but the trend still seems to point towards making graphics more and more life-like.

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    Image of Kynes Kynes
    05/13/09

    @kagekiri:

    If the cost is reasonable from the consumer perspective, what is the problem with a long development cycle? The wait between sequels? Frankly in that case I'd be more concerned with the lazy pursuit of sequels over interesting, original IPs.
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    Image of NeoAkira NeoAkira
    07/03/09

    @Kynes:


    The cost will not be reasonable. I know this, you know this.


    With our current state of graphics games are costing $60+ while often times putting less content on the disc than we would have gotten last generation and charging us extra $$ for DLC. If we are wasting so much time and money in development that the games look real, you can bet your ass you'll be taking out a second mortgage for that must-have title.

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    Image of ZaxxonQ.com ZaxxonQ.com
    05/13/09

    In reply to Giz Explains: GPGPU Computing, and Why It'll Melt Your Face Off
    Yay! Anna Nichole's corpse face again! ^_^


    Seriously, ever since that first post and comment I cannot stop laughing hysterically at this pic! ^_^

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    05/13/09

    @Zaxxon Q Blaque: Must've missed it... Link?
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    05/13/09

    @Brian_in_HD: LOL, I guess that would've helped, huh?


    Jeeze, this took some digging!


    [gizmodo.com]

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    05/13/09

    @Zaxxon Q Blaque: Damn, that picture still creeps me out.
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    05/13/09

    @ripfire: What, mine? I know, right?! :-P
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    05/13/09

    In reply to Factory-Overclocked ATI Radeon HD 4890 Is First 1GHz Graphics Card
    So this is the Romulan core drill engine that doomed Vulcan?
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