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Rime posted:Wut? SLI breaks* VR and Oculus warns against it. *adds a single frame of latency.
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Nvidia's fancy new graphics rendering technology: Grass 1 million blades of interactive, physically simulated computer grass. Adds an additional 1 millisecond to the render time of a frame on a GeForce 680. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLVa0NOFdwM DirectX 11 feature, coming sometime next year.
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Oct 27, 2014 22:31
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Factory Factory posted:Nvidia's fancy new graphics rendering technology: Just what I need to complete my lawn mower man VR game, no relation to the movie by the same name also about VR.
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Oct 27, 2014 22:39
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Factory Factory posted:Nvidia's fancy new graphics rendering technology: I hope someone mods this into Skyrim 
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Oct 27, 2014 23:53
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r0ck0 posted:Just what I need to complete my lawn mower man VR game, no relation to the movie by the same name also about VR.
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Oct 28, 2014 00:04
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I managed to pick up a Zotac GTX 980 Amp Omega which is pretty fortunate because none of these cards seem to be in stock anywhere in western Canada. Anyway, the cooler on this card is seriously one of the quietest coolers I've ever heard. Even at full blast it's barely audible.
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Oct 28, 2014 00:09
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Factory Factory posted:Nvidia's fancy new graphics rendering technology: Why was my immediate thought "Flying Toaster X.0"
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Oct 28, 2014 00:36
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No joke, I can think of a number of times when I've thought games would be cool with interactive grass like that. But it is also a little bit silly for a multibillion dollar corporation to be doing intensive real-time simulation of astroturf.
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Oct 28, 2014 02:02
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That G10 Kraken bracket everyone likes to talk about seems to be on sale on TD for $10 after rebate and $15 on amazon. Details on this slickdeals link: https://slickdeals.net/f/7291042-nzxt-g10-aftermarket-gpu-cooling-bracket-10-after-10-rebate-free-shipping?v=1
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Oct 28, 2014 02:11
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Factory Factory posted:No joke, I can think of a number of times when I've thought games would be cool with interactive grass like that. But it is also a little bit silly for a multibillion dollar corporation to be doing intensive real-time simulation of astroturf. I think it's loving amazing, in high school we rendered a single frame of a football field for a project on 3ds max and it took hours on a fast machine, and now it takes a millisecond to make a field of grass and also to simulate the physics to make it interactive. The math must be insane on this. I love it
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Oct 28, 2014 02:36
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Factory Factory posted:Nvidia's fancy new graphics rendering technology: People may joke about this, but I for one think this is truly amazing. Grass rendering, and foliage rendering in general (with the exception maybe of "The Vanishing of Ethan Carter"), is still pretty poor in many games. I mod the Stalker series, and recently using the source code I enabled it so the grass can cast shadows. Even though it's large clumps of very poorly detailed grass, the shadows cast by them only at a range of 20m causes a massive performance drop (around 33% performance drop). The idea of being able to have massive field of grass that cast and receive shadow, and that you can even interact with, is highly appealing to me.
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Oct 28, 2014 03:21
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Swartz posted:People may joke about this, but I for one think this is truly amazing. The next Elder Scrolls would look fantastic with grass like this and foliage to match. Now if they could only hire some decent artists for the bodies and faces...
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Oct 28, 2014 03:24
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Factory Factory posted:No joke, I can think of a number of times when I've thought games would be cool with interactive grass like that. But it is also a little bit silly for a multibillion dollar corporation to be doing intensive real-time simulation of astroturf. The system is almost certainly applicable to hair and fur as well.
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Oct 28, 2014 03:32
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Sagebrush posted:The system is almost certainly applicable to hair and fur as well. Next generation of yiffing simulators incoming.
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Oct 28, 2014 03:47
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Hopefully this is a more appropriate thread than where I first posted. I have more dollars than sense. Is this a good card to buy as a dedicated PhysX PPU? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130867&cm_re=evga_gt_640-_-14-130-867-_-Product I want something that will fit in a single slot (tiny mATX case) and not consume a bunch of power while being able to handle PhysX in the one or two modern games that use it.
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Oct 28, 2014 03:59
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HappyCapybaraFamily posted:Hopefully this is a more appropriate thread than where I first posted. I would suggest using a gtx750.
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Oct 28, 2014 04:05
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So how badly does an GTX 970 get bottlenecked by a Phenom II x4 965?
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Ragingsheep posted:So how badly does an GTX 970 get bottlenecked by a Phenom II x4 965? My HD 7850 started performing a lot better, especially in Far Cry 3, when I switched up to an i5 4670K from a Phenom X4 B60 that was overclocked. So quite a bit, I'm guessing
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Oct 28, 2014 04:20
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Rexxed posted:That G10 Kraken bracket everyone likes to talk about seems to be on sale on TD for $10 after rebate and $15 on amazon. Details on this slickdeals link: Well hell, I'll buy that for all of $10. Worst case: It doesn't fit on my 680 inside a Prodigy and I stow it until the next video card. Best case: I get a satisfying build quality increase on my lovely dremeled-down bracket and its spliced-wire fan. And I bet I can flip that bracket for $5 profit regardless.
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Oct 28, 2014 04:34
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The Lord Bude posted:I would suggest using a gtx750. Oh ok. Will 512 CUDA cores make that much a difference over 384 in today's PhysX games? Also, having trouble finding GTX 750s that are single-slot and don't have a huge heatsink/fan that makes it practically double-slot (I sadly have almost zero clearance between my second PCIe slot and the PSU; hooray funny case designs)
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Oct 28, 2014 05:31
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HappyCapybaraFamily posted:Oh ok. Will 512 CUDA cores make that much a difference over 384 in today's PhysX games? Try this one, even though it still isn't technically 'single slot' - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127836 And you could try finding this: http://www.techpowerup.com/206212/galaxy-intros-single-slot-geforce-gtx-750-ti-razor-graphics-card.html Someone also found out that you could buy an old 6600GT (working or non-working) from eBay and slap it on a 750 or 750Ti, but that's a *small* HSF. There are also single-slot Gainward 750s on eBay, but Gainward no longer has a US support network. BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 08:19 on Oct 28, 2014 |
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Oct 28, 2014 08:09
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Ugh. Double post - meant to edit the previous one.
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PSA, the MSI 980 just came into stock on Amazon. Nabbed one as soon as I saw it. Almost justified two to myself but it would've put me into the range of having to pay import fees at customs 
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BurritoJustice posted:PSA, the MSI 980 just came into stock on Amazon. Nabbed one as soon as I saw it. Almost justified two to myself but it would've put me into the range of having to pay import fees at customs Didn't you just buy a 970 or something?
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Try this one, even though it still isn't technically 'single slot' - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127836 Thanks! I'll take another look at exactly how much clearance I have in my case. Maybe something like that MSI could work.
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The Lord Bude posted:Didn't you just buy a 970 or something? My last buy was a 780ti that I returned I almost bought ZeroVGS' 970's, but shipping ended up being exorbitant compared to Amazon so it actually worked out as more expensive than PCCG. (Thanks anyway for your time Zero).
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I like special unique cards. You had the GTX 560, then the awesome (at the time) 560 ti, but there was also a sweet 560 ti 448 core version that was on par with the 570. I wonder if they're gonna do something like that again.
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Oct 28, 2014 15:24
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Ragingsheep posted:So how badly does an GTX 970 get bottlenecked by a Phenom II x4 965? I'm on a Phenom II X6 1045 which technically has more cores but since most games don't utilize more than 2-3 effectively my 2.7GHz clock speed should make it worse on average. There are certainly times where the lack of CPU grunt shows (Kerbal mostly) but in general it's not a problem. I'm certainly not upgrading the graphics any further without going to an Intel CPU and I would recommend the same for you, but while a 970 is probably a bit overkill for our processors it's not so much so that I feel like I'm leaving GPU power on the table. I can still easily max out the GPU on any modern game by turning settings up.
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Oct 28, 2014 15:42
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Rime posted:Wut? SLI breaks VR and Oculus warns against it. Currently it does yes, but it is supposed to eventually take advantage of the new VR SLI features the 900 series is trying to introduce.
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Oct 28, 2014 17:02
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Knifegrab posted:Currently it does yes, but it is supposed to eventually take advantage of the new VR SLI features the 900 series is trying to introduce. It's usually a really bad idea to buy a product based on future support that should be coming but has not been released into the wild yet.
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I've got the ASUS 970 on the way and have a question about my monitor setup. I currently have two normal 1080p monitors and have a 1080p G-Sync one on the way to go with the new card. If I plug all three of them into the 970 will it work, and does it need a specific adapter combination? Right now I plan on using DisplayPort for the G-Sync, DVI for one of the normal monitors, and HDMI through a splitter for the second one + my TV.
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Oct 28, 2014 19:04
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That should work just fine. I'm currently running basically the same configuration minus the splitter. G-Sync capable (though not equipped) 1080p on displayport, 2x 1050p on DVI. Single link DVI and HDMI without audio in use are basically the exact same thing from the video card's perspective so that difference shouldn't matter. You could even ditch the splitter and treat the TV as a fourth independent monitor, but if you actually use both mirrored at the same time it might be better to keep things as they are.
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Alienware/Dell is releasing an external GPU enclosure that will work with new Alienware laptops! http://www.anandtech.com/show/8653/alienware-graphics-amplifier It's proprietary as gently caress, but still this is pretty cool!
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Making it proprietary was a very stupid decision.
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I also like the only cpu/gpu config is a dual core i5 + an 860M. That's a solid combo in it's own right, but wouldn't it make sense for a i7 + IGP SKU? e: Also are there really any options are than a proprietary solution? The easy answer is Thunderbolt, but apparently Intel doesn't want to validate that for external GPU use. Hace fucked around with this message at 21:53 on Oct 28, 2014 |
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Animal posted:Making it proprietary was a very stupid decision. What standard connector is available that pumps out USB, reverse-direction DisplayPort, PCIe, and is (probably) faster than Thunderbolt?
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Factory Factory posted:What standard connector is available that pumps out USB, reverse-direction DisplayPort, PCIe, and is (probably) faster than Thunderbolt? Thunderbolt 2 should be fast enough. People have been hacking solutions like this for a while now. -edit- read post above. Shame Intel does not want to validate it. Thats also dumb.
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Twerk from Home posted:It's usually a really bad idea to buy a product based on future support that should be coming but has not been released into the wild yet. Which is why I only have one 970 and if they keep their promise of good vr sli I am going to buy another.
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Just got my Gigabyte 970 Windforce with the factory overclock and ran Furmark benchmark (6479) wow it is a lot quieter than I thought it would be under full load. I had to get right next to the computer to hear it. Temps were stable at 71 C with fan going 72%. Would recommend
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I need some help. One of the fans on my GTX 760 died so I ordered a new GPU cooler since the card is fine. I bought the Arctic Accelero Twin Turbo 3 since it has pretty good reviews and I thought it would be a simple swap. Obviously, it isn't. The instructions for installation are really bad and I can't comprehend them at all. On top of that, when I was searching around for an installation video or guide, many reviews had the nebulous claim of not needing some of the parts. Should I just send this back and get a different one or can someone help me figure out how to install this thing?
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