tessellation

[KG26_Alpha]

Originally Posted by LoBiSoMeM

. And the "water" is the same as an NVIDIA card...

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No its not the same, there's a huge difference with Water=4

ATI 1/2
Nv 1/2/3/4

Regarding tessellation.

Have a look at the video in the post below and then imagine damage modelling on the aircraft done the way it is in the Alien v triangles "Map" demo

[JG27CaptStubing]

Something new on the front of Nvidia's Tessellation video. What is the card? It's most likely the 580.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCPMH...layer_embedded

I think this tesselation technology could be some serious stuff also for SoW.
Hopefully Oleg has taken it into account.

[KG26_Alpha]

Originally Posted by JG27CaptStubing

Something new on the front of Nvidia's Tessellation video. What is the card? It's most likely the 580.
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Endless City

2 billion polygons

[T}{OR]

Originally Posted by KG26_Alpha

Endless City

2 billion polygons

I'm no programmer although I do have some basic knowledge... If implemented right, imagine what it could do to boost the number of planes in air battles and overall details. Procedural programming should have been focused on long time ago IMO. It is good to see GPU-s developing in that direction.

Maybe OT, but games like Infinity show that the capabilities are endless.

[The Kraken]

Originally Posted by T}{OR

I'm no programmer although I do have some basic knowledge... If implemented right, imagine what it could do to boost the number of planes in air battles and overall details. Procedural programming should have been focused on long time ago IMO. It is good to see GPU-s developing in that direction.

Maybe OT, but games like Infinity show that the capabilities are endless.

The GPU most likely won't be the bottleneck when it comes to the number of planes or other active objects. Especially given that SoW's models have a relatively conservative polygon count. We don't know yet how CPU-heavy SoW's AI will be, but I have no doubt that new damage and flight models will take a toll.

[JG27CaptStubing]

Originally Posted by The Kraken

The GPU most likely won't be the bottleneck when it comes to the number of planes or other active objects. Especially given that SoW's models have a relatively conservative polygon count. We don't know yet how CPU-heavy SoW's AI will be, but I have no doubt that new damage and flight models will take a toll.

It's difficult to say... IL2 had a pretty good balance between Graphic Load on the GPU and of course FMs AI Damage etc on the CPU. IL2 scaled very well over the years and that tells me the code was pretty tight from a developer point of view.

It will be interesting to see if DX11 will have an affect on SOW. If WOP is any indication we aren't going to be that bad off even with current hardware. As Oleg mentioned they will unlock features over time as they continue to develop the sim. I certainly hope SOW is a success for them.

Just looking at that City Demo says that if they can take advantage of some of those newer card capabilities the future is pretty bright.

[T}{OR]

Originally Posted by JG27CaptStubing

It's difficult to say... IL2 had a pretty good balance between Graphic Load on the GPU and of course FMs AI Damage etc on the CPU. IL2 scaled very well over the years and that tells me the code was pretty tight from a developer point of view.

It will be interesting to see if DX11 will have an affect on SOW. If WOP is any indication we aren't going to be that bad off even with current hardware. As Oleg mentioned they will unlock features over time as they continue to develop the sim. I certainly hope SOW is a success for them.

Just looking at that City Demo says that if they can take advantage of some of those newer card capabilities the future is pretty bright.

Actually IL2 is pretty CPU intensive. High end cards are overkill for it. You would be much better of with a powerful CPU when playing IL2 than GPU.

Here are some comparisons:

GPU & RAM tests

nVidia vs. ATI

[Tempest123]

Originally Posted by T}{OR

I'm no programmer although I do have some basic knowledge... If implemented right, imagine what it could do to boost the number of planes in air battles and overall details. Procedural programming should have been focused on long time ago IMO. It is good to see GPU-s developing in that direction.

Maybe OT, but games like Infinity show that the capabilities are endless.

OT again but this video for Infinity blew my mind, imagine the hours you could spend farting around in this universe, jeez. If only someone can make a new X-wing, or Tie fighter out of this engine

http://www.infinity-universe.com/Inf...=113&Itemid=93

[T}{OR]

Now you can better understand why procedural programming is a step in the right direction.