Getting burned by the Steam Controller
At the Game Developers Conference last month The Tech Report had some one on one time with the Steam Controller and walked away with a less than positive impression. It...
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GDC 2014: Shader-limited Optimization for AMD’s GCN
While Mantle and DirectX 12 are designed to reduce overhead and keep GPUs loaded, the conversation shifts when you are limited by shader throughput. Modern graphics processors are dominated by sometimes thousands…
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GDC wasn’t just about DirectX; OpenGL was also a hot topic
DX12 and its Mantle-like qualities garnered the most interest from gamers at GDC but an odd trio of companies were also pushing a different API. OpenGL has been around for over 20…
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NVIDIA Talks DX12, DX11 Efficiency Improvements
The big story at GDC last week was Microsoft’s reveal of DirectX 12 and the future of the dominant API for PC gaming. There was plenty of build up…
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GDC 14: NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel Discuss OpenGL Speed-ups
So, for all the discussion about DirectX 12, the three main desktop GPU vendors, NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel, want to tell OpenGL developers how to tune their applications. Using OpenGL 4.2 and…
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Oculus Rift Development Kit 2 (DK2) Are $350, Expected July
Last month, we published a news piece stating that Oculus Rift production has been suspended as "certain components" were unavailable. At the time, the company said they are looking for...
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Set your calendar! PC Perspective GDC 14 DirectX 12 Live Blog is Coming!
UPDATE: If you are looking for the live blog information including commentary and photos, we have placed it in archive format right over here. Thanks!! It is nearly time for Microsoft...
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GDC 14: Unreal Engine 4 Launches with Radical Changes
Game developers, from indie to the gigantic, can now access Unreal Engine 4 with a $19/month subscription (plus 5% of revenue from resulting sales). This is a much different model...
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GDC 14: Intel Ready Mode offers low power, always connected desktops
Intel Ready Mode is a new technology that looks to offer some of the features of connected standby for desktop and all-in-one PCs while using new power states of the Haswell architecture…
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Intel Confirms Haswell-E, 8-core Extreme Edition with DDR4 Memory
While talking with press at GDC in San Francisco today, Intel is pulling out all the stops to assure enthusiasts and gamers that they haven't been forgotten! Since the initial release of…
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Intel brings Iris Pro Graphics to Broadwell in LGA Sockets
We have great news for you this evening! The demise of the LGA processor socket for Intel desktop users has been great exaggerated. During a press session at GDC we learned that…
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Intel Devil’s Canyon Offers Haswell with Improved TIM, 9-series Chipsets
An update to the existing Haswell 4th Generation Core processors will be hitting retail sometime in mid-2014 according to what Intel has just told us. This new version of the existing processors…
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GDC 14: CRYENGINE To Support Mantle, AMD Gets Another Endorsement
While I do not have too many details otherwise, Crytek and AMD have announced that mainline CRYENGINE will support the Mantle graphics API. CRYENGINE, by Crytek, now sits alongside Frostbite, by Dice,…
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Ray Tracing is back? That’s Wizard!
The Tech Report visited Imagination Technologies' booth at GDC where they were showing off a new processor, the Wizard GPU. It is based on the PowerVR Series6XT Rogue graphics processor which is…
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GDC 14: WebCL 1.0 Specification is Released by Khronos
The Khronos Group has just ratified the standard for WebCL 1.0. The API is expected to provide a massive performance boost to web applications which are dominated by expensive functions which…
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GDC 14: EGL 1.5 Specification Released by Khronos
The Khronos Group has also released their ratified specification for EGL 1.5. This API is at the center of data and event management between other Khronos APIs. This version increases security,…
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GDC 14: SYCL 1.2 Provisional Spec Released by Khronos
To gather community feedback, the provisional specification for SYCL 1.2 has been released by The Khronos Group. SYCL extends itself upon OpenCL with the C++11 standard. This technology is built on…
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OCZ Partners With AMD at GDC to Showcase Solid-State Supercharged Systems for Gaming Professionals
If you make it to the Game Developers Conference this year make sure to pay a visit to the AMD booth where you can get a look at OCZ's Vector 150 drives…
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