Ampere K. Hardraade wrote:
I'm afraid, you cannot expect people to purchase new hardware for an
open source game to work ;-)
Is new hardware really necessary?
nope, it wasn't required - after all it is supposed to be
"software-raytracing" and not hardware, but I *assume* without
a corresponding hardware board your CPU would probably be abused
as a GPU - almost exclusively ...
The reason I brought the OpenRT topic up again is that (as far as I
understand) it can run on most people's desktop.
yes, but I somehow doubt that there would remain much idle CPU time -
you'd probably at least need a dual-processor board - but again, I'm
*guessing*.
Probably, they wouldn't start developing prototype hardware boards:
http://www.saarcor.de/
...if the gains were not significant ?
Now, if it can render a 350 million polygons model using a CPU that is slower
than mine, then it should be able to handle FlightGear with ease.
I am not so sure about that - in order to get representative data, one
would need to have at least some simple tests available or maybe even a
simple game that employs the software-based raytracing approach.
On http://graphics.cs.uni-sb.de/RTGames/ there are various games
mentioned, even screenshots are shown - and even very promising
divx-videos - but there doesn't seem to be a simple demo for personal
evaluation !?
This might be the case because all these videos seem to have been
created using clusters of a dozen or even more 1 GHZ machines ...
Doesn't sound that feasible to me :-/
But that page is also where you can find the quote I mentioned:
"We are very much interested in evaluating new ways for computer
games and therefore like to cooperate with the gaming industry.
Thus if you are in such a position, please send us an email! "
Maybe they've got a mailing list ? Possibly they would provide you with
more details if you contact them...
But I doubt that it is the ultimate solution - there are certainly
drawbacks, and it's not necessarily suited for any purpose, either.
Otherwise it would probably already be a lot more popular !?
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Boris
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