Update: Es scheint das dies überhauptnicht funktioniert - also am besten vergessen!

Wie ELSA bietet ASUS in kürze einen eigenen DVD Player an: ab ca. Mitte Juni wird die ASUS DVD Player Software zum Preis von DM 34,80 verfügbar sein. Die Software wird ausschließlich als Add-on zu den ASUS Grafikkarten V3400 und V3800 verkauft.

Das rund 60MB grosse Demo gibt es bei 3DFiles.

Riva has allowed their vendors to independently clock their TNT2 processors. What core/memory speed is this card running at?

We will ship the board with a 150/183 configuration. I’d like to give a little background on that so you understand why. Basically, when you used to overclock cards on the PCI bus, all you had to worry about was dissipating heat from the card, because there was plenty of power on the card. If you look at overclocking a CPU, one of the things you have to do to really push the CPU is increase the voltage on the Slot 0. The reason for that is, if you want it to go faster, you’re going to have to give it more current. It’s just basic physics. The AGP port has a much smaller power pool, basically. It’s 3.3 volts, and it’s a much lower total overall current than the PCI bus. We did a good deal of research finding out where to clock, because everyone wants to have the highest clock out of the box. What we found was, everybody was shooting for the 175/200 kind of thing – they thought that one was going to be the right one to go to, and that’s the one we were looking at. We found a disturbing number of failures in our testing – not on the card side, but on the motherboard side, in terms of not having enough power to get to 175. We went through this over and over trying to find the right frequency mix. What we figured out was, it was so system dependent – how good is your motherboard? How good is your power supply? How good is the AGP implementation? How much contact you are getting in fingers of the slot – there are just so many things that impact it, that we decided to ship it at 150/183, provide [the customer] with an overclocking utility for both core and memory, and let them tune it for the performance that they can have in their system.

Das komplette Interview gibt es hier.

3dfx Interactive earlier this week filed separate patent-infringement lawsuits against nVidia Corp. and Real 3D Inc. The suits both concern what 3dfx claims is infringement over its patent #5,831,624, entitled "Level of Detail Texture Filtering with Dithering and Mipmaps." The patent was filed on April 30, 1996, and granted on November 3, 1998. According to Bruce Busby, 3dfx’s director of intellectual property, the patent enables the dithering between two levels of detail, and gives "the look of trilinear filtering without doing a multitexturing pass."

While not able to comment directly on the litigation and 3dfx’s chance of success, Busby indicated that a company legally can’t file such a case without a solid basis for filing, which Busby noted is covered by "Rule 11." Busby continued by stating that there are no planned court dates for the cases at present, but there’s a likelihood that these suits will be joined to the existing suits 3dfx is involved in with Real 3D and nVidia; this suit is filed as a countersuit to Real 3D’s previously filed case.

Michael Howse, 3dfx’s senior vice president of marketing, added that the company has a "duty to fight for intellectual properties." With the number of companies involved in one-upping each other for improving computer graphics, it’s not likely that this will be the last such suit filed over proprietary technology.

"Our research indicates NVIDIA’s 128-bit architecture dominates the performance category with 44 percent market share," said Dr. Jon Peddie, president of Jon Peddie Associates (Tiburon, CA) the leading market research firm tracking digital media. "Our data indicates that NVIDIA has one of the highest average growth rates at 65%, and has shipped more 128-bit 3D processors than the rest of the industry combined."

"NVIDIA’s first-class architectural and silicon engineering expertise has delivered the industry’s most decorated families of performance-leading graphics processors to the PC market for 4 consecutive seasons," said Jen-Hsun Huang, president and CEO at NVIDIA. "By executing on-time and capturing more market share quarter-to-quarter, NVIDIA is now one of the fastest growing semiconductor company in history."

Die Englische Übersetzung des Artikels ist (endlich) fertig. Änderungen zum Deutschsprachigen Artikel sind nur 2 Bilder die die Unterschiede im Kartendeseign von AGP2x zu AGP 4x zeigen:

Mehr Informationen über AGP ist hier zu finden.

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Besitzer einer ELSA 3D Revelator können sich aus jedem Spiel 3D Screenshots machen. Dabei werden die Bilder für das Rechte und Linke Auge nebeneinander in einer Bitmap abgespeichert. Der ELSA 3D Viewer zeigt diese Bilder dann wieder zusammen mit der Shutter Brille als räumliches Bild. Genause wie im Spiel kann man aber auch die Kamera in einem Raytracer verschieben, und so den Augenabstand simulieren. So kommt mein Mascot richtig heftig aus dem Monitor heraus...aber vorsicht, es Beißt! :-)
Einfach in das Verzeichniss des ELSA 3D Viewers kopieren (c:\windows\elsautil\....)

Weitere Shots hier.

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