What Direct X for SOW?

[KG26_Alpha]

More likely to be Open CL

But Im sure there's no need to panic, the new sim will be backwards and forwards compatible with open GL CL / DX9 10 11 12 13 14 etc etc.

ATI just demonstrated open cl on a Radeon 4000 gpu card at Game Developers Conference March 2009.

So they are not abandoning anything non Dx .

[Igo kyu]

Originally Posted by KG26_Alpha

More likely to be Open CL

For a minute there you had me hopeful.

Wikipedia says OpenCL is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCL

That is, as I understand it, it's a way of using a GPU as a CPU, not using it for graphics processing. Ati have an OpenCL demo because they want to allow people to access their GPUs as Floating point processors, like nVidia's CUDA (I'm not sure from the Wikipedia page whether CUDA is accessable via OpenCL).

OpenCL isn't a graphics language like DirectX or OpenGL are. I'd like Ati to be convinced to wholeheartedly support OpenGL.

[KG26_Alpha]

Originally Posted by Igo kyu

For a minute there you had me hopeful.

Wikipedia says OpenCL is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCL

That is, as I understand it, it's a way of using a GPU as a CPU, not using it for graphics processing. Ati have an OpenCL demo because they want to allow people to access their GPUs as Floating point processors, like nVidia's CUDA (I'm not sure from the Wikipedia page whether CUDA is accessable via OpenCL).

OpenCL isn't a graphics language like DirectX or OpenGL are. I'd like Ati to be convinced to wholeheartedly support OpenGL.

You would do best to read the discussion here to get an understanding of what's happening.

http://www.opengl.org/discussion_boa...643#Post256643

http://www.opengl.org/discussion_boa...&Number=245351