What Direct X for SOW?

[virre89]

I am sure all latest cards would be greatly supported, yes OPEN GL but as with IL2 it had an option for Direct X, besides Oleg couldn't affort to block out one type of brand seeing as Both Ati / Nvidia are huge.

Still more than a year to the estimated release so , if you're buying a card now it wouldn't be for SoW.

[Igo kyu]

Originally Posted by virre89

I am sure all latest cards would be greatly supported, yes OPEN GL but as with IL2 it had an option for Direct X, besides Oleg couldn't affort to block out one type of brand seeing as Both Ati / Nvidia are huge.

Still more than a year to the estimated release so , if you're buying a card now it wouldn't be for SoW.

I'm not saying Oleg wouldn't support the cards, I'm saying the cards might not support Oleg.

If Oleg sticks with OpenGL as the preferred renderer, and open GL is abandoned by Ati, then there won't be much Oleg can do about that, sure we can hopefully run under DirectX but if that's not what the simulator is designed for then presumably it won't be quite as good. I can see that with all the versions of DirectX about (7, 8, 9.0a, 9.0b, 9.0c, 10, 10.1, 11) that must be a royal pain to deal with, but it does seem to be the case that OpenGL is being dropped.

I still think a release this year might happen.

[virre89]

Originally Posted by Igo kyu

I'm not saying Oleg wouldn't support the cards, I'm saying the cards might not support Oleg.

If Oleg sticks with OpenGL as the preferred renderer, and open GL is abandoned by Ati, then there won't be much Oleg can do about that, sure we can hopefully run under DirectX but if that's not what the simulator is designed for then presumably it won't be quite as good. I can see that with all the versions of DirectX about (7, 8, 9.0a, 9.0b, 9.0c, 10, 10.1, 11) that must be a royal pain to deal with, but it does seem to be the case that OpenGL is being dropped.

I still think a release this year might happen.

If a release happen this year i'll go running down Beverly Hills Naked i promise, screaming anything you want.

[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