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[proton45]

I was wondering if "SoW BoB" is ment to run "better" with an Nvidia video card? The translation of the 2nd statement is:

2. Ground textures: A new (nvidia) format with several information levels is used, no more tga. The textures contain now also information for the AI, like for example local maximum speeds. This contains also smaller roads/ways. It will give also substantially more textures than in IL-2.

Does the statement mean that the "new & better" ground textures will run better with an Nvidia card or am I misunderstanding what is being said?

[Oktoberfest]

Time will tell proton.... Time will tell....

[ChrisDNT]

A sim which would use the CUDA system of the Nvidia cards would be a real blast!

[Bobb4]

Originally Posted by ChrisDNT

A sim which would use the CUDA system of the Nvidia cards would be a real blast!

CUDA, woulda, whata? Please explain to us non-computer geeks what the CUDA system is?

[Bobb4]

Originally Posted by Bobb4

CUDA, woulda, whata? Please explain to us non-computer geeks what the CUDA system is?

Never mind I googled it and this is what I found:

I know that it sounds like I've got a cold. Back in May I mentioned about CUDA which is a free download from Nvidia- no point unless you've got an 8 series or later eg GT200 Nvidia graphics card! )for Windows, Linux and Mac). It includes the nvcc Compiler, a Profiler, a gdb debugger for the GPU (alpha available in March, 200, a CUDA runtime driver (now also available in the standard NVIDIA GPU driver) and the CUDA programming manual.
The whole point of CUDA is to turbo charge your time critical or CPU intensive applications by offloading the number crunching onto the GPU in your graphics card which uses highly parallel operations to do crunch 10 or even 100 times faster than the CPU. Nvidia have been pushing this and you can now find a whole series of free video casts from the University of Illinois as well as other technical resources on the Nvidia site

[flyingbullseye]

Originally Posted by ChrisDNT

A sim which would use the CUDA system of the Nvidia cards would be a real blast!

Unless it turns out to be just like the physx drivers and we see a loss of fps with this too.