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Re: System requirement estimates

Postby Daube » Sun Apr 10, 2011 1:40 pm

First, there are not so many games that simulate things that are as complex as in FS9 or FSX. Most "normal" games are just focused on graphics, the CPUs don't have much to do. Also, "normal" games are not as dynamic as our sims, thus there is much more room for optimizations and power saving.


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Re: System requirement estimates

Postby markag » Wed Apr 13, 2011 1:54 pm

I would be interested to see if they offload some of the CPU load to the GPU. I'm thinking with the power of todays graphics cards, especially Nvidia with thier high count of cuda cores, why can't some of the calculations be moved from the CPU to the graphics card.  Combine that with better milti-threaded implementation and you could better utilize the existing hardware.

GPUs are starting to move beyond just 3D rendering. You already see it with video processing and PhysX calculations outisde of flight sim world. Why not incorportate those types of tweaks and optimizations to save processor cycles for the truley important things. Offload that workload to the GPU is what I say.
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Re: System requirement estimates

Postby Rocket_Bird » Fri Apr 15, 2011 11:34 am

[quote]I would be interested to see if they offload some of the CPU load to the GPU. I'm thinking with the power of todays graphics cards, especially Nvidia with thier high count of cuda cores, why can't some of the calculations be moved from the CPU to the graphics card.
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Re: System requirement estimates

Postby markag » Mon Apr 18, 2011 5:29 pm

The way nvidia has positioned themselves with the Fermi graphics cards shows that they expect the graphics cards to be doing more processing in the future. You already see how video encoding has moved from the CPU to the GPU, and that has really improved performance. Why can't some of these processing threads be moved off CPU. And now with the sandy bridge intel chips, on-chip PCI Express controller streamlines the connection between graphics and CPU. Granted, not everyone runs the latest intel and nvidia cards, but the technology is there waiting to be used. Why not take advantage of it.
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Re: System requirement estimates

Postby Strawberry Yogurt » Mon Apr 18, 2011 5:56 pm

That's what I'm saying. They delivered FSX, it's great, but you need a supercomputer!
I went outside once. The graphics weren't all that great.

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Re: System requirement estimates

Postby New Light » Mon May 02, 2011 6:31 pm

They don't deliver, it don't sell.
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