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Final Fantasy At 2.5FPS

Posted by timothy on from the that's-a-lot-of-pixels dept.

Rikardon writes: "Adding a little fuel to the ATi-vs-NVIDIA fire started earlier today on Slashdot, NVIDIA and Square are showing a demo at SIGGRAPH of Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within being rendered in 'real time' (four-tenths of a second per frame) on a Quadro-based workstation. Now that I think of it, this should also inject new life into this debate." Defender2000 points to the Yahoo article. Update: 08/14 09:30 PM by T : Original headline was wrong, said ".4FPS" but as cxreg pointed out, .4 frame per second isn't .4 seconds per frame. Sorry.

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  1. Stephen King, author, dead at 54 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I just heard sad news on talk radio - Horror/fiction writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine house this morning. I'm sure we'll all miss him - even if you didn't read his books you've probably enjoyed one of his movies. Truly an American icon.

  2. So what? by ChristianBaekkelund · · Score: 3, Offtopic
    So what if it can render fast?... That still doesn't mean things like that can be MADE fast!...The ungodly massive number of man-hours that went into:
    • Modelling
    • Matte painting
    • Painting textures
    • Lighting
    • Shading
    • Animating
    • Writing!
    • Making the sound effects
    • Making the music
    • Doing the voice work & lip-sync'ing
    • Writing custom graphics applications for the skin, hair, etc.
    • Using said applications in the afformentioned modelling/animating/texturing, etc.

    So, yippee, it can render fast...too bad that has NO BEARING on the actual quality of the production (with the possible exception of the team gets to iterate on the work a little more).

  3. Why does anyone allow this account to stay alive? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    All this guy does is Jew/Gay bash. Ever. Why the hell doesn't someone ban this account and tell this GoatSex lovin closet pedophilisitic uncle fucker to just come out of the closet and stop being bitter about his true sexual orientation?

  4. Can you imagine... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Bah, nevermind.

  5. Re:.4 FPS? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    fxaskJ@#LxswUW(*YGz2t64GvwSHDVc@#YRC#BV#@GjfclU%^j s -- hmm, give the monkey a little longer ...


    Are you kidding? That's perfectly valid perl.
  6. Re:.4FPS IS NOT 4/10s of a second per frame!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Jesus! We do math good at slashdot.

    Not to mention grammer. And religious sensitivity. And on and on...

  7. Re:.4FPS IS NOT 4/10s of a second per frame!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yes.

    I fucked up. And slashdot is making me wait 20 seconds to reply. And now another 2 minutes to post. God damn it, I love bad perl.



    LOL, how much further can you fit that foot down your mouth?

  8. Big Slashdot Question: @# -5 ; Relevant #@ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Is Slashdot now the WWW Gaming Portal with all
    these lame stories about games? Please stick
    to the cluster computing and stem cell stories.

    Thanks and have a JonKatz-free weekend.

  9. Re:a few more years... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I took it to mean you were a cocksucking idiot... sorry, was that not your point?

  10. Re:Redundant crap by Raging+Idiot · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I think you miss the point.

    The title was wrong. It was corrected. But the "Update" was wrong. The update was corrected. And guess what!? The Update was STILL WRONG! I have a feeling this will just prove the point that the slashdot "editors" couldn't edit themselves out of a wet paper bag. How hard is it to check something before you post it?

    --


    Stupidity never felt so good.
  11. Re:.4FPS IS NOT 4/10s of a second per frame!! by Wakko+Warner · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yes.

    I fucked up. And slashdot is making me wait 20 seconds to reply. And now another 2 minutes to post. God damn it, I love bad perl.

    - A.P.

    --
    "Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
  12. Re:Wireframe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Fuck you, you wussy Imperial student.

    Thank you.

  13. Re:good god by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Good god. Are you all that bored that we have to post about the same thing over and over and over and over and over ....

  14. YUOR a FUC-TARDO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    OK U FUC-TARD HERE"S how IT w0rks:

    TEH lights MOVE around WHEN u MOVE TEH maus!!! SO that MEANS no PRECASHING!

    I hope THIS helps U FUC-TARD

  15. Re:.4FPS IS NOT 4/10s of a second per frame!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    God damn it, I love bad perl.

    Not as much as I love bad math.

  16. Re:.4FPS IS NOT 4/10s of a second per frame!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Jesus! We do math good at slashdot.

    About as good as you do grammar.

  17. The silence is deafening. by Raging+Idiot · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    We are having a scheduled power outage tonight. So, as part of my "computer guy" job, I have to shut down all the systems in the company before the outage time. The only system up at the moment is my laptop. The silence is almost driving me insane. My mind cannot fathom the absence of the steady "whir" that is usually present in my precious machine filled room. I cannot find my place in the silence. The silence seems to come at me from all directions. The pain of the moment clutches me from all sides, squeezing with glee the life from my flaccid body. I am losing my will to live. How will I go on?

    Is this what it was like in the dark times, before computers, before *SHUDDER* electricity? OH MY GOD, HOW DID PEOPLE LIVE!?

    --


    Stupidity never felt so good.
  18. Re:Still wrong! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    up shut

  19. Re:good god by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Good god. Are you all that bored that we have to post about the same thing over and over and over and over and over ....

  20. Re:.4FPS IS NOT 4/10s of a second per frame!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    retard. the grammar mistake was obviously on purpose.

    fucking moron.

  21. Re:Well then by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    hehehe balls001 you look like such an idiot....how the hell did you get at 2 1/5 ...

  22. Re:JonKatz, author, Dead at age 14 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Well known troll RalphNaderJewHater was found dead this morning after fucking himself with a watermelon and splitting his arse open bleeding to death. I'm sure we all wont miss him - even if you agreed with his shit, he was a pathetic wannabee troll. Truly a fucked up dickhead