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GeForce FX And More From AGDC 2002

Posted by timothy on from the smoother-and-pricier dept.

Mr.Tweak writes "We have posted some coverage from the Australian Game Developers Conference which was held over this past weekend at the Melbourne Convention Center. There you will find information on Sony's PS2 online gaming plans, Sony's PS2 Linux Development Kits, and videos and pictures of nVidia's GeForce FX in action as well as shots of the graphics card and other juicy details."

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  1. Anyone else tired of GeForce's marketing? by salvius · · Score: 5, Insightful

    While I think that the new GeForce card is constantly showing just how good it is, there is not reason to completely over-exaggerate its capabilities. I hate videos showing one model in a very simplistic scene and being hailed as 'most realistic 3D ever.' For these demos to be realistic, they need to have REAL scenes, with real moving objects. I wish marketing was more honest.

    1. Re:Anyone else tired of GeForce's marketing? by quitcherbitchen · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I hate videos showing one model in a very simplistic scene and being hailed as 'most realistic 3D ever.'

      Most of those videos are technology demos and are designed to show off specific aspects of the GPU. Placing the effects in the context of a realistic scene is the duty of those who develop the 3D apps. I'd rather see that a card can do some thing new and see how well it can do it rather than watch a video chock full of polygons and nothing else.

  2. Re:Yet another reason why commercial games are bet by The+Analog+Kid · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Who says that Linux Gamers won't pay for games, nothing says that you can't have comercial software on Linux, Linux people are gamers too and Open Source games are never going to be as close as the $50.00 game you payed for in the store unless its a buggy, rushed out the publisher's door game, but thats another story. Yes, there are some talented OSS programers, but never as good as the ones that get paid to do it. I don't see why there is such a sterotype twoard Linux on the basis that just because you can download Linux, means that you have to be able to download every program that is made for it.

  3. Linking to forums by Mage+Powers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I thought we had realised that linking to forums is a bad idea... ahh well.

  4. Re:They make games in Australia? by houseofmore · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A lot of big software houses have offices and a work force (if not several) in Aussie, including Sony. You've probably played more Australian, Canadian, Norwegian, Pommie, New Zealand, Indian games than you think.

  5. This is not exclusive to nVidia. by Blaede · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Every company that deals in graphics has done it. I've seen this on screens for SNES games, Sega consoles, 3Dfx cards, Intel CPUs, ad nauseum. nVidia didn't create this practice, they merely became the latest in a long series of companies to engage in marketing puffery.

  6. Re:They make games in Australia? by yobbo · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Pardon me for asking, but what is exactly funny about this? Gaming is a huge component of the entertainment industry, just like film. Is it funny that you can study film making?