Carmack On Doom III And The Evolution Of Graphics

Toasty16 writes "David Kushner over at Wired has a write-up on the progress of Doom III, hinting at a possible fall release, that is unless Microsoft convinces id to sit on the game until an Xbox version is completed. He also talks to Carmack about the evolution of game engines and the possibility of a "next-generation rendering engine [that] will be a stable, mature technology that lasts in more or less its basic form for a long time." Will this lead to a shift from coders to "technical directors," as Carmack believes? This ties into the Slashdot story awhile back about new titles for sysadmins."

Comments

Re:Typical

[4of12]

so is that really proving a MS monopoly, or is it just shrewd marketing on MS's part?

Yes.

Re:Here's a dumb question.

[NerveGas]

Could D3 be made to run on two or more boxes

Probably not, as the interconnect latency would kill you. It WILL, however, support multiple processers quite nicely. If your spanky new 3 GHz P4 isn't enough horsepower, no sweat - use TWO of them!

(not to mention what an 8-way Opteron system would be like...)

steve