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Quake III Gets Real Time Ray-Tracing Treatment

Posted by simoniker on from the looking-smooth dept.

Ozh writes "Did you ever wonder what you could do with a cluster of 20 AMD XP 1800s? Some German students and videogame fans did, and their answer has been what they call 'ray-tracing egoshooters', an entirely raytraced game engine which 'runs about 20 fps@36 GHz in 512x512 with 4xFSAA'. The first game to get this treatment is Quake 3 Arena : the screenshots look slightly better than the original 3D engine but the video (56 Mb, 3'19) is quite dramatic."

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  1. Help? by Walker2323 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Can someone please dumb this down for us, well... dummies?

  2. Anime! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "Otaku unite." -
    Niira - nayami@anime-chat.com