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Dreadnought Demos Released

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the shiny-bits-of-distraction dept.

John Callaham writes to tell us that Gamecloud is heralding the latest release from Torc Interactive and AMD. The latest demos for the upcoming FPS, Dreadnought, have been released. The first is strictly a gameplay movie while the other gives a comparison between the game running on a 64 bit processor (which it was ultimately designed for) and a 32 bit processor.

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  1. Re:AMD64 by tji · · Score: 5, Interesting

    HD video.

    MPEG2 is tough on a CPU, but within the capabilities of current processors.

    AVC / H.264 / MPEG4.10 is much harder. Doing 1080p AVC is beyond the capabilities of most current processors, and is certainly not do-able with other stuff going on (e.g. a MythTV PVR, recording a couple HD streams simultaneously, transcoding another, while viewing one.

    AVC, or future codecs, will require either much faster CPUs, hardware acceleration, or both.