Crytek Bashes Intel's Ray Tracing Plans

Vigile writes "Despite all good intentions, Intel continues to see a lot of its work on ray tracing countered not only by their competition, as you'd expect, but also by the very developers that Intel is going to depend on for success in the gaming market. The first major developer to speak on the Intel Larrabee and ray tracing debate was id Software's John Carmack, who basically said that Intel's current plans weren't likely to be implemented soon or ever. This time Cevat Yerli, one of the Crytek developers responsible for the graphically impressive titles Far Cry and Crysis, sees at least 3-5 more years of pure rasterization technology before moving to a hybrid rendering compromise. Intel has previously eschewed the idea of mixed rendering, but with more and more developers chiming in for it, it's likely where gaming will move."

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Re:Ray-Tracing Extremely CPU Intensive

[Yetihehe]

Here it goes again. Try to rasterize on CPU. It will be similarly slow. On the other hand with good hardware (like raytracing on gpu (PDF), or on cell processor (PDF), or just on PS3 cluster) is ALREADY possible. If you could make custom accelerator for raytracing (PDF) gamers and graphicians would love it.

Re:Ray-Tracing Extremely CPU Intensive

[irc.goatse.cx troll]

Since quake1, and everything dervived from it in some way.

Yes its not a 'wise decision', but not all decisions can be made based on whats most logical..sometimes you need to cut corners based on what will work fastest or easiest.

In quake your movespeed and your ability to move/accelerate in the air is based entirely on your fps. Some trick jumps can't be done without a certain framerate.

In quake3 that changes more into your jump height, but the same end result -- Some jumps require certain fps to become possible.

In any HL based game your ability to slide up a steep wall instead of slide down it is impacted by your fps (and also the servers framerate).

In TFC hwguy assault cannon and a few other weapons would fire more often with higher fps.

In Natural Selection(1.x) how quick your jetpack fuel replenishes is based on your fps. Enough FPS and you could fly forever.

Theres more, but the tl;dr version: Any game that uses quake's "player.think()" system to do calculations will fire off more .think()s per second on clients with higher framerate.