Burgess
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Mon Jun 21, 2004 7:36 pm |
Beyond3D posted a very interesting interview with Tim Sweeney about the 3rd version of our beloved UnrealEngine. Some of it is very technical information. Here is a small sample:
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You have said that UE3 will target DX9-based video cards as the absolute lowest denominator, even to the point of saying DX9 cards such as the GeForceFXs and Radeon 9x00s will be brought to their knees in terms of performance. Using Valve's yet-to-be-available Half Life 2 as an example, will UE3 be at all scalable starting from lesser-than-DX9-level video cards (by making available, perhaps, DX7 and/or DX8 paths) or did you really mean what you said, i.e. nothing but a DX9 video card will be able to run UE3-based games? If the latter is the case, you are saying you are not worried at all by gamers that, by the time UE3-games are made available, still own pre-DX9 (like the GeForce3 or Radeon 8500) video cards?
DirectX9 is our minimum hardware target for Unreal Engine 3. A great deal of generalization, improvement, and even simplification has been made possible by eliminating legacy code paths and formulating all rendering around fully-general pixel shader programs. |
You can check out the full interview here. |
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