AMD has teamed up with PixelLux Entertainment to develop their own physics engine based on the open source Bullet Physics engine.
AMD hopes their engine will provide developers and consumers with an alternative to Nvidia's proprietary PhysX engine -- which only works on Nvidia GPUs -- and encourage the development of physics middleware built around OpenCL and Bullet Physics that covers PCs, game consoles, and other hardware platforms.
Cloud Imperium has released the Star Citizen Alpha 3.23 Update which adds support for the Vulkan API, as well as NVIDIA DLSS and AMD FSR.
"The London-based (the UK) indie games publisher Fireshine Games and Linköping-based (Sweden) indie games developer Pugstorm, are today very excited and happy to announce that the full version (v1.0) of their mining sandbox game “Core Keeper”, is coming to PC (via Steam) and consoles (PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, and the Nintendo Switch) through digital stores on August 27th, 2024." - Jonas Ek, TGG.
Shaz from GL writes: "AMD could spur the beginning of a new era in handheld gaming with their upcoming APUs"
To me the most important hardware is the battery. Doesn’t matter how powerful the chips are.
Eh…. It’s a combination of multiple things.
The battery is hugely important as it allows you to have ideally 4 - 5 hour gaming sessions.
The more powerful the processor the more games developers can share to the handheld, nd of course the better said games perform.
From there display, software, and ergonomics matter, as a good display/software will allow games to be more vivid, run at variable fps 30/40/60 ideally, and good ergonomics means it’s comfortable to play for said 4 - 5 hours. Everything else is gravy at that point.
Of course it matters how powerful the chips are for it to be future proof. Don't you want to be able to play new games?
There’s no way you’re getting that 40CU 16-core APU in a handheld. That’s too hot and power hungry for that. The highest end APU they’re suggesting is going to end up in gaming laptops that can cool a 100W chip.
I think these articles get things a little out of perspective, Steam Deck has sold around 3 million and Switch has sold 140 million. But if you are browsing certain parts internet you'd think the Steam Deck had sold over 100 million. If articles are going to continue to circulate like this and continue to put the Steam Deck in the same arena then I'm comfortable calling the device a flop.
I like the way AMD/ATI think, they're trying to unify PC gamers, even if they don't have their hardware, which push gaming further.
If it proves to be good, it could be a bye-bye to physix. Depending of nvidia, if they roll money out :/
This is a bit of old news with bullet and all but if you can't beat em, join em.
Open? As in it will work on Nvidia GPU's too? Awesome!
nVidia used to be cool when they actually pushed the envelope, and supported its customers (with great Linux drivers).
But nowadays I do not want to touch any nVidia hardware (except for Tegra). They knowingly sold faulty laptop chips. Many of my friends' laptops are overheating. One's motherboard was fried, another dodged it the last minute (Dell sent someone to fix it). As far as I know, they still sell those chips.
And now they are actively dragging PC gaming behind. Remember Assassins Creed having a DirectX 10.1 update, which was pulled, since nVidia did not have a 10.1 capable card? Now they are doing much more damage by sabotaging ATI benchmarks and dividing gaming with PhysX code.
Nope no more nVidia for me.