GDC 08 Slides

[Petr Schreiber]

Game Developers Conference 08 is over,

but we can get some hot news and materials from there :)

NVIDIA
Interesting presentations on skinning, particles, physics and debugging :D can be found here: http://developer.nvidia.com/object/gdc-2008.html

ATi
Multi GPU, very interesting info on why DX10 games ported from DX9 do not perform as they should, OpenGL ES 2.0
http://developer.amd.com/TechnicalArticles/presentations/Pages/default.aspx#gdc

Valve Software ( recommended reading :) )
"Lighter reading", but very good. Some quite indepth problem descriptions such a blinking lights impact on HDR rendering!
http://www.valvesoftware.com/publications.html


Hope you will like it as much as I did,
Petr

[Michael Hartlef]

Thanks for the links man. :)

[kryton9]

I am so steamed at Valve about steam as you know Petr!
Ray is even more steamed than me. I won't buy anymore steam dependent games anymore till I know the issues and problems are resolved.
Seems stupid to me that you need web access to play a game you bought for huge bucks.

The idea of steam is great, but the implementation is very poor.

The new Unreal 3 system for online is terrible as well as the options setup. Epic mentions they are aware of the this backlash by loyal
players and hope to address the game console interface ported to a pc without any thought. So many incredibly useful and what made unreal great options are totally not available in the pc version this time.

But I am stoked about nvidia and what all they are doing, so thanks a lot and thanks for room to let out Steam of frustration in recent gaming.

But it is made up for by Niceness of Company of Heroes!!