Legit Reviews

FEBRUARY 16, 2007

News Facts:

· NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA) has released the world’s first interactive Microsoft DirectX 10 application in the form of the NVIDIA Cascades demo.

· The NVIDIA® Cascades demo will allow consumers with NVIDIA GeForce 8-series graphics cards and Windows Vista to experience stunning Direct X 10 graphics features on their computers for the first time.

· The NVIDIA Cascades demo is available now at: http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_cascades_home.html
· Users with NVIDIA GeForce 8-series graphics cards should first download the NVIDIA ForceWare 100.64 Vista drivers from one of the following locations:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x86_100.64.html
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x64_100.64.html

Every aspect of the Cascades demo demonstrates next-generation features enabled by DirectX 10, including the generation of content, dynamic particle systems, and high quality scene rendering.
Procedural Geometry Creation: Rock structures are not only rendered, but also constructed by the GeForce 8800. This permits the user to move up or down through infinite virtual space, with the GPU continuously streaming out colossal chunks of rock in a wide variety of random shapes.
Dynamic Particle Physics: The GeForce® 8800’s geometry shaders perform all of the physics calculations for the water, allowing the waterfalls to collide with the rock surface and to form rivers flowing around the features of the rock. Water particles are generated, propagated, and retired on the GPU, leaving the CPU free to perform other tasks.
· Displacement Mapping: Improved displacement mapping techniques use a simple height map in a complex pixel shader to display detailed cracks and bumps that are able to occlude each other, resulting in an extremely high level of realism on the rock surface.

· NVIDIA® GeForce® 8 Series graphic processing units (GPUs) include all required hardware functionality defined in the Microsoft Direct3D® 10 specification, with full support for the DirectX 10 unified shader instruction set and Shader Model 4 capabilities. GeForce 8 Series GPUs are the first and only shipping DirectX 10 GPUs, and are the reference GPUs for DirectX 10 API development and certification.

· .GeForce 8 Series GPUS include:

§ GeForce 8800 GTX - $599-$649
§ GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB - $399-$449
§ GeForce 8880 GTS 320MB - $299-$349

· DirectX 10 is included with Microsoft Windows Vista and delivers unparalleled levels of graphics realism and film-quality effects for games, all rendered in real-time on a GeForce 8 Series DirectX 10-capable GPU.

About NVIDIA
NVIDIA Corporation is the worldwide leader in programmable graphics processor technologies. The Company creates innovative, industry-changing products for computing, consumer electronics, and mobile devices. NVIDIA is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA and has offices throughout Asia, Europe, and the Americas. For more information, visit http://www.nvidia.com

toolegit2quit wrote:has anyone with dx10 looked at this yet? Waht do you think?