Nvidia Maxwell Apollo 11 Demo Download

Posted by: Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 11/12/2014 09:06 AM [ 22 comment(s) ]

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Here you can download the Nvidia Maxwell Apollo 11 Technology Demo. A GeForce GTX 970 or 980 (Maxwell GPU) is required to run this demo though.

It was the peak of the Cold War, and President John F Kennedy responded to years of Russian dominance in space by committing that we would take a man to the moon and back again. With the Apollo 11 mission, that oath was fullfilled.

Or was it?

There are conspiracy theorists who believe that the photos are forgeries because of inconsistencies in the lighting. Why can Buzz Aldrin be seen when he is in a shadow? Why aren’t there any stars? Did we just see a studio light?

Powered by NVIDIA Maxwell™ GPU architecture and Epic’s UE4 and using NVIDIA’s Voxel Global Illumination (or VXGI) we explore the Apollo 11 landing site and put the landmark photo of Buzz Aldrin descending to the moon’s surface to the test.

VXGI (Voxel Global illumination)

VXGI is the next step in lighting for gaming and, in simple wording, a new real-time global illumination engine technology. Global illumination is often used in the movie industry to produce CG scenes. VXGI is based on using a 3D structure (Voxels) to capture coverage and lighting information at every point in a scene. This data structure can then be traced during the final stage of rendering to precisely determine the effect of light bouncing around in the scene. VXGI provides improved performance for global illumination. This software algorithm will only work with Maxwell GPUs.

No this is not a photo - it is a scene from an Nvidia tech demo with VXGI in full effect

The performance hit is dynamic as it is scalable due to the number of steps and cones you use to render. It is a real-time practical solution for gaming at 40 to 60 FPS with incredible lighting detail. It will be available to developers through Nvidia Gameworks.

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-Tj-
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#4956996 Posted on: 11/11/2014 11:42 PM

Nothing is required I'll run it now

Edit: I call foul again! bs voxel xD

ricardonuno1980
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#4956999 Posted on: 11/11/2014 11:46 PM

Nothing is required I'll run it now

btw tnx for the link

Yes, GTX 900 is required - I confirmed that because I think CC 5.2 (CUDA) is required.

But maybe GTX 750 series can run...

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#4957005 Posted on: 11/11/2014 11:51 PM

The problem is its missing hardware Voxelized Global Illumination rendering - VXGI.

NVIDIA's VXGI computes indirect light by rendering the scene's lit geometry into a 3D voxel grid, then using that grid as an acceleration structure for computing indirect diffuse light and reflections. Indirect diffuse light is calculated by tracing broad cones through the voxel grid in the direction of the surface normal and accumulating the light from those voxels. Reflections are likewise calculated by tracing through the voxel grid in the direction of the reflection vector.

This new technique is made possible from several new features of GeForce GTX 980 including:

"Viewport Multicast" :
Accelerates the rendering of each triangle into the voxel structure(s)
by broadcasting it to the 6 directional render targets rather than
duplicating data.

"Conservative Raster" :
Ensures that each triangle in a voxel's space can contribute to that
voxel even if the triangle does not cross that voxel's sample point.

"Tiled Resources" :
Permits us to create a high resolution 3D Texture but only allocate
memory for those regions that are occupied by voxels.

NVIDIA can now employ Voxelized Global Illumination on Geforce GTX 980 to test the validity of the alleged moon landing media.

Meh, at least they could use SW for rest if they must showoff with HW..

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#4957015 Posted on: 11/12/2014 12:05 AM

Moon landings are so old school...if they want to be hip they need to do a comet landing...(gentle reminder lol)

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#4957042 Posted on: 11/12/2014 12:33 AM

Well, well, well...

I was sure that Voxel features are solely a software-centric effort by Nvidia, aimed at building new Voxel libraries, tools, programming techniques and such

but it turns out Maxwell does have few HW accelerated tricks in his Voxel arsenal :pc1:

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#4957099 Posted on: 11/12/2014 03:04 AM

Well Tom Peterson did an interview and said that VXGI was definitely compatible with AMD/Kepler based hardware but that they were primarily optimizing it for Maxwell and Maxwell hardware has features that make it quicker.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr-GToUHino#t=3165

He talks about it here. I'm sure the demo is just locked to Maxwell because they don't want people with Kepler/AMD complaining about performance. Someone will prob unlock it soon.

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#4957116 Posted on: 11/12/2014 03:56 AM

it not that good del it now ...

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#4957166 Posted on: 11/12/2014 07:16 AM

i call nonsense. i want to see the sun landing demo. Not THAT can make use of voxel lighting

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#4957205 Posted on: 11/12/2014 09:23 AM

Unreal 4 engine..
hands down the best game engine out.
Not cool nvidea cornering the market on this game engine demo
Not cool at all.
They stop at nothing

Huigie
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#4957219 Posted on: 11/12/2014 09:53 AM

Most boring tech demo I've ever seen...

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#4957281 Posted on: 11/12/2014 11:57 AM

GTX 850M, says it has no Maxwell card lol.

So that basically confirms GTX 750(TI) can't run it too cause its the same chip

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#4957354 Posted on: 11/12/2014 01:33 PM

the demo doesn't run for me with gtx 970 , last drivers (340.65) and win 8.1 :/
(engine thread exception when I launch it)

edit : ok it works only with gtx 980 :/

ricardonuno1980
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#4957392 Posted on: 11/12/2014 02:23 PM

the demo doesn't run for me with gtx 970 , last drivers (340.65) and win 8.1 :/
(engine thread exception when I launch it)

edit : ok it works only with gtx 980 :/Try lastest WHQL GeForce driver for GTX 970?

Fierce Guppy
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#4957706 Posted on: 11/12/2014 09:16 PM

Oh, of course... and my gtx 980s are STILL waiting to be cleared by New Zealand #&$@* Customs.

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#4958284 Posted on: 11/13/2014 07:57 PM

it didn't work with me , gives "Fatal error"

I have GTX 980 SLI

also I have last nvidia driver

cyberfredxxx
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#4958811 Posted on: 11/14/2014 03:26 PM

Try lastest WHQL GeForce driver for GTX 970?

344.65 is already the latest

but i don't undestand , on Nvidia Website , it says : minimum requirement gtx 970 :/
I tried on two computer with both gtx 970 , and the demo doesn't run

edit : ok on my fist post , I said 340.65 , mistake

of course I mean 344.65

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#4959461 Posted on: 11/15/2014 12:36 PM

Works fine here on my GTX 970 with 344.65 driver on Win 8.1.

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#4967401 Posted on: 11/26/2014 03:31 PM

Most boring tech demo I've ever seen...

Could not agree with you more.

It is a moving slideshow and little else as there is no actual movement in it, just a static frozen scene which the camera pans around. I was very underwhelmed by it.

What is with demos these days anyway? I remember yesteryear when both NVIDIA and ATI/AMD released jaw-dropping tech demos that usually came out with the new graphics card to showcase the hardware. Now we're lucky if we get those and when they do arrive they are rarely that impressive.

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#4967407 Posted on: 11/26/2014 03:36 PM

Works, but boring

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#5065074 Posted on: 05/07/2015 02:48 PM

Running a GTX 960 here. I know late to party. I checked to see if GM206 is Maxwell and it checks out. I will post later after running demo.

Edit (Update): All good here on descent. Gimble readings good. The Eagle has landed.

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#5065080 Posted on: 05/07/2015 02:56 PM

North Korea landed on Sun day before Kim's birthday and heroic pilot got back in time to congratulate his uncle Kim and presented him with Sun rock.

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#5065580 Posted on: 05/08/2015 02:07 AM

I just downloaded this demo today, and it would not work.
I hope someone does do something so Kepler can work,

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