Microsoft buys Havok from Intel

Darkest

2015-10-02 23:10

My favourite physics engine, all hope lost! http://www.spokeo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/RIP-Spokeo-Info-Bubble.jpg

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Noisiv

2015-10-02 23:13

can't wait for this in Diablo 3 DX12 update 😀

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Turanis

2015-10-02 23:14

Haha good one. 😀 The question is what semiconductor(cpu+gpu) maker will buy Microsoft? 😉

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Darkest

2015-10-02 23:14

can't wait for this in Diablo 3 DX12 update 😀

Why would that need a performance boost? =p Most of the performance issues are network related. Edit: Nm. That went straight over my head!

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nhlkoho

2015-10-02 23:40

Intel doesn't need it anyway. The whole reason they bought it in the first place was to compete in the GPGPU business when they were working on Larrabee.

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moab600

2015-10-02 23:43

NVIDIA sells PhysX to microsoft... microsoft incorporate havok with physx using DX12 with little performance penalty... AHA THE DREAMS.

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sverek

2015-10-03 03:34

What if ... wait for it.... Microsoft is developing Half-Life3 with it? [hide]Kappa[/hide]

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PhazeDelta1

2015-10-03 03:51

NVIDIA sells PhysX to microsoft... microsoft incorporate havok with physx using DX12 with little performance penalty... AHA THE DREAMS.

http://i.imgur.com/LEc5z.jpg

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JonasBeckman

2015-10-03 08:35

http://i.imgur.com/LEc5z.jpg

Phys XBox 😀 Wouldn't mind a update that makes it GPU hardware accelerated under DirectX 12 though if they intend to do anything with this purchase even if it'll probably be more aimed at helping the XBox one out a bit.

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KissSh0t

2015-10-03 09:16

How would this affect SteamOS? Or not at all because of licensing?

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Kaarme

2015-10-03 10:16

... building the most complete cloud service.

Game physics being calculated in an MS cloud doesn't sound like a plausible solution unless you live right next to an MS data center.

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zebojelor

2015-10-03 10:43

RIP Havok Will be buried aside Nokia tomb.

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Nurmi

2015-10-03 10:46

Why would that need a performance boost? =p Most of the performance issues are network related. Edit: Nm. That went straight over my head!

Actually I think there are settings for cpu & thread usage, as they exist even for the earliest WoW. I've had pretty good 2.4.3 results when simply letting it go 4294967295 threads & change timing method from 0 to 2 whatever it is. Got minor FPS bump from 30 to 220, and didin't even bother testing where it's sane as I get no crashes. :banana: So I think it's very likely that SC2 & D3 also have bunch of options at them, but no one has done as good wiki for them as WoW has.

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rl66

2015-10-03 11:21

Game physics being calculated in an MS cloud doesn't sound like a plausible solution unless you live right next to an MS data center.

why not? the data transfer are lot more wide and easy than ever... 10 years ago would you imagine played online in the desert on a korean server while listen to music on the net on a US location?

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