I read an article a day or two ago about a GF4 TI4600 and TI4200 Rendering "Final Fantasy: The Spirit Within" movie in REALTIME. Do you guys think the Parhelia will be able to pull this off too? I absolutly do not want an Nvidia card in my system. If the Parhelia doesn't live up to the hype on Tuesday, I guess I'll be looking for an R300 Board.
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Will Parhelia have enough horsepower for this???
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I believe that parhelia will be a "better" card than the gf4ti series, but I donĀ“t believe ANY gpu can render a scene from final fantasy in realtime, well atleast not at the same detail as the movie.This sig is a shameless atempt to make my post look bigger.
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There's already a discussion about this supposed rendering in General Hardware. With screenshots. It looks nothing like the movie - it's just nVidia trying to get PR.
By nVidia's standards, I could get a bunch of 5-year-olds to draw very fast and they'd count it as "rendering Final Fantasy in real time."Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.
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there is a discussion about the nvidia FF-movie here:
as far as i can see from those screenshots, nvidia cut some corners...This sig is a shameless atempt to make my post look bigger.
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As far as I know , Nvidia never said it was the same as the movie. It is very impressive , though . Especially how close the skin and hair is (if you've seen the demo in realtime with the old man's (Cid's ) beard you'd be amazed . Oh wait I happen to have a screenshot ...
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They are obviously using an optimized demo designed to be used for that purpose with the fully rendered models and backrounds already done. there is no way a card could render a 3d scene from a movie or animation like that in real-time from wireframe and all that... companies have render farms with dozens of computers running 24/7 to handle effects for tv/movies and not cheap ones either they are running DEC Alpha's Dual processor SGI and all those $10,000+ computers 3d games are designed to be rendered in real-time because the scenes need to be but with animations it's not time but the final product that count. I'm sure this demo was produced to be run in real-time so any card with comperable fill rates will do the trick. Unless the demo is only designed to work with a form of Geforce exlusive technology in wich case the test is irrelevant because it would be designed to run that way on the card.Last edited by Jutai; 22 June 2002, 03:17.-Chris K.
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Guess we'll see SGI slap nV down again. Just like they did a couple years ago with their overly hyped claims."Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." -- Dr. Seuss
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