Evening Reading - Cyberpunk 2077 will be DX12-only - tech
(hx) 12:34 AM CEST - Jul,04 2020
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- Cyberpunk 2077 will be DX12-only, will only work on Windows 7
and Windows 10 - In an interview with PCGamesHardware,
Marcin Gollent, Lead Graphics Programmer at CD Projekt RED, revealed
some new interesting tech details about Cyberpunk 2077. According to
the developer, Cyberpunk 2077 will only support the DirectX 12 API.
Moreover, it will only work on Windows 7 and Windows 10.When asked
about the PC operating systems for which Cyberpunk 2077 will be
available, Gollent said: "Thanks
to the introduction of DX12 support for Windows 7 SP1 that Microsoft
introduced last year, the game will run on this system. We do, and will
continue to, test Cyberpunk 2077 on Windows 7 in an attempt to iron out
any edge-cases that might arise. Unfortunately, Windows 8 didn’t
receive its variant of DX12 libraries."
- Get Hue for Free - Hue is now available, as promised, as
the new free release on the
Epic
Games Store. This will be yours to keep if you add it to your
library by next Thursday
- Devolver will announce a new Shadow Warrior game on July 11th
- The developer behind Shadow Warrior and Shadow Warrior 2 is
teasing its next project on Twitter. Studio Flying Wild Hog has posted an
image sporting the text: "Teaser trailer filming in progress. Quiet
please!" Our takeaway from this hint is that a third instalment in the
Shadow Warrior franchise is imminent -- the tweet even came from the
series' official account rather than the team's own profile.
- Tencent Opens US Studio - This week Tencent Holdings
launched a new U.S. game studio in California called LightSpeed LA,
reports
Reuters. They say the Chinese giant is looking to create AAA games
and enhance their for global appeal. Word is the studio is being headed
up by Steve Martin, a Rockstar veteran who's a wild and crazy guy.
- The Settlers is delayed indefinitely - Ubisoft has
announced that The Settlers has been delayed indefinitely. According to the development
team, the game needs more polish. And since Ubisoft wants to deliver an
exceptional gaming experience, it has decided to delay it in
order to meet its quality standards.
- Microsoft Details Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling - Microsoft
posted a technical brief of the new Hardware-Accelerated GPU
Scheduling feature introduced with Windows 10 May 2020 Update, and
its latest Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) version. In a blog post
by Steve Pronovost, a tech lead with Microsoft DirectX, Microsoft
finally set out to explain what WDDM GPU Scheduling is. Introduced with
Windows Vista, WDDM 1.0 introduced GPU scheduling, a software component
that allocates workload from multiple sources onto a GPU, prior to
which all applications that needed GPU-acceleration would send as much
traffic as they could to the GPU driver. With growing complexity in the
modern 3D rendering pipeline, the need for a scheduler, not unlike the
OS thread scheduler, was needed.
- Silicon Lottery is currently selling a highly pre-binned
10-cores 5.1GHz (all-core clock) Core i9-10900K CPU for $949 -
Similar to the Core i7-10700K, silicon lottery is now selling
three different pre-binned variants of the Core i9-10900K processor.
Though, they seem to be out of stock right now, but if you are
interested in buying any of these processors, then you can get notified
by email when these pre-binned Intel Core i9 10900K boxed processors
are back in stock
- NVIDIA's upcoming RTX 3000 series Ampere cards might be built
on Samsung's 8nm process node - According to kopite7kimi,
a source with a very high accurate record with rumors in the past,
Nvidia’s upcoming Ampere RTX 3000 series cards will be manufactured on
Samsung’s 8nm process, and not TSMC’s 7nm node as previously rumored.
So if they’re indeed being built on Samsung's 8nm process node, then
the Ampere parts will likely be less efficient than AMD’s next-gen 7nm
RDNA2 graphics cards. Possibly. Anyway, take this please as unconfirmed
leak / rumor.
- Fallout TV series from Westworld creators and Amazon Studios
announced - Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy are
developing a TV
series based on the Fallout video game franchise under their Kilter
Films banner in collaboration with Amazon Studios and Bethesda
Softworks. The TV series will bring “the harshness of the wasteland set
against the previous generation's utopian idea of a better world
through nuclear energy” to the small screen, while retaining the game's
“harsh tone” and making sure it is still “sprinkled with moments of
ironic humor and B-movie-nuclear-fantasies,” according to Variety.
Nolan and Joy will act as executive producers alongside Athena Wickham
for Kilter Films, with Todd Howard for Bethesda Game Studios, and James
Atlman for Bethesda Softworks. A release date for the TV series was not
announced.
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