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ggrobot · Elite Member Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 53575

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Bit-tech.net has a preview up of new technology called Allegorithmic demonstrated at GDC London which promises to reduce texture file sizes by 70%.

The implications of such a technology would be far reaching. As the current of digital distribution gains momentum a huge emphasis is being pla

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Smiley_ie · Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 12:17 pm Post subject:

I heard about this before, they put 300mb of textures on a hard drive and smash it up with a hammer and they compressed it down to 26k.

Sabot · Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 7:35 pm Post subject:

Cool, VALVE and STEAM will marry this!

Better get the floppy drive dusted off and fitted, soon it will be HL3 on *one* floppy, or downloaded in 1/2 second BUT it will still cost you £40!! This saves developers money, like STEAM, but we the gamers never see the justification -just exploitation Rolling Eyes

Oh of course, if you want to play HL3, you will NEED the floppy in the drive.......... Rolling Eyes

When you buy a game and it comes on 1-2DVDs you at least feel that some work has been put into it. Alas like the golden days of REAL game manuals (Falcon 4 Allied Force is 700 pages on PDF!!) it's gone and it's another effort to streamline and churn out games faster than battery hens with the runs!

yhancik · Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 12:30 am Post subject:

oh, so we don't need Blu-Ray Anymore Very Happy

miglaugh · Elite Member Joined: 02 Feb 2005 Posts: 367

No, we'll need blu-ray for this generation, we just won't need the next thing beyond blu-ray for the next generation. The games that are coming out now and that are in the pipeline now are not suddenly going to shift to this, they have no reason too. Maybe Xbox could use this tech this gen, but PS3 doesn't need to. Keep with the mature proven processes for now.