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Diablo III going TWIMTBP
"WHAT A DIFFERENCE a day makes.
Twenty four little hours in which we learned that, contrary to what we previously thought, Blizzard isn't out to rain on Nvidia's graphical parade. Far from it, in fact.
Yesterday, we suggested that Diablo 3, Blizzard's upcoming blockbuster, would not only run DX10.1 - favouring ATI hardware over the green team - but that it would also use Havok physics, owned by Intel, rather than the Physx owned by Nvidia.
Now it's safe to say that the green team is in a small tizzy at the moment, thanks to the fact that ATI has a competitive part for the first time in what seems like an epoch. But, we can tell you that Diablo 3 isn't one of the things they're worried about.
(On a separate note, we don't see them too worried about the 4850 either. Current expectation in the channel is that Nvidia will do "whatever it takes" to stay in the $200 game).
There's been no announcement on the physics engine yet - false alarm. And as for the graphics, it still seems a dead cert that the game will support XP, Vista and OSX. µ
But here's some interesting speculation. The game is barely up and running, with a full release certainly not on the cards until 2010. And guess what is due to arrive in 2010? That's right - Windows 7 and DirectX 11.
Can you imagine, folks, Diablo goodness - in a truly next-generation engine?
Now this is little more than barely informed speculation - Blizzard isn't talking, Nvidia isn't talking and Microsoft certainly isn't talking. In fact, there's no indication beyond some backroom chatter the matter has even been discussed.
But we do hear that Nvidia has gotten its man inside Blizzard already, working to optimise the 3D code being generated. If that's the case, you can figure that the game will rock on the green team's TWIMTBP label working rather nicely indeed.
Meanwhile, ATI's Havok-on-GPU deal is not looking like all it could be. With no code from the Red Team as of yet, it looks increasingly unlikely that Intel will allow them to pull out better performance from their GPU than Chipzilla can 请注意文明用词。 of the CPU.
So stay tuned - the battle for supremacy in what is sure to be the year's top game has only just begun." |
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