Abrash on X-Box

July 4, 2000 6:34 AM

There's an lengthy article about the X-Box graphics on Dr Dobb's, written by former id programmer Michael Abrash, who has been working at Microsoft for a few years now. Thanks adam. There's a general article about the graphics (well it has techy terms, but I think any good Shack reader should be able understand most of it :) ), but also a seperate piece about X-Box memory bandwidth something which is important since the GeForce2 right now is pretty much limited by that. Here's a piece about the power of the graphics chip that NVidia will be providing

To put that into easily visualized terms, Quake on a Pentium Pro could draw about three lit player models per frame at 640Ã—480, 60 Hz. Xbox should be able to draw roughly 3000 of the same models per frame, even with a second texture, pixel shading, and antialiasing thrown in for good measure.

Maarten Goldstein

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Lex Lethel

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July 4, 2000 6:24 AM

I'm a cheat. So sue me, losers.

Thanks!

-Lex
- pimpstick
  
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  July 4, 2000 7:05 AM
  
  Jack will nuke you for that, biznitch!
  
  hehe
- brutal
  
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  July 4, 2000 7:44 AM
  
  way to go Lex Lethel! or is that Lex Lethal or maybe lex lehtel or the list just goes on and on and on.