Jen | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net KitGuru.net - Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards Wed, 30 Jan 2013 10:15:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-KITGURU-Light-Background-SQUARE2-32x32.png Jen | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net 32 32 nVidia enables free Hawken game downloads https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/jules/nvidia-enables-free-hawken-game-downloads/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/jules/nvidia-enables-free-hawken-game-downloads/#respond Wed, 30 Jan 2013 10:15:35 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=123454 If you have an nVidia graphics card, love the idea of PhysX and were wondering when it might be possible to download a cool game, free of charge, that utilises all of the latest programming tricks available – then your wait is over. Hawken is ready to download and costs nuffink. Nice. While ATi might …

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If you have an nVidia graphics card, love the idea of PhysX and were wondering when it might be possible to download a cool game, free of charge, that utilises all of the latest programming tricks available – then your wait is over. Hawken is ready to download and costs nuffink. Nice.

While ATi might have claimed the ‘we got there first with DX9' crown in August 2002, nVidia was already well under way with the GeForce FX 5000 series and, when that launched, it enabled the market by pushing through DX9 titles like Mech Warrior for very little money. nVidia also launched ‘The Way Its Meant To Be Played'. Alongside SLi, these pushes by nVidia really moved part of the market over to their side of the GPU fence for some time to come.

Also in 2002, Manju Hegde (now Corporate VP with AMD) launched Ageia as a fabless company to design and create specialist physics processing units. nVidia would buy Ageia in 2008 and begin integrating the technology into the GeForce series.

Which brings us to today's announcement from Jen Andersson – PR guru with nVidia. She told KitGuru, “Last night, we uploaded a new PhysX video trailer for Hawken, an action-packed, fast-paced, free-to-play, mech-based, multiplayer first-person shooter, set in a visually-rich future setting destroyed by corporate greed”.

“Developed using Unreal Engine 3, Hawken looks fantastic, putting players in the cockpits of lethal mechs, each with their own weapons, loadouts, and perks. Through kills and match victories, players will rank up and unlock new items for their mechs, opening up new tactical opportunities and new play styles. Being a free-to-play title, players also have the option of speeding progress along through the use of real money transactions, though these do not grant additional power or a competitive edge over players who progress through exclusively through the use of experience”, she explained.

PR Guru and Hawken Master, Jen Andersson likes looking at the world in new and different ways

And what about inside?

Jen told us, “On the tech side of things, Hawken is a tour de force, sporting the aforementioned, advanced Unreal Engine 3 graphics, but also GPU-accelerated NVIDIA only PhysX effects that add destruction particles, extra, and realistic weapon effects. This video also demonstrates a soon-to-come PhysX feature in Hawken: APEX Turbulence. APEX Turbulence is a PhysX feature which uses velocity fields to simulate particle motion. You will see this in action inside of Hawken with energy collectors, mech death embers, deployed shields, and mech health orb embers”.

Which was nice.

Here's the trailer and, if you like what you see AND you have a graphic card from the nice people at nVidia, then you can go get a copy from here… http://www.playhawken.com

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KitGuru says: Free is always nice. So is a company that carries on adding value AFTER you have purchased their product. We think a small round of applause is in order.

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50w Fermi ? https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/faith/50w-fermi/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/faith/50w-fermi/#comments Thu, 20 May 2010 07:03:27 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=2297 You can never overestimate how much people want to know about nVidia and its products. Yesterday, we discussed nVidia's high-end products, the GTX 465 and GTX470.  We have been inundated with requests about ‘Fermi for the masses’. We’re not going to share all of our intel, but here’s one  snippet that you might find interesting. …

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You can never overestimate how much people want to know about nVidia and its products. Yesterday, we discussed nVidia's high-end products, the GTX 465 and GTX470.  We have been inundated with requests about ‘Fermi for the masses’. We’re not going to share all of our intel, but here’s one  snippet that you might find interesting.

Everyone is looking for the latest and greatest. With graphics, that normally happens when Microsoft issues a new version of Windows and updates the DirectX model at the same time.

Each generation of DirectX is ‘richer’ than the last and that means ever more sophisticated hardware is needed to run it. Ever wondered why the graphics giants tend to launch their high-end parts first? Simple, there is more space to work with. Remember, each new GPU is amazingly complex and represents a huge step forward over the previous generation. That means that the final cards have never been seen before. No one really knows what the ‘complete package’ characteristics will be until a card comes of an assembly line and is inserted into a real PC.

Over time, the experts understand more and more about the chip and are able to make it simpler and smaller. Right now, that is happening with the GTX465, ready to show at Computex.

Projecting that timeline forward, KitGuru predicts that nVidia will have a GT420 part ready to go late in Q3. While it might only have DDR3 memory and a smaller (128 bit?) bus, it will do something that many thought was impossible. Deliver Fermi to the masses using just 50 watts.

As always with these forward looking statements, we stand to be corrected, but this seems entirely plausible.

The only thing we're not sure about is will the 50w Fermi be more interesting to Jonah Alben or Philip Carmack?

(KitGuru must be getting old, these senior VPs look younger and younger!)

Will this launch be completely overshadowed by Northern Islands?  Who knows. The proof will be in the benchmarking.

KitGuru says: Roll on 50w Fermi, let’s make DX11 available to the widest audience possible.

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