[sldev] Reformatting Textures for the cache

[Laurent Laborde]

On 3/23/07, Tim Shephard <tshephard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > sorry for being annoying, but i want to be sure that the SL community
> > and LL focus on optimisation for descend hardware and not for my 3
> > year old computer.
>
> Well, making decisions in the absence of data never excited me very
> much but I wouldn't let that worry you..  it sounds like LL (or at
> least the engineers responsible for this piece) are pretty much of the
> same opinion with regards to ignoring the non-multi-core luddites..

The data are :
- Any new computer shipped with a 3D card able to run SL have a
dual-core cpu. (unless your manufacturer is really an idiot)
- high-end gamer computer are quad-core with 512 or more MB of VRAM
- intel and AMD announced more and more core. They do it already and
we can easily see that we reached a very strong frequency limit.
(around 3Ghz)
- More RAM, faster RAM
- HDD aren't really a lot faster. Just A LOT more capacity and internal cache.
- A lot of ppl, and all gamers will move to vista sooner or later,
because only vista support DirectX 10, not XP(!), not Win2k. (bastards
!)

Some useless data (useless for optimisation) :
- The next kickass device will still not be 3D VR Glasses (headache!)
but multitouch screen (yum!)

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kerunix Flan