nV30 emulator available from nVidia..

[zsouthboy]

Link

In order to use NV30 emulation, you wil need the new Beta Detonator driver (version 40.41) that is available at www.nvidia.com/drivers. This beta driver includes complete support for all currently available NVIDIA products. In addition, it includes emulation support for the upcoming NV30 architecture. Please note that this emulation is slow, since it is performed on the CPU. Once emulation is enabled (see below), the driver allows you to transparently run any application that uses NV30 features.

Hmm.... yay for GF4 owners? Why the hell would nVidia release an emulator for DX9 stuff? (it doesn't sound like it would be an easy)

 

[bgeh]

i'm guessing some serious performance hits

 

[Shamrock]

maybe for anyone wanting to run the GF FX demos? (I.E. Dawn the fairy)

 

[Spicedaddy]

Originally posted by: Shamrock
maybe for anyone wanting to run the GF FX demos? (I.E. Dawn the fairy)

yep, people get to see how good the demos look, while running at about 3fps, so they want to upgrade their video card...

 

[MangoX]

Are the ATI Radeon 9xxx cards able to run nvidia demos also? Or are they only limited to GeForces.

I'm on a 5gb monthly cap, so I don't want to download a 75mb demo only to find that I can't run it.

 

[T9D]

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[zsouthboy]

Originally posted by: Spicedaddy

Originally posted by: Shamrock
maybe for anyone wanting to run the GF FX demos? (I.E. Dawn the fairy)

yep, people get to see how good the demos look, while running at about 3fps, so they want to upgrade their video card...

The thing is, people are saying it looks like crap when you do that anyway, so i don't see the point.

 

[zsouthboy]

Originally posted by: AznBoi36
Are the ATI Radeon 9xxx cards able to run nvidia demos also? Or are they only limited to GeForces.

I'm on a 5gb monthly cap, so I don't want to download a 75mb demo only to find that I can't run it.

Also, the "emulator" doesn't actually seem to do the emulation, all it does is enable the emulation in the 40.41's... am i correct? The .exe is awefully small to think otherwise.....