Before any proper reports are written up over todays convention, I thought I'd just point people to a small demo showing off a little of the exciting power of the upcoming hardware acceleration update (which will be available at no extra cost).
The demo was prepaired by Jam, Villy, Joshtek, Popcorn, and LIJI, so credits to them.
yay, hardware acceleration, they're actually doing it! I wasn't gonna believe it till I saw it now we got a ray of hope. It's a nice tease, didn't even drop below 50FPS at all.
Using the graphics card to do various things so the processor doesn't have so much to do.
Which means the application can do more before it starts to slow down.
It's when the actual video card features are used to calculate and render everything going on on the screen, rather than having the software doing all the hard work.
I agree, I wouldn't bother with Construct if MMF2 had hardware acceleration in the first place. Hopefully HWA will intergrate well into the normal MMF2 runtime and give the unfinished Construct a difficult job to better it.
Obviously hardware acceleration can speed up rotation/scaling, but Clickteam also showed us that custom effects (such as a glass lens, or water ripples) could be programmed fairly easily.
Super awesome news!
Why does it says I need DirectX 9 and a pixel shader 1.1 compatible graphics card. I can still see improvement on my crappy machine that has no DX9.
Grr ok... I've started on it. Expect it sometime either this evening or tomorrow. I'm not going into too much detail as you'll be able to watch the convention for yourself soon
So does the hardware acceleration only apply to the standard drawing of objects to the screen? Or can it also apply to events and calculations and the like, such as massive fastlooping, and extension-based things like Text Blitter callback?
'Cause as nice as it'd be to have the speed restrictions on drawing objects lifted, there are a lot of other things that'd I'd find more useful, sped-up.
Fifth, hardware acceleration is the part where you leave the video stuff calculation to the video hardware. Calculations would be typically something for the normal CPU, at least for PCs.
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Before any proper reports are written up over todays convention, I thought I'd just point people to a small demo showing off a little of the exciting power of the upcoming hardware acceleration update (which will be available at no extra cost).
The community as we know it will change with this
