Adesso posso dirlo :P (Warp 3D)

[tlosm]

Lo sapevo da un bel po ... ma ora che è ufficiale posso scriverlo ;-)

New 3D Drivers for AmigaOS 4.1
Warp3D for Southern Islands Graphics Cards

A-EON Technology Ltd is pleased to announce that the first release candidate of RadeonHD Southern Islands Warp3D driver is now available to purchase and download from AMIStore App Store.

Following our acquisition of the joint ownership of Warp3D, to complement our ongoing work with the driver for the Evergreen RadeonHD graphics card series, we commissioned AmigaOS graphics specialist Hans de Ruiter to create a Warp3D driver for the newer Southern Islands chipsets.

PDF News Release (click here)




At the heart of the new Southern Island Warp3D driver is the W3D_SI.library which provides 3D graphics acceleration for selected Radeon HD 7xxx and Radeon Rx series graphics cards which include the Southern Islands Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). The driver has already gone through several iterations and has been put through its paces by a core group of dedicated AmigaOS 4 beta testers.


Warp3D-SI Features:

* Supports larger textures (up to 16384x16384 memory permitting).

* Performance is less dependent on resolution than previous drivers, including rendering at HD resolutions.

* Submits vertices to the GPU via vertex buffers rather than directly in the command stream (one of the bottlenecks of the old Radeon drivers).

* Uses the RadeonHD_RM.resource for VRAM allocation, providing more efficient memory management than own system.

* Accumulates small vertex arrays into larger buffers to provide faster performance where lots of tiny render operations are performed

* Doesn't lock the entire graphics system between
3D_LockHardware() / W3D_UnlockHardware(), so an
application or game crash is less likely to freeze the entire system

To complement the development Hans de Ruiter has also updated MiniGL and at the time of writing version 2.20 was ready for release on Warp3D.

New updated RadeonHD drivers are also being released to coincide with the update. Registered owners can
now download the new versions of 1.4 and 2.7 from AMIstore.

Warp3D RadeonHD Southern Islands Requirements:

An AmigaONE or AmigaOS 4.1 compatible computer with:-

* AmigaOS 4.1 “Final Edition”
* RadeonHD V1.4 or V2.7
* MiniGL - version 2.20 or later

Containing one of the following RadeonHD or Radeon Rx Southern Island graphics cards:

* Radeon HD 7750-7970 series graphics card (excluding the Radeon HD 7790)
* Radeon R7 250X/265 (excluding R7 250)
* Radeon R9 270/270X/280/280X

This version is the first Release Candidate (version 1.9).

With this release A-EON is once again pleased to re-affirm our commitment to providing new and progressive software for AmigaOS and towards our customers.

We would like to thank Hans De Ruiter for his work on this release.

[TheDaddy]

Boom!

[cip060]

Ha ha che giorno è oggi???
1 aprile

[tlosm]

l'hanno fatto a posta a farlo coincidere . ma vi garantisco che non è uno scherzo .
erano mesi che stavano testando ;)

[Kyle]

È vero Cip, eppur si muove!

[Kyle]

l'hanno fatto a posta a farlo coincidere . ma vi garantisco che non è uno scherzo .
erano mesi che stavano testando ;)

Proprio stamani prima di partire per Milano mi sono scaricato e installato le OpenGL 2.20, stasera quando ritorno a casa mi installerò i nuovi drivers RadeonHD 2.7, e poi rimarrò in attesa dell'uscita delle warp3d anche per la famiglia delle evergreen

[samo79]

Era ora !
Finalmente ora si potrà usare il 3D sulle delle belle schedazze al posto delle cessose 9250, unico neo ora ce toccherà comprare l'adattotore PCI --> PCI-E per farlo andare su Sam440 .. magari ACube potrebbe fare un bel pacchettone unico Driver+adattatore, Max che ne dici ?

[Fogg_80]

l'hanno fatto a posta a farlo coincidere . ma vi garantisco che non è uno scherzo .
erano mesi che stavano testando ;)

Sí, ma l'X5000 ti è arrivato? A quanto pare kas1e c'è l'ha già.

[Kyle]

Congratulazioni di cuore tslom per il tuo prossimo nuovo arrivo

[tlosm]

Congratulazioni di cuore tslom per il tuo prossimo nuovo arrivo

Sicuramente non ti riferisci alla X5000 ;-)

[Kyle]

Mmmm... no.

[tlosm]

eh sì .. un regalo inaspettato, in un periodo veramente duro ... pazienza dovrò fare ulteriori sacrifici ... mi so venduto un altra Amiga 4000 :-(