alessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 7 days agoA Valve engineer fixed 3D lighting so hard he had to tell all the graphics card manufacturers their math was wrong, and the reaction was: 'I hate you'www.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square95fedilinkarrow-up1637arrow-down110cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldgames@sh.itjust.workslemmydirectory@lemmy.dbzer0.com
arrow-up1627arrow-down1external-linkA Valve engineer fixed 3D lighting so hard he had to tell all the graphics card manufacturers their math was wrong, and the reaction was: 'I hate you'www.pcgamer.comalessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 7 days agomessage-square95fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldgames@sh.itjust.workslemmydirectory@lemmy.dbzer0.com
minus-squareBlackmistlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·6 days agoYes, but it’s exponentially expensive compared to cheating.
minus-squareSharkAttak@kbin.melroy.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up4·6 days agoWell they built entire video cards series to address that, I hope they were worth it.
minus-squareBlackmistlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·6 days agoWe haven’t had decent GPU pricing since we started ramming that onto cards, although I will openly admit we’ve also had a lifetime of wacky fucking shit go on since then.
minus-squarePup Biru@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·6 days agoand it’s still incredibly computationally expensive
Yes, but it’s exponentially expensive compared to cheating.
Well they built entire video cards series to address that, I hope they were worth it.
We haven’t had decent GPU pricing since we started ramming that onto cards, although I will openly admit we’ve also had a lifetime of wacky fucking shit go on since then.
and it’s still incredibly computationally expensive