Intel Says Raytraced Games In 2-3 Years

Everyone (well, most people) fancy Ray-traced games. Ray tracing will be the ultimate photo real leap for video games, unfourtunately, real-time ray tracing is not possible even with today’s hardware. According to Intel, we may see ray traced games in next 2-3 years. Interesting stuff.

PCGH: Are there game developers that already want to work with Raytracing?

Dr. Michael Vollmer: We keep in touch with companies all over the world - I dare say that in two to three years time we will see something. There already are some individual approaches, especially in the science sector, which show that Raytracing algorithms are scaling very well with the numbers of cores. But the migration to a new programming technology takes years; Raytracing is still in an early stage.

Team Fortress 2 - Updated….With Fixes

 

Another Team Fortress 2 update that fixes some age old exploits like intel clipping and also fixes the broken medigun taunt. (HAHA! Octoberfest!)

Team Fortress 2

• Fixed rcon crash caused by too many incorrect password attempts
• Fixed clients experiencing connection problems during round restarts
• Fixed flares not always being removed on impact
• Fixed 32 player servers not working correctly with SourceTV enabled
• Fixed dropped flags sometimes falling through the world
• Fixed number key menu input sending 2 key events
• Fixed PING field being clipped in the scoreboard at 800×600 resolution
• Fixed broken Medigun taunt
• Changed mat_showmiplevels to only be allowed when cheats are on

As always, available from Steam.

Project Offset may become PC exclusive

Project Offset, a visually stunning first person shooter in development by Offset software, may become exclusive to PCs if Intel has it’s way. Intel acquired Offset Software in Feb, 2008 and has been working on “next generation visuals” project ever since. Below is a video that features Remi Arnaud, Senior Graphics Architect and Manager of the Game Engine Technology team at Intel. Arnaud talks about the technology behind the engine, consoles as well as the game in-general.