Yay! New dev box!

Yay! So I've finally scrounged up enough to build a new box. While it isn't what I wanted (Really, will ANYTHING ever be what I wanted?), it's leaps and bounds ahead of what I had before.

Specs:
Athlon X2 7750 Blackbox 2.7GHz (Exchanged from PhenomII) $$ reasons
4GB PC6400
XFX 512MB XXX Radeon 4850

This being my first major Vista build, I'm going to start looking at getting ahead of the DX10 bandwagon in preparation for DX11 and Win7 and may start implementing a DX10 renderer for Quadrion as well.

On a side note, Vista x64 is running exceptionally well. I may be one of a minority who has NOT had driver related or compatability related issues, but it will be interesting to attempt to see what can be done for a 64bit build of Quadrion. Though, I can say for certain that will NOT happen until nVidia releases a 64bit SDK for PhysX, which is supposedly coming soon.

The progress on the new dynamic lighting system is going well. I've got two versions that I'm playing around with, one resembles the more traditional deferred renderers (See. Haregraves). The other is closer to Wolfgang Engel's light pre-pass renderer (http://diaryofagraphicsprogrammer.blogspot.com). I'm going to mess around with seeing what's going to end up working better for us. Though, I'm anticipating that the light-pre pass render is going to be a better solution since memory bandwidth is already sortof an issue for us.

I haven't coded in about 2 weeks, so this was a much needed break. Gonna jump right back in and there will be updates....oh yes there will be updates.