ATI Demos on nvidia?

redken · Dec 15, 2003

Hi guys!
Can Ati demos be run on nvidia cards and vice versa?
I was under the impression that they couldn't ( unless with some special rapper, like for dawn demo on ati) but my uncle swears that he ran Ati's car demo on his FX 5200 without any special driver or wrapper. Is this a fact or a bunch of ..

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Just curious

micamica1217 · Dec 15, 2003

I can't see why not.

the dawn may have needed a rapper, but the ati demos are just done in DX....why need a rapper?

anyway, I may be wrong.
but they should work.

mica

Oni · Dec 15, 2003

Pro'lly. nVidia had done something special w/ it's demos that required the wrapper to get around. ATI demos are just DX9-based (I think), so they shouldn't require anything special.

DayUSeX · Dec 15, 2003

hmm why not download and see =P

JigPu · Dec 16, 2003

ATi demos should work fine. The reason the nVidia demos needed a wrapper is because they wern't programmed in DirectX. Instead (to show off the feature) they were programmed in nVidia's propritary language (I belive it's called CG?).

JigPu

redken · Dec 16, 2003

Thanks Guys!

Hey you guys know of any really good demos ( not benchmark programs like 3dmark03 or aquamark, ect.) that run very well and look very well... for showing off purposes

(I don't like to show off since I do this for myself but once in a blue moon...it's good for the soul

JigPu · Dec 16, 2003

If you want to check out DX9 goodness, RTHDRIBL makes me :drool:

It's only problem is that it probably won't run well... On my modded 9500 I max out at ~20FPS in a 640x480 window. Though the effects look awesome if it runs smoothly.

Looking through a sphere set to 'glass' material. Being glass, it has a lens effect which is why everything is upside down. If you look closely, you can ALSO see reflection of what's behind the camera from off the surface of the sphere.

JigPu

BladeRunner · Dec 16, 2003

One of my favourites is still the beautiful Matrox Reef demo. It will run on Radeon cards superbly, but all the textures are missing when run on a Nvidia card.

My favourite Radeon demo is "pipedreams" because it's just a very clever idea, but so impossible to do in real life, also has some missing textures on Nvidia cards.

Yuriman · Dec 16, 2003

Ive always wanted to run the reef demo, but I cant find it. Could someone post a link?

Puer Aeternus · Dec 16, 2003

I too would like some demo links. Even for old demos, Be fun to see how they look on a newer machine w/ a better vid card.

BladeRunner · Dec 16, 2003

I should have included links before but was in a hurry

The Pipe Dream demo is DX9 only and can be downloaded HERE (as can all the other official ATI demos)

The Matrox Reef Demo requires some work to make it run on an ATI card. Also for some unknown reason Matrox have removed the demo and I can't find it for download anywhere now........ I have it though

Go HERE and look for a topic by me for more details, and also the link posted below that by 55MHz

BladeRunner · Dec 16, 2003

Puer Aeternus

If you haven't seen this it's highly impressive for a 64kb demo

fr-08

Alacritan · Dec 16, 2003

Last time I tried to run the nvidia demos, they told me I couldn't run them because I didn't have an FX card. Shenanigans. I had a GF3 at the time and I wanted to see the new Dawn demos. She's a hottie.

Maybe ATi doesn't discriminate with their demos, but nvidia detects what card you have and decides for you.

I would like to see that Matrox reef demo.

Yuriman · Dec 16, 2003

You cant run Dawn anyway, your card isnt DX9 compliant. It doesnt have the features required. And Blandrunner, none of the download links to the demo seem to work. Why did matrox try so hard to get rid of it anyway?

Oni · Dec 16, 2003

Pro'lly for the same reason nVidia tanked the Dawn demo: it would run better on other cards.

BladeRunner · Dec 17, 2003

Yuriman

It is disappointing when these companies act like this over what is now an old demo for old hardware, (it was originally a tech demo for G400 IIRC?). I can understand them not wanting to cope with the download bandwidth as it's over 100mb, but why stop fan sites offering to host it? it's not as if they have a performance 3D card in their range at the moment either.

Reasons are immaterial I guess, as said I have it so if you can't work out what to do I'm not going to draw you a map and risk the wrath of the mods

new_novice · Dec 17, 2003

man even my 9800 XT has problem running the real time rendering thing

JigPu · Dec 18, 2003

I know... Takes some serious hardware even at 640x480! Especially with the Glass materials

JigPu

Cowboy X · Dec 18, 2003

If you want demos , here is the link for you :

http://www.ocforums.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=189553&highlight=ultimate+demos

Puer Aeternus · Dec 19, 2003

Thanks for the links folks!
(BTW...Have a Merry X-Mass all!)

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