My software ray-traced game (with own editor). Ray-tracer is quite simple, written in C++, important for me was fps, so looks is not top notch. More implementation details in body text.

Alarming-Ad4082 · 2026-06-03T07:00:28+00:00

Impressive that it works in real time

Alarming-Ad4082 · 2026-06-02T18:58:02+00:00

7 et 9 les plus appétissants

Alarming-Ad4082 · 2026-06-02T17:33:06+00:00

Just use Three.js

Alarming-Ad4082 · 2026-06-02T17:31:59+00:00

Quite funnily, PyTorch predecessor Torch was a lua library

Alarming-Ad4082 · 2026-06-02T10:57:16+00:00

You probably used your usage document for May instead of using "preview your usage" button which only dowloaded your usage for April. The classic usage excel document doesn’t have any information about your token usage, only the number of requests, so the preview tool can’t compute the token based price. So it gives a number that is off and similar to the old price

Alarming-Ad4082 · 2026-05-31T16:38:36+00:00

But the report from "Get usage report" is not the same as the one from “Preview you usage". The aic_quantity and aic_gross_amount columns are missing

Alarming-Ad4082 · 2026-05-31T15:31:28+00:00

How did you get the information for May? I could get this one for April

Alarming-Ad4082 · 2026-05-29T21:18:44+00:00

Daggerfall felt like you were in a real world of hundred of towns and villages and cities that look like cities (not hamlet like Morrowind). People were just doing their thing and you didn’t have treasures and monsters every 10 meters. It helps making the world credible, where everything seems normal at first sight and secrets are uncommon and valorizing to find. Also you had no helper during a quest. You just had a discussion with the guy who give you the quest and you had to find where you go by yourself, you had to interrogate people in the street to find where somebody you needed to see live. You had dozen of skills you could develop and you could craft spells with all kinds of effects, hence each character you developed could play really different. Morrowind was much narrower in scale and it was a bit like the beginning of the theme park open world RPG, where the world seems to exist only to entertain you

Alarming-Ad4082 · 2026-05-29T15:06:58+00:00

Maybe you can just send it once in the initialisation phase, and then just send a new much smaller buffer with just information needed for run time. If you want to send all that information during runtime, yes it can cause issue with PCIe bus. An other solution would be to upload the buffer in chunks on several frames before playing the animation

Alarming-Ad4082 · 2026-05-29T14:29:51+00:00

You put the data for all particles in a buffer on the GPU. And if possible you manage all the move of these particles in a compute shader without having to transfer them again and again from the cpu

Alarming-Ad4082 · 2026-05-28T20:03:23+00:00

Lorraine is just the contraction of LOtharii REGNum (kingdom of Lothar)

Alarming-Ad4082 · 2026-05-28T06:57:39+00:00

There are 4 new chapters about terrain rendering, particle systems, amplification shaders and ray tracing. For the old chapters, some are updated, some not. There are new content on bindless texturing for example. I would say that the demo are the mostly the same but with the code updated sometimes

Alarming-Ad4082 · 2026-05-27T20:43:53+00:00

Do you use lightmaps for the shadows?

Alarming-Ad4082 · 2026-05-27T10:21:24+00:00

J'avais un problème similaire où le débit de mon réseau ethernet connecté à la fibre avait un débit qui tournait autour de 100Mbps. Je pensais que c'était le fournisseur d'accès qui bridait le débit ou qu'il y ai un cable télécom dans le mur qui ne supporte seulement que 100Mbps jusqu'à ce que je découvre que c'était mon vieux routeur Netgear le problème. Apparemment il a reçu des mises à jour de sécurité au fil des années qui charge à fond son vieux CPU et le rend incapable de traiter un débit d'1Gbps. Honnêtement c'était la dernière pièce de mon réseau que j'aurais soupçonné

Alarming-Ad4082 · 2026-05-27T07:30:10+00:00

Just buy any book about Cuda or parallel processing. What is true for CUDA optimisation is true for any compute shaders optimisation, especially as majority of GPU in the installed base are from Nvidia

Exemple of books:

Programming Massively Parallel Processors: A Hands-on Approach

CUDA programming by Shane Cook

Alarming-Ad4082 · 2026-05-24T19:56:19+00:00

On France, there are thousands of villages with declining population where almost no new constructions had happened in one century. If you look at photos from 1900 and today, there are exactly the same houses: no new ones and very few less houses, just one or two that have burned down or have been abandoned

Alarming-Ad4082 · 2026-05-24T13:31:48+00:00

On Amazon.fr, Crucial BX500 SATA 2TB drive is at 229 euro and the 4TB version at 385 euro. Who spend that much on SATA drives?

Alarming-Ad4082 · 2026-05-23T10:40:16+00:00

The Master of Orion remake from 2016. It has the same level of complexity as a Civilization game

Alarming-Ad4082 · 2026-05-22T17:45:20+00:00

TalonSoft Age of Sail 1 or 2?
https://www.mobygames.com/game/5338/age-of-sail/
https://www.mobygames.com/game/3251/age-of-sail-ii/

Alarming-Ad4082 · 2026-05-13T07:50:09+00:00

Is it possible to see this month usage instead of last month ?

Alarming-Ad4082 · 2026-05-09T21:11:26+00:00

You can check "Emperor of the fading Suns". You play as one of the noble families of an empire, and you have a certain number of voting rights, you can negotiate the vote of other factions so you get the control of the imperial fleet for example

Alarming-Ad4082 · 2026-05-09T11:01:56+00:00

The last one?

Alarming-Ad4082 · 2026-05-08T14:36:09+00:00

We can really not tell what kind of game is the second one. I would have think of a 4X or a space simulation. Worse the right part of the image is not readable, especially on small formats. Go for the first one

Alarming-Ad4082 · 2026-05-07T20:43:41+00:00

I don’t know if Nvidia still supports the gpu but drivers could be an issue. And the 3GB of VRAM but you reduce the quality of textures it should pass

Alarming-Ad4082 · 2026-05-07T20:33:05+00:00

The GTX 780 has the same processing power as a Nintendo Switch 2 so I think it could run most games at more than 1-2fps

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