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[17] [16] A major factor contributing to its support for more 3D games was that addition of a shader recompiler to its architecture. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] Bloodborne could run and access the character creation menu, but had a major graphical bug causing a red filter to be applied to the screen.
In Direct3D 11, the concept of feature levels has been further expanded to run on most downlevel hardware including Direct3D 9 cards with WDDM drivers.. There are seven feature levels provided by D3D_FEATURE_LEVEL structure; levels 9_1, 9_2 and 9_3 (collectively known as Direct3D 10 Level 9) re-encapsulate various features of popular Direct3D 9 cards conforming to Shader Model 2.0, while ...
Originally, this functionality was achieved by writing shaders in ARB assembly language – a complex and unintuitive task. The OpenGL ARB created the OpenGL Shading Language to provide a more intuitive method for programming the graphics processing unit while maintaining the open standards advantage that has driven OpenGL throughout its history.
As the number of profile and shader types cropped up, Microsoft has switched to use the term "Shader Model" to group a set of profiles found in a generation of GPUs. [9] Cg supports some of the newer profiles up to Shader Model 5.0 as well as translation to glsl or hlsl.
The shader assembly language in Direct3D 8 and 9 is the main programming language for vertex and pixel shaders in Shader Model 1.0/1.1, 2.0, and 3.0. It is a direct representation of the intermediate shader bytecode which is passed to the graphics driver for execution.
shader-db is a collection of about 20,000 shaders gathered from various computer games and benchmarks as well as some scripts to compile these and collect some statistics. Shader-db is intended to help validate an optimization. It was noticed that an unexpected number of shaders are not hand-written but generated.
GLSL 4.00, Tessellation on GPU, shaders with 64-bit precision [50] 4.1 July 26, 2010 GLSL 4.10, Developer-friendly debug outputs [a], compatibility with OpenGL ES 2.0 [51] 4.2 August 8, 2011 [52] GLSL 4.20, Shaders with atomic counters, draw transform feedback instanced, shader packing, performance improvements 4.3 August 6, 2012 [53]
Direct3D 10.0 level hardware must support the following features: the ability to process entire primitives in the new geometry-shader stage, the ability to output pipeline-generated vertex data to memory using the stream-output stage, multisampled alpha-to-coverage support, readback of a depth/stencil surface or a multisampled resource once it ...