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[NJ5]

Soleron said:

NJ5 said:

@Soleron: Doesn't this require updated drivers? I don't think they could make it work on ATI cards unless ATI worked with them.

 

I didn't mean that it works on ATI cards. I meant that there's nothing special about the process itself that only Nvidia can do. Any processor can do it in theory, and if ATI paid Nvidia a license fee they could release drivers that run the glasses software without much effort. It's just that Nvidia is pushing the capability more.

For example, the latest Photoshop has GPU acceleration and at all of the Adobe press events they touted Nvidia as the card it would work on. When it launched, it actually ran on ATI cards too (because it uses generic OpenGL) and it ran on them faster.

Hopefully OpenCL changes the dominance of Nvidia-specific CUDA.

 

But this case is different, as it would require explicit cooperation between the two... We don't know whose fault it is, could even be both.