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Adobe, NVidia working to improve Flash Player performance
Owners of newer netbooks featuring NVidia's upcoming Tegra system-on-a-chip or Broadcom's Crystal HD will be glad to hear that Adobe is teaming up with NVidia to produce a version of the Flash player tuned for netbooks and MIDs. The goal is to provide full h.264-powered HD video to more mobile devices.
Another result of the partnership: Flash will likely see significant performance gains on other NVidia chipsets as well. At last you'll be able to put your multi-GPU SLI configuration to good use while enjoying your favorite Time Wasters!
[ via ZDNet ]
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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TehNomad said 10:24PM on 6-02-2009
Could this potentially mean that Flash games might be able to closely emulate real DirectX/OpenGL 3D games in the near future?
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hazard said 8:26AM on 6-03-2009
It already does with 3D engines like Sharikura and Papervision
http://temp.roxik.com/datas/physics
http://www.papervision3d.org
http://blog.papervision3d.org/category/demos
hazard said 8:33AM on 6-03-2009
Ahh .. limited to 3 urls per post
Nonetheless, this cool little Flash thing deserves a post of it's own.
http://ecodazoo.com
It's also made by Masayuki Kido who developed the Sharikura engine.
Josh said 2:16AM on 6-03-2009
Could this mean that my MacBook doesn't heat up another 30F each time I watch a video? Please say yes. Please.
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Evenio said 9:53AM on 6-03-2009
Nope, sorry. Assuming your MacBook runs OS X, Adobe will continue to cripple Flash Player on it. They've got a juvenile pissing match with Apple to uphold, y'know.
hazard said 8:17AM on 6-03-2009
This is great news. Unfortunately won't be available until first half of next year. I would hope this support would be rolled into NVidia's Desktop chips too.
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Lee Mathews said 8:18AM on 6-03-2009
"Flash will likely see significant performance gains on other NVidia chipsets as well." i.e. desktops, laptops with NVidia GPUs
DeoWulf said 9:29PM on 6-03-2009
Hm... could this mean good things for the Zune HD and Flash support?
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