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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 ]
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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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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