A Silicon Valley company launches a new chip to make the game more realistic

At a Silicon Valley start-up Ageia Technologies launched a new microchip, hopes to introduce a large number of jumping, flying and rolling motion in a video game, the character of the virtual world of action and what we see is more close to the real action.

In recent years, with the increasing performance of graphics cards, video games have been produced more and more beautiful. But the players have been complaining that the game can not move the box, the board can not split, the window can not be broken, they want not only superficial reality. Ageia's new PhysX processor will change everything, because it can simulate any natural action from smoking to rolling.

Hegde, chief executive officer of Manju, said they would make the game possible to achieve the image itself with the action and combat effect, action makes the game more realistic as the image makes the game more realistic. However, Ageia will also encounter obstacles, because skeptical players do not want to spend money to buy new hardware. The new chips will be sold in retail stores on May, at a price of about $300. But on the online forums, players say the price is too high for an unproven technology they doubt whether it is worth buying. In addition, the chip may also be pushed to the market, because the current computer may not be configured.

One in California is located in the Mountain View company headquarters demonstration, Hegde for the upcoming "CellFactor" game demonstration, fighting the characters in the game by ideas, mobile, break up and throw any object they see. The performance of the chip is obvious, because the debris flying, knocked down the wall and scattered everywhere. But before the demo Hegde lowered the resolution of the game. The reason is that the chip can create so many objects, even if the Hegde used high-end computer with two graphics cards, it is difficult to track these objects at high definition. But Hegde believes that gamers will be willing to sacrifice clarity to get a better fighting effect. The image of the explosion of the building will be spectacular, and the action of playing football will be closer to the true skeletal distortion, the clothes will be fluttering and wrinkled, can provide dramatic effect for online RPG games.

Analysts said that Ageia will rewrite the rules of the game industry, the importance of more than Hollywood. Technology consulting firm Enderle Group chief analyst Rob Enderle said, this action will make the realistic effect of making a chip game to a new level, the current building in the game and most of the vehicles is very rigid, unable to show the real world situation. Investors have expressed interest in Ageia, there are three companies invested in funds, of which TSMC (TSMC) is one of the largest. But Ageia is not the only company that cares. Card maker Nvidia has been obtained from the Havok software to enhance performance, the software used such as "half life -2" and other popular games. However, the Ageia chip is unable to match the graphics card, because the graphics focus on the image rather than the action calculation.