In this Issue
- NVIDIA® Gelato® Now Available At No Charge!
- NVIDIA Developer Tools Survey
- GDC 2006 Presentations
- NVIDIA Demonstrates Mobile Gaming at E3
- NVPerfKit 2 RC1 Available This Week to Registered Developers
- Join NVIDIA at WinHEC 2006
- NVSG SDK 2.1.0.9 Released
- Cg 1.5 Beta 1 is available
- Seven new NVIDIA Quadro® FX Graphics Solutions offer robust features and improved performance!
NVIDIA® Gelato® Now Available At No Charge!
Free version runs on NVIDIA® GeForce® and includes Amaretto plug-in for 3ds Max
We’ve made three big changes to our Gelato high-quality rendering software:
- Two versions are available:
- Gelato at no charge
- Gelato Pro, which includes Sorbetto™, at the current price of US$1500.
- Gelato and Gelato Pro are now bundled with the Frantic Films’ Amaretto™ plug-in for Autodesk 3ds Max
- Gelato will operate with GeForce graphics cards
Gelato is a professional, full-featured and powerful renderer suitable for the most demanding of tasks.
Gelato Pro offers advanced functions for large-scale productions and comprehensive maintenance & support.
Learn more and download Gelato at nvidia.com/gelato.
NVIDIA Developer Tools Survey
We want to hear how you think we should invest our time and energy on tools and services that help you create awesome products. Please take a few minutes to complete our annual developer tools survey and tell us which tools you use, what you love/hate about them, what we can do better, etc.
Several survey participants will be selected at random to receive one of three GeForce 7900 GTX boards or one of 10 GPU Gems 2 books.
Follow the link to the survey. Thank you very much for your time.
GDC 2006 presentations
Our GDC Presentations are now available in Acrobat and PowerPoint formats.
Visit our GDC 2006 Presentations page and start improving your applications today.
Quick links
• Mobile Performance Tools and GPU Performance Tuning
• OpenGL ES Content Development Post-Mortem on NVIDIA GPUs
• Cross-Platform Development Using FX Composer 2.0
• GPU Performance Tuning with NVIDIA Performance Tools
• Physics Simulation on NVIDIA GPUs
• Variance Shadow Maps
• OpenGL SLI and NVX_instanced_arrays
• OpenGL Performance Tools
• OpenGL GPGPU
• DX10: Prepping your Engine for a Smooth Start
• DX10: Batching and Performance Considerations
• DX10: Practical Metaballs and Implicit surfaces
• Khronos: Creating the Embedded Media Processing Ecosystem
• When Shaders and Textures Collide
• Best Practices for Multi-Threading
NVIDIA Demonstrates Mobile Gaming at E3
While visiting NVIDIA's stand at E3 (e3expo.com, May 9th - 12th, Los Angeles, South Hall #300) be sure to check out the GoForce 5500 Handheld GPU. Our Embedded DevRel team will be showcasing a wide variety of games customized for the mobile market by innovative developer partners. In addition to commercial phones shipping today and hardware development kits of upcoming devices, ask about an NDA preview of a handheld game console due to be announced the month following E3.
Future events for handheld GPUs include Mobile Entertainment Market (http://www.mem06.com/, May 24 - 25, London) and CTIA (Sept 12-14, Los Angeles). Contact your developer relations account manager or introduce yourself at handset-dev@nvidia.com if you're interested in working with NVIDIA in this exciting and lucrative new market.
NVPerfKit 2 RC1 Available This Week to Registered Developers
This latest release candidate features several improvements with respect to NVPerfHUD's user interface, performance, and compatibility. If you're a registered developer, make sure to check it out and let us know what you think. The public release of NVPerfKit 2 is also coming soon.
NVPerfKit 2 includes major improvements from NVPerfKit 1.0, and now features NVPerfHUD 4.0 and GLExpert. This latest version of NVPerfHUD includes per-unit utilization graphs and a Frame Profiler mode that provides automated identification of the most expensive state buckets and draw calls in a frame (see preview video 
). GLExpert is a new tool that allows you to debug OpenGL API usage errors and performance issues. Registered developer login. Not registered? Register now.
Join NVIDIA at WinHEC 2006
NVIDIA would like to invite you to join us at WinHEC 2006, May 23-25 in Seattle, WA. WinHEC is the best opportunity for engineers and developers who plan, design, and develop products for Windows-based computers.
- Learn about the evolution of the core Windows architecture and features delivered in Windows Vista™.
- Gain practical development experience in new hands-on-labs.
- Connect with experts, industry leaders and your peers at the WinHEC Expo Hall and networking activities.
Session details and registration information are available on the WinHEC web site. Sign up for WinHEC 2006 today!
NVSG SDK 2.1.0.9 Released
The newest version of the NVIDIA Scene Graph (NVSG, an object-oriented programming library for creating scene graph-based applications) is now available for download. New to this version is sample source code for PBufferMirrorViewer plus a number of minor enhancements and bug fixes. See the complete change list and download the new version from the NVSG home page.
Cg 1.5 Beta 1 is Available
Cg 1.5 Beta 1 is available for download. This version of Cg features GLSL profiles for OpenGL and Shader Model 3 profiles for Direct3D. A procedural API for effect creation has also been added to support COLLADA. As always, this most recent version has been tuned for higher performance.
Download it on the Cg 1.5 Beta 1 page.
Related Links
Cg Home Page
Cg Toolkit 1.4.1
Seven new NVIDIA Quadro® FX Graphics Solutions offer robust features and improved performance!
NVIDIA continues to define workstation graphics performance with seven new NVIDIA Quadro FX solutions for ultra-high-end, high-end, mid-range and entry-level professionals.
New graphics solutions include the NVIDIA Quadro® FX 4500 X2 a multi-GPU, ultra-high performance professional solution and the NVIDIA Quadro® FX 5500 with a 1GB frame buffer for unmatched workstation performance and quality.
To find out more about the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500, 4500 X2, 3500, 1500, 560, 550, and 350 please visit the NVIDIA Quadro FX web site
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