Last Updated: 06 / 07 / 2005

GDC 2005 Presentations

This page lists the presentations from our sessions at the 2005 Game Developers Conference. For each talk, we provide slides in PDF format, along with a brief description (helpful for talks with titles that aren't quite self-explanatory).

Synchronized audio and slides are available for our sponsored sessions.

You can select individual presentations to download below, or get them all in a convenient ZIP file (66 MB).

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Advanced Visual Effects with Direct3D

Session/Talk Title	English	Description
Batching 4EVA	PDF	Tips for dealing with batching and other performance guidance.
Instancing and Floating-Point Specials	PDF	All about instancing and how to deal with floating-point specials like infinities and NaNs.
Special Effects in Direct3D	PDF	A collection of useful techniques, including particle systems, cloth simulation, antialising, ambient occlusion, and more.
Making Pretty Pictures with Direct3D	PDF	Case studies of interesting ways to use the GPU's power to achieve a variety of high-quality effects.
Far Cry and DirectX	PDF	How Far Cry uses various ps_2_* and ps_3_0 effects.

Next-Generation Rendering with OpenGL

Session/Talk Title	English	Description
The OpenGL Framebuffer Object Extension	PDF	All about render-to-texture and the new frambuffer object extension.
Image Processing Tricks in OpenGL	PDF	Various useful image processing tricks, including histograms, recursive filters, and the discrete cosine transform.
OpenGL 2.0 and New Extensions	PDF	A look at OpenGL 2.0 and new ARB extensions.
Programming for SLI in OpenGL	PDF	How to get the most of SLI for OpenGL applications.
OpenGL Performance Tools	PDF	An overview of the new NVShaderPerf and NVPerfKIT performance tools for OpenGL.
GPGPU: General-Purpose Computation on GPUs	PDF PPT	How to use the power of the GPU for general-purpose computation.
Advanced OpenGL Debugging and Profiling with gDEBugger - 30 day trial version of gDEBugger	PDF	How to use Graphic Remedy's gDEBugger tool to track down problems in OpenGL applications.

NVIDIA Sponsored Sessions and Other Talks

Synchronized audio and slides are available for most talks. A ZIP file of all the talks is also available.

Session/Talk Title	English	Multimedia	Description
Volume Rendering for Games	PDF	Streaming Archive (ZIP)	All about efficient volume rendering and ideas for applying it to games.
Percentage-Closer Soft Shadows Movie (3 MB .WMV)* Movie (23 MB .AVI) Movie (33 MB .MPG) FX Composer Package (.fxcomposer) Shader (.fx) * Highest quality movie	PDF	Streaming Archive (ZIP)	Shadow map-based soft shadows with correct perceptual cues such as penumbras that harden on contact.
All About SLI	PDF	Streaming Archive (ZIP)	Background on SLI and how it works, as well as tips on how to get the most out of it.
Introduction to Wireless Media Processors (WMPs)	PDF	Streaming Archive (ZIP)	An introduction to the world of Wireless Media Processors (WMPs).
Coming to a Pixel Near You: Mobile 3D Graphics on the GoForce WMP	PDF	Streaming Archive (ZIP)	All about the GoForce 3D 4500 and 4800 Wireless Media Processors (WMPs).
The NVIDIA Performance Analysis Tools	PDF	Streaming Archive (ZIP)	An overview of current and upcoming performance tools.
Pipeline Integration with FX Composer	PDF	Streaming Archive (ZIP)	How to make the most of FX Composer 1.6, including DXSAS, plugins, and scripting. Also includes a preview of FX Composer 2.
Creating Real Shaders with FX Composer Sample Shaders (.zip)	PDF		A variety of useful techniques and shaders for real-world applications.
The NVIDIA Developer Toolkit	PDF		An overview of the NVIDIA Developer Toolkit, which includes numerous tools, SDKs, sample shaders, and more.
GPU Gems 2 Showcase: Per-Pixel Displacement Mapping with Distance Functions	PDF	Streaming Archive (ZIP)	A new technique for high quality and efficient emulation of displacement mapping while rendering just a single quad.
GPU Gems 2 Showcase: Terrain Rendering Using GPU-Based Geometry Clipmaps	PDF	Streaming Archive (ZIP)	A GPU-accelerated technique for efficient terrain rendering.
GPU Gems 2 Showcase: Dynamic Ambient Occlusion and Indirect Lighting	PDF	Streaming Archive (ZIP)	How to compute ambient occlusion efficiently using the GPU, and how to apply it to indirect lighting computations.