Star Swarm Stress Test
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Welcome to the newest frontier in gaming: battles and scenes at the scale of armies and fleets, all active at once with no trickery around loading screens or off-screen abstractions. Star Swarm is a real-time demo of Oxide Games’ Nitrous engine, which pits two AI-controlled fleets against each other in a furious space battle.
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Welcome to the newest frontier in gaming: battles and scenes at the scale of armies and fleets, all active at once with no trickery around loading screens or off-screen abstractions. Star Swarm is a real-time demo of Oxide Games’ Nitrous engine, which pits two AI-controlled fleets against each other in a furious space battle. Originally conceived as an internal stress test, Oxide decided to release Star Swarm so that the public can share our vision of what we think the future of gaming can be. The simulation in Star Swarm shows off Nitrous’ ability to have thousands of individual units onscreen at once, each running their own physics, AI, pathfinding, and threat assessments. Nitrous uses the power of its proprietary SWARM (Simultaneous Work and Rendering Model) technology to achieve incredible performance on modern, multi-core computer hardware. SWARM allows Nitrous to do things previously thought impossible in real-time 3D rendering, like Object Space Lighting -- the same techniques used in the film industry -- and having thousands of unique individual units onscreen at once.Note that Star Swarm is not a deterministic simulation -- the AI and everything else is being computed in real time, so you will get slightly different results from multiple executions even on the same hardware. Unfortunately, achieving 100% determinism with the highly threaded nature of the Nitrous engine is an unrealistic goal. The Nitrous engine is already in use for two games currently in production: an unannounced title from Oxide Games and Stardock’s Star Control reboot. Nitrous is also available for licensing to interested game developers. You’ve got to see it to believe it. Download Star Swarm for free now to see what your gaming PC can do with the next-generation Nitrous engine.Key Features Up to 10,000+ units onscreen at once – Imagine what kind of games can be made when developers can count on simulating battles and scenes at this scale SWARM technology blows the performance curve – Fully utilizing each hardware CPU or GPU core available, SWARM allows Nitrous to achieve incredible results Benchmark mode generates performance information – Since Star Swarm is a dynamic simulation rather than a canned demo, run it several times to see what Nitrous’ real-world gaming performance is on your machine Film-style rendering – Nitrous uses Object Space Lighting, the same techniques used in film, including real-time film-quality motion blur
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MINORStar Swarm June 2014 Update
Oxide Games has released a new update for their Star Swarm stress test today on Steam. Changes include: Fixed full screen mantle mode. Before it was actually a full screen window, now it gets exclusiv
MINORStar Swarm June 2014 Update
Oxide Games has released a new update for their Star Swarm stress test today on Steam. Changes include: Fixed full screen mantle mode. Before it was actually a full screen window, now it gets exclusiv
MINORNew Star Swarm Update Released
Oxide Games has released a new update for the Star Swarm Stress Test today. This latest version addresses the following: Fixes a bug which prevented those with less than a quad-core CPU to run the app
MINORNew Star Swarm Update Released
Oxide Games has released a new update for the Star Swarm Stress Test today. This latest version addresses the following: Fixes a bug which prevented those with less than a quad-core CPU to run the app
MINORStar Swarm Updated
Oxide Games has released a new update for Star Swarm this morning. This latest update fixes a Nitrous bug which should improve Mantle performance and also adds a new Sandbox mode option. For full deta
MINORStar Swarm Updated
Oxide Games has released a new update for Star Swarm this morning. This latest update fixes a Nitrous bug which should improve Mantle performance and also adds a new Sandbox mode option. For full deta
MINORStar Swarm Updated
A Star Swarm update is now available via Steam. This new version removes activation, makes some UI improvements, and more. For full details see: http://steamcommunity.com/app/267130/discussions/0/5587
MINORStar Swarm Updated
A Star Swarm update is now available via Steam. This new version removes activation, makes some UI improvements, and more. For full details see: http://steamcommunity.com/app/267130/discussions/0/5587
MINORStar Swarm FAQ Posted
A Star Swarm FAQ is now available on the Steam Community forums to answer some of the concerns users have posted about the demo. Read the post at: http://steamcommunity.com/app/267130/discussions/0/55
MINORStar Swarm FAQ Posted
A Star Swarm FAQ is now available on the Steam Community forums to answer some of the concerns users have posted about the demo. Read the post at: http://steamcommunity.com/app/267130/discussions/0/55
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