Intel Laptop Gaming Technology Development Kit
Glad to announce you the release of the Intel Laptop Gaming TDK (Technology Development Kit) v1.0. This free software is intended to providing game developers with a one-stop place for accessing platform information to better tune their games for the laptop platforms.Problems with Laptop Gaming:
Have you ever played an engrossing game on your laptop? Have you ever had the laptop battery warning annoy you when you are in the middle of the most exciting part of the game? Have you thought about providing laptop specific features to your gamers ?
What's in the Intel Laptop Gaming TDK:
* Queries for the mobile platform on power status, including power source and battery power statistics.
* Wi-Fi support to provide the connectivity status and wireless signal strength.
* The ability to get real-time processor utilization information.
* Non-threaded APIs for functionality, threaded APIs for best performance.
* Support for Windows XP* operating system.
* Samples showing control of game elements and suggestions for usage.
* User guide, release notes, and system configuration requirements.
* Known issues, bug fixes and work-arounds.
* Installation instructions.
* End user licenses.
* Laptop Gaming TDK User Guide.
Highlights:* Wi-Fi support to provide the connectivity status and wireless signal strength.
* The ability to get real-time processor utilization information.
* Non-threaded APIs for functionality, threaded APIs for best performance.
* Support for Windows XP* operating system.
* Samples showing control of game elements and suggestions for usage.
* User guide, release notes, and system configuration requirements.
* Known issues, bug fixes and work-arounds.
* Installation instructions.
* End user licenses.
* Laptop Gaming TDK User Guide.
* Quickly deliver compelling new mobility features that demonstrate platform consciousness of the game.
* Deliver code that responds to platform state changes such as power source changes, battery power levels and WiFi signal strength variations.
* Improve gameplay by monitoring platform characteristics and taking appropriate action in response to changes due to mobile usage.
* Provide for better processor utilization in multi-core platforms using threaded API calls.
Key Features:* Deliver code that responds to platform state changes such as power source changes, battery power levels and WiFi signal strength variations.
* Improve gameplay by monitoring platform characteristics and taking appropriate action in response to changes due to mobile usage.
* Provide for better processor utilization in multi-core platforms using threaded API calls.
Build games that are sensitive to the challenges associated with gaming on laptops. The Intel Laptop Gaming TDK provides for easier integration of the following platform-specific features:
* Provides a top-level API to get information about battery power states, network connectivity, and processor information, including number of cores.
* Offers a threaded event management system to monitor system changes with minimal overhead to client game applications.
* Allows creation of user-defined callbacks in an object-oriented way to handle specific platform events.
The Intel® Laptop Gaming Technology Development Kit (TDK) provides an easy interface to help extend your games by adding mobile-aware features to make for a better laptop gaming experience.* Offers a threaded event management system to monitor system changes with minimal overhead to client game applications.
* Allows creation of user-defined callbacks in an object-oriented way to handle specific platform events.
Intel gives you, the game developer, C++ code that you can incorporate directly into your game, royalty free, to take advantage of the platforms mobile technology.
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