Ice Storm Fighters Game Technology Demo

[Blade_Runner]

Ice Storm Fighters Game Technology Demo



Multi-core processors have become mainstream in the PC industry, and many classes of software applications like multimedia encoding and 3D rendering already benefit from the added processing power.

The game industry is also evolving toward threaded games and game engines. The latest-generation game consoles (Microsoft* XBOX* 360, Sony* PlayStation* 3) also feature multi-core processors. Current games like Quake*4, Call of Duty* 2 and Splinter Cell* Double Agent already have threaded game engines. And upcoming games such as Unreal Tournament* 2007 (Based on the Unreal* 3 engine) are expected to feature threaded engines.

To demonstrate how threaded games and game engines will benefit from multi-core processors, Intel worked with Futuremark* to create the game engine technology demo - Ice Storm Fighters.

Today, we're making the game available for free here at ICF. To learn more about this demo and where you can download it, click Next.

The Skinny

Ice Storm Fighters is based on a multi-threaded game engine developed by Futuremark*, makers of the 3DMark* and PCMark* series of benchmarks. The Ice Storm Fighters game engine technology demo features

* Artificial Intelligence (AI) : Uses the Co-operative Optimizing Planner (COP) algorithms to determine movement paths for the game units. Each unit takes into account the objective, the location, positions of other units, physical obstacles etc. before determining the path.

* Physics using PhysX* API physics engine and custom physics code, which enables

* Characters with individually modeled body parts for more life-like features

* Advanced physics modeling of missile contrails, smoke and other particle effects

* Calculates thrust, gravity, acceleration of the hovercraft

* Improved decal modeling of explosions and footprints in the snow

Ice Storm Fighters is intended to be a forward-looking game engine technology demo for Intel platforms. Here are the system requirements:

CPU: Intel® Core™ 2 Extreme QX6700 or Intel® Core™ 2 Quad Q6600 processorQuad-Core CPU for “Demo-high” mode features & capabilities, dual-core Intel CPU for “Demo-low” mode features & capabilities

Graphics Card: Support DirectX* 9.0 Shader Model 3 required. nVidia* geForce* 6 series (minimum), 7 series (recommended), ATI* Radeon* 1650 or higher

Memory: 1GB or higher

You can launch either the demo to just watch the mayhem unfold, or you can play the game and jump right into the fray. If you're running the demo, after you launch Ice Storm Fighters, you can:

* Choose "Demo-High" if the system has a quad core CPU

* Choose "Demo-Low" if the system has a dual core CPU

If you're ready to get your game on, once you kick off the Ice Storm Fighters game, you can choose:

* Choose "Game-High" if the system has a quad core CPU

* Choose "Game-Low" if the system has a dual core CPU

Intel Capabilities Forum - Ice Storm Fighters Game Technology Demo

 

[stormblast]

seems good. but the link to download doesnt work.

 

[Blade_Runner]

err yea. Looking for a alternate link.

 

[IceFusion]

saw the game firsthand running on a quad core... it looks just awesome.. the graphics are really brilliant and the game actually used up all the 4 cores of the processor balancing loads on various cores...