The Powder Toy

CUDA and Multicore support?

  • MrFreeze     24th Oct 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    Hey!
    What about adding nVidia CUDA and multicore support in the future?
    CUDA should increase performance as well as multicore.
    There already is software which is GPU accellerated (Badaboom for example).
    I dunno how hard it is to implement and its only a suggestion.

    Greetings

    Freeze
  • disturbed666     24th Oct 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    multicore support already suggested (use searchbar)
  • MasterMind555     24th Oct 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    @MrFreeze (View Post)
    Use the search bar, already suggested ALOT of times, you don't need to suggest it again.
  • Simon     24th Oct 2011 Administrator 0 Permalink
    I dunno how hard it is to implement and its only a suggestion.

    It's very difficult and time consuming, it would involve changing a lot of game engine/architecture. There is a very old Multi-core version of the Powder Toy, but it does suffer from certain bugs.

    https://powdertoy.co.uk/Download/Older/powder-030610-0901-mt.zip <- Ancient Multi-threaded Powder Toy.
  • disturbed666     24th Oct 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    @Simon (View Post)
    mm just a question why didn't you and the rest continued to develop on that and make it less buggy?? reason i can think of is because it works fine without it and saves you all a lot of work ;p
  • Neospector     24th Oct 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    @disturbed666 (View Post)

    disturbed666:


    it works fine without it and saves you all a lot of work ;p

    You answered your own question.
  • disturbed666     24th Oct 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    @Neospector (View Post)
    i know i did hahaha
    i always think first of a logical sollution to a problem and see if my statement is correct.
  • Simon     24th Oct 2011 Administrator 0 Permalink
    why didn't you and the rest continued to develop on that
    Because there was no "the rest", I was the only person doing anything on TPT back then (It's from May/June 2010). I diverted my attention to things I deemed far more interesting, such as a working server and heat simulation.
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