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Re: fastpathguru post# 29922

Sunday, 03/28/2004 12:13:55 AM

Sunday, March 28, 2004 12:13:55 AM

That must be why none of the big names in gaming are targeting the AMD64 platform for their latest showcase games.

I don't think we'll see any exclusive 64-bit games anytime soon, but AMD64 will become the platform of choice for best performance with the most features enabled. Game developers still push the bleeding edge. They just make sure they have modes to run on older hardware so they can sell as many games as possible. It is in their best interest to make a port to AMD64 as they'll be able to make demonstrations of their new games with the most features enabled.

Game development starting now for games to be released in 2 or 3 years might even move to being 64-bit exclusive now that developers know Intel is going to back it. This is good news for AMD as it means developers will be buying Athlon64 and Opteron machines now. Epic, the developer of the Unreal Tournament games, has already stated their intent to do this.

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