Post by smash on May 20, 2014 16:47:11 GMT
"Microsoft has made a big deal about utilising the Cloud for gaming this generation to differentiate it from the last and open up brand-new opportunities to scale experiences beyond what localised hardware can handle. This is all well and good but beyond a (pretty impressive) demonstration on how the technology can be used in the future – the company hasn’t yet gone into details on how they will help developers implement it into their titles.
According to leaked information, a company called Cloudgine will play a part in Microsoft’s E3 conference this year. On their website they describe their technology as "delivering rendering and processing power from the cloud, allowing game developers to define new ground-breaking online gaming mechanics".
The Xbox One’s engineers speak plenty about how they built the console to be perfectly “balanced” to reduce bottlenecks, be scalable, and most importantly be fast. It’s the slightly strange eSRAM implementation which developers are struggling to get used to – but boosts throughput to an incredible 192GB/s.
As a result, resources can be pulled in and out quickly. At Microsoft’s BUILD event last year; the team showed hardware-based tiled resource support added in DX11.2. Due to this, 3GBs of textures were able to be stored in 16MB of RAM. To point out the obvious, this means the 32MB eSRAM available can store up to 6GB worth…
In the technical post available here, the poster writes: “Couple the eSRAM's ultra fast bandwidth with tiled texture streaming middleware tools like Granite, and the eSRAM just became orders of magnitude more important for your next gen gaming. Between software developments such as this and the implications of the data move engines with LZ encode/decode compression capabilities on making cloud gaming practical on common broadband connections, Microsoft's design choice of going with embedded eSRAM for the Xbox One is beginning to make a lot more sense.”
www.developer-tech.com/news/2014/may/20/cloudgine-microsofts-secret-xbox-one-sauce/
From Twitter...
#Microsoft said to be working with and showing a demo of this company's Cloud dev tech at E3 for #XboxOne...Ryan Daws@Gadget_Ry
...Hmmm...can this be the 'BIG' secret to be announced at E3. Follow the link...lots more inside. 