Content Creators Experience NVIDIA's Develop and Deploy Strategy With
Discreet's 3ds max Software in 'gmax-ready room' at Game Developers Conference
GAME DEVELOPERS CONFERENCE, SAN JOSE, Calif., March 21
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NVIDIA(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA) today announced
that its new high-performance Quadro(TM) 4 professional graphics solutions are
featured exclusively in Discreet's "gmax-ready room"(room #C-2) and booth
(#1426) at the Game Developers Conference (GDC), being held this week in
San Jose, CA. A division of Autodesk, Inc., Discreet's gmax-ready room allows
show attendees to experience gmax-ready game titles including Microsoft's
Dungeon Siege and EA Games' Command and Conquer: RENEGADE by Westwood Studios
which were developed using NVIDIA's graphics solutions and Discreet's 3ds max
animation software tools. In the gmax-ready room, developers and game
enthusiasts will also get hands-on time with NVIDIA's new Quadro4 graphics
performing with the latest arsenal of Discreet's professional tools for game
development and production. In its booth (#616), NVIDIA will also feature
Discreet's 3ds max animation software.
"NVIDIA's Quadro4 and GeForce(TM) families of graphics solutions provide
the required power that 3ds max game developers, artists and game players
demand," said Dave Campbell, product marketing manager for 3D at Discreet.
"Building amazing art requires a great deal of feedback at the system level.
NVIDIA's continued commitment to Direct3D and the quality of their drivers
provides a compelling solution at a great price."
"Discreet's interactive and photo-realistic ActiveShader rendering engine
is the perfect complement to NVIDIA's Quadro4 GPU," said Dan Vivoli, vice
president of marketing at NVIDIA. "By exploiting NVIDIA's programmable
shading engine, Discreet gives users the tools to create more compelling
designs with higher image quality and the most advanced effects. The Quadro4
line also offers 50 percent faster pixel shader performance and dramatically
improved texture performance to help developers win the time to market race."
Located in the Special Session Room of the San Jose Convention Center and
by invitation only, the Discreet gmax-ready room will show 3ds max, character
studio, reactor and gmax-enabled games including Microsoft's Dungeon Siege,
Flight Simulator 2000 Professional Edition and Train Simulator along with EA
Games' Command and Conquer: RENEGADE by Westwood Studios, and Auran TRAIN.
Guests of the gmax-ready room can participate in a drawing to win special
prizes, including six NVIDIA Quadro4 750 XGL graphics boards. Special
presentations from developers of several different game titles will explain
how their games were created. There will also be open play and a chance to
create and customize game content using gmax, Discreet's consumer game design
and content editing software. In the gmax-ready room, systems with NVIDIA's
Quadro4 graphics will be used to demonstrate Discreet's 3ds max and gmax
products.
The NVIDIA Quadro4 XGL series of professional Graphics Processing Units
(GPUs) support advanced shader operations and is designed to accelerate
OpenGL(R) and DirectX(R) professional applications by implementing workstation
specific functionality, such as hardware overlay planes, hardware-accelerated
antialiased points and lines, advanced memory management, and other features
critical to improving performance in professional applications.
All Quadro4 products feature nView(TM), NVIDIA's Multi-display technology
that supports arrangements of analog monitors and digital flat panel displays
that can be combined to drastically increase the user's working desktop.
NVIDIA's Quadro4 products also utilize the NVIDIA Unified Driver
Architecture(TM)(UDA), a set of backward and forward, top to bottom compatible
graphics drivers that optimize application performance, stability, and
reliability. NVIDIA Quadro4 products feature certification support for an
extensive list of leading applications and come with a series of free custom
application drivers such as the ELSA(R) MAXtreme(TM) driver for 3ds max that
offer key enhancements vital to graphics professionals.
About Discreet
Discreet, a division of Autodesk, Inc., is a worldwide leader in digital
content creation, management, and distribution tools. Discreet develops
systems and software for visual effects, animation, non-linear editing,
broadcast production, and integrated infrastructure and workflow solutions.
Discreet serves a broad range of markets involved in content creation,
delivery, and use, including film and television postproduction, broadcast
production, games, animation multimedia for corporate, government, and
education, and the rich media for the web. More information about Discreet
solutions, including gmax, is available at http://www.discreet.com or by calling
800-869-3504 or 514-393-1616.
About NVIDIA
NVIDIA Corporation, located in Santa Clara, CA, is the global leader in
advanced graphics and multimedia processing technology for the consumer and
professional computing markets. Its 2D, 3D, video and multimedia capabilities
make NVIDIA one of the premier semiconductor companies in the world. NVIDIA
offers a wide range of products and services, delivering superior performance
and crisp visual quality for PC-based applications such as manufacturing,
science, e-business, entertainment and education.
Certain statements in this press release, including the statements
relating to the Company's performance expectations for NVIDIA's family of
products and expectations of continued revenue growth, are forward-looking
statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause
results to be materially different than expectations. Such risks and
uncertainties include, but are not limited to, manufacturing and other delays
relating to new products, difficulties in the fabrication process and
dependence of the Company on third-party manufacturers, general industry
trends including cyclical trends in the PC and semiconductor industries, the
impact of competitive products and pricing alternatives, market acceptance of
the Company's new products, and the Company's dependence on third-party
developers and publishers. Investors are advised to read the Company's Annual
Report on Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, particularly those sections entitled
"Certain Business Risks," for a fuller discussion of these and other risks and
uncertainties.
NOTE: Registered trademark NVIDIA(R) Corporation, 2002. All other
company and/or product names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of
their respective manufacturers. Features, pricing, availability, and
specifications are subject to change without notice.
Discreet is a division of Autodesk, Inc. Discreet, 3ds max, character
studio, reactor and gmax are either registered trademarks or trademarks of
Autodesk, Inc./Autodesk Canada Inc. in the USA and/or other countries. All
other brand names, product names, or trademarks belong to their respective
holders.
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