Blender 2.73 Updates The Grease Pencil, Cycles Rendering Improvements

[GraysonPeddie]

[Off-Topic]

For games, I only played Portal 2 and I'd say at 1920x1080 with 2x or 4xAA, it came out pretty good. I do have other games that I have not played for a while and they are not very demanding. Even I get smooth frame rates in an old AMD A8-5700.

So yeah, I'm not planning to buy games that require a discrete graphics card. Not even games that I get horrible frame drops in high, but good frame rates in medium at 1920x1080. Last, but not least, I don't even care to give my money to Intel for their processors. AMD does have a very hard time struggling with IPC/single-threaded performance in the past few years, but I don't mind supporting AMD and do not care to know that Intel is always faster than AMD.

Because I've marked my post as [Off-Topic], let's get back into discussing Blender, shall we? I'm not here to turn this thread into Intel vs AMD processors as there are countless of them out there in the web.

[tuxd3v]

you Right

But I will buy one of those too
thanks for the explanation of games.
I was not turning the discussion into, intel vs AMD, actualy I think that AMD has better chances with HSA than intel

But ok, lets jump on the subject

thanks again
tux

[numasan]

Sequencer Backdrop... I wonder what does that do...

It's for viewing the video output directly in the clip/track area, instead of the dedicated preview area :

http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.73/Sequencer

Also if you are interested in what development is in store this year for Blender, check this out:

http://www.blender.org/press/18-anticipated-blender-development-projects-of-2015/