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In January 2008, Valve released a special demo version titled Portal: The First Slice, free for any Steam user using Nvidia graphics hardware as part of a collaboration between the two companies. [54] It also comes packaged with Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, Peggle Extreme, and Half-Life 2: Lost Coast. The demo includes test chambers 00 to 10 ...
Portal is a series of first-person puzzle-platform video games developed by Valve.Set in the Half-Life universe, the two main games in the series, Portal (2007) and Portal 2 (2011), center on a woman, Chell, forced to undergo a series of tests within the Aperture Science Enrichment Center by a malicious artificial intelligence, GLaDOS, that controls the facility.
Portal is a text-driven adventure with a graphical interface published for the Amiga in 1986 by Activision. [citation needed] The writing is by American author Rob Swigart, and it was produced by Brad Fregger. Ports to the Commodore 64, Apple II, and IBM PC were later released.
Shares of Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) are up 170% in 2024 (at the time of this writing). The monster year comes on the heels of an even bigger 2023 that saw the stock rocket up nearly 240%.
Here's the Biggest Reason Why There's Still Time. John Ballard, The Motley Fool ... After a dip in July, shares of Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) have recovered and are up nearly 200% year to date as of ...
The GeForce 256 is the original release in Nvidia's "GeForce" product line.Announced on August 31, 1999 and released on October 11, 1999, the GeForce 256 improves on its predecessor by increasing the number of fixed pixel pipelines, offloading host geometry calculations to a hardware transform and lighting (T&L) engine, and adding hardware motion compensation for MPEG-2 video.
The best-performing stock in the S&P 500 in the first half of the year wasn't Nvidia, but rather Super Micro Computer (NASDAQ: SMCI). Supermicro returned a whopping 188% in the first half of the ...
It was the first nVidia product to integrate 3D acceleration in addition to traditional 2D and video acceleration. Its name is an acronym for Real-time Interactive Video and Animation accelerator. [2] The RIVA 128 followed Nvidia's less successful "NV1" accelerator and was the first product to gain Nvidia widespread recognition. It was also a ...