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  2. Game engine - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] Most game engines or graphics engines use a Graphics API, which eases communication with the GPU. But older games did not have hardware acceleration or GPUs and had to build their own software renderer. As technology ages, the components of an engine may become outdated or insufficient for the requirements of a given project ...

  3. Ray-tracing hardware - Wikipedia

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    Caustic Graphics [20] produced a plug in card, the "CausticOne" (2009), [21] that accelerated global illumination and other ray based rendering processes when coupled to a PC CPU and GPU. The hardware is designed to organize scattered rays (typically produced by global illumination problems) into more coherent sets (lower spatial or angular ...

  4. Fortnite - Wikipedia

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    Fortnite is an online video game and game platform developed by Epic Games and released in 2017. It is available in seven distinct game mode versions that otherwise share the same general gameplay and game engine: Fortnite Battle Royale, a battle royale game in which up to 100 players fight to be the last person standing; Fortnite: Save the World, a cooperative hybrid tower defense-shooter and ...

  5. Fortnite Battle Royale - Wikipedia

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    Fortnite Battle Royale is a 2017 battle royale video game produced by Epic Games.It was originally developed as a companion game part of the early access version of Fortnite: Save the World, a cooperative survival game, before separating from it and then dropping the early access label on June 29, 2020.

  6. General-purpose computing on graphics processing units

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    Some very heavily optimized pipelines have yielded speed increases of several hundred times the original CPU-based pipeline on one high-use task. A simple example would be a GPU program that collects data about average lighting values as it renders some view from either a camera or a computer graphics program back to the main program on the CPU ...

  7. Unreal Engine - Wikipedia

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    Unreal Engine (UE) is a 3D computer graphics game engine developed by Epic Games, first showcased in the 1998 first-person shooter video game Unreal.Initially developed for PC first-person shooters, it has since been used in a variety of genres of games and has been adopted by other industries, most notably the film and television industry.

  8. Graphics processing unit - Wikipedia

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    A graphics processing unit (GPU) is a specialized electronic circuit initially designed for digital image processing and to accelerate computer graphics, being present either as a discrete video card or embedded on motherboards, mobile phones, personal computers, workstations, and game consoles.

  9. CUDA - Wikipedia

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    In computing, CUDA is a proprietary [2] parallel computing platform and application programming interface (API) that allows software to use certain types of graphics processing units (GPUs) for accelerated general-purpose processing, an approach called general-purpose computing on GPUs.