GPULife is a screensaver which displays Conway's Game of Life, implemented entirely as an OpenGL shader. As a result, it uses almost no CPU power as it runs, and it can achieve very high framerates.
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Version 1.0.1: GPULife is now a universal binary.
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Look, if you're getting white dots, then your card doesn't support pixel shaders. That's the minimum for this to run, which means you need a radeon 9550, or geforce fx5200 or higher. Radeon 9000 is definitely not good enough. Once it does run though...using backlight, this thing clocks about 2-3% cpu usage, tops.
will it work on a ATI 9000? the 9200 is weaker than the 9000 isnt it?
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Mike-mikeash-com
16 May 2005
The list on the web site is simply a list of cards that have been confirmed to work, and it's not intended to be a list of minimum requirements. The worst that can happen is a black screen, though, so you can try it without any worries. If it does work, please let me know.
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