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GPULife
1.0.1

4.3

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GPULife

1.0.1
09 March 2006

Game of Life screensaver.

Overview

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.

What's new in GPULife

Version 1.0.1: GPULife is now a universal binary.

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9 GPULife Reviews

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Anonymous
Anonymous
16 May 2005

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will it work on a ATI 9000? the 9200 is weaker than the 9000 isnt it?
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Version 1.0
Luciano1
Luciano1
06 May 2007
It only displays white dots that fills the screen. That's not Conway's Game of Life!!!
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Version 1.0.1
mswfujowdffyc
mswfujowdffyc
10 March 2006
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.
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Version 1.0.1
Lorem-Ipsum
Lorem-Ipsum
09 March 2006
Looks fine and actually runs life on PowerBook G4
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Version 1.0.1
The-Macdoctor
The-Macdoctor
09 March 2006
just produces white dots, useless mark
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Version 1.0.1
Anonymous
Anonymous
17 September 2005
Yeah, I'm running an AGP Radeon 9000 Pro Mac Edition (128) on two monitors and I also just get the white dots, and no interactoin.
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Version 1.0
Anonymous
Anonymous
19 May 2005
same here. Radeon 9000. It just puts random white dots on a black background, and crashes when switching between options and test.
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Version 1.0
Anonymous
Anonymous
18 May 2005
Radeon 9200 in the Mac mini ... it puts a random dot pattern up and adds new cells, but doesn't actually run any Life generations.
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Version 1.0
Anonymous
Anonymous
16 May 2005
Runs at 86.7 FPS on an X800 and 30" display. THe preview runs at over 1300 FPS.
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Version 1.0
Anonymous
Anonymous
16 May 2005
will it work on a ATI 9000? the 9200 is weaker than the 9000 isnt it?
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Version 1.0
1 answer(s)
Mike-mikeash-com
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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Version 1.0

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4.3

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  • Intel 32
  • PPC 32
  • Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later
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