Company promises AI accelerator for games

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Quote[/b] ]Hardware accelerators for games seem to be the latest craze these days. After Ageia's PhysX physics accelerator and Bigfoot Networks' Killer NIC gaming network accelerator, a company called AIseek is promising an accelerator for artificial intelligence. Where PhysX allows physics interactions with a greater number of objects than software physics, AIseek says its Intia processor supports a greater number of intelligent non-playable characters than standard general-purpose processors.

To accomplish this feat, the Intia processor accelerates low-level AI tasks including movement, path-finding, terrain analysis, and line-of-sight sensory simulation. According to AIseek, Intia can run path-finding calculations 100-200 times faster than a standard processor running a software algorithm. Such speedups might not bring huge improvements to close-quarter first-person shooters akin to Doom 3, but AIseek says real-time strategy games and RPGs that often have many characters on-screen would greatly benefit from AI acceleration.

AIseek has a handful of demos of accelerated AI on its website, although they seem to be down right now. The site says nothing about a shipping product, so right now it's anyone's guess when or if the Intia processor will become available commercially.

http://www.aiseek.com/Demos.html

If ArmA could take advantage of this we could increase the number of units in a battle, I'm thinking of building a dedicated server box and something like this could boost its performance.

Realisticlly this tech wont be commonplace for years so we might have to wait for Game 2 to take advantage of its nice to see companies focusing on AI instead of GFX.

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meh, I don't see many games using AGEIA cards (there are some but there is no performance gain)...just another gimmick to take your money away

[stisoas 0]

it's right , AI in OFP like game is primordial, and it's the main power eating of all game component.

AI unit and comportment make game . it's nearly all game.

but, i think all that can be done on actual PC core. we just need inovation , optimisation, and multithreading support.

with 3 dedicated cpu core to AI , it could be raelly great. on a single 4 core amd box

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This is not ArmA related, it's PC tech related which belongs in the pinned thread in OT.