![]() It should be faster than this, shouldn't it? I think I will go ahead and file a DTS ticket. Using private buffers imposed another 50% speed reduction. None of these optimization strategies yielded any improvement. I tried 3 different optimization schemes:ġ) Use buffers big enough for all threads so I don't have to worry about reduced efficiency or boundary checks.Ģ) Use loops in the Metal code to avoid per-pixel threads that are supposedly less efficient. I have learned a few things about Metal optimization. Metal still runs at about half the speed of OpenCL, but I guess I can live with this. Most of the overall GPU speedup I was seeing was due to the newer, slower version of PROJ. I was also using an older version of the underlying PROJ library for comparison. When I tried it on my 2017 MacBook Pro, with both discrete and integrated graphics, the difference in performance was much smaller. I was doing these tests on my 2014 MacBook Pro, usually with integrated graphics, running 10.16. I worked on the code and got it to the point where OpenCL was only about 3 times as fast as Metal. Is this normal? Is there something I'm missing? I tried using a private buffer but my dataset is so small that the time to do the copying into the private buffer was longer than just using a shared memory buffer. My test data set has 200,000 pairs of floats. I have removed all the Metal setup code from the time comparison. Xy_out.y = params->y + params->scale * y Ĭode Block _kernel void pl_project_mercator_s( Xy_out.x = params->x + params->scale * x ![]() It is doing a Mercator map projection, so this is all there is for the Metal code:Ĭode Block kernel void project_mercator_s(ĭevice const float2 * xy_in ],ĭevice const spherical_params * params ], These two test cases are the absolute easiest and simplest ones there are. It is still several times better than the CPU version, but why would it be so slow compared to OpenCL? My Metal version is consistently 4 times slower than OpenCL. On the two simplest test cases, OpenCL runs about 14 and 24 times as fast as on the CPU. The OpenCL package has a nice test set that compares its own output against the reference project. I am trying to port the OpenCL package to Metal so I can get GPU performance on all devices. ![]() I have another package that performs the same functionality on OpenCL. I have a popular open source library that runs entirely on the CPU. I am working on porting some code to Metal.
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![]() Here’s all the rides, here’s all the money, here’s a massive piece of land. Career mode gives you a number of half finished parks and gives you tasks to complete, much similar to those in earlier RCT games. But that said, the game does make a number of small but important improvements. ![]() ![]() I’ve read a number of opinions that the game doesn’t advance the genre very much, it’s a difficult game to improve upon as Rollercoaster Tycoon was pretty much perfect first time. It brings back a number of features that made RCT3 such a success, whilst building upon many other features. Planet Coaster feels like a proper sequel to RCT3. Seamlessly moving the series from 2D to 3D is a task that rival series, Theme Park, never managed successfully to do. While there are a few Rollercoaster Tycoon purists who will say that the original isometric games are the only way to play the franchise, in my mind Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 was the finest game in the series. Source: giantbombġ2 years ago, Frontier Developments released Rollercoaster Tycoon 3. But both Planet Coaster and RollerCoaster Tycoon World have bigger studios behind them, Frontier who are fresh off Elite Dangerous and Atari who have persuaded Nvizzo Creations to make their game, who I’d assume don’t have as much experience in the genre, which could explain the longer development cycle. That’s nothing major to be honest, both Parkitect and Theme Park Studio are being made by smaller studios, Texel Raptor and Pantera Entertainment respectively. ![]() I won’t go on about them too much as they’re all in an Early Access state (although Rollercoaster Tycoon World has suddenly been ‘released’), but it is interesting to note that Planet Coaster was the last game to be announced and the first game to be released from the bunch. I admit I may have a theme park building problem, though it gives me the ability to compare all these games. 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![]() I understand how for some it could be funny but it didn’t make me laugh. Like that scene below was really ugh…like I turned my head in disgust and just didn’t enjoy it. Other times, it just felt so boring that I tried to stay focused but went off to flip through other pages as I surfed the Internet and it played in the background. Melissa McCarthy does certain troupes that don’t always work and for me, it worked only a little here and there but for the most part, it felt like its been there done that and I just felt a little repulsed by it. Then the humor was kind of weird and absurd (in a bad way) and pretty stupid. I’m not saying I didn’t laugh a little because there were some parts that worked and I kind of chuckled here and there. Identity Thief was mostly really hard to get invested into. Now that I’ve kind of cushioned where this movie could be a hit or miss, I would like to say that this was for the most part a miss. Seth Gordon did Horrible Bosses which I enjoyed but he also did Four Christmases which I dislike. Even the director himself is a hit and miss on my book. So there was a 50/50 chance of this not working. I watched Stephen Chow growing up but I don’t like stupid. Melissa McCarthy falls into the category of not working so often because she always goes into the absurd stupid humor. The humor I appreciate might work for me and not you and vice versa. I always start reviews on comedy genre movies saying that is fully subjective. Mild mannered businessman Sandy Patterson travels from Denver to Florida to confront the deceptively harmless looking woman who has been living it up after stealing Sandy’s identity. Let’s stay positive and give this a go! □Ĭast: Jason Bateman, Melissa McCarthy, John Cho, Jon Favreau, Amanda Peet, T.I., Genesis Rodriguez, Robert Patrick I just hesitate because Melissa McCarthy’s humor doesn’t always work for me. 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