Hello, Im just wondering what you thing about it, do you thinking the gurus at blizzard will make use of them or this kinda of technologies will not improve at all the performance of the game on the Mac platform. Is such a pity to see how graphics on mac games are so bad and crappy.
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Will StarCraft 2 use openCL and other OS X new Technologies?
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Unsuccessful troll is unsuccessful Gustav 
You might want to run off to bed before I let your parents know about your trolling Mac forums. Oh yeah and do us all a favor, you know before you post on here again, look up what exactly OpenCL does and why it really wouldn't benefit a game like SC2 too much since you're most likely running it at the highest quality settings you can without loosing too much FPS.
And yes thats Frames Per Second not First Person Shooters.
You might want to run off to bed before I let your parents know about your trolling Mac forums. Oh yeah and do us all a favor, you know before you post on here again, look up what exactly OpenCL does and why it really wouldn't benefit a game like SC2 too much since you're most likely running it at the highest quality settings you can without loosing too much FPS.
And yes thats Frames Per Second not First Person Shooters.
OpenCL is just like MultiThreaded GL and many other clever API's just using them will not suddenly make your application run perfectly, good programming starts with using (or not using) these different APIs to best effect to get the highest performance.
If your game is heavily single threaded in design adding in multithreading will make little difference in fact it could slow it down with the overheads required to maintain the threads.
Edwin
If your game is heavily single threaded in design adding in multithreading will make little difference in fact it could slow it down with the overheads required to maintain the threads.
Edwin
This isn't correct.
OpenCL can run on a second GPU, as most Macbook Pros have. You could be doing your 3D on your high end GPU, and be doing physics or something on the low end GPU. The energy saver settings in OS X actually don't turn off the second GPU to OpenCL. I've actually written code on my Macbook Pro that uses both GPUs at once. On my Mac Pro, I have the NVidia drivers set up to use my GT 120 for physics, and 8800 for graphics.
If you only have one GPU, you can run OpenCL on the local processor as a fallback. It wouldn't give you huge performance gains, but it wouldn't clog your GPU.