Bored GPU is Bored! (take a suggestion, leave a suggestion, please!)

[plonk420]

do you have a GPU (or set of eyes) that are bored? here are some non-interactive, realtime suggestions (mostly demoscene) to show The State of the Art, at least as of a certain time frame.

[skip to the GPU-wreckers via this anchor (http://amdusers.com/forum/showthread.php?8131-Bored-GPU-is-Bored!-(take-a-suggestion-leave-a-suggestion-please!)&p=72780#post72780)]

note: while you should always be careful, depending on what antivirus you use, some of the 64 and 4K demos could probably set off the air raid sirens. pouet.net/scene.org mirrors should be pretty trustable. i put a 99.9% trust in them.

note2: also, some of these may need an Nvidia GPU.

note3: graphical difficulty is probably graded considering an age of Radeon 5000 series+

note4: i guess i'll use (at least in my first suggestions) the symbol ᴰ to indicate that the demo ... well, kinda uses objects and visual effects that might be a bit cheesy to people not used to the demoscene, but, IMO, contribute to making it "graphically interesting" ...

anywho, if you have suggestions please leave them, too.

let's start off taking it easy on the GPU...


2003: Demo: farbrausch - the.popular.demo
graphical difficulty: 0.5/10
design (graphics, music, polish): 10/10

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=9450


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AUpZNq2vSQ



2005: 64K: Conspiracy - The Assembly '05 Invitation
graphical difficulty: 2/10
design: 6/10ᴰ

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=16326


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_9oZhGrli4



2005: Demo: ASD - Iconoclast
graphical difficulty: 3/10
design: 9/10ᴰ

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=18350


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2F5KUJ1muY

heh ... "viewers who liked this, also liked ASD - Dreamchild (http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=10530) and ASD - Planet Risk (http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=13032)"



2005: 64K: Traction - Fiat Homo
graphical difficulty: 1/10
design: 8/10

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=18342


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgDBXL_p0dE&feature=related

viewers (well, me ;) also liked Conspiracy - Memento (http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=24472)



2005: Demo: Plastic - Final Audition
graphical difficulty: 6/10
design: 7/10ᴰ

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=18766


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTwT-HKB_1M

[plonk420]

in case (those of) you (familiar with the demoscene) haven't noticed, these are being pulled from http://awards.scene.org/archive.php with a bit of my own picking and choosing.

[plonk420]

2006: Demo: MFX - Deities (and the happier remix, Lucy in the Sky with Deities -- see below)
graphical difficulty: 4?/10
design: 6/10
note: these guys usually have disturbing visuals and or annoyingly epilepsy-inducing unneeded flashes. this was the first demo i liked by them.

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=24487


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij6XVCsuiPI

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=30272


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5392VxGqiY



FLT's Track One (http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=25781) won awards, but i prefer:
2007: Demo: Carillon & Cyberiad (CNCD) and Fairlight (FLT) - Halfsome
graphical difficulty: 6/10
design: 8/10

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=31098


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BcgWZ-HTQk

and

2007: Demo: FLT and CNCD and Orange - Media Error
graphical difficulty: 5/10
design: 7/10

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=31574


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRHYuep6mwQ

i just love something about Fairlight's "'tude" ... probably mainly coming from their music.



2007: lkcc and Bauknecht - Above
graphical difficulty: 4/10
design: 8/10

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=30255


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U2hOuG5_Ww

2007: sightly bigger than 64K: farbrausch - fr-041: debris
graphical difficulty: 4/10
design: 5/10
note: the sheer amount of content for the filesize blew many minds in the demoscene O_O

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=30244


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxfmxi-boyo



2007: ASD - Lifeforce (award winner for 2007)
graphical difficulty: 3/10
design: 10/10

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=31571


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9GLl6kI4hQ

viewers also liked Happiness is Around the Bend (http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=55556) ... hell, most recent ASD releases (http://www.pouet.net/groups.php?which=1317&order=release)



comments? (we need to push this to page 2 to keep browsers from assploding from all the embeds ;)

[plonk420]

actually, let's get some comments so i can bump this to page 2. it's thrashing my CPU when i load the page ;)

[NeoGen]

I remember back in the day (late 1990's or early 2000's) getting this spanish monthly magazine that included a CD with alot of software as usual but also some demoscene demos. They did some pretty amazing things back in the day. :)

[plonk420]

yeah, i kinda lost track post-BBS ~1995, after i discovered MP3s and other various binaries on usenet.

then i got a bit obsessed with making my own MP3s. go go custom config.sys+autoexec.bat so i could rip CDDA on my unfriendly-to-ripping-CDDA CDROM!

you can probably find most, if not all of the big demos from back then on Youtube, thankfully! (or capped/demoscene.tv)

[plonk420]

and now a break for randomness:

2008: 9.5K (os, music, graphics, drivers): lft - Craft
graphical difficulty: 10?/10
design: 8/10

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=50141


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNCqrylNY-0

2008: ½-bit Cheese (HBC) - Field Trip
graphical difficulty: 4?/10
design: 11/10
(non-realtime graphics)

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=51144


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoqvUidM2mo&fmt=18

viewers also liked (most things by HBC) (http://www.pouet.net/groups.php?which=10084&order=release)

[plonk420]

2008: Demo: farbrausch and neuro - Masagin (Nvision 08 Invitation)
graphical difficulty: 3/10
design: 11/10

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=50131


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbQhgEJuExY&fmt=22

viewers also liked Die Ewigkeit Schmerzt (http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=25864)



2008: Demo: Orb and Andromeda
graphical difficulty: 5/10
design: 9/10
graphically, i like this better. but Masagin is ever so much more polished, and very very very unique looking. so torn between the two :'(

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=51438


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9y8Lv_sSFw



2009: Demo: ASD - Rupture
graphical difficulty: 4/10
design: 7/10

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=52931


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmw87w7i6rQ

viewers also liked The Evolution of Vision (http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=26663) (semi NSFW) and Size Antimatters (http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=51078)

[plonk420]

reserved for more posts/notes/also to bump the next batch of youtube embeds to the next page in order to stop thrashing cpu/ram.

[plonk420]

reserved for more posts/notes/also to bump the next batch of youtube embeds to the next page in order to stop thrashing cpu/ram...

[plonk420]

now here's the good stuff, the GPU wreckers

2008: Demo: SystemK - Life on Air
graphical difficulty: 7-9/10 (seems to run better on nvidia. is probably poorly coded)
design: 7/10 (imo. i really like bright, colorful things)

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=51456


http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=JP&hl=ja&v=ZlMcyLNNlg8



2008: Demo: Plastic - Into the Pink
graphical difficulty: 8/10
design: 8/10

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=51454


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjIo0zjEGUw



2009: 4K: Rgba - Elevated
graphical difficulty: 8/10
design: 8/10 (strictly from a graphics to filesize standpoint 9.5/10)
note: probably will trigger antivirus; see comments for windows 7 fix (or run CRINKLER.EXE /recompress input.exe)

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=52938


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YWMGuh15nE



2010: Demo: FLT and CNCD - Agenda Circling Forth
graphical difficulty: 10/10
design: 10/10

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=54603


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJruj0YkDsg

2010: Demo: FLT and CNCD - Ceasefire (all falls down)
graphical difficulty: 10/10
design: 9/10

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=55558


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaPPHUt4K34

2011: Demo: CNCD and FLT - numb res
graphical difficulty: 11/10
design: 9/10

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=56900


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fPk2Af8Bhs

if you can get 50+fps with this, you must have a freakin' beast of a machine. is available in 3D in-demo and on youtube.



2008: 4K: Archee - Photon Race 2
graphical difficulty: 11/10
design: 7/10
rayyyyyyytracing!!! also, like the other 4K, could trigger a/v. may have to use CRINKLER.EXE /recompress input.exe if a win7 fix can't be found.

http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=51443


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emRIQi1UdOc



2011: 64K: mercury - epsilon
graphical difficulty: 10/10
design: 8/10

http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=58262


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPKqDmvOdjs



2012: Interactive Demo: Realtime Separable Subsurface Scattering
graphical difficulty: 9?/10
design: 9/10

http://vimeo.com/36048029


http://vimeo.com/36048029

[AMDave]

Thanks for your selections.
You brightened up an otherwise dreary wet weekend.
It is quite amazing how much they can fit into such small files and very interesting to see where the designers and graphic artists are taking the features.
I watched the You-Tube versions in HD where possible.
Some of those effects and renders are much better than I would have expected.
I haven't seen anything like these for a very long time.

[plonk420]

it's interesting to see how long it takes to until the tech shows up in games. i totally can't wait for raytracing quality lighting to show up in games >_< bf3 is the closest i've seen yet.

[plonk420]

I'M BACK!

2011: 64K: Fairlight - Uncovering Static
graphical difficulty: 8/10
design: 8/10

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=57449


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oPpcSZa3NE

[plonk420]

2014: 64K: mercury - The Timeless
graphical difficulty: 8/10
design: 9/10
note: IMO, this goes to 11/10. 85% of it works on AMD 14.12 Omega drivers. there's one scene that doesn't, but IMO, the best scenes are working

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=62935


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqFNbwFTdpU
60fps!

[plonk420]

2014: farbrausch - fr-070: Trained
graphical difficulty: 6/10
design 9.5?/10

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=63861


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wypYbWlp04

[plonk420]

2015: farbrausch - fr-078: Sweet night dreams
graphical difficulty: 12/10
design: 5/10
note: this one is a bit rough, but i think just one guy did it. and it's graphically AMAZING. also, maybe 60% will run on AMD. should run fine on nvidia. and this one is pretty
note2: if you're using Chrome, download from Mirrors: scene.org. for some odd reason, the main URL is flagged for malware.

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=65356


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIm82Km-hg4
60fps!

[plonk420]

2015: Fairlight - Ziphead
graphical difficulty: 10/10
design: 8/10
note: a) EPILEPSY WARNING b) it seems like we're pretty close to realtime clubbing/rave graphics (opposed to prerendered). however, i think this just gets around 15fps on an R9 290 c) if you're Not Into That Scene, you may or may not find this very interesting.

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=65400


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_lm0cZOkeA
60fps!

[plonk420]

2015: Fairlight - Photon
graphical difficulty: 10/10
design: 9.5/10
note: if you wanted to see an even better version of Unreal Engine 4: Paris Apartment, this is for you. also, should run perfectly on NV. a bit of weird artifacting on AMD :(

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=65258


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOYRWJEAJTM

[AMDave]

last one is 10/10
the sparks are worthy of that.
I was honing the mower blades on the bench grinder yesterday so I have fresh recall of how the sparks appear to go through an intensity burst when they hit another surface.
Very cool.

[Dirk Broer]

No problems watching these with my HD 4770! Fine to know the card still has what it takes:icon_thumright:

[AMDave]

LOL.
The difficulty rating is for the coder and the GPU at competition time.
Although the code is held back, you can download the executables for a REAL GPU test from their website.
Each of the zip files contains the exe (eg: for Win platforms) and a competition release note.
Example - Uncovering Static

uncovering static : final

a 64k intro presented at Assembly 2011 (where it placed 2nd in the combined _demo_ competition, like true elites)

by Fairlight & Alcatraz


code/visuals: smash / fairlight
synth: gopher / alcatraz
music: reed / fairlight
2d graphics: destop / cncd

http://directtovideo.wordpress.com

requires windows xp or later, directx9.0c (d3dx_43), a geforce 280 or better (or ati equivalent).
geforce 580 or radeon 6950 recommended.

native / recommended resolution: fullscreen 1280x720.


this is the final version & "director's cut".

it should be stable and work in window & fullscreen on all suitable configs, nvidia and ati included. honest.
(but it might not. we kill drivers.)
3dvision stereoscopic 3d support for suitable nvidia stereo 3d systems is included thanks to gargaj.
kkrunchy appears courtesy of ryg / farbrausch.


due to unfortunate circumstances the 64k intro competition at asm was sadly cancelled.
instead of holding it back for another 64k compo in future - which, given the state of 64k releases in recent years, might
not happen either - we thought we would play with the big boys in the democompo..

the compo being cancelled was only one thing in a long string of bad luck during the last few days at assembly. crashes,
problems and logistics were all against us. crashes that only occurred in exepacked assembler code; last-second fixes at the airport
gate. the universe was telling us very clearly it did not want us to release this, but our complete stubbornness made us do it
anyway. :) special thanks to the asm compo organisers we dragged out of bed in the middle of the night to test on the compomachine.



this is completely realtime in every way. the only precalc is to compile the shaders.
the synth is based on physical modelling; the rendering on distance field manipulation and polygonisation; the lighting on raycasted
ambient occlusion. the full scene is regenerated dynamically per frame.


only the [ download ] link contains the zip and exe. The rest are video capture of the exe running.
So if you want to see how hard they can push your GPU give them a go.
Quite fascinating when you have shader monitors running.
Sometimes they peak when you don't expect them to.

PS - sometimes they don't work well with multi-GPU. Crashes can occur. YMMV

[plonk420]

also, that blog http://directtovideo.wordpress.com is amazing (even tho i maybe understand 1% of it).

[NeoGen]

Although all of them are beyond impressive, especially the ones that are packed up into only 64Kb, my two personal favorite ones are Mercury - The Timeless, and Fairlight - Ziphead.

To those who look at it and don't know what it is, they look like digital works of art (masterpieces for that matter!), but for those who do know a little bit of what this is and how it's made, this is the result of an inhuman amount of artistic design and coding skills that is beyond the comprehension of 99.9% of the people... it's just mind blowing! :)

[plonk420]

i guess think of it as the next evolution of a GIF of that cheesy prerendered CG teapot in the 80s or Dazzle screensaver... but with some design/story and music!

and yeah, The Timeless is insanely amazing!

[plonk420]

oh man, normally fullsized demos that aren't AMD-compatible get extra negative points (unless they're 4 or 8K ... or 64K and utterly mindblowing like The Timeless), but this is hilarious


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJHjkphr72o

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=65391

[AMDave]

HaHa. A lot of effort to go to for the Retro vibe.
Gad someone went to the effort to work out the fix for AMD GPUs.
Very amusing.

[plonk420]

EGA Tour made me chortle out loud xD

[plonk420]

2015: Demo: brainstorm - oniria
graphical difficulty: 2?/10
design: 9/10

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=65401


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXcFUdiWc84

[plonk420]

2017: Demo - Cocoon - Soul Splitter
graphical difficulty 8/10
design: 7/10

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=69719

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtvXHhyAh0I

[plonk420]

2017: Alternate Platform (Sega Genesis) Demo - Titan - Overdrive 2
graphical difficulty: 11/10
design: 9/10

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=69648

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeGdJk5zb6c
bonus: comparison of 3 emulators trying to run it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FyQPn89RZQ

is there any way i can get enabled to embed more than 1 video per post?

[plonk420]

2016: Bitlove - The Return (Revision 2016 Invite)
graphical difficulty: 4/10 (tho it's still hard on GPU because i think it's Unity and not efficient)
design: 8/10 cracked me up!

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=66746

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cckYbCOjgEo

[plonk420]

2015: 64K - Conspiracy - Offscreen Colonies
graphical difficulty: 7/10
design: 8/10
note: i'm not particularly blown away by it. and it looks/sounds/feels like Conspiracy prods, but there's a Vive and Oculus app for it!

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=65342

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaNYOzwlVC8

[plonk420]

2018: 64K! Conspiracy - When Silence Dims The Stars Above
graphical difficulty: 7/10
design: 7/10
note: pretty amazing graphics for the size! love the lighting a LOT!

note2: the prequel to this is further down the list (http://www.amdusers.com/forum/showthread.php/8131-Bored-GPU-is-Bored!-(take-a-suggestion-leave-a-suggestion-please!)?p=82584#post82584)

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=75713

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE6SZeAhZdM

[plonk420]

2018: Fairlight & Cocoon - block one
graphical difficulty: 8/10
design: 7/10
note: probably the best "futuristic landscape (at night)" that i've seen in a demo

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=75803

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL69eWDaSeQ

[plonk420]

2014 - Andromeda Software Development (ASD) - Mrs Escher's Nightmare
graphical difficulty: 2/10
design: 8/10
as is often the case with ASD, "and now, here's something different"

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=63809

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7dpLcIaUTs

[plonk420]

2016 - 64K - Conspiracy - Darkness Lay Your Eyes Upon Me
graphical difficulty: 6/10
design: 7/10
turns out it's a prequel to 2018's When Silence Dims The Stars Above

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=67106

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRVTI2y0BBg

[plonk420]

2015 - Andromeda Software Development - Monolith
graphical difficulty: 7/10
design: 9/10
a splash of Fairlight's particles but with ASD's amazing design and writing


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFR-cJ4OM6M

[plonk420]

2016 - 64K - Logicoma - Elysian
graphical difficulty: 6/10
design: 8/10
notes: i'm a sucker for lighting, as usual...

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=68375

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWwNgVwQG1A

[plonk420]

2018 - 64K - farbrausch - fr-090 - Let Be There Light
graphical difficulty: 9/10
design: 6/10
notes: not particularly a fan of the music, but i didn't *hate* it like some did. omg this lighting, tho (especially the R/G/B/Y rings)! not sure i've seen anything like that before in a demo

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=75716

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA1Cf1bcg_Q

[plonk420]

2017 - 64K - Logicoma - Engage
graphical difficulty: 7/10
design: 9/10
notes: hard to choose between this and the last Logicoma prod, so i chose both! color scheme reminds me of that raytraced Star Wars short by Nvidia...

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=69658

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjuridCR2Fo

and here's a BTS behind coding and assembling one of these demos (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woqksTHNbvk)...