Hey guys, I just joined the community. I was hoping someone here might have footage of Nvidia's Fall 2002 conference event where Jen-Hsun detailed the NV30 GPU (GeForceFX) for the first time. They mentioned why it was called GeForce FX (because it was the first time the former 3DFX had really contributed to the design) and Jen-Hsun showed some slides showing several other 3D graphics companies that played some role in GFFX development. This was not from 2003, when FX 5800 was actually released, but the event where Nvidia paper launched it. It might have been a presentation called 'The Dawn of Cinematic Computing' but I'm pretty certain this happened in November 2002. That's all I have to go on. I'd really appreciate being able to see that again -- Never been able to find it on Youtube but it used to be on Nvidia's main site years ago. Would be much appreciated.
Was that the conference where they showed off the "Dawn" tech demo? EDIT: Found something related but no video. http://www.nvidia.com/object/IndieGamesConf.html EDIT2: Found something more promising, http://www.gdcvault.com/free/gdc-02 http://www.gdcvault.com/free/gdc-03 http://www.gdcvault.com/browse/gdc-02 This website is a horrific mess but if they don't have it then its probably lost. EDIT3: Bingo! And its a dead link. http://www.nvidia.com/object/gdc_2002.html EDIT4: Out of pure boredom i've started a livechat with nvidia support to sort this out.
Shailendra: Hi, my name is Shailendra. How may I help you? Scott: Hello, I was looking to find the original footage from nvidia's press conference at GDC in 2002. Scott: I found a link but its dead, http://www.nvidia.com/object/gdc_2002.html Scott: I'm sorry if this is maybe out of your reach but having that footage would be quite a big help to me. Shailendra: I am checking it. Shailendra: Please give me sometime I will check this information. Shailendra: Thank you for your patience. Shailendra: Since, this video is more than 10 years old I doubt if it is available however, I will escalate this issue further. Shailendra: You will get update from our side through email, we are escalating this case further Scott: Ok, you have my email right? Thanks for the help! Shailendra: Email address in our database is ************.com Scott: That is correct, thanks for the help. You have disconnected. There is yet hope, OP. As soon as I get the email i'll upload it to youtube.
Thats an awful line that I thought I forgot about, went for a 9800 pro that series when pny gave me some crap fx5700 as a replacement for a dead 4600ti, after several threats they finally gave me a not as crappy 5900 non ultra. the fx series was named as such as a tribute to 3dfx, they did not have anything to do with that abomination. After my time with the 9800 pro, 3dfx moved into number 2 of my favorite gpu brand and stayed there to this day.
Hey guys, thanks for putting in the effort! The conference I'm looking for is definitely from late 2002, it would be around Comdex, so GDC 2002 is much too early in the year The November 2002 conference was probably titled The Dawn of Cinematic Computing and yes the Dawn demo was most likely shown there.
there is also comdex 2002 http://www.thg.ru/business/20021119/onepage.html maybe also 2003, more results for it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdCJdAWEjHg
There isn't any real 3rd party media footage because that was in an era where digital video hadn't even really started. Nobody was shooting video. Actually the presentation back then was (for a handful of tech-media) in the NV building in a simple conference room. Next to that there was an event in LA where there was some footage taken by Nv themselves. I do remember this and most likely have photos on it stashed somewhere in a sub-sub-sub-sub-directory.
Haha would probably be great if you can go through all the old pictures from conferences and presentations... maybe even things we've never seen make it to the news (wasn't newsworthy at the time) and write up an article titled "nostalgia" about it. A timeline of some sort. :banana:
seeking for this video is like asking for a cancer from the past I remember when i got excited about 9800XT that i bought, and my friend bought 5950, 9800XT raped it without even a challenge. FX series should die and no one mention it again EVER!!!
Definitely Fall Comdex 2002 shown in that first link. I wish there was a video there.... What I am after specifically is where Jen Hsun mentions technology and/or engineering contributions from 3Dlabs, Real3D (the former Lockheed Martin computer graphics company), Evans & Sutherland (who had the REAL Image line of cards that competed with LM / Real3D), etc.
That kind of sucks. They probably don't have a video of Fall 2002 Comdex either. That's where Nvidia soft-launched GeForce FX.
Nvidia almost went bankrupt after the FX disaster, the Radeon dominated hard, nvidia failed harder. Lucky for them, Geforce 6 changed all of that, but the real gem was Geforce 8800.
I had the 5800 FX leaf blower. Oh it blew alright. Damn that thing got hot. Then I got a 5900 non ultra and even the high overclock didn't help in anything dx9 related thanks to their fp16 or fp32 and not following the dx9 standard of fp24 - they got cocky and paid dearly. 9800 Pro 128MB ended up serving me quite well after all that. Ugh. What a garbage era that was for nvidia. That 6800 GT was a nice turn around though.
why wouldnt a company archive its stuff.. I would of kept everything from the start of the company... especially videos
