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How to make use of resizable BAR?

From what I understand, resizable BAR (aka. Smart Access Memory) makes it possible to access the whole GPU memory from CPU code. But how can a programmer make use of that? Is there an example or code ...
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Configuring Implicit Multi-GPU Rendering Driver Settings Programmatically

What is available to game developers to take advantage of implicit multi-GPU rendering technologies as of 2016? For this question I will only be asking about Nvidia's SLI and AMD's Crossfire ...
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Basic shadow mapping fails on NVIDIA card?

Recently I switched from an AMD Radeon HD 6870 card to an (MSI) NVIDIA GTX 670 for performance reasons. I found however that my implementation of shadow mapping in all my applications failed. In a ...
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How should I choose a graphics card that's right for my needs? [closed]

I'm developing my own game using Ogre3D, and I'm want to implement things like SSAO, dynamic shadows, AI, physics, etc...and I know my current card is barely gonna be able to handle it. So my ...
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Running advanced floating point calculations on the GPU?

I want to learn how to use AMD Stream and NVIDIA CUDA (PhysX) to calculate things such as locations. I have not yet found where to get the SDK for these (I can't test the CUDA things because I have a ...
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Get video chipset manufacturer in Direct3D

I'd need to know if the video chipset Direct3D runs on is from Nvidia, AMD or Intel. Is there a way to do that?