Bad company might not be coming out but the engine might be used on the pc. They make console games on PC anyway & consoles basically use pc graphics cards now anyway afaik

"RSX shares a lot of inner workings with NVIDIA 7800 which is based on G70 architecture.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSX_%27...Synthesizer%27


I dont think bf3 will be out for another year at least

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frostbite_Engine

http://developer.amd.com/assets/Ande...D_Session).pdf

Frostbite DX Engine is a game engine created by EA Digital Illusions CE, developers of the Battlefield series, for the upcoming Battlefield: Bad Company. Some of its known features include the ability to render (90%) destructible environments.
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* 1 Frostbite DX Engine
* 2 DICE next-gen engine & framework
* 3 Shading system backends
* 4 Key feature of shading system
* 5 Editor, FrostED
* 6 Terrain Rendering System

[edit] Frostbite DX Engine

Dice developed the new Frostbite DX Win32 engine from the ground up for DirectX 9 Battlefield: Bad Company according to Johan Andersson from Dice. Johan is a self-taught senior software engineer/architect in the central technology group at Dice. For the past years he has been working on the rendering and core engine systems for Battlefield.

[edit] DICE next-gen engine & framework

Built from the ground up for Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, Multi-core PCs with DirectX 9 Shader Model 3 & Direct3D 10 along with SM 4.0 and designed to be used in future DICE games. As time progresses advancements to the engine will continue.

[edit] Shading system backends

* Multiple backends
o DirectX 9 SM3 for PC & Xbox 360
o High-level GPU communication on 360
o Direct3D 10 for Windows Vista
o libGCM for PlayStation 3

[edit] Key feature of shading system

* Rich high-level states instead of low-level platform-dependent states
* More flexible for both user and system

[edit] Editor, FrostED

Asset creation Levels, meshes, shaders, objects Fully separate and C#-based


[edit] Terrain Rendering System

* Long view distance with true horizon
* 32x32 km visible, 2x2 – 4x4 playable
* Ground destruction
* High detail up close
* Very high detail in a distance
* Low memory usage
* Multiple high-res heightfield textures
* Easy destruction of buildings
* Fixed grid LOD with vertex texture fetch
* Normals are calculated in the shader
* Semi-procedural surface shaders
* Allows dynamic compositing