Horrible! Actually playing this kind of game!

Chapter 265 169. The road is blocked

December 31, 1995.

There was light rain in the sky at night.

Sleet to be exact.

The gray sky was swept back and forth by the light, and rain mixed with light snow fell in the sky.

And even on such a cold and humid day, the number of people waiting to ring the New Year bell in the temple has not decreased.

It was as if enthusiasm melted the snowflakes and turned them into sleet.

Everyone knew today's weather conditions from the weather forecast in the morning. They were probably afraid of disturbing others by holding umbrellas, so most people wore raincoats.

The same goes for Tsuda Nao.

Although she was shivering from the cold, she still smiled and wore a New Year's kimono with a transparent raincoat on top. She looked like a time-traveled costume doll.

Her hair stuck tightly to her face because of the rain, making her entire face look particularly petite.

This feeling is really amazing.

Nao Tsuda has a strong sense of fashion when she dresses up in a modern style, but when she wears a kimono, you can deeply feel the temperament she exudes from the inside out.

The kimono, which obviously has such a strong ancient feel, is covered with a very modern transparent raincoat, but it shows an indescribable beauty on Tsuda's body.

It's really amazing.

There is a feeling of traveling through time.

Looking around, the people around him are probably the same.

"Nao, aren't you cold?"

Qing Zhiyuan said, reaching out his hand and gently holding the other person's.

Unexpectedly, Tsuda Nao's palms were warmer than his.

This was very embarrassing. Qing Zhiyuan originally wanted to warm Tsuda's hands, but he didn't expect that he was the one being warmed.

Just as he was about to pull his hand back, Tsuda Nao grabbed him in turn.

Looking sideways, this beautiful girl was smiling slightly.

"I have a baby warmer stuck inside."

Tsuda said, "Besides, if you don't hold my hand, it's easy to get separated."

Qing Zhiyuan smiled sheepishly, but felt calm inside.

Feeling at ease, he inserted his fingers tightly between Tsuda's fingers and intertwined them tightly.

It's great to have a girlfriend like Nao Tsuda.

Boom! ! !

Boom! ! !

The New Year's bell rang and everyone cheered.

The two of them worshiped each other, and then walked down the mountain path.

On both sides of the road, there was heavy snow in the gray night.

The wind was blowing loudly, and it shamelessly brought in the sleet and snow floating in the air, hitting the two people's faces, and then sliding down their collars.

After a while, ice formed on my eyebrows.

So Qing Zhiyuan gently grabbed Tsuda Nao's hand and walked to her other side.

Tsuda looked at the man with some confusion.

To be precise, following Qing Zhiyuan's movements, the two people turned 180 degrees.

Qing Zhiyuan pulled Tsuda Nao and walked backwards.

Tsuda Nao smiled and gave him a roll of her eyes.

"How old are you? You still look like a child. Aren't you afraid of slipping?"

"What are you afraid of? I'm here." Qing Zhiyuan said with a smile.

The two walked backwards for a while, and the roof of Sensoji Temple disappeared into the mountains.

There are gradually fewer people around.

There is only the sound of wind, rain, and falling snow...

There are also stars in the sky.

This moment was extremely peaceful. Qing Zhiyuan raised his head and looked at the sky, but his heart was extremely shocked.

For thousands of years, the eternal starry sky gave him a feeling of traveling through time and space.

In his previous life, he had looked up at the night sky like this countless times.

It was as if the two time and spaces were connected together by the starlight in the sky.

Qing Zhiyuan couldn't tell where he was for a while.

"Mr. He, there is no moon tonight." Nao Tsuda's voice next to her pulled Qing Zhiyuan back from the chaos of time and space.

When Qing Zhiyuan heard her words, the whole world suddenly became peaceful.

Yes, settled.

There is a particularly solid feeling.

The ground beneath your feet is also extremely solid.

The starry sky above our heads is also extremely real.

What's more important is——

Having Tsuda Nao next to him gave him this down-to-earth feeling.

Nao.

You are my anchor in this world.

Because of you, I will not follow the crowd.

Nor will you lose your way.

Qing Zhiyuan smiled and looked at Tsuda, "Because my Miss Moon is on the ground, and naturally there is no more in the sky."

Tsuda Nao was stunned for a moment, then smiled lightly.

There is happiness in his eyes.

"Qingsang, do you know?" Nao Tsuda gently pulled the wet long hair aside with her little finger, revealing her plump forehead, and then said, "I prefer sunny days to those that most people like. It’s a rainy day.”

"Um?"

"When it rains, people rarely walk on the streets. Then I especially like to wear a raincoat and walk in the rain like this."

"The sound of the rain all around sounds great, and the louder the rain sounds, the quieter the whole world feels."

"The feeling of being hit by raindrops is very comfortable."

Nao Tsuda laughed happily, "You don't have to think about anything, all your worries have disappeared in the sound of rain. No, it's as if I myself have disappeared."

Disappear...?

Qing Zhiyuan lowered his head, thinking about what she said.

The rain pattered all around.

Qing Zhiyuan listened carefully.

At this moment, except for Nao Tsuda's hand, the whole world seemed to have disappeared.

Ah~

This feeling is really beautiful.

Qing Zhiyuan slightly raised his eyes and looked at Tsuda Nao next to him.

At this time, Tsuda's whole body was wrapped in rain, and he seemed to be smudged with a circle of white light in the thick night.

As holy as a goddess.

but……

In Qing Zhiyuan's mind, what flashed past was a huge fish tail.

"What a resemblance." Qing Zhiyuan sighed.

"What does it look like?" Tsuda turned his face sideways and looked at him in confusion.

"Mermaid Princess."

If pokeni's galgame has a core, it should be Mermaid Tears.

If there really is a mermaid princess.

Qing Zhiyuan thinks that Tsuda Nao should be like this.

"Mermaid Princess?" Nao Tsuda chuckled, "Why isn't she Miss Moon? Well... Qing..."

At this moment, in her sight, Qing Zhiyuan grabbed her hand, came closer, and gently hugged her waist.

The two people stuck together.

The white rainwater hit the raincoat, like a layer of white light covering the two people.

strangeness.

Why is the rain white?

…

After a tiring night, Qing Zhiyuan didn't wake up until noon the next day.

Seeing the sunlight coming in from the window, Qing Zhiyuan couldn't help but squint his eyes happily.

ah!

It’s been 5 years.

It seems like I just arrived at this timeline yesterday.

In the blink of an eye, it was already 1995.

In the past five years, Qing Zhiyuan thought about it carefully and found that he had done many things, but it seemed that he could not do much.

It seems that his arrival has advanced the times, but nothing has changed.

The biggest change may be meeting Nao Tsuda, right?

Qing Zhiyuan propped up his body. Tsuda Nao was not making breakfast for the two of them as he expected, but was sitting in front of the computer and replying to emails.

A workaholic indeed.

Qing Zhiyuan felt a lot more at ease when he saw this.

So he fell on the bed and arranged his body into a lazy posture.

Ah~

This state of being filled with another woman in your life is really good.

In just two days, they will be filled to the brim with their respective jobs.

So both of them cherish this period of Chinese New Year.

…

After the New Year, Qing Zhiyuan quickly entered a busy working state.

The company's projects are proceeding in an orderly manner.

The new "Border" FPS game on the computer has also been officially approved, and Shinji Mikami is pulling the planners to write planning requirements documents non-stop.

The program side has also started pre-research work on the engine.

In addition, the progress of the company's "Pokémon 3D World" is also very gratifying. "Ashes of Eternity" in the United States has also entered the final stage, and the [support] (jiangong) arranged by Qing Zhiyuan has also successfully arrived. In San Francisco, the team is also expanding according to the company's development needs.

Things look great.

After about two weeks, the program director Ken Akanishi led his juniors to find Qing Zhiyuan.

"President, we can't handle it." Akanishi Ken said directly.

"What can't be done?"

"The border game is out of control."

"Huh? How is this possible?"

After listening to the accounts of several people, Qing Zhiyuan almost understood the problem.

Although the game "Border" is the first FPS game developed by the company on a computer, it does not have "any basics" as Ken Akanishi said.

The basics of 3D technology are still there.

After all, the company has accumulated a lot of technology in the process of developing "Pokémon 3D World".

Therefore, many low-level basic requirements do not need to be specially written by planners. Programmers can sort them out by themselves.

However, the core of the problem is-

The development of Pokémon 3D World is based on Sony's PS.

During the development process of Sony PS, they paid great attention to 3D support, so they have specialized hardware support and specialized 3D graphics hardware...

These things have saved a lot of manpower, material resources and time for pokeni's 3D game development. You are equivalent to standing on the shoulders of giants when creating, and things will naturally be much easier to do.

But developing 3D games on the computer is very different.

There is no hardware support now, mainly because 3D graphics cards have not been invented yet, so many implementations can only be written by programs themselves through software.

Writing software is not impossible.

However, the biggest problem is that it is all achieved by programming, which actually causes a lot of consumption in the middle.

If there is a graphics card, it means that many core functions are written on the graphics card, which is simple, direct and effective when running. But now, a part of the program must be specially used for processing and calculation every time, which adds additional costs.

for example:

It is obvious that 1+1=2 is a simple thing, but here it becomes necessary to first define what 1 is, what is addition, what is 2, and then through this series of proofs, 1 is 1 and 2 is 2, and finally we can get The result is 1+1=2.

The birth of many hardware in history was actually to simplify program overhead.

However, without this hardware, the execution efficiency is really horribly low.

So Ken Akanishi and the others just did a little calculation on paper and found that with their level, even if they could make the game "Border", they probably wouldn't be able to run it on a computer.

"The overhead is too great and the program runs very slowly. I think it will freeze to death."

Ken Akanishi said, "It's impossible to play such a game."

"Well……"

Qing Zhiyuan frowned severely.

He was also a programmer in his previous life and had developed engines, so he naturally knew that what Ken Akanishi said was true.

Sometimes, it’s not that your abilities aren’t enough, but that the current world’s standards haven’t kept up.

Damn it, damn it.

Nowadays, there are actually graphics cards on the computer side, but they are all 2D, and there is no real 3D graphics card yet.

After all, there aren't many 3D games.

In this era of 2D dominance, ATI and Huang were just young boys, and the real giants in the industry were Trident and S3.

The 2D graphics card Trio64V+ (S3 765) released by S3 at the end of last year has achieved the top level of 2D.

This magical 2D graphics card can support 1024×768 resolution and supports up to 32Bit true color at low resolutions.

In the history of graphics cards, it is known as the giant of graphics chips in the 1990s along with 3dfx's Voodoo card, which shows its respected status.

However, the world needs 3D graphics cards!

…

Qing Zhiyuan’s first reaction was——

Do we have the capabilities to design and develop 3D graphics cards?

possible!

At least Chikawa Koichi was exposed to the research and development of 3D graphics processors during his training with Sony. Neon, as a major chip design country, has this capability.

However, before making a 3D graphics card, there is another big obstacle to overcome——

Intel and Microsoft.

The X86 instruction set is an absolutely unavoidable threshold.

The graphics card needs to be loaded onto the computer, which requires the use of a unified PCI interface.

The PCI standard is specifically formulated by Intel.

Then there's Microsoft.

Unless you don't use Microsoft's operating system.

Otherwise, the hardware must be developed to adapt to other people's operating systems.

Many standard protocols are formulated by American companies. They do not follow the rules set by others. Microsoft only needs to update the operating system and say that it does not support the driver of this graphics card and does not authorize you to install the driver on Windows. Then you This is catching someone blind.

This is a hurdle that cannot be circumvented.

Of course, this involves another very important issue -

Anti-Tosra deal.

That is antitrust.

In the United States, based on antitrust principles, Microsoft is not allowed to restrict the operation of certain programs in the system, nor is it allowed to [ban] certain types of graphics cards from running.

In the previous life, Microsoft felt that Netscape was likely to become an important competitor in the future, so it banned Netscape-related software. As a result, it was antitrusted.

Microsoft almost didn't break up because of this. Since then, Bill Gates has never dared to use the platform's monopoly power casually.

Antitrust is a sharp sword hanging over the heads of these giants. It will not prevent you from innovating, let alone launching your own products on computers.

However, in the United States, various companies authorize each other, exchange interests, and are even fundamentally bound together.

Only in this way can it be possible to enter this development field.

Neon is actually similar, except that Neon focuses on the host platform.

If Qing Zhiyuan didn't want to run on the computer platform, using Sony's intellectual property exchange, pokeni could ride on the PS platform.

…

The most troublesome problem at the moment is——

The United States as a whole suppresses Neon's chip business.

Trying every possible means to bypass Neon and prevent Neon from getting involved in the chip manufacturing business is actually a very troublesome thing.

In other words, if a non-American R\u0026D company wants to get involved in graphics card manufacturing, the United States may not allow it.

This is very difficult.

In the previous life, the United States would rather spend a lot of money to let ASML of the Netherlands develop EUV lithography machines, rather than let neon semiconductor companies with more mature technology do it. In fact, it was to be wary of neon.

In fact, after the MiRi Semiconductor Agreement was signed, Neon’s chip road was almost blocked.

It's hard.

Qing Zhiyuan was so anxious that he scratched his head and ears.

Americans are really dogs.

But at this moment, Qing Zhiyuan suddenly remembered a company and a person——

NVIDIA, Jen-Hsun Huang.

…

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