Edit Tools: Allegorithmic

Game play that features large environments gains in multi-threaded texture generation. Price: Varies by game and gaming platform

While multiple-core GPUs are coming to market, game play still improves
with software that optimizes specific graphics subsets. One example
comes from Allegorithmic, a developer of advanced texturing tools for
realtime content creation. Substance — Allegorithmic's recently
announced middleware designed for Intel's Streaming SIMD Extensions 4
(SSE4) instruction set and multicore CPUs — streams two to four times
more detailed texture data in realtime without using the GPU. Sebastien
Deguy, president and founder of Allegorithmic, says that the new
technology breaks the limits caused by linear data storage and the
erratic seek and random-access times when reading data from DVDs.

www.allegorithmic.com