I was reading a newspaper yesterday, and I found an article in which Google and Nasa have been working on building Quantum computers (now known as 'D-Wave,) which are supposedly millions of times faster than any other computer today.
Instead of Digital Bits, or standard binary, these kinds of computers use Quantum Bits, or Qu-bits, and instead of being regular old Ones and Zeros, or On or Off, a QuBit can be in either state, or both of them at the same time. I don't know too terribly much about computers, but it sounds like these are thousands of times more complicated to program than you average every-day computer.
Now I know the question I'm asking here isn't even scratching the surface of the capabilities of these things, but I thought it'd be interesting nonetheless. Since these computers have these complex binaries, would we be able to just play any old game on them?Say for instance, Skyrim, or Fallout 4. Would they work right off the bat or would there have to be an entirely different kind of code for games to work on Quantum Computers in the first place? I wanna know what you guys think.
Here's the official website for this thing if you wanna check it out [url]http://www.dwavesys.com[/url]
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Just when you thought this post was dead NOPE
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I'd still get weasel'd.
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It wouldn't run
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There would be little change. It's not intended for rendering.
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No legs, so probably not very well
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Runs crysis at 4K 35 fps
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Well you'd have to have a game that runs on quantum computers first... [spoiler]and a processing system[/spoiler]
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Link doesn't work for me
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Expensive. It would run expensively.
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Imagine instant loading on Skyrim. That'd be... Beautiful
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The ideas there but the tech that we have today just doesn't match up to a quantum computer. In my opinion it would be impossible to code for these computers or play older games on them. Crashes and bugs would occur because the computer is simply too fast.
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No more load times but this would also mean developers would have to create bigger and more immersive games
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Batman Arkham Knight would probably still run like shit
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In the mother Russia, you don't play quantum computers. Quantum computers play you.
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Edited by YumekuiRaeun: 1/7/2016 8:54:58 PMIt wouldn't do much, not at first The way gaming works and the way QC works are for the most part very different. Like say if we were able to change some of the processes that any of our hardware could to to fit with QC, the most it would do for gaming is make it more realistic physics wise. At least from what I understand. Lemme get a video that explains it better. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rY5CMdUyb0I ^this should tell you [i]generally[/i] what it can do for gaming Also it will [i]not[/i] make Graphics any better
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I already know and don't know the answer to your query.
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Really crap actually. They're good for crunching numbers, not rendering graphics in real time.
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Issue is that they aren't good for rendering. They can run numbers and calculations at lightning speed but processing graphics is a different story. Given that images aren't based solely on the same idea as binary or hex translation and require a bit more computing power than "off, on, both, neither". While a step in the translation, you also have to think that these images then go through processing from numerical outputs for each color in each pixel to then translating into said color on a screen.
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VR [spoiler]( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)[/spoiler]
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No mans sky on crack
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Imagine the graphics settings.....
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VR Nuff said...
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The computational capacity of the computer would probably be wasted on games, since there is a limit to how well they can run and how good their graphics are. It would be an impossibly fast computer though.
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That's pretty cool
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[quote]D-Wave[/quote]
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Three words. Open. World. Gaming.