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Sunset Coast

A real-time flight along a rocky coastline, rendered entirely on the CPU. Every pixel is computed by your processor with SIMD instructions; the graphics card only displays the finished frames.

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Windows 10/11 x64 · 4.9 MiB · Portable, no installer

Sunset Coast at dusk: a sea inlet between rocky cliffs, the sun setting behind the mountains, rendered on the CPU
Sunset, then moonlight. Day turns to night as you fly.

What it does

The demo picks the best instruction set your processor supports, from AVX-512 and AVX2 down to plain x64, and puts every core to work. A live readout shows how fast your machine is rendering.

Controls

Right mouse buttonHold to fly: the mouse looks around
W A S DMove while flying; Q and E go down and up
Shift / CtrlFaster / slower
RReturn to the flight path
FToggle full resolution
F12Save a 3840 × 2160 screenshot, without the overlay, to Pictures\Screenshots
EscClose