Oh. So now everyone just doesn't like Nvidia. Including Nvidia themselves who have admitted their first DX9 card was quite short of the stellar performer they touted it to be?
I think they messed up. Either with the drivers or with the actual silicone, and its now coming out as more DX9 games come to market. And if the Source engine performs better under ATI then that's a HUGE blow for Nvidia, because Source is the only current competitor to the Doom 3 engine, and several new games are going to based on it. I think we will find that Nvidia has messed up, and they will try to clean up their mess. Their silence on this issue is conspicuous. They sent out an immediate response when 3DMark 2001 brought them up to task for obvious and glaring driver optimisations for the 3DMark tests, even though they were incorrect there too. I don't think the Browser analogy is a correct one at all. Although if people had vociferously complained in the first place with Microsofts Internet Explorer maybe it would now be standards compliant. Nvidia does not have the clout of Microsoft to force feed crap down consumers' throats. -Angel -----Original Message----- From: jon hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] First...the FX is dx9 compliant. Secondly, it could be argued that the FX's 32/12/16 precision offers superior quality than ATI's 24 bit precision. MS may step in with a precision definition for dx10...who knows. It will be interesting to see if they will go with 24 or 32 bit. My money would be on 32 bit if they do step in. Developers have known about this for a long time...and the ways to optimize for each path are, according to the things I've read, pretty straightforward and obvious. This all kind of reminds me of the Gravis UltraSound. It had more memory and processing power...but it still lost out to the Soundblaster in the long run. I think Kevin's analogy works...but even if I was working on amazon.com, I'm not going to hold a press conference on why the site looks better in one browser than another, unless there was an ulterior motive. -- jon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com
