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| News Comments > Futuremark & NVIDIA Make Nice |
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Re: Slanderous |
Jun 3, 2003, 10:22 |
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Mind posting a URL, I seem to have missed this. Although it is in the most popular threads section 
JC says When the output goes to a normal 32 bit framebuffer, as all current tests do, it is possible for Nvidia to analyze data flow from textures, constants, and attributes, and change many 32 bit operations to 16 or even 12 bit operations with absolutely no loss of quality or functionality. This is completely acceptable, and will benefit all applications, but will almost certainly induce hard to find bugs in the shader compiler.
He also says what is unacceptable. At no point does he say what it is that Nvidia have done.
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| News Comments > Futuremark & NVIDIA Make Nice |
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Re: Slanderous |
Jun 3, 2003, 10:16 |
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You're wrong, Carmack did clearly state Nvidia cheated. Reread his post.
Mind posting a URL, I seem to have missed this.
This is a programmer's issue, I wished non-programmers would stop trying to do their own technical analysis.
I'm afraid I disagree, even though I program stuff. The technical question is "Has x piece of software been optimized for y application". It appears that the answer to this is unequivocably Yes.
the question "Does optimising x for y amount to a cheat " is essentially a moral one, not a technical one. It doesn't mean that programmers can't have a view, but it also means that consumers can have a legitimate and informed view as well.
Finally, we know from JC's .plans and elsewhere that DOOM , and indeed earlier iD games, had different code paths for different hardware. It's reasonable to assume that other software companies do this as well _ I'm almost 100% sure it applies to the Unreal engine for example. This isn't cheating in my book. So when we then come to benchmarks which have as a stated aim to indicate how current applications will perform on different hardware do we subject all hardware to the same code and see how it works best, or do we allow each software provider to optimise their offering in the same way as development companies would. How you answer this question determines wether you think NVIDIA "cheated", but bothe answers are perfectly reasonable.
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| News Comments > Games on Trial |
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Confused |
May 30, 2003, 05:20 |
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I see a number of folk stating that it isn't games that are to blame, but the media - especially the news media - have a worrying effect on viewers.
Now apart from being confused about how many early teenagers watch the news these days, I don't see why one form of media doesn't affect you but another does.
Personally I think that all media , from books upwards, affect people in profound but subtle ways. It is clearly ludicrous to say that games cause murder/manslaughter. I think it is equally ludicrous and harms the industry to say that games have no effect on people's psychological makeup.
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| News Comments > Duke Nukem Whenever |
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Re: No subject |
May 29, 2003, 16:49 |
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I think they took one look at Half-Life and thought we're in trouble.
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| News Comments > Duke Nukem Whenever |
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Duke |
May 29, 2003, 16:47 |
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So so we generally already pulled the plug. And right now we're just hopeful that the team in Dallas will finish it. Which 3DR interpret as financial jiggery pokery The reason Take2 did this is that it's a smart revenue management move but I interpret as no more cash for duke4 = project either canned or pathetic disappointment released to save face.
We've basically seen no new material for what 18 months - 2 years, the finance seems to be gone and the team seems to have been dissolved - again. For god's sake just kill the thing now.
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Brakes |
May 28, 2003, 18:26 |
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"WHAT GEAR ARE YOU IN?"
"GEAR?!?!?!"
"Shit, like I ever drove before."
Yikes Von Helmut is Maureen who would have guessed.
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Stranded British explorer rescued from t |
May 28, 2003, 18:24 |
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Yes, he did - though he planned to be rescued about a week ago in fact.
No relation to scott of the antarctic then?
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| News Comments > Carmack on Drivers |
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Re: No subject |
May 28, 2003, 04:15 |
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Lest everyone forget FP24 is the MINIMUM allowed for DX9 compliency. Not meaning in the card somewhere, but The Standard used. in other words Nvidia is not DX9 Complient 99% of the time as of today. Um, the NV30 is a DX9 compatible card (I think everyone agrees that) that can be run at higher speed but lower quality than the DX9 spec. Meanwhile the ATI is a DX9 compatible card that runs a lower quality than Nvidia's highest at a higher speed or if you look at it the other way around runs a higher quality than Nvidia's lowest at a slower speed.
Both are good, both are way too expensive and id make good software.
And I strongly suspect that anyone who has time to examine the difference in the scenery in doom3 at 40fps will be dead RSN 
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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bonk a bug |
May 26, 2003, 10:17 |
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Of course in the UK the game would never get that title, TV companies avoid encouraging bestiality for some reason
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: #6 |
May 20, 2003, 16:37 |
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Well on the one hand you say that it should be detectable citing the synthetic vegetable oil as lending credibility, yet you clearly didn't read And with a Double Big Mac it's about the same price as an Xbox BBSpot may not be the best satire in the world, but there is usually the odd clue or two in the article.
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Errmm |
May 19, 2003, 16:06 |
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hey, we've been making fun of Bronco whilst he was away - maybe we should chip in for an iPod. Or at the very least a Duke4Ever 2 pre-order
Never did rate the matrix much myself.
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| News Comments > Carmack on DOOM 3 |
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Re: Shadows |
May 16, 2003, 06:14 |
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t seems simple enough to me really, but I guess to publishing morons (not necessarily Carmack & co themselves) laming your engine so that a thousand more people can play is very smart decision making.
But this is just a numbers argument. Suppose it turns out that not laming the engine means 5000 people can play it, but laming it means that 5 million people can play it. The truth will probably be somewhere between, but without knowing the facts crticising people who do is not so smart.
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| News Comments > Carmack on DOOM 3 |
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Re: No subject |
May 16, 2003, 06:06 |
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how much does a cinema ticket or a night in a bar cost per hour?
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Matrix |
May 15, 2003, 17:15 |
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I'm not sure he is, after all he probably can't read perl according to the survey so what chance secret text
BTW are Loonyboi's comments still in the source for the apge?
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: No subject |
May 15, 2003, 17:12 |
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Warner Brothers, yes.
The Wachowskis had the trilogy in mind the whole time, however.
So the creative guys always had a trilogy in mind, but Warner are milking it? Given that the trilogy would have been pitched to them as a trilogy if thats what the Wachowskis had in mind how does that make Warner rip-off merchants? The nasty people doing what the directors wanted. Damn them all.
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| News Comments > Half-Life 2 Trailer |
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Re: gee |
May 15, 2003, 08:46 |
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I don't have a whole lot of trouble with the argument 'everyone steals to some extent so don't get uppity about piracy' which you seem to be advocating. I disagree with it, but its a fair enough point of view.
I have trouble with the 'but its $50 and its copy protected that's so much money I just have to download it'.
that sentence should of course actually finish 'download it to my $2000 computer on my $50/month broadband connection'.
As far as piracy/theft goes, No I have no stolen software or content on my PC and yes when I found £80 in the street I handed it in to the local Police - if I'd lost wages in the street I'd hope, but not expect, others to do the same.
A lot of it comes down to your background/world view. The above behaviour is second nature to Christians (and probably other religions as well) but seems 'naive and preachy' to atheist/agnostic types.
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| News Comments > DOOM III Benchmarks |
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Re: will there by any beholders? |
May 13, 2003, 04:12 |
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What work do you do? My PC is used probably 85% for work/home management. It runs dev environments and Oracle just fine. Now if you were doing 3d graphics/game design then fair enough - but that is hardly representative.
Most business apps got faster than the users round about the p2-333 mark.
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