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20. No subject Sep 15, 2003, 12:35 Acleacius
 
Found this as well
http://www.beyond3d.com/misc/hl2/

Some people may look to OpenGL and Doom3 and say that this displays no such issues, yet the fact is that John Carmack has already stated a similar situation with his software engine. With Doom3’s “ARB2” path that utilises the OpenGL ARB approved fragment (pixel) shader extensions, the NV3x series is at about half the performance of the Radeon series; however, it is widely known that Doom3 will have an NV30 path that makes use of NVIDIA’s own extensions, which can make more effective use of the mixed precisions than the standard ARB extensions can.

Note: It’s an interesting fact that of the two most eagerly anticipated games over the next year the developers have had to expand time and effort in creating special, optimised paths for GeForce FX hardware whereas ATI has more than acceptable performance (and with higher IQ) in both of these titles utilising the default path. The release dates for both of these titles have been a constant source of interest - has creating more special rendering paths actually hindered the release of these titles?

 
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