DOOM 3 & DX9 [Sep 17, 2003, 7:08 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
With all the discussion lately about how Half-Life 2 will run on ATI hardware
compared with NVIDIA accelerators, BonusWeb.cz
shot off an email to id Software's John Carmack to ask how DOOM 3 and other
games are likely to be impacted by the difference between the two graphics
platforms running DirectX 9. Here's how he responded:
Unfortunately, it will probably be representative of most DX9 games. Doom has a custom back end that uses the lower precisions on the GF-FX, but when you run it with standard fragment programs just like ATI, it is a lot slower. The precision doesn't really matter to Doom, but that won't be a reasonable option in future games designed around DX9 level hardware as a minimum spec.
Well, if that wasn't a warning shot across the bow of ATI owners, I don't know what is..."
Damn it, I meant to say nVidia, not ATI...And the damn edit button doesn't work! Now whose losing their marbles?!? Argh! The hell with it, they both suck, I'm getting a Matrox...
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Damn it, I meant to say nVidia, not ATI...And the damn edit button doesn't work! Now whose losing their marbles?!? Argh! The hell with it, they both suck, I'm getting a Matrox...
=-Rigs-=
All Day Repeat: Eminem - Lose Yourself
"Look, if you had one shot, one opportunity, to seize everything you ever wanted - one moment - Would you capture it or just let it slip?"
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