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.
3dfx died because they decided to make thier own cards and not supply chips to third parties.that left all the companies that made 3dfx chip cards looking for another source[nvidia].poor company leadership decisions and not being able to get thier cards to market killed 3dfx.
No. That is not why 3dfx died. 3dfx did this just fine with their early Voodoo cards, and extremely successfully with the V3. What happened to 3dfx was a monster called the TnT2 Ultra, and its much bigger, asskicking brother called the GeForce 256.
It never was a contest, and it was a fucking demolition when comparing the V5 to the GF.
Thats why 3dfx died.
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