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.
In reply to #19
"Now, while I don’t have a copy of the new beta Half Life 2 to benchmark using these new 51.75 drivers, it is these drivers that will give the NVIDIA graphics cards the much needed push in performance in DX9 games, including HL2. While we currently don't have good ways of testing DirectX 9, I decided it would be good to see how the new drivers affect current games running the DX8 API.."
Pay attention to the last sentence "We don't have a good way of testing DirectX9" that is key.
Also: " decided it would be good to see how the new drivers affect current games running the DX8 API.."
So your article doesnt even touch the issue of the new Det 50 drivers improving DIRECTX 9 performance. This article says that the beta driver does not improve DX 8 games, I never remember hearing that the Det 50 drivers were supposed to do?
WTF are you thinking?
This comment was edited on Sep 17, 21:49.
http://www.amdmb.com/article-display.php?ArticleID=257That article means absoluetly nothing. Did you even read the thing before you posted the link. Here is a quote from the article
check that out....
an article on the new nvidia drivers and how they don't do much :\
"Now, while I don’t have a copy of the new beta Half Life 2 to benchmark using these new 51.75 drivers, it is these drivers that will give the NVIDIA graphics cards the much needed push in performance in DX9 games, including HL2. While we currently don't have good ways of testing DirectX 9, I decided it would be good to see how the new drivers affect current games running the DX8 API.."
Pay attention to the last sentence "We don't have a good way of testing DirectX9" that is key.
Also: " decided it would be good to see how the new drivers affect current games running the DX8 API.."
So your article doesnt even touch the issue of the new Det 50 drivers improving DIRECTX 9 performance. This article says that the beta driver does not improve DX 8 games, I never remember hearing that the Det 50 drivers were supposed to do?
WTF are you thinking?
This comment was edited on Sep 17, 21:49.
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