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.
With as much news about the problems that seem to plague nVidia's Geforce FX Direct X 9 specs, why hasn't nVidia made a honest attempt to make a statement about these?
The longer they hide behind unanswered questions, the more it's going to hurt their reputation.
Does anyone remember when Intel released the Pentium with a floating point bug and how long it took before Intel admitted to the problem?
We're going though this again. But this time with nVidia. And Im surprised by thier "It's not our doing" as of late.
< Im not the only one that shares this opinion and I think it's HIGH time for nVidia to address these issues before its too late. If it's not already. >
This comment was edited on Sep 17, 22:20.
The longer they hide behind unanswered questions, the more it's going to hurt their reputation.
Does anyone remember when Intel released the Pentium with a floating point bug and how long it took before Intel admitted to the problem?
We're going though this again. But this time with nVidia. And Im surprised by thier "It's not our doing" as of late.
< Im not the only one that shares this opinion and I think it's HIGH time for nVidia to address these issues before its too late. If it's not already. >
This comment was edited on Sep 17, 22:20.
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