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.
What Carmack means is that Doom III doesn't give a rat's arse about precision,but wasn't he the one who kept saying that 32 bit precision shaders are the "future"?
Damn these people are trying to confuse.
Ahem isn't the FX series supposed to be DX9 level hardware?! This might be seriously funny if i was not owning one.
Anyway,not all developers are willing or able to waste time or resources to hold Nvidia's hand like ID or Valve and those stuck with the current FX series are basically holding on to a dying piece of hardware that can't even do what it was meant to do properly,meaning that it doesn't follow the minimum DX9 spec of 24 bit shader precision.
I've been following this whole saga closely because i own a FX5900,and yes as Gabe said,i am pissed off. Not because ATI has better FPS,Nvidia is a cold faced cheater or any of that fanboy shit but because the bottom line is that spent my hard earned money on a card that became obsolete before it can even do what it was meant to do.
I guess the perception of "future" means different things to different pple but all those reviews of the NV35 being "future proof" are pure bullshit,unless those same reviewers upgrade whenever a new chipset comes out and dump their "old" cards in the trashcan.
Well "Buyers beware" as the saying goes. I for one will be approaching all hardware purchases with greater caution in the future,regardless of how many "kickass" or "9/10" awards the product in question got.
Damn these people are trying to confuse.
Ahem isn't the FX series supposed to be DX9 level hardware?! This might be seriously funny if i was not owning one.
Anyway,not all developers are willing or able to waste time or resources to hold Nvidia's hand like ID or Valve and those stuck with the current FX series are basically holding on to a dying piece of hardware that can't even do what it was meant to do properly,meaning that it doesn't follow the minimum DX9 spec of 24 bit shader precision.
I've been following this whole saga closely because i own a FX5900,and yes as Gabe said,i am pissed off. Not because ATI has better FPS,Nvidia is a cold faced cheater or any of that fanboy shit but because the bottom line is that spent my hard earned money on a card that became obsolete before it can even do what it was meant to do.
I guess the perception of "future" means different things to different pple but all those reviews of the NV35 being "future proof" are pure bullshit,unless those same reviewers upgrade whenever a new chipset comes out and dump their "old" cards in the trashcan.
Well "Buyers beware" as the saying goes. I for one will be approaching all hardware purchases with greater caution in the future,regardless of how many "kickass" or "9/10" awards the product in question got.
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