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.