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.
So, when's the Radeon 9900 coming out? I have a 9800 on order that I'll use until the 9900 comes out (if it's truly much better). Most of the games I'm playing now though run better on my GF-FX 5900 Ultra.
The latest 3.7 drivers for my 9700 at work are finally working right. Before then I had issues with the 9700 and was cursing myself for wasting money on it, but I'm glad to see they finally have gotten at least this phase right. Goodness knows Nvidia's been kicking their ass for the past several years. We'll have to see if ATI can hold onto it, or if they'll fade like AMD did with their Athlons vs the P4.
This comment was edited on Sep 18, 00:07.
The latest 3.7 drivers for my 9700 at work are finally working right. Before then I had issues with the 9700 and was cursing myself for wasting money on it, but I'm glad to see they finally have gotten at least this phase right. Goodness knows Nvidia's been kicking their ass for the past several years. We'll have to see if ATI can hold onto it, or if they'll fade like AMD did with their Athlons vs the P4.
This comment was edited on Sep 18, 00:07.
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