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.
[OT English point]
Sorry, but the lit person in me has to disagree with you there mate... 'Impacted' might be acceptable in colloquial or hasty speech when you’re trying to mask repetition or embellish the sound, but really I think it is a prime case of a noun that has been turned into a verb by haphazardous journalism and the general decline in English standards. Sometimes a natural transformation of this nature is inevitable where there is no alternative like in the case of noun->verb ‘to e-mail’, but I'd argue that 'affected' remains the proper verb for formal writing.
This comment was edited on Sep 18, 04:12.
Sorry, but the lit person in me has to disagree with you there mate... 'Impacted' might be acceptable in colloquial or hasty speech when you’re trying to mask repetition or embellish the sound, but really I think it is a prime case of a noun that has been turned into a verb by haphazardous journalism and the general decline in English standards. Sometimes a natural transformation of this nature is inevitable where there is no alternative like in the case of noun->verb ‘to e-mail’, but I'd argue that 'affected' remains the proper verb for formal writing.
This comment was edited on Sep 18, 04:12.
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