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.
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.
I agree entirely with you about "impacted" it is a dreadful construction. I equally disagree with 'to e-mail', what is wrong with to send an email? Or perhaps to write/compose one. I don't letter people - I write them letters (and no I don't promise to 'write you' either).
Mind you I also make telephone calls instead of phoning but that battle is well and truly lost.
pedantically yours
Anvil - from the land of warm beer and mad cattle.
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