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.
Instead of crying you should sell your FX's before it's to late and the prices fall to much and get yourself a Raddy
Well, selling one's FXes would be an option if there was an alternative on the market. The problem is, there is no other option. Matrox cards are too slow and offer no decent driver support, ATI cards still need to improve a lot in the driver compartment (although they did get a lot better but for professional and Linux use they are still worthless). That leaves us with the new XGI cards but I doubt that they will be able to keep up with nvidia or ATI...
So, what else to buy beside nvidia?
Well, selling one's FXes would be an option if there was an alternative on the market. The problem is, there is no other option. Matrox cards are too slow and offer no decent driver support, ATI cards still need to improve a lot in the driver compartment (although they did get a lot better but for professional and Linux use they are still worthless). That leaves us with the new XGI cards but I doubt that they will be able to keep up with nvidia or ATI...
So, what else to buy beside nvidia?
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