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.
q[Never buy a video card before or right when a graphic / processor intensive game comes out.]
I agree that's the case for most people. But I know a lot of people that still have GeForce 2's and 3's on reasonable systems (1.4+ GHz). Waiting for 4-6 months for them would either seem like an eternity, or ruin the game because of low quality.
In their cases it might be wise to get a new video card, just not THE top of the line. Something like a 9700 would cut it, and probably only cost 200-300 USD.
I agree that's the case for most people. But I know a lot of people that still have GeForce 2's and 3's on reasonable systems (1.4+ GHz). Waiting for 4-6 months for them would either seem like an eternity, or ruin the game because of low quality.
In their cases it might be wise to get a new video card, just not THE top of the line. Something like a 9700 would cut it, and probably only cost 200-300 USD.
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