"JC" wrote in message
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And how does that confirm it ? by possibly showing valve is kissing ATI's
ass and one is better of with a an ATI card because because of the
aliances
it makes ?

Rubbish! Similar performance figures are evident in Tomb Raider Angel of
Darkness where ATI's R3xx cards smoke NVidia's FX cards when using advanced
Pixelshader 2.0 effects. And no, this game isn't "ATI optimized", but is in
fact listed on nVidia's "The way it's meant to be played" website. The real
problem is that nVidia oviously chose the wrong DirectX 9 approach. Get over
it and move on.
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Anders