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banshee wrote in message ...
ATI and HL2 team has screwed nvidia. They did it on purpose, what gaming company would release the first offical benchmarks that had poor frames on drivers that where old, and refused to use to the ones that nvida told them to use. I smell $$$ I may guess..you own a FX card...loser! But be happy, nvidia will surely build enough cheats and "optimalisations" in their drivers to make you being able to play Halflife 2.....at the cost of a whole lot of Image Quality. Oh also prepare to never be able to run DX9, to slow since the card is actually UNABLE to run DX9. So you get a lame mix between DX8 and DX9. Hell...you get where you pay for! Oh yes, the FX is expensive...yes....ever heard about "buying a cat in the bag" But hell, I can only hope the Nv40 truly gets around all those problems they know they. But for now... the FX is simple said not an DX9 card! |
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Oh also prepare to never be able to run DX9, to slow since the card is actually UNABLE to run DX9. So you get a lame mix between DX8 and DX9. Hell...you get where you pay for! Actually, all GFFX cards are perfectly able to run DX9, and that of course includes Half-Life 2. They just don't do it very quickly, hence Nvidia's feverish "optimization" efforts and Valve's "mixed" rendering mode. You CAN run the game in straight DX9, which according to the benches released on the web reduces performance to around half of the equivalent ATi product. Still, it runs, if only slowly. problems they know they. But for now... the FX is simple said not an DX9 card! Well, it IS a DX9 card so there. Please get your facts straight. Thanks... |
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"Lenny" wrote in message ... Actually, all GFFX cards are perfectly able to run DX9, and that of course includes Half-Life 2. They just don't do it very quickly, hence Nvidia's feverish "optimization" efforts and Valve's "mixed" rendering mode. You CAN run the game in straight DX9, which according to the benches released on the web reduces performance to around half of the equivalent ATi product. Still, it runs, if only slowly. Maybe it's a "DX 9" card in the strictest sense, but it has the worst price/performance of any card in years. Face it, NVidia didn't count on developers rapidly shifting over to DX9. They thought they could build a DX8-9 transition card, one that would beat ATI in benchmarks (and it does, in DX 8). But people don't buy 400 dollar graphics cards just for current games, they expect the card to be good in 2 years. Needless to say, NVidia fooled alot of people. The only thing I have learned by this how dumb it is to buy high-end computer hardware for "future proofing" your system. If you think about it, picking up a Radeon 9600 for around 110-120 bucks and upgrading in a year or two will cost you alot less than buying a 400 dollar card that gets outdated in 6 months or a year when then whole industry paradigm shifts. NVidia isn't going to be fooling me twice. Aside from 4XAA and 8Xanisotropic filtering, the FX 5900 is a paperweight. And frankly I think the Radeon's antialiasing looks better, so it's going to be back to ATI with me. NVidia just isn't going to be able to fix this problem. |
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Baah, put the mouse down and step away from the computer before you hurt
yourself. The only person screwing Nvidia users is NVIDIA. They made the decision to not stick to standards, they told end users card was perfect DX9 when it isnt, Valve wasted a bunch of extra time and manpower and money (which you can bet will be passed on to all who buy the game) trying to solve Nvidia's screwup which they should not have to do in the first place and you then have the NERVE to say Valve is screwing you. Look to who made the chip on your card that cant do things the standard way and needs special handling just to match standards version. |
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"Roger Squires" wrote:
ATI and HL2 team has screwed nvidia. Yes, and Carmack and Nvidia did precisely the same thing with the early Doom3 benchmarks. Remember those, when it was shown 'conclusively' that the 5800 beat the 9800 hands down? The wind out of the 5800 was so strong that the testers with Ati cards couldn't even come in at first when the benchmark started. Even Carmack got suspicious of all the Nvidia tweaking surrounding those carefully controlled benchmarking sessions. 'Ultrashadow' my ass! After the benchmark tests, there was a pajama party held for the VIP where people from Nvidia would make shadowpuppet theatre with flashlights and hands. The crowd favorite shadow was the alligator. What goes around comes around, Nvidia's bad karma has caught up with them. rms Just wait. GeForce6 Blowtorch will be the best **** you'll ever see. |
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