nVidia F*cked

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"The Robot" wrote in message
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Is Gabe a babe? :-)

So what? Surely Nvidia will release new drivers to optimize Half-Life 2
?

The Robot wrote:
| http://www20.tomshardware.com/busine...911/index.html

So what? Surely Nvidia will release new drivers to optimize Half-Life 2
?

Excellent, we all look forward to unlimited frame rates from an FX5200. Not.

Out of interest, what sort of improvment do you expect to see from this
driver rewrite? 10%, 30%, 200%?

I eagerly await your answer.

I'm not using an FX 5200

The Robot wrote:
|| So what? Surely Nvidia will release new drivers to optimize
|| Half-Life 2 ?
|
| Excellent, we all look forward to unlimited frame rates from an
| FX5200. Not.
|
| Out of interest, what sort of improvment do you expect to see from
| this driver rewrite? 10%, 30%, 200%?
|
| I eagerly await your answer.

NVIDIA statement: The Optimizations for Half-Life 2 shaders are in the
50 series of drivers which we made available to reviewers on Monday
[Sept. 8, 2003]. Any Half-Life 2 comparison based on the 45 series
driver are invalid. NVIDIA 50 series of drivers will be available well
before the release of Half-Life 2

Anyway, ATI might be faster, but since HL2 will be a PTP game (pay to play)
based on a monthly subscription like some others, how popular will it get ?
and for how long? 5 minutes ? Mosy gamers out there won't ditch some $20 or
$30 a month to play a game when tons others are out there for free.
This might not be relevant but I think they are basing this on a game that
will certainly not reach 1/2 of HL1's popularity due to be ptp.

JC

"Lee Marsh" wrote in message
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NVIDIA statement: The Optimizations for Half-Life 2 shaders are in the
50 series of drivers which we made available to reviewers on Monday
[Sept. 8, 2003]. Any Half-Life 2 comparison based on the 45 series
driver are invalid. NVIDIA 50 series of drivers will be available well
before the release of Half-Life 2

Yeah you're right. Half Life 2 won't be anything special.

At best they might sell 10 copies.

Sorry for being so stupid.

Starting to wish I got that ATI 9800 Pro card now thats for sure.

The Robot wrote:
| Right, so everytime a new DX9 game comes out, we have to wait for new
| drivers optimised for that game???
|
| If you read the article, Valve expect the nVidia performance to be
| reflected in all games.

Right, so everytime a new DX9 game comes out, we have to wait for new
drivers optimised for that game???

If you read the article, Valve expect the nVidia performance to be reflected
in all games.

"Lee Marsh" wrote in message
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NVIDIA statement: The Optimizations for Half-Life 2 shaders are in the
50 series of drivers which we made available to reviewers on Monday
[Sept. 8, 2003]. Any Half-Life 2 comparison based on the 45 series
driver are invalid. NVIDIA 50 series of drivers will be available well
before the release of Half-Life 2