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That was in reference to the cards covered by the link (the NV38 and kin) not the spring Nvidia card (aka NV40).

Speaking of which: http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/20031023/index.html It's not the NV40, it's the fall refresh part. The NV38 they're calling it. I like how they can take the same design, add faster memory, overclock it and call it a new product. I see they went back to the leafblower...

In a word: bullshit. I've gone over this a few times in these forums. The 8500 was an all new design (from the ground up) for ATI. As such it had a number of bad flaws that held it back from the levels ATI had wanted it to perform at. It's a normal issue with a chip that is an all new design and...

LOL. I guess it's all OK to bash the drivers when you aren't on the side being bashed. I remember when the 8500 was released and ATI did stupid shit with the driver to boost FPS because there were some pretty big flaws in the 8500s design. All the Nvidia fans loved to slam ATI for that and...

I wouldn't go expecting too much from the DX9.1 release for the GFFX. It's problems are not driver related nor DirectX related they are hardware related. There's probably a little more power in the cards but the basic design has flaws. DX9.1 is obviously intended for whatever Nvidia is planning...

It's definitely a shader. A very well done shader, but still just a shader. In fact the shader code for it is in the leaked source code. I would like to see how it'll look on DX7 and DX6 cards.

The price of eggs in China is way to high I say! And the source code for HL2 already has OpenGL in it. It looks like they were planning on adding an OpenGL 2.0 renderer whenever that gets ratified (there are no GL shaders in the code though). Of course now that the code is out there it...

The original Hitman was in fact the game that coined the term "rag doll" for the actions the enemies performed when they were shot. It was the first game to implement that sort of thing. Unrealistic but still cool for it's time. I liked the way you could drag the bodies around afterward though. :p

Just a note here: Max Payne 2 just got released and it is mouth wateringly close to those near fully destructible levels I was talking about (and it uses the same physics engine as HL2). Superb game!

I believe this is officially the longest thread I have ever started in any forum now. :p

I have high hopes for Doom 3 because I hear that Id hired a professional writer to do the story and a guy whose specialty is physics models. I think it'll be a cool game but to be honest I am more looking forward to what other developers and modders will do with the engine (and it'll be out for...

I don't mean to pee in anyone's pool here but the source is out there. I have scanned the files that came with the ANON release and compiled my own. So far as the real release is concerned it's clean. But the source being readily available means that anyone is free to trojan or infect the...

Sounds like the same way I feel with Valve. Id really just makes great technology demos that showcase their latest engine technology, it's the licensees that usually do the truly amazing stuff. Valve has shipped one (1) real game in all of it's life as a developer and continues to shuck...

Can we just let this thread die please. It's old news and false besides.

As I was saying. That was damn near 2 years ago! And that was shown after only 2 years of work. A lot has changed since the alpha was leaked. Anyone who will judge the game by that is a fool. Besides the E3 demo that year was mainly to show off some of the processes they were using for the...