nVidia's "DX9" Foulplay ;)

Uhm, nVidia .. Nice try .. but no thanks

http://www.3dchipset.com/#351

[Andrew Hruska]

We all learned a valuable lesson:

3dfx ownz! Before nvidiot, the master of CHEATING. Wanna Cheat? http://www.nvidia.com

Muhahahaha!

You guys realise Intel also walked out of DX 9.0 specification? Microsoft asked for a whole lot from these vendors. And most specifically Microsoft asked them to hand over there patents to there technology for years in advance.

I can see why Intel and Nvidia did not wish to do this.

Thats fine . but nVidia doing that and yet whining and complaining that everyone are ATi Biased is just plain annoying and unfit of a company of that size .

Originally Posted by chaosblade

Thats fine . but nVidia doing that and yet whining and complaining that everyone are ATi Biased is just plain annoying and unfit of a company of that size .

I dont think Nvidia has called anyone in paticular ATI biased. It has questioned some shader functions implemented by futuremark.

But they never called Valve bias. Actually a memory sent by Nvidia stated that they had no reason to believe Valve was being biased

[elty]

i think it is those nVidia fanboy whine everyone being bias, not nVidia itself.

[Viperx25]

This is both interesting and dissapointing ;p. I mean, like ChrisRay said, I can understand why Nvidia left the DX9 project. On the other hand, why Nvidia chose to implement DX9 the way it did is a bit puzzleing and dissapointing..

[D.D.]

Originally Posted by warp2search

EIDOS Interactive, the publisher for Tomb Raider:
Angel of Darkness issued a patch a couple of weeks ago for the game which happened to include a way to use the game as a DX9 benchmark. Since it shows NVIDIA hardware performing slower than ATI, EIDOS has pulled it down. Remember, this is a "Way it's meant to be played" game, which means NVIDIA has paid EIDOS marketing money. Keep in mind, that this patch improved performance on both ATI and NVIDIA hardware. Here's a bs statement from EIDOS Europe:

I find this little bit of news rather interesting.

What are your takes on this issue?

PS: Admins, feel free to move this post if you feel it belongs more in "ATi vs Nvidia" than in this thread but I feel it has relevance to both....

Well they kinda paid for this game's production .. so nVidia can do what ever they want .. but thats still a dirty thing to do to keep from ATi users to run this game in a better manner .

[Kane]

They'll probs just rerelease the patch without hte benchmark app.

[D.D.]

just so nvidia can hide their dx9 incompetence more...sigh

[elty]

next patch will probably include unnecessary overhead for ATI cards.