ATi 7000 series delayed till Q1 2012

[Muppet]

Originally Posted by Shamrock

I think I will. Rollo alone has convinced me to move away from NVidia. Tell that to your focus group, considering I have had ONE ATi card (Rage II) since 1998. I have used NV since TNT days. My next card will be an AMD 7000 series card.

Despite what some people say in both camps, you can't go wrong with either ATI or Nvidia. They both make great hardware.

[Rollo]

Originally Posted by Shamrock

I think I will. Rollo alone has convinced me to move away from NVidia. Tell that to your focus group, considering I have had ONE ATi card (Rage II) since 1998. I have used NV since TNT days. My next card will be an AMD 7000 series card.

I say "Enjoy the ATi card, not like they're "bad"".

[Shamrock]

Whoops, forgot to mention...

Originally Posted by ME!

This message is hidden because Rollo is on your ignore list.

[Roadhog]

Originally Posted by zer0

but ATi has texture bug in RAGE.

Yeah, the bug is RAGE.

[Ninja Prime]

Originally Posted by zer0

but ATi has texture bug in RAGE.

Damn, then you won't be able to play one of the most medicore games of the year!

[Rollo]

Originally Posted by zer0

but ATi has texture bug in RAGE.

Carmack, like most devs, works more closely with the TWIMTBP team. ATi hads never had the funds to lend developers programmers and QA people like NVIDIA does, so their fixes are reactive rather than proactive.

I still say ATi's cards themselves are good, they just trail in the extras like physx, 3d, TWIMTBP.

[Rollo]

Originally Posted by Ninja Prime

Damn, then you won't be able to play one of the most medicore games of the year!

http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/rage

Amazingly enough, the critics disagree with you NP.

I like Rage, looks great at 57X10 and large textures on my rig.

[Ninja Prime]

Originally Posted by Rollo

http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/rage

Amazingly enough, the critics disagree with you NP.

I like Rage, looks great at 57X10 and large textures on my rig.

79/100 on metacritic makes a great game then? Considering half of the high reviews on any big release are bought, thats pretty terrible.

[Ninja Prime]

Originally Posted by zer0

is deux ex better than rage? gameplay wise?

By a mile.

[Rollo]

Originally Posted by Ninja Prime

79/100 on metacritic makes a great game then? Considering half of the high reviews on any big release are bought, thats pretty terrible.

Ah yes, the old "the reviewers are paid!" dodge. As usual without any proof, but we should just believe you because you NEVER post any FUD right?

I like RAGE, and 20 of the 28 reviews metacritic found did as well.

[nekrosoft13]

Originally Posted by zer0

is deux ex better than rage? gameplay wise?

I like the deus ex universe better, both are good games, but different.

neither is a true RPG, but deus ex has more RPG elements.

[Ninja Prime]

Originally Posted by Rollo

Carmack, like most devs, works more closely with the TWIMTBP team. ATi hads never had the funds to lend developers programmers and QA people like NVIDIA does, so their fixes are reactive rather than proactive.

I still say ATi's cards themselves are good, they just trail in the extras like physx, 3d, TWIMTBP.

You're completely off, btw. Hows physx on Rage? What, it doesn't use it? LOL.

The reason it has transcoding and works better on NV is that carmack originally had a raytracing server farm running on CUDA when it was all the rage to talk about CUDA and GPGPU. Later he found out it was such a PITA that he went back to x86 core farms. However, by that point they had the transcoding algorithm already done for their server farms and had been working the ins and outs of CUDA NV designs for over a year. Has nothing to do with "we worked better with too long acronym team."