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ATI & Nvidia Duke It Out In New Gaming War

Posted by Hemos on from the who's-bringing-the-heavy-artillery dept.

geek_on_a_stick writes "I found this PC World article about ATI and Nvidia battling it out over paper specs on their graphics cards. Apparently ATI's next board will support pixel shader 1.4, while Nvidia's GeForce3 will only go up to ps 1.3. The bigger issue is that developers will have to choose which board they want to develop games for, or, write the code twice--one set for each board. Does this mean that future games will be hardware specific?"

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  1. linux and xwindows! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ok guys, maybe some of you can advise me. I'm sick of my ATI r128 card, the screen corruption and flicker in xwindows is terrible, so I'm looking for something new. I want (in X) good performance, plus tv out with full screen acceleration for playing emulators and watching dvd on my tv. X just shows a black screen when my tv lead is connected! So I have to unplug it everytime I want to run X, which is a pita. So I come to the conclusion that ati linux drivers suck.. but what else is there? Will nvidia gf3+proprietory drivers do what I want? I know ati drivers are open source but really, whats the point? No one can understand them without access to the hardware docs.

  2. first fist by mod+you+later · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first fist is when you fist someone fist in quake 3 arena

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    i was angry:1 with:2 my:4 friend - i told:3 4 wrath:5, 4 5 did end.
    i was 1 2 4 foe i 3 it not 4 5 did grow
    1. Re:first fist by gamorck · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Sorry Trollboy - I actually got a legitimate FP in before you could say something stupid. Thanks for playing!

      Gam
      "Flame at Will"

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      I love idealists not because I am one, but because they make life bearable for pragmatists such as myself.
  3. I doubt it... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I doubt that Bobby is a fool who needs a life.