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Carmack on Doom 3 Video Cards
mr_sheel writes "According to a Gamespy interview with John Carmack, Carmack says what he thinks about the video cards with Doom3: ATI Radeon 8500 is a better card, with a nicer fragment path, while NVidia still consistently runs faster due to better drivers. And of course, the GeForce SDR cards will not be "fast enough to play the game properly unless you run at 320x240 or so." And in a ShackNews interview with Carmack, he says that Doom 3 at E3 was only running at medium quality... wow."
So some hotshot Ferrari-drivin' game developer who makes more money than God likes to buy video cards every week to compare 'em?
Wrong John from ID software. Romero had the Ferrari, not Carmack, and it may still be for sale, for all we know. Would you like to be that hot-shot?
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One GREAT thing about Doom III, which really hasnt been done to this level yet, is that all of the scenes in the game (everything you see, period) is rendered in realtime. No more CGI videos, no more pre-recorded game scenes, its all done by your GPU. The hardware is finally getting to where games can do this and have astounding quality. I for one will NOT miss watching fuzzy videos that cut you away from the actual game, all while ruining the interactive feeling. To those complaining about having to buy a decent video card to play, thats how the world works my friend. Remember having to upgrade to a 486 to get in on the doom craze? As the media evolves, so must the equipment. This is a good thing for everyone, except bums. But hey, they're bums! :)
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Now, (off topic, i'd say a 48 degree angle), I have to completely agree with Carmack about the ATI/NVidia comparison. ATI would be a viable choice if only their drivers didnt suck so badly.. I swear, their entire software development team should be shitcanned, the software is such crap for everything they make, where the hardware is typically very good. The software design, the implementation, and the integration with the system is all garbage. Anyone with an ATI TV tuner card, or that had to use the old Rage Pro cards knows what I'm talking about. Hey maybe we'll get lucky and after DOOM III John will do some consulting for ATI. I'd imagine it would be a nice change of pace, and it sure would help out the 3D gaming industry. I can smell some new technology around the corner.
If ATI has some executives reading slashdot (haha, yeah right!), I'd actually purchase your products if they had NVIDIA caliber software. I know plenty of others who are in the same boat.
And (eek, another topic -- let me rant) to those of you who say "But the linux drivers are open source and great, and Nvidia's are closed source" -- who cares. Windows is THE gaming platform (Apple distant second), like it or not. Lets hope that the Linux gaming companies (err, now company) can make it worthwile for game developers to port to *NIX. That may be yet another way for ATI to sell some cards
I can see it already, Score: -1, Off Topic on multiple tangents.
Come on John, who makes a game that wont run smoothly on a GeForce? Just because you made Commander Keen doesn't mean you can pull this shit. If I have to get a new video card for this game, I'm gonna get the money from you.