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EA and NVIDIA in Alliance

Posted by michael on from the unholy-pair dept.

Deepak Jois writes "Arstechnica is reporting that EA and NVIDIA have entered into a pact to promote each other. Among other things it also means EA will support games on all PC platforms featuring NVIDIA hardware. Also check this link to the press release."

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  1. Here's a good idea... by swordboy · · Score: 3, Funny

    nVidia should write a proprietary API for their video chips. And then they could pay EA to release hardware specific products...

    I think that "Glide" would be a good name for this API.

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  2. Wait a... by Martigan80 · · Score: 3, Funny

    By exclusively adopting NVIDIA hardware for their worldwide studios, EA is escalating the creative palette of its 3D artists and programmers

    I thought a palette was a piece of wood or something that had a range of colors, so how can a creative palette be obtained from using only one gfx card?

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  3. Does this mean.... by Dutchmaan · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...that EA's new slogan will be "Challenge Everything... except nVidia"

  4. Re: The point. by BabyDave · · Score: 4, Funny
    After having a horrible experience trying to get a darn kernel driver working with an Nvidia card (which has been sitting in a box for a year now) I'm now exclusively ATI.

    Try taking the card out of the box and plugging it into the PC.

    HTH