Just to put a few ideas to you,
1. Nvidia's driver's are open to everyone, and if they go out of business, yes it could happen, there is not telling if they will make them public. This is really not a big deal as people are already very good at modifing detonators, but if Nvidia goes bye bye and a new OS comes out, consider the amount of support for new drivers to be considerably less.
2. If your using the card you bought in 4 years, I hope you enjoy classic gaming bc thats all you will be doing with it. The GF4mx line are renowned for being the most a$$ tastic cards around today. They have little to no chance of playing Doom3 or better games acceptably. Carmack has been a big supported of ATI since the 8500 release, and just demo'd Doom3 on 9700's this last weekend at QuakeCon. For every user that complain about Ati drivers there are plenty of others who never have a problem, makes you wonder.
Re:Tell that to 3Dfx.
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It would be really interresting to get an inside story of the 3dfx downfall. It was the company the really made what we have today possible. I would hate to imagine what kind of games we would be playing if it had not been for them. To me, it just seemed like a series of bad management decisions that lead to their downfall. It the hardware market, bad management will put you out of business over night.
Few things - The V2 kicked the day lights out of the TnT and in many cases the TnT2 for real gaming. Back in the day hardcore gamers could care less about 32 bit at 30 fps, we wanted 16 bit at 85+ fps. Not until the Geforce's did 32 bit become an everyday thing.
- The V3 was one of the best selling cards of all time up to that point. It set more records than almost anything? Why, because it was the a single card solution that support Glide. 3dfx had enough games that looked much better at the time on Glide than D3D. The V3 was also not a complete slouch in the speed department.
- The V5 was just out way to late, it really should have come when the V3 came. It still had some of the best AA to this day, but it could not stand up against a real GPU.
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Just to put a few ideas to you, 1. Nvidia's driver's are open to everyone, and if they go out of business, yes it could happen, there is not telling if they will make them public. This is really not a big deal as people are already very good at modifing detonators, but if Nvidia goes bye bye and a new OS comes out, consider the amount of support for new drivers to be considerably less. 2. If your using the card you bought in 4 years, I hope you enjoy classic gaming bc thats all you will be doing with it. The GF4mx line are renowned for being the most a$$ tastic cards around today. They have little to no chance of playing Doom3 or better games acceptably. Carmack has been a big supported of ATI since the 8500 release, and just demo'd Doom3 on 9700's this last weekend at QuakeCon. For every user that complain about Ati drivers there are plenty of others who never have a problem, makes you wonder.
It would be really interresting to get an inside story of the 3dfx downfall. It was the company the really made what we have today possible. I would hate to imagine what kind of games we would be playing if it had not been for them. To me, it just seemed like a series of bad management decisions that lead to their downfall. It the hardware market, bad management will put you out of business over night.
Few things - The V2 kicked the day lights out of the TnT and in many cases the TnT2 for real gaming. Back in the day hardcore gamers could care less about 32 bit at 30 fps, we wanted 16 bit at 85+ fps. Not until the Geforce's did 32 bit become an everyday thing.
- The V3 was one of the best selling cards of all time up to that point. It set more records than almost anything? Why, because it was the a single card solution that support Glide. 3dfx had enough games that looked much better at the time on Glide than D3D. The V3 was also not a complete slouch in the speed department.
- The V5 was just out way to late, it really should have come when the V3 came. It still had some of the best AA to this day, but it could not stand up against a real GPU.