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dylman
11th September 2003, 20:17
http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NTE5

Not pretty reading if you're waiting for Half Life 2. :)
LawnGnome2005
11th September 2003, 21:45
Regarding the Half Life2 performance numbers that were published on the web, we believe these performance numbers are invalid because they do not use our Rel. 50 drivers. Engineering efforts on our Rel. 45 drivers stopped months ago in anticipation of Rel. 50. NVIDIA's optimizations for Half Life 2 and other new games are included in our Rel.50 drivers - which reviewers currently have a beta version of today. Rel. 50 is the best driver we've ever built - it includes significant optimizations for the highly-programmable GeForce FX architecture and includes feature and performance benefits for over 100 million NVIDIA GPU customers. http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NTIw

The 5900 may still run HL2 better than the ATI's. Just gotta wait for those 50s.
dylman
11th September 2003, 22:05
The HL2 benchmark is out at the end of the month. We'll all be able to judge for ourselves, rather than relying on partisan websites/press releases.

And those Detonator 50.xx drivers had better be written by God Himself if they're going to overcome that kind of performance gap without resorting to silently cutting image quality to boost frame rates...
Starbucks
12th September 2003, 00:04
HL2 is going to become a hardware benchmarking tool. ;)
Mr_007
12th September 2003, 17:00
Nice news!
laz
13th September 2003, 01:22
Originally posted by LawnGnome2005
http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NTIw

The 5900 may still run HL2 better than the ATI's. Just gotta wait for those 50s.


Hmm... and Where can I get the det 50.XX? Oh ya I CAN NOT!
So that is an invalid statment, and it just trying to cover their asses for such a shitty product.
No offence, but its true.

And NO DRIVER UPDATE will save the FX line of cards. It is HARDWARE based.
The Radeon 9700/9800's have something like 8 pixle shaders per pipeline, wile the FX's only have 4 pixel shaders per pipe.
And Pixel shaders are one of the main parts of HL2's graphical engine.

They will never get better, unless they go back to cheating... err "optimizations" in their drivers that kill IQ.

Nice to see another [H]er on this forum.