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ATi with the new, NVIDIA with the old.

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yes but this brings up a very good point, that is nvidia seem ot have a far far superior relationship with pc devs.
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Its all about the Benjamins, literally, they pay dev's to favour them, TWIMTBP is nothing more than money thrown around.

I really don't know why AMD, even more so with deep pockets for lawyers, don't sue them for anti competitive practices.

Its one thing paying dev's to do extra optimisation for them, its entirely another to have them do things like actively attempt to stop the competitive using AA(like with Batman, which the demo and final game had altered versions for simply stopping ATi using AA without a workaround).
Its also rather irritating that the "physx" stuff in game, is pathetic and we've seen in games for years tbh, minor damage to the surroundings, fog. They've basically paid the dev's to remove basic crap we've had in games for years, rewrite it so its overly complex in design so runs slowly on anything but Nvidia hardware, and release it as a feature. Not sure its helping the PC gaming market when dev's are forced to "choose sides" and actively harm half of their target audience with worse performance for a little cash from the other side.

Whats even worse now is, AMD have the money/cash available to crush Nvidia's TWIMTBP program, if they choose to do so, and Intel have never had a problem with anti competitive practices, I can see their "help" to dev's dwarfing whatever Nvidia can provide also, making it even harder for dev's to just make the best damn game they can. They are making the game with a goal to sabotaging performance for all sides but one, rather than just focusing on what they want to do.

I also won't be surprised if a lot of current DX10 games got dx10.1/11 patches when Nvidia has hardware, which will likely be GT300 not these BS cards.

The 4770 was an almost full speed product, these are, well, they have what 1/5th of the shading power of their 280GTX, making them strictly low end, and thats the highest of their 40nm models, they also have 24 and 12 shader versions which are, just, pitiful. Intergrated level power basically.

But it does show the talk of no trouble with 40nm is just horse poop, how long did these take to arrive from the paper launch of these months ago, let alone making cores 20 times the size.
 
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ATi seem to put more money into accelerating technology, NVIDIA into the back pockets of game developers. I don't really get it. Is it worth it to them anymore?

We are going massively off topic here so can we get back to old tech guys.
 
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