NV38 seals Nvidia's coffin
Posted by: Newsfactory on: 10/04/2003 08:36 PM [ Print | 28 comment(s) ] · 11765 views
Just spotted this piece of news over at Gearbox Software's forum.
Nvidia's NV38 (along with the rest of the FX series) has been dubbed as a substandard card by team dx. This means that DX will not include NV in it's developement range for directx10. Team DX made the decision "as a favor to the graphics industry". Team DX claims that NV violated their partnership agreement by changing the DX9 code with their latest set of drivers as caught by Xbit labs recently. This violates the licensing agreement and conpromises DX's quality in order to make it seem as if ATi and NV cards alike display the same image quality (which would be really bad in this case).
This can only be fixed by reinstalling dx9b. So by all means, Do Not Download Detonator 50 Drivers!!! Along with this, NV has been caught cheating on benchmarks as they usually do over at Anandtech . Notice that all of the realworld benchmarks perform better on ATi, yet all synthetic benchmarks perform better by a large margin on NV hardware. "These violations are inexcusable" said a DX employee, and I'd have to agree. So without the inside drive on DX10, NV will not be able to even optimize their cards as ATi can and will probably fall into bankruptsy just as 3dfx did before them...
Gearbox Software
Nvidia's NV38 (along with the rest of the FX series) has been dubbed as a substandard card by team dx. This means that DX will not include NV in it's developement range for directx10. Team DX made the decision "as a favor to the graphics industry". Team DX claims that NV violated their partnership agreement by changing the DX9 code with their latest set of drivers as caught by Xbit labs recently. This violates the licensing agreement and conpromises DX's quality in order to make it seem as if ATi and NV cards alike display the same image quality (which would be really bad in this case).
This can only be fixed by reinstalling dx9b. So by all means, Do Not Download Detonator 50 Drivers!!! Along with this, NV has been caught cheating on benchmarks as they usually do over at Anandtech . Notice that all of the realworld benchmarks perform better on ATi, yet all synthetic benchmarks perform better by a large margin on NV hardware. "These violations are inexcusable" said a DX employee, and I'd have to agree. So without the inside drive on DX10, NV will not be able to even optimize their cards as ATi can and will probably fall into bankruptsy just as 3dfx did before them...
Gearbox Software
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MANGRAVY Unregistered |
#47951 Posted on: 10/05/2003 10:39 AM
Score to you for keeping score 
Keep up the fine work! |
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JemyM Senior Member Posts: 130 Joined: 2003-02-13 |
#47955 Posted on: 10/05/2003 02:20 PM
It gave me a great laugh as well... |
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MagamiAKO Unregistered |
#47960 Posted on: 10/05/2003 04:19 PM
I agree with his post, somewhat. But just for the record, there are rumours that Intel will be using x86-64 
Otherwise, I agree. Every company makes some duds at one point. Just look at Via. They not only made considerable amounts of duds (KT133, KT266, they had to make A revisions), but people still buy them, and apparently it's rumoured their Athlon 64 chipset is better than NF3. Go figure |
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