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NVidia Recommended Graphics Card For Doom 3

post #1 of 12
3/2/04 at 2:18pm
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Interesting that Alienware, which is a gaming system company (mainly) chose the ATI over the Nvidia.

http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl...19&mode=thread
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post #2 of 12
3/2/04 at 2:28pm
that is cause Nvidia doesnt have a working good DX9 card. ATI does.
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post #3 of 12
3/2/04 at 2:34pm
Nvidia can get Recomended By whoever they want they will never be requiered or better than ATI. At least not for a windows system Linux may be a different story as far as drivers go.
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post #4 of 12
3/2/04 at 2:35pm
that is because most games developers seems to want to follow the rather poor dx9 standard, instead of the much better nvidia one.
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post #5 of 12
3/2/04 at 2:40pm
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Originally Posted by harkon
that is because most games developers seems to want to follow the rather poor dx9 standard, instead of the much better nvidia one.
Thank you for stating the truth and saving me the time.

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post #6 of 12
3/2/04 at 3:22pm
I think saying that any company has the best DooM 3 GPU is premature at this point. By the time DooM comes out there will be a whole NEW set of video cards, and depending on the relative performance gain, either company could end up with the best DooM 3 video card.

Wouldn't it be embarrasing to Id Software if shortly before DooM 3 is released, ATI's new card comes out and outperforms nVidia's new card in DooM 3 by 50%? Don't laugh, it could happen; just look at how slow nVidia cards run Half-Life 2 at present.

EDIT: Oh yeah, and Alienware chooses the video card for their laptops by what is the fastest available at the time. And guess what? The Radeon 9600 Pro mobility is faster than any of the current nVidia solutions. So Alienware chose it.

Alienware has put nVidia chipsets into the a51m before, when they were the fastest. In the future they might do it again if they're the fastest again. But for the short term, ATI's got the mobile game in the bag; Alienware is upgrading to the Radeon 9700 Mobility, not an nVidia part.
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post #7 of 12
3/2/04 at 4:42pm
This is good to hear, I mean that it even runs it well is good new. I know that ATI out perfomrs Nvidia today. But I promised myself I would never dump another penny into an ATI card. I was burned three times with ATI, first was a Rage IIC Pro junker, the next two were ALL-IN-Wonders, if you have never beat your head over one of those your lucky.

So I am at the mercy of whatever Nvida supplies.
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post #8 of 12
3/2/04 at 5:17pm
I've had 2 all-in-wonder and they worked great In fact thats all i wil put into my desktops now because I love the tv tuner and PVR options I use my all-in-wonder 8500DV to make DVD's from VHS tapes. I can also play my XBOX ans PS2 throught the ALL-IN-WONDER if I want to. I Have never had a seconds troulb ewitht ehm on top of that they have run all my games great.
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post #9 of 12
3/2/04 at 5:22pm

new benchmarks

im sure when half life and doom 3 come out ......a benchamark will come out using the doom 3 engine.......then we can see how well both video card companies do.......i wouldnt just assume the nvidia is going to take the crown in that area.......lets just wait and see
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post #10 of 12
3/2/04 at 7:10pm
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Originally Posted by Braingoo
I've had 2 all-in-wonder and they worked great In fact thats all i wil put into my desktops now because I love the tv tuner and PVR options I use my all-in-wonder 8500DV to make DVD's from VHS tapes. I can also play my XBOX ans PS2 throught the ALL-IN-WONDER if I want to. I Have never had a seconds troulb ewitht ehm on top of that they have run all my games great.

I am glad you had a good expierence, I could never get the thing to perform very well, I think I stopped caring about 50 driver revs in and just switched to Voodoo at the time.
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post #11 of 12
3/2/04 at 7:16pm
Thats funny I had the voodoo 3500 with the tv tuner it was crap and then I swiched to ATI! Not that all voodoo was crap I had the last card tehy made the 5000 and it was great fo tis time! It was the first card I ever saw that you needed to lug into the power supply and I had to mod my case to get the thing in! That sucker was huge!
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post #12 of 12
3/2/04 at 7:24pm
nVidia cards have always beaten ATI cards when used with OpenGL, so it's really no suprise that nVidia was chosen for Doom 3.

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Originally Posted by harkon
that is because most games developers seems to want to follow the rather poor dx9 standard, instead of the much better nvidia one.
Are you saying that OpenGL is a better platform than DX9? I am not so sure about that...
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