any weight to this?

[TKS]

Just found this <A HREF="http://www.tomshardware.com/technews/index.html#025627" target="_new">here...</A> is there anything behind this (id software article)? What do you guys think? <A HREF="http://speedycpu.dyndns.org/opt/" target="_new">Here's</A> where they got it from. I dunno. Sounds kinda fishy to me...but then again you never know.

<b><i>Nvidia,</i> the way it's meant to be benchmarked.</b>

 

[ufo_warviper]

The article questions idsoftware as an Intel coconspirator. In one extrem case scenario, John Carmack didn't feel that optimizing further for the AMD Classic Athlon wasn't neccessary or too time consuming. At another extreme, one can point out potential flaws or "Nvidia-like" optimizations inside the DLL's that reduce image qualityy. I would have to investigate further before I acame up with valid info.

My OS features preemptive multitasking, a fully interactive command line, & support for 640K of RAM!

 

[eden]

When running off hardware acceleration, the CPU should have no bearing on visual quality, ESPECIALLY if we are using SSE.

I could be wrong, but I know that even if the SSE modules were not too well programmed, they should revert to the standard rendering, under hardware and CPU/GPU, where there should be the normal current Athlon+GFX card visual result.

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