Hey Everyone
My deepest regrets to all the Ati fanpeople out there. I can still remember the day that nVidia was caught optimising their driVers. It came as a shock to all of us nVidia fans, but we have learnt to live with this and we still try to hold our heads high. Now it seems as though Ati has also been caught in the poopy. Firslty buy a relatively simple hack you can change you new XT card to a pro card (don't all of you who spent the extra cash feel silly now :-( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/08/ati_r420_mod/
But there was worse to come. You thought Ati was quicker because it was a better products? Nope most probably just because it wasn't using full trilinear filtering. What!!!! I hear you say that cannot be?
I read the "little" Chat that Ati had on their website and when asked the simple question of "Will full trilinear filtering be allowed to be set in the drivers?"
The response was as follows "We try to keep the control panel as simple as possible (even as its complexity increases), and if the image quality is identical or better there doesn't seem to be a need to turn it off. However, if our users request otherwise and can demonstrate that it's worthwhile, we would consider adding an option to the control panel"
Come on firstly they are acknowledging that there is no way at the moment that you can set it yourself and secondly they don't want to confuse poor ati user's with a com-pli-cated menu system. So they are calling you idiots as well.
Don't worry we have a support structure in place and now it will just be co-habited by Ati and nVidia fans.
Cheers Derth
My deepest regrets to all the Ati fanpeople out there. I can still remember the day that nVidia was caught optimising their driVers. It came as a shock to all of us nVidia fans, but we have learnt to live with this and we still try to hold our heads high. Now it seems as though Ati has also been caught in the poopy. Firslty buy a relatively simple hack you can change you new XT card to a pro card (don't all of you who spent the extra cash feel silly now :-( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/08/ati_r420_mod/
But there was worse to come. You thought Ati was quicker because it was a better products? Nope most probably just because it wasn't using full trilinear filtering. What!!!! I hear you say that cannot be?
I read the "little" Chat that Ati had on their website and when asked the simple question of "Will full trilinear filtering be allowed to be set in the drivers?"
The response was as follows "We try to keep the control panel as simple as possible (even as its complexity increases), and if the image quality is identical or better there doesn't seem to be a need to turn it off. However, if our users request otherwise and can demonstrate that it's worthwhile, we would consider adding an option to the control panel"
Come on firstly they are acknowledging that there is no way at the moment that you can set it yourself and secondly they don't want to confuse poor ati user's with a com-pli-cated menu system. So they are calling you idiots as well.
Don't worry we have a support structure in place and now it will just be co-habited by Ati and nVidia fans.
Cheers Derth
but I think both sides aren't smelling like roses, but at least Nvidia is working on it. ATi took a wrong step a very wrong step which they should have know what happened to Nvidia's market when nV did that.
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