Could it really have happened? Is it true?

[AndrewT]

Governemant side project, dealing with National Defense, Army and Navy. I'm not authorized to tell more than that.

About drugs... I never touched any in my life. When to have fun will require to use drugs I'll know my life hit an all time low point. But yeah, I don't care, people make their own choices.

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[AndrewT]

it's sad that I screwed up spelling government, but hey [-peep-] happens

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[HolyShiznit]

when there is more than one it's like they got their own support group so you have no chance. but there are also the lemmings a.k.a. sheep, they just follow whatever others do and believe it's the only (and right) way because others do it.

That's a constant in society, unfortunately, and I see it every election day 😱 .

 

[phial]

the Radeon 64mSDR (classic radeon) had a very old version of pixel shader technology built in, because ATI was tryin to meet the specs for dx8 when they developed the chip (radeon is a dx7 card, as you know).

unfortunately (or not, depending who you ask) microsoft changed the requirments for dx8 so pixel shaders never got used on the Radeon.
i can run a few tests in 3dmark2001 that use pixel shaders with that card, but i get like 10fps sinse the hardware doesnt fully support it.. i had a few other benchmark programs that used the older version of pixel shader, and it ran ok, but not well enough to actually be used in games IMO

 

[Ghostdog]

It was unfortunate, companies shouldn´t screw each other off like that. But hey, it´s Microsoft, what can you do. Ofcourse if you ask a completly biased person he would say this was a good thing.

<b>Andrew:</b> Is it a secret government project? . A government project, involved in national defence, employing drug-users?

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[hartski]

Someone said being disappointed with the GF4MX because it's a GF2MX...give it a little credit...call it GF2 1/2 MX.

Also how about the R9000 compared to the R8500. The R9000 is a dumbed down R8500, right? before I did some research I was almost sold to get the R9000 over my existing R8500.

How could big companies not have 2 divisions for console and PC? It's not an excuse that Nvidia was wroking on XBOX that's why they are still on TI4600...they make PC videocards primarily so why abandon it almost completely to finish a console project...unless they see there's bigger profit making GPUs for consoles than making vidcards for PCs...

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[AndrewT]

LOL no they're not pot-heads, but they said that they smoke it once a while. If they would show up at work buzzed.. it would be the end of the line for them. Our rules book pretty clear about drug use and everything else.

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[davepermen]

It's not an excuse that Nvidia was wroking on XBOX that's why they are still on TI4600

no, it isn't. the gfx-card (geforce for Xbox card 😀) is basically a mix between gf3 and gf4. technology advantage = 0. difficulty to produce = 0. it took them producing resources, yes, but no development or any other resources. it would not have stopped them from developing new, advanced gpu's. they just got problems with the gfFX. the design paper for it was finished since over half a year but they did not got a running version in .13 because of the new technology. thats what gave them troubles..

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[andyk]

Hi dave.
I was wondering if you could post some links to an in-depth analysis of the dx8 pixel shaders. You write that gf3 and gf4 don't have programmable pixel shaders. Where did you find this information?

Regards
Andreas