[citation][nom]raidur[/nom]I still see advances in 4xxx cards here and there. Do you guys want them to concentrate more on the 4xxx & 3xxx series cards and older games (which are, or likely are already optimized) or should they put their time towards relevance?I do agree I wish they would spend all their time improving 4890 crossfire, however that is selfish. I'd prefer they stick to relevance. Software can only go so far.I can't comment about the bad codecs and super old games though as I have no experience with the 5 series yet. Haven't had issues on the HD4k though.[/citation]
New generations of cards come out every what? 8 months? Let's be generous and say each years. We are not talking about consoles that come out with a new generation each 4 years or more. So what really happens by what they are doing is, they advertise, say the 4890 (it's the card I have, did a mistake in my previous post), to be able to run, say S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Call of Pripyat, at it's best, but what really happen is that it runs like shit on it. After the said 8 months they managed to boost the performances of the 4890 with CoP of about 6%, which is not acceptable at all. Some % are still needed, and most likely possible to obtain by further optimizing the code. But since the new generation is out, well, no luck, we don't see any more improvements. So we're stuck with a card that add premise, but don't fulfill it. That kind of thing is very frequent on the ATI side.
And I still don't understand how so much people can bash game makers for lack of optimization, but can't realize driver makers have a part to play in it too. nVidia could also be blamed for dropping fast their older lines of cards in term of driver optimization, but they are still way better than ATI at it. I've had plenty of cards from both companies, and I often read the drivers release notes. I still saw improvements in the notes for the 8800gt line about 10 months ago. And I never had any problems with older games with nVidia. Everything that is 16bit or more, old or not, works fine.
Ask all the gamers what they think about relevance? Who buy a PC each year? When you pay 1000$ and more for a computer, you like it to last at least the life cycle of a console, without having to do big sacrifices in terms of graphical settings. And what needs more optimization? The new beats that just came out that can eat anything on the marker anyway, or the aging one that needs some juice to keep up in the race? I think the answer is clear.
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