a.) AA works on ATI cards in Batman
How about the AA modes that work perfectly fine on ATI cards that were locked out on purpose when Batman sees that the user is using an ATI card? You're not stupid, you knew what he meant when he asked you that question about whether nVidia owns AA.
Way to do something (and not for the first time) you routinely accuse others of, which is dodging the question. In fact, there are multiple threads where I've personally asked you questions and you ignored my post. And that's not counting the questions others have asked you over the years that you can't answer because it would shed a bad light on nVidia so you dodged the question.
b.) Who locked it out? The game developer?
There is no question in my mind and to anyone who is unbiased and can read between the lines that the developer did it at the behest of nVidia. Especially judging by how nVidia has locked out ATI on PhysX as an add-on companion to a main GPU. The PhysX thing was likely as retaliation for ATI not licensing PhysX but that's fine IMHO because it's part of business.
The Batman AA mode lockout is not fine because it hurts consumers. Hell, you and I both know perfectly well if this was ATI pulling these stunts you'd have made 300 posts about it screaming about how evil ATI is for working to lock out a somewhat common and standard AA mode that works perfectly fine on all modern hardware (performance hits aside).
This AA issue not working on ATI cards, while not illegal, is almost like Intel and their hush-hush deals with OEM's not to use AMD CPU's. Anyone who is not an idiot knows it happened even if there is very little solid evidence to prove this. There is a ton of circumstantial evidence.
c.) If NVIDIA wrote the code, then yes they probably do own it.
Not necessarily, when you do contract work, even if you're not getting paid directly by the company you are writing the code for, it usually has work agreements that the contracted work belongs to the company.
d.) Red glasses make certain facts hard to see.
Funny enough, green ones tint the world just as much if not more than red ones.
Why so much concern over my ontopic post and none whatsoever over the many offtopic posts?
Yeah, you never ever post off topic posts such as talking about corporate finances in a thread that was talking about the pros and cons of new GPU's or something like that right? I could pull other examples of you posting off topic stuff but I am too lazy.
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