Nvidia does not support D3D? What do you guys make of this?

[martysweb]

You know its funny every thing I have read about the GF based cards all say the same thing.And that is there a D3D based card with support for open gl.So if anything there running a open gl wraper..They dont run open gl as good as a Voodoo based card does.The Voodoo card is a glide/open gl based card with support for D3D.GF cards are 100% D3D and about 60% open gl.Voodoo cards are 100% open gl/glide and about 60% D3D...

 

[martysweb]

You know its funny every thing I have read about the GF based cards all say the same thing.And that is there a D3D based card with support for open gl.So if anything there running a open gl wraper..They dont run open gl as good as a Voodoo based card does.The Voodoo card is a glide/open gl based card with support for D3D.GF cards are 100% D3D and about 60% open gl.Voodoo cards are 100% open gl/glide and about 60% D3D...

 

[Gstanfor]

<< They dont run open gl as good as a Voodoo based card does >>



you have to be joking. nVidia's OpenGL implementation is second to nobody's in the consumer world, and pretty damn good in the pro world too.

3dfx on the other hand has the worst OpenGL of any of the commonly available cards. 3dfx's openGL is built on top of glide. 3dfx cards typically support just enough OpenGL to get Quake running. I've had a Voodoo4 in my system briefly, and it could not beat a GeForce MX in anything, not even glide games. It's performance in SoF was pitiful. I was using the latest Omega custom drivers for it.

Greg

 

[Mike Andrawes]

I have to step in here because this is just rediculous. OF COURSE the GeForce fully supports Direct3D and does so just as well as any card from ATI, Matrox, 3dfx, STMicro or anyone else he listed.

In fact, the GF3 is the only card out right now that is truly DX8 (and thus D3D 8) compliant thanks to its programmable vertex/pixel shaders.

 

[Rankor]

I was over at the neighborhood BB looking for HL: Blue Shift.

When I saw this guy talking to a salesperson. He was being told that in order to play the original HL: GotY Edition, he would have to BUY a new rig from them complete with extended warranty.

I couldn't help but butt-in, say that was bs and proceeded to give the guy my advice on upgrading. Before I knew it, there was a group of people listening to what I had to say and that included the salespeople. Some (of the salespeople) challenged my views but the normal Joes promptly told them to stfu. It was the funniest thing.

After 5 minutes, the guy who was about to spend $2100 on a pre-built rig (just to play HL) left with just HL: GotY Edition and some knowledge of some online sites (such as AT, Tom's) to do more research and of some online retailers (Mwave, NewEgg) to make those upgrade choices cheaper than retail.

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To keep this post on topic, I have a GF2 (semi-) Pro card and for a card that doesn't support d3d, it sure runs d3d games pretty damn well.

If someone at EB told me that, I'd probably sorta/kinda-listen but in actuality, I be laughing inside and eyeing the cute chick that just passed by.