The reason of the x800 series major defeat in doom3

[Schadenfroh]

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The conclusion is that ATi's hierarchicalZ doesn't work properly with Z-Pass and stencil-shadow operations. The R420 has much more to do because the HSR-features cannot remove hidden pixels very effective. And the same thing will propably happen with the Unreal 3 engine.

 

[mike828]

The x800 XT PE runs Doom 3 great if you get the 4.9 beta drivers. I first played the game with the 4.7 drivers and it was a little choppy. The image quality wasn't that impressive either. The I got the 4.9 beta drivers, and it runs and looks great now. It runs as smoothly as Far Cry.

The 6800 Ultra is still probably a little better. But, the framerate is capped at 60 FPS, so at 1024x768 thes cards probbaly run the game equally.

 

[Schadenfroh]

ATI's C4.9 beta results (sorta)

EDIT: damn jrun, wrong thread

 

[Schadenfroh]

^im interested in what becomes of this

 

[gururu]

Farcry= ATI
Doom3=Nvidia
HL2= tie breaker

 

[mrwxyz]

Originally posted by: gururu
Farcry= ATI
Doom3=Nvidia
HL2= tie breaker

HL2 = ATI

a 30% performance advantage i read somewhere....it was an official release or something
ill try to find the source

edit: found it here

"specifically stated that the ATI x800 was the card of choice amongst many of the testers, as it ran roughly about 30% faster than Nvidia's best cards"

 

[Schadenfroh]

is he saying a x800 non pro (if he has one, did not think they existed) is faster than the 6800 ultra? sorta like nvidia saying a 6800 is faster than a x800pro in the game?

 

[TStep]

Didn't see you posted this already, my bad on the repost, but anyway here is the article in English:

English

 

[Schadenfroh]

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