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We DONT NEED GPU SPEED, We DONT NEED CPU SPEED, WE WANT SOFTWARE!

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I remember the good old days of 486 and early pentiums when game revolution took place and the games were more and more candyes for the eyes unlike those for the 386's.
Those days the software had to adopt to the hardware. Now, what do we have, hardware hardware, mindblowing congifurations and everyone is upgrading all the time, that became an opsession, and those stupid benchmarks still use Q3 and UT, games 2 years old. I am sink of all the posts: "Battle of the ram, Battle of the GPU's, NVidia VS 3dfx" Phuck.
While Nvidia gets richer every day and other hardware manifactures.
How can you say : I got tyred of my GTS geforce2, it is time for an upgrade ?! arrgh, I am too revolted to continue, please post some of your oppinions!

 
P.s. Excuse my bad English and the typing errors, It's 6am here, I just got up with this idea and I had to present it to you
 
People who bought the GF 256 SDR, then the GF 256 DDR, then the GF GTS 32, then the GTS Ultra, and are now scrambling to buy GF3s are the worst 😉
 
I think most people here agree with you, but we really don't have much say in the optimization of programs.

I think that most games are not optimized much at all (oh sure, some might have SSE, or 3DNow!, but I mean REAL optimization, going down to the assembly language. why is it we don't see that kind of optimization? becuase it's time consuming, and there are deadlines.

my advice? don't buy the latest and greatest hardware, stick to something behind the curve. not only will you spend less, you'll make less wrong decisions, and also you'll be one more person that programmers have to think about when they write their programs.
 
I think that software should be optimized and upgraded more frequently so that the hardware can be fully taken advantage of at the present time and make hardware have a longer life.

Much like console games and consoles.
 
It is not so simple,
the bought in the same time, Celeron 300 > then Celeron 300a > Then PIII 500 > then p III on 700 > then Duron 600-700 > Then Tbird 1gh > Then tbird on 1,2 GH
and now they are panicking and eagrly awaiting the Tbird on 1,3 to upgrade from their 1,2 gh 🙂

 
Well, yea. I have a Geforce 256 right not and there still arent any new games that require it. The only thing that I know of that can slow this thing down at 1024x768 is 2dmark2k1. But 2dmark2k1 is the thing which compells me to buy a new graphics card. When something can slow down your system, that slowing down makes you feel the need to make it so you dont get that slowing down. I myself plan on retiring this ol 14 month old graphics card in a month or so and replacing with Radeon. It takes time to adapt programs to hardware now though. Things are so complex that programmers are probably having a very hard time. The P4 and the Geforce 3 are in similar situations waiting for optimizations.
 
but just think Syborg1211 of how fast your computer would be if software was truly optimized for your CPU and video card? the T&L of your CPU would be slightly faster, the games though would be utilizing the T&l on your video card as much as possible. Things like that. you would see either a large speed increase, or an increase in polygon count/effective fillrate!
 
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