Nvidia IQ and destroyed for speed

[NocturnDragon]

http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=33688967

It looks like Nvidia is giving up quality for speed, (i know this is not something new, but when it's too much, it's too much)

[The PIT]

Funny I thought Nvidea and High IQ was a conflict of terms.

The images do look a bit orrid don't they.

[BuddMan]

Heh, I had to link it at HardForums. Check it out if you want.

[Mikko]

Now that must be a tricky situation for NVidia! No matter what they do now, there will always be some people complaining about their decisions.
If they decide to improve the image quality, it will not come without the cost in gaming performance and the gamers are their main customers after all...

[Kooldino]

"WOW" is all i can say.

[Indiana]

So what's new about this? nVidia kept lowering IQ in the last drivers to disguise the lower speed of their cards.
Those shots only show the (in such selected cases) drastic effects of the lowered rendering performance the nVidia drivers force on DX9 software, but don't forget about their also reduced LOD and Texture detail settings they used even before this.

The thing that's even worse than nVidias "approach" to their performance problem is, that nearly none of the reviewers mentions this
(tells you how to rate those "reviewers" - a bunch of paid lying bastards...)

[Hati]

tells you how to rate those "reviewers" - a bunch of paid lying bastards..

... not all of them.

Interesting read here:

http://hypothermia.gamershardware.com/nv_bs.htm

Hati

[Helevitia]

when was the date of the hporthermia article? anyone know? If memory serves correct, that was a year or two ago?

Dave

[Byock]

Yeah, Based on the fact they wanted him to remove 3DfX logos, that places it a few years ago.

[bsdgeek]

It's not the same now really, nV picked up the 3dfx PR team (now headed by former 3dfx Brian Burke, good buddy of dumba... Kyle I mean.)