Firing Squad NVIDIA Editors Day Article

[nelg]

Jackub, do you remember that song that goes “anything you can do I can do betterâ€￾ , just remember that the “youâ€￾ is nV and the “Iâ€￾ is ATI and all will make sense.

 

[Jakub]

This is another valid aspect. Jakub's initial article stated that, for instance, Gearbox were there because they were very happy with the support they got from NVIDIa in making the shader work well on the FX series. But the question should also be asked why does that type of back end support need be required? Also, were they not happy that they "Just worked" in the first place on ATI hardware (assuming it did)? Which is better for the developer - having hardware that does what it says, or having lots of support to on the software end in order to make the hardware run at a rate they are targetting?

Actually, that may be a misconception on your part.

Randy said Gearbox approached NVIDIA because of their own limited resources; it wasn't so much a matter of getting NV30 to run as it was implementing the new shader features at all on either card.

 

[Doomtrooper]

Sounds very much like S.T.A.L.K.E.R, my email exchanges with them were the same thing, small and looking for MAJOR IHV support.