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   #34. Posted at 10:53 PM on Aug 5th 2007 Edit   Reply
PetMiceRnice
Early adopters of DirectX 10 cards are burnt again.
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   #25. Posted at 11:03 PM on Aug 3rd 2007 Edit   Reply
droopy1592
Nvidia has a long list of fvckups this year
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#25, Just this year? Think about the ActiveArmor firewall fiascos...  :  LoneWolf15  (#33)  «

   #22. Posted at 10:02 PM on Aug 3rd 2007 Edit   Reply
Forge
Every time news is posted about the 8800 series having yet more new problems, I feel better and better about having missed the boat and gotten 'stuck with' my 7950GX2. Nobody thought it would be a good idea, but it's served me very well.
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#22, My biggest beef with the Nvidia 7-series is the Shader Model...  :  A_Pickle  (#30)  «
#30, Funny, most people think the opposite. Especially with al...  :  Reputator  (#31)  «
#22, My X1900XT works fine and has none of current software probl...  :  Krogoth  (#32)  «

   #16. Posted at 06:56 PM on Aug 3rd 2007 Edit   Reply
pluscard
Doesn't this info make the 2900xt with the 1mb of gdr4 more appealing?
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#16, 2900xt with the 1mb of gdr4 Not really.  :  Ithilion  (#29)  «

   #8. Posted at 03:38 PM on Aug 3rd 2007 Edit   Reply
Fearless Leader
#3, I'm with you on this. It seems like the graphics card companies always say "oh the applications aren't doing this correctly and we have to work around it".

Come on!

If that were the case, then the Radeons would have to suffer the same problem. But such is apparently not the case.
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#8, Hold on a second. It's been practically a mantra in the comp...  :  SPOOFE  (#10)  «
#10, What? His point is that if it was true that it was poor a...  :  Anomymous Gerbil  (#17)  «
#17, The large difference in unified shader design between ...  :  SPOOFE  (#28)  «

   #26. Posted at 11:57 PM on Aug 3rd 2007 Edit   Reply
wingless
As an Nvidia fanboy with a 2900XT. I don't feel as ashamed for getting this Chinese Communist Canadian red video card anymore. I figured it had to have more long term potential than an 8800GTS. Image quality in video isn't as good as my old 7900GT but its negligible. It'll make a good card to hold me over until the Nvidia 8900 or 9000 series cards come out.

Interestingly though, a couple of days ago we found out that some ATI 2600/2400's have a BIOS issue that kills performance as well. I can't wait to see how all of these Nvidia and ATI cards will perform when all the fixes are done. Unfortunately the next gen hardware probably be right around the corner by then.
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#26, Maybe we can hope that the apparent slowdown in new hardware...  :  MadManOriginal  (#27)  «

   #9. Posted at 04:28 PM on Aug 3rd 2007 Edit   Reply
marvelous
Nvidia is slipping.
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#9, They have been for quite some time.  :  Sargent Duck  (#20)  «
#20, So they're quite lucky that AMD isn't faring any better. ...  :  Illissius  (#23)  «
#20, What really unfortunate is that the hardware is so good. ...  :  barich  (#24)  «

   #18. Posted at 07:41 PM on Aug 3rd 2007 Edit   Reply
bdwilcox
That line "Nvidia also says the problem is more complex than it originally thought" translates to me as "we have a hardware problem and we have to find a work around". I don't think this is just a driver issue but a design issue that nVidia is going to have to kludge something together to overcome.
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#18, Well, as someone who writes software for a living myself, my...  :  cAPS lOCK  (#19)  «
#19, My whole point is that it sounds like it's more than just...  :  bdwilcox  (#21)  «

   #11. Posted at 04:43 PM on Aug 3rd 2007 Edit   Reply
HiggsBoson
I find it interesting that by prioritizing the DX9 release they are basically tacitly admitting what most enthusiasts have known all along: the DX10 feature compatibility is basically just the "biggest checkbox" on the list that marketing uses. It's not particularly meaningful in practice.
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#11, It is strange they focus so much on DX10... but on the other...  :  SPOOFE  (#13)  «
#11, Maybe the fact that there is what, 1 DX10 'as shipped' game ...  :  MadManOriginal  (#15)  «

   #2. Posted at 02:19 PM on Aug 3rd 2007, Edited at 02:19 PM on Aug 3rd 2007 Edit   Reply
Sniper
So far, I see no reason to buy new hardware products. They all have serious problems that get worked out half a year later.

I don't need the headaches.
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#2, 2nd that! Although I believe that the 8800 series is a great...  :  kleinwl  (#4)  «
#4, It really works fine for Titan Quest? My radeon9600 could...  :  Nullvoid  (#6)  «
#6, Ok... fine is a bit of a stretch, but it definitely pl...  :  kleinwl  (#7)  «
#2, I'm with you... I'm thinking of just popping a 7600GT into m...  :  SPOOFE  (#12)  «
#12, I think that I'm coming to the same conclusion. There isn...  :  [SDG]Mantis  (#14)  «
# I hadn't heard that about the 7 series, I have 2 7600GTs, an...  :  Lord.Blue  (#5)  «

   #1. Posted at 12:45 PM on Aug 3rd 2007 Edit   Reply
Shinare
aaaargh... i could be lamenting my purchase already...
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