NVidia & Apple

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• Fuck you you win!! : quake 3 announcer
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  Funny... I run a Mac gaming website and the last time *I* checked there were more developers interested i... : Corey Tamas
  • what's the url of your website? : slax0r
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    you wrote this? http://www.macgamer.com/editorials/speech/speech.html You should be ashamed of you... : wumpus
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      "You won't appreciate how great Mac gaming is until you find yourself stuck behind a Windows machine try... : ease_one
      • I get the impresion he hasn't actually used a windows PC since win3.1 : .spanky.
  • 53 - Go back to your happy place where the Mac rules the world then. : Carnivac
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    Corey, You're wasting your energy if you're trying to hold a rational argument on the Shack. Ther... : psychobean
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      So you having fun playing counter-strike? : ease_one
      • Actually I stopped when beta 7 or 7.1 came out. Just wasn't as much fun anymore, and school was star : psychobean
  • Last I checked I could count the number of recent mac games with one hand.. : Annul

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  no it takes a while for new features to make it into games because it a waste of time to code new fea... : ease_one
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    I've heard that Deus Ex was good, but I don't have it, and I won't get it. The Unreal engine just sucks... : the archvile
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      Deus Ex uses the OpenGL hack from Loki It runs nice and smooth now : hawkeye
      • hat should be Newest Deus Ex patch uses... : hawkeye
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        ok, but I'm not running UT in OpenGL unless I can force the refresh rate to 75. I hate it when my eyes ... : the archvile
        • complex as far as triangles.... well whatever, your missing out if you dont play deus ex : ease_one
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  Deus Ex sucked because it was the Unreal Engine. Intel and AMD are trying to milk all that they can fro... : the archvile
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    q3 uses cubic enviroment mapping? i thought it just used enviroment mapping as far as i know you c... : ease_one
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      I've never had problems with the demo for nv15. Well, except for the entire thing running at 15fps on... : the archvile
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        do you meen the nvidia q3 demo or the special nvidia demos because i aam spacifcally questioning that q3... : ease_one
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          actually, I'm not 100% sure about Q3 using cube (though the env mapping textures are all square, surpris... : the archvile
          • hl had env mapping glquake had mirrors... : ease_one
          • q3 does not use cube env mapping, just sphere mapping. : Maj
• you said: "ALso, otehr than maybe Gran Turismo 3, when was the last time you played a game with Cubic map... : .spanky.

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  ATI still has 45% of the OEM market so losing Apple isn't going to kill them, hell they only had an Apple... : .spanky.
  • thats keep nvidia more honest testing.. more]b : ease_one
  • More like four years. And it was an exclusive contract IIRC, with the exception of some odd card for... : psychobean

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  my guess is if they had 32 bit and made chips and sold the chips and not sold the boards themselves : ease_one
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    getting into board maing is the biggest mistake IMO. The money they wasted there realy hurt, should have ... : .spanky.
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      should have spent it on actually getting new products out the door i meen when the geforce came out, ... : ease_one
      • thats what R&D is, getting new products. Instead of a small R&D budget where they say, "well they dont re... : .spanky.

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  {That would be unwise. Some Insiders are saying Apple is hurting very very badly and prices will drop ev... : indeego
  • Theyve been saying that for years : quake 3 announcer
  • good, hopefully they'll go out of business and we can end all this arguing once and for all. Sorta like ... : wumpus

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• yeah I noticed that too. Massive performance hit for cubic env mapping on a GF2 GTS. McRae Rally 2.0 ... : wumpus

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• I can smell it from here. : the archvile

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  BitBoys is still the rising vapors emanating from the buttocks scorched from the remnants of stale burri... : the archvile
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    Bitboys are getting high off those vapors if you ask me... : Naim
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      The Bitboys site has more occurrences of "Oy" than all the Energizer commercials in the 80s. : the archvile
      • They do stand for something.. : Warlock

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  its the beginning of the end... look at the decrease in driver releases and the delayed or shoddy suppor... : carnivore
  • DirectX 8 itself is shoddy! I'm not getting it until it's incorporated into a Service Pack. yes, I am : the archvile

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  no kidding... oh well. I love nVidia anyway. Hopefully they'll stay good and reasonable? : Naim
  • as long as the NV20 doesn't start off above $399, I'll be happy. If they start it off below $299, then ... : the archvile
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    ya right would you if you were that powerful : jerenity
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      actually, i would. but i'm a crazy socialist freak who thinks profit sharing is a good idea. maybe i jus... : Naim
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        you mean you dont have the business sense : jerenity
        • that is correct. : Naim

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  Their newer cards are not too bad.. the drivers are ass though. : Annul
  • my friend had a rather harrowing experience with a Radeon. It wouldn't run any 3D application without c... : the archvile

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  that's the most novel turn of phrase i've heard in weeks. : J4NUS
  • wouldn't you agree with me on that one? ATI's Mobility chipset hasn't been improved for over 2 years no... : the archvile