Want HL2? Hope you don\'t have an nVidia card then

The first HL2 benchmarks are out. Seems like ATI > Nivida on this one... Valve is having trouble just getting nVidia cards performing somewhat decently under DX9.

Here\'s what Anand Lal Shimpi says:


> Valve is pissed at all of the benchmarking "optimizations" they\'ve seen in the hardware community;

> Half-Life 2 has a special NV3x codepath that was necessary to make NVIDIA\'s architecture perform reasonably under the game;

> Valve recommends running geforce fx 5200 and 5600 cards in dx8 mode in order to get playable frame rates.
- even with the special NV3x codepath, ATI is the clear performance leader under Half-Life 2 with the Radeon 9800 Pro hitting around 60 fps at 10x7. The 5900 ultra is noticeably slower with the special codepath and is horrendously slower under the default dx9 codepath;
- the Radeon 9600 Pro performs very well - it is a good competitor of the 5900 ultra;

> ATI didn\'t need these special optimizations to perform well and Valve insists that they have not optimized the game specifically for any vendor.

whell it\'s a good thing I have a geforce4 ti 4200.

[Kurt Angle]

I got a radeon!

[mm mode]

Nivida > ATI

[/mm mode]



I got a Nivida....

Well, if I wanna play this game i\'ll have to change my old gforce 2.

was planning to get a rad 9800p anyways .

waiting for mm\'s reply one this one

mm where are you.............


PS: anyone planning on purchasing the R420 core(ATI next gen, aka 9900) ?

Thanks, I\'ve been putting off buying a video card just to see what would work best with HL2.  This is the ONE and ONLY game that will make me invest bucks in a good video card.  Hopefully by the time the game is released, the 9800s will be a bit cheaper.

I have a Radeon 9700 Pro so I should be ok...I think I need more memory tho (256MB right now).

:hat:ScottyJ:hat:

Well, it\'s still early and before the game\'s out nothing final can be said. But I think it\'s a fair assumption that you\'d be safe with a card from ATi.

Will I have problems if I install a ATI card in my nForce NF7-2?

Originally posted by Samwise
Well, it\'s still early and before the game\'s out nothing final can be said. But I think it\'s a fair assumption that you\'d be safe with a card from ATi.

Whell.. if they did in fact work on their engine and their content creation tools during the best part of 5 years, all they would\'ve been doing from the HL2 announcement and now is content implementation work. The art assets of the game aren\'t final as of yet, but I have to assume that the engine is completely done. Any possible final optimisations won\'t make much of a difference....

I love my GeForce4 Ti 4200.

Originally posted by Avatarr
Whell.. if they did in fact work on their engine and their content creation tools during the best part of 5 years, all they would\'ve been doing from the HL2 announcement and now is content implementation work. The art assets of the game aren\'t final as of yet, but I have to assume that the engine is completely done. Any possible final optimisations won\'t make much of a difference....

Whell (that sounds ghey), you\'re forgetting NVIDIA\'s drivers. They\'ll release new drivers before the game\'s out and that might help performance.

Originally posted by NVIDIA256
waiting for mm\'s reply one this one

mm where are you.............

Crying over his NVIDIA\'s box

actually, im really sick and disgusted by the fanboys out there that are really concerned about this

the whole thing stinks, and it will run like a charm on my nvidia card when it\'s released.  

all else is corporate bullshit, lies, and payoffs