Friday, August 28th 2009
NVIDIA Plans GT300 Demos in September
It looks like NVIDIA doesn't want AMD to drench the media and consumers with enough hype to ensure a smooth, profitable launch of its "Evergreen" family of DirectX 11 GPUs. The party-crasher this time around is NVIDIA's GT300 graphics processor, which sources claim to be continuing on NVIDIA's design methodology of a powerful, monolithic GPU. AMD's itinerary for September looks fairly clear: press-briefings on and around the 10th (we'll be heading to Munich for ours), a number of previews that follow, and launches towards the end of the month, and market availability soon after, in October.
In essence, AMD ends up with all the limelight for the better part of the quarter, in the run up for the crucial November~December shopping season. Meanwhile, the green camp is reportedly readying its own press-briefings of the GT300 GPU. These will be held in late September. To what scale will the briefings be held, or how ready are they with engineering samples is not known as yet, but possibly enough to gain public attention for its DirectX 11 GPUs.
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In essence, AMD ends up with all the limelight for the better part of the quarter, in the run up for the crucial November~December shopping season. Meanwhile, the green camp is reportedly readying its own press-briefings of the GT300 GPU. These will be held in late September. To what scale will the briefings be held, or how ready are they with engineering samples is not known as yet, but possibly enough to gain public attention for its DirectX 11 GPUs.
98 Comments on NVIDIA Plans GT300 Demos in September
GTA4 was coded for the 360 and then for the PS3, and the 360 was moved over to the PC, alot of dipshits just have to understand that Rock* was tired of getting the usual flack about graphics quality, so they went to the other extreme, and I for one am glad.
Finally a game with good graphics, and a long, long, long gameplay and story that keeps you involved. Fuck Crysis, GTA4 is the shit.
The story is fantastic, and the gameplay is nice, the performance is shit and until its fixed its still the inferior version of the game.
As for the gameplay, GTA always has fun gameplay, the problem I had with GTAIV was this horrible thing called Games for Windows Live. I didn't play the game for about a month, then I go back, only to discover I can't load any of my saves. After investigation, I find that the files are still there, but I can't load them, because GFWL doesn't view those saves as mine (belonging to my account), and God forbid I play a saved game that isn't mine.... cause that would mean control over the product I own. No, can't have that...Bugs the crap out of me. :P With all the graphical glitches it has. I can think of many games that I would peg as "having nicer graphics". So really the gameplay was the only redeeming feature for me. That is why if the next GTA game involves Games for Windows Live, I will not be touching it...
is it horribly coded, I don't know, but does it run good on modern hardware, I will let you decide but I say no, as for the people who say its for future hardware, I say, well, there are games out there that are like 8 years old that you can't max with a 4870 and if GTA4 is like this, . . . . .
I think it would be easier to slap in another card vs getting these new ones. Even with xfire or sli perf loss, it'll be faster than the new cards.
forums.techpowerup.com/showpost.php?p=1506042&postcount=1659
Still, if someone gives me a few hundred bucks, I might get something new. If not, I will gawk at the cards like it's fresh pr0n.
That's not a bad way of doing things at all.