Nvidia and PC Games

[Evolved]

Almost all developers make games with Nvidia in mind.
Does that mean PC gaming is more superior when using Nvidia cards?

Sorry, I always see the Nvidia logo's and "The way it's mean to be played" logo's.
Makes me wonder if PC games are best played on Nvidia cards...

I've always used ATi. But if this is the case, my next card may be Nvidia.

 

[erocker]

Firstly, you have to take at least half of that and chalk it up as marketing. We are in a transitional period and this is no longer the case. I remember reading an article or two on how newer games are being developed on AMD/ATi hardware now. This may have been one of the benefits of AMD/ATi coming out with DX11 hardware first, maybe not. I'll have to find some sources.

 

[_JP_]

...And it's that kind of thinking (FUD) that puts money in their pockets...

As far as my experience goes, I only noticed that running the Colin McRae Rally 3/04/2005 game on a computer with a nVidia card only made the mud flaps wiggle more realistically when the car was moving, compared to an ATi card. There must have been other stuff, perhaps, but I didn't notice it.

EDIT: erocker ninja'd me.

 

[Mr McC]

Almost all developers make games with Nvidia in mind.

Untrue.

1Does that mean PC gaming is more superior when using Nvidia cards?

Sometimes.

Sorry, I always see the Nvidia logo's and "The way it's mean to be played" logo's.

No need to apologise simply because your sight appears to be working, but if you say that you "always" see this logo, I can only assume that you have an extremely small library of games.

Makes me wonder if PC games are best played on Nvidia cards...

Sometimes

I've always used ATi. But if this is the case, my next card may be Nvidia.

Your next card should be the best deal for the money, irrespective of the brand.

 

[Deleted member 24505]

Your next card should be the best deal for the money, irrespective of the brand.

Completely agree.

 

[Kreij]

I just read an interview (can't find it at the moment) with John Carmack of Id, who when asked which graphics company would come out ahead declined to state which was better hardware wise (he was impressed by the insane power of all new GCs), but said that Nvidia had put much more money and interest in their developer relations department. He also mentioned that he could get answers to obscure questions regarding the hardware and drivers via e-mail in a very short time.
That speaks volumes.

 

[Bjorn_Of_Iceland]

I just read an interview (can't find it at the moment) with John Carmack of Id, who when asked which graphics company would come out ahead declined to state which was better hardware wise (he was impressed by the insane power of all new GCs), but said that Nvidia had put much more money and interest in their developer relations department. He also mentioned that he could get answers to obscure questions regarding the hardware and drivers via e-mail in a very short time.
That speaks volumes.

Yeah I read that too. They give great deal to developer relations, their online resources etc give a sense of by developers for developers kind of appeal. I think this was way back early 2000, wherein any developer using their hardware automatically have support from them in terms of solutions, debugging etc. Mostly targetted for those making rendering engines from the ground up (ie John Carmack, epic megagames etc).

 

[Red_Machine]

id also made their engine for DOOM 3 go into different modes depending on what GPU was being used. If you had a GF 4 Ti, it went into mode 1 which had all the bells and whistles enabled, if you had a GF 3 card, it went into mode 2 with most of them enabled and if you had a GF 4 MX it went into mode 3 which had a minimum of bells and whistles. I don't believe it did that on ATi hardware, because GF 4 MX-equivalent ATi cards just couldn't run the game.

That to me seems as if the development was nVidia-centric.