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Incompatibility with older games - Nvidia vs. ATI

I have just broken with 8 years of Nvidia tradition and ordered an ATI x1950 Pro. I felt I could wait no longer because the x1950 series seems to be disappearing from the shelves. At least the x1950 Pro should solve all known rendering problems with Thief 2 while Nvidia and ATI fart around...
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- Post #109
- Jan 27, 2008
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Incompatibility with older games - Nvidia vs. ATI

Here is apoppin's image for the HD 2900 running under Vista and with 7.12 drivers. HD 2900 Vista 7.12 In contrast, below is what it should look like. Below is an image of the same scene taken with my Nvidia 7950 GT running the Thief2 EXE that is patched using Timeslip's DDFIX. I note...
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- Post #105
- Jan 14, 2008
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Incompatibility with older games - Nvidia vs. ATI

I made some statements in earlier posts about Thief 2 rendering being improved in Vista. After BFG10K questioned those statements at the Nvidia forum, I went back to reexamine the evidence. I was mistaken. I had taken a few optimistic sounding statements as fact when I had no real evidence...
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- Post #100
- Jan 12, 2008
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Incompatibility with older games - Nvidia vs. ATI

We are not asking them to "support everything." We would just like them to support old Direct3D function calls that used to work in their own code. It is interesting that ATI has done this fairly well, but Nvidia has dropped the ball for operating systems through XP. Also interesting is the...
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- Post #98
- Jan 12, 2008
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Incompatibility with older games - Nvidia vs. ATI

This is certainly one possibility, and for some games it may be the only choice. The better solution right now for Thief 2 if you have XP is a modern box with an ATI x1950xt. That does everything. We are hoping that someone will post that the ATI HD 2xxx and 3xxx cards will work with XP, but...
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- Post #94
- Jan 11, 2008
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Incompatibility with older games - Nvidia vs. ATI

Thanks.:) That explains a lot. (1) Nvidia is capable of fixing their problems. EDIT: and then again, maybe not (see below). (2) The problem with XP is in Nvidia's buggy drivers (as we all knew). (3) Maybe they were too busy with Vista to focus on XP. (4) There is hope for XP if we can...
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- Post #93
- Jan 11, 2008
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Incompatibility with older games - Nvidia vs. ATI

Not yet. Actually, Anand is pretty good about e-mails, if they make sense. My timing was off, sending it during the holidays. I will try again in a while.
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- Post #91
- Jan 11, 2008
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Incompatibility with older games - Nvidia vs. ATI

There seems to be something about HD 2xxx and 3xxx, Geforce 8xxx, and (apparently) DX-10 video cards in general that works better with Vista. On XP, with the same cards, there are compatibility issues with some games. Anyone have any idea what that might be? I know that Vista itself uses...
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- Post #87
- Jan 11, 2008
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Incompatibility with older games - Nvidia vs. ATI

Total BS. You seem have a very short attention span. It has been explained several times in this thread, and to you specifically, that the developers are long gone, so nobody is refusing to fix Dark Engine games, that the source has not been released, so the community cannot fix it, that these...
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- Post #83
- Jan 11, 2008
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Incompatibility with older games - Nvidia vs. ATI

I am still trying to find out if Thief 2 is properly rendered (good sky, etc.) with an ATI HD 2xxx or 3xxx card, 7.12 drivers, and Windows XP. Any luck, apoppin? Anyone else?
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- Post #72
- Jan 10, 2008
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Incompatibility with older games - Nvidia vs. ATI

I am afraid it is not that simple. You are missing the main point of my posts. My main thrust is not drivers in general, nor is it OS compatibility. It is lack of support by Nvidia for Thief2, other Dark Engine games, and a few other games that have fallen by the wayside. These games ran...
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- Post #69
- Jan 8, 2008
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Incompatibility with older games - Nvidia vs. ATI

Thanks for the detailed explanation, nullpointerus.:) It looks very interesting indeed. I'll wait for you guys to test it. When it works at a reasonable cost, please post back! :D
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- Post #66
- Jan 7, 2008
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Incompatibility with older games - Nvidia vs. ATI

I don't understand the statements that emulators are the answer. Maybe I just don't understand how they would work. Could someone explain it? See my questions below. First, I have some doubt that a software emulation of 3D cards would perform well enough to run middle of the road games...
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- Post #61
- Jan 7, 2008
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Incompatibility with older games - Nvidia vs. ATI
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- Post #59
- Jan 7, 2008
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Incompatibility with older games - Nvidia vs. ATI

That's interesting.:( I have been operating under the theory that compatibility with various versions of Direct Draw was the main problem, yet I think RTCW is pure OpenGL, is it not? I would have thought OpenGL would be stable. I think that is why id uses it - to be independent of Microsoft...
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- Post #55
- Jan 6, 2008
- Forum: Graphics Cards

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