Originally posted by: nitromullet
Everyone knows that ATI has had big problems this year and made some major mistakes. But to kick someone when they're down like this just seems uncalled for. Maybe someone didn't get their R520 review cards from ATI?
Kick someone when they're down...? WTF...? I think Kyle is right on the money here... ATI has blatantly used the press for it's own purposes this year while actually producing almost nothing new. How many sites (including AT) has had CrossFire benchmarks? Where are the actual boards? Nowhere... It's complete BS, and I'm glad that someone else went "Sander" on ATI.
For the record... NV isn't one bit better. There was a whole lot of noise about the supposed "fixing" of the shimmering issue. NV got all the press about how they "fixed" the shimmering on this forum and on nvnews. Then people started noticing the shimmering is still there, and the whole issue went quiet. Apparently, they think that adding "addressed AF shimmering" in the driver release notes takes care of the problem, well it doesn't. This isn't exactly the same as the CrossFire situation, but I personally feel that both Rollo and ChrisRay were intentionally given the 78.03 drivers claimng to fix the issue because they knew that these two guys would put the word out that the issue was fixed. Obvioulsy, they knew that they couldn't claim say it themselves because they knew it was BS.
As anyone can clearly see from my sig, I have quite a bit of money in this rig, and the AF shimmering is a real disappointment. I was hopeful that NV would fix the issue as they did with the white textures in HL2 with trSSAA, but it was not the case.
Shame on both NV and ATI for using their fans, their customers, the review sites, and the good faith of the enthusiast community to spread BS. I don't think anyone expects their products to be perfect 100% of the time, but I think we would at least appreciate a bit of honesty and integrity in the way they conduct business.
And a big "Hell Yeah!" to Kyle for not being a push over and reminding ATI that they need the press every bit as much as the press needs them.