Schmide
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Originally posted by: Keysplayr
Waitaminute. You think that if Nvidia's AA implementation is part of the DX standard, that AMD should have every right to run it just the same?
Yes.
Originally posted by: Keysplayr
Nvidia wrote the code along with Eidos devs to get in-game AA working on their cards.
A clear distinction. They helped them get AA working on the directx standard for which both nVidia and ATI subscribe. Every Microsoft DirectX talk I've been to talks about making rendering decisions based on the CAPS bits, not the vendor string. If they went outside the directX standard, I would give your argument weight.
Originally posted by: Keysplayr
Something the UE did not support natively (god only knows why).
Well MSAA and HDR wasn't designed into directX 9, there are plenty of tricks to make it work. I do not know the details on how it was done. I would bet it falls into the render to texture or RGBE surface technique, neither of which are new technologies.
Originally posted by: Keysplayr
AMD would not do it. They knew about it, but did n-o-t-h-i-n-g. But you still feel they should gain from it. Not be locked out from it.
Maybe they figured nVidia would do something like all that has happened and wanted to see the outcome. Or they figured, why spend the effort doing something that was figured out back in 2006/2007. I have no inside information.
Originally posted by: Keysplayr
Let me ask you something. If you and your office buddies contributes $5 every week into a lotto pool, but one week you are asked for the pool money and say "I don't want to play this week" and don't put in your $5, they hit lotto. do you think you should still get a cut?
I refuse to play the lotto, I think it's something makes poor communities poorer. I do however find this a poor analogy. You're talking about a direct purchase for profit. While I'm talking about standards for which all parties subscribe to.
I'll make an analogy. Completely hypothetical. Lets say you buy a dvd player that is capable of some enhanced dvd standard. Some content producer is having trouble getting this enhanced standard working. One dvd player maker goes to this producer and shows them how to produce content to this standard, but kindly asks that they only play the enhanced standard on their brand of player. All the dvd makers that subscribed to this standard and most likely paid money/time to come up with this standard, would be pissed because of the exclusive nature of the use of the standard, as would any user who bought a non exclusive functioning dvd player thinking he or she was getting this standard.