NV38 seals Nvidia's coffin

[Cdr]

Originally posted on Warp2Search.net
Nvidia's NV38 (along with the rest of the FX series) has been dubbed as a substandard card by team dx. This means that DX will not include NV in it's developement range for directx10. Team DX made the decision "as a favor to the graphics industry". Team DX claims that NV violated their partnership agreement by changing the DX9 code with their latest set of drivers as caught by Xbit labs recently. This violates the licensing agreement and conpromises DX's quality in order to make it seem as if ATi and NV cards alike display the same image quality (which would be really bad in this case).

"This can only be fixed by reinstalling dx9b. So by all means, Do Not Download Detonator 50 Drivers!!! Along with this, NV has been caught cheating on benchmarks as they usually do over at Anandtech . Notice that all of the realworld benchmarks perform better on ATi, yet all synthetic benchmarks perform better by a large margin on NV hardware. "These violations are inexcusable" said a DX employee, and I'd have to agree. So without the inside drive on DX10, NV will not be able to even optimize their cards as ATi can and will probably fall into bankruptsy just as 3dfx did before them..."

Poor nVidia

 

[Krazeh]

That post is from an unverified source on gearbox's halo forums, personally it sounds like a load of nonsense imo. It sounds like it's been written by someone wanting to stir up rumours, I mean who the hell is Team DX? And any comments would be from Microsoft employees, not DX employees.
It's hardly likely that Microsoft aren't gonna involve Nvidia in discussions over DirectX 10 especially considering Nvidia's market share.

 

[evilmonkeh]

if thats true then im sodding over off to ATI for my next card
but im not sure....
sounds a bit off tbh

 

[Embattle]

In AnandTech's 9800XT review they also have benchmarks for the NV38 - http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.html?i=1890

 

[Xavier]

safe to say it's not accurate...

the language was a pretty good hint tho, 'team dx'? lol

 

[Nazgul]

why do people even bother faking stuff like this....it's no where near April

 

[Xavier]

anyhow, enough NV-bashing for the while, we're currently testing the new ATI and NV drivers and it's safe to say the fanboys don't know the story at all here, so lets close the thread and let discussion re-open when the facts are in the public domain.