Well dale, the marginally higher fps gain you get from ATI now won't mean a thing when they can't run games due to the lack of a particular GPU instruction.
There are games comming out all over the place that use Pixel Shader 3.0, and I did mention that the new HDR filled "The Lost Coast" mod for HL2 won't run with the full HDR effect on any ATI cards because of the lack of Pixel Shader 3.0. Its quite ironic that what was once alled the "ATI levels" will only be available to Nvidia users.
ATI's Pixel Shader 2.0++ or whatever doens't mean a thing, it seems like game manufacturers are skipping right over it and going for 3.0, making these several hundred dollar ATI cards useless.
There are games comming out all over the place that use Pixel Shader 3.0, and I did mention that the new HDR filled "The Lost Coast" mod for HL2 won't run with the full HDR effect on any ATI cards because of the lack of Pixel Shader 3.0. Its quite ironic that what was once alled the "ATI levels" will only be available to Nvidia users.
ATI's Pixel Shader 2.0++ or whatever doens't mean a thing, it seems like game manufacturers are skipping right over it and going for 3.0, making these several hundred dollar ATI cards useless.