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ahmad
04-13-2007, 07:21 AM
http://uk.pc.ign.com/articles/780/780314p1.html


Keita Iida: On a high level, we had to prioritise. In our case, we have DX9, DX10, multiple APIs, Vista and XP - the driver models are completely different, and the DX9 and 10 drivers are completely different. Then you have single- and multi-card SLI - there are many variables to consider. Given that we were so far ahead with DX10 hardware, we've had to make sure that the drivers, although not necessarily available to a wide degree, or not stable, were good enough from a development standpoint.

BTW Keita is a guy :)
Metroid
04-13-2007, 09:36 AM
http://uk.pc.ign.com/articles/780/780314p1.html


BTW Keita is a guy :)



It should be the opposite :(
Soulburner
04-13-2007, 03:50 PM
"Good enough"? Haha....
deathman20
04-13-2007, 05:14 PM
So they saying they will finally start working on actual driver support for these cards to gain more power now? And they just spent the last 6+ months making us dance?
ripken204
04-13-2007, 05:31 PM
or maybe they finally finished the 8900 series and just havnt told us.
tomb18
04-13-2007, 05:56 PM
150 developers for an installed based of what...50-100 million graphics cards? 200 million?
On average they have net income of $100 million per quarter after taxes....I think they could easily afford another 50 developers, at a cost of 5-7 Miliion per year. That would only cost about 2% of their net income.
But the tech support costs would go down too, if the quality was better to begin with.