ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series discussion

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Personally, I think DX10 was intentionally designed to be inefficient and 'broken' from the beginning. Why? Because Microsoft is evil and they'd rather have people buy Xboxes than PC games.

Think about the extra development time and costs required for DX10. If you make a new cutting edge 3D game for the PC, you'll need to tweak and provide support for both DX9 and DX10.

If you skip DX10, consumers will think that the engine is old and you lose sales and get negative press. If you make it DX10 ONLY, then that cuts off all the XP users and anyone without a DX10 card and you lose sales. The whole "DX10 is for Vista only" thing is a CLEAR indication that Microsoft doesn't care about benefiting the gaming industry as a whole, it's only looking to sell its products no matter how crappy and inefficient they are.

Sure, you can try to blame the GPU companies for making a bad DX10 GPU implementation but do you really think that would be the case after they've spent hundreds of millions of dollars developing the GPUs?? These aren't monkeys working in lab coats, they're professional ASIC engineers.