Ian McNaughton goes out against The Way it's Meant to be Played

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i remember when ati did this with valve based games, half life 2 in particular ran slow on nvidia hardware but when the games was tricked into running the ati shader path for the game on nvidia cards the performance shot up considerably.

people tend to forget that things like this have always happened in the past and will continue to happen in the future. i wont be surprised if DIRT 2 has some ati bias in it.

Wow, you really remember your history wrong.

The nVidia cards (FX 5xxx series) were automatically put on the DX8.1 path instead of the "proper" "ati" shader path as you put it, or rather the DX9.0 shader path, because performance on the DX9.0 shader path was HORRIBLE on the nVidia cards.

So, yes, abit of image quality(dx8.1 vs dx9.0) on the fx 5xxx series was sacrificed, but for good reason.