Originally posted by johnc
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And then what about John Carmack, who cries for low level, direct access to graphics cards on PC's? He really raged (pun intended) with the last id's release about the abstractions of graphics card drivers slowing down performance to such an extend that he favors Intel graphics because Intel lets him actually access the low level memmory management and memmory blitting, without having the graphics driver needing to load an entire tile of texture memmory before a single pixel can be read out (see also Battlefiel 3 PC horrors):
I have high hopes that because it is all integrated memory, Intel will be able to lead the way with surfacing and direct access. That will give them the opportunity to sometimes take console developers who are used to this lower level access and maybe have something -shock of shocks- run better on Intel’s Integrated Graphics part than the much more expensive NVIDIA or AMD card that has all the layers of driver overhead.
And now that AMD allows direct access with Fusion and documentation, where does that leave nVidia?
Face it man, nVidia realy does SUCK. PS: They are the new 3dfx. I hope you will not clamp onto a GeForce like the 3dfx fans clamp onto their Voodoo's, and just move on.
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