PS 3.0 support in NV35, 36??

Dragunov · Sep 1, 2003, 04:57 AM

Theinquirer posted this (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11300):

Geforce FX 5900 Ultra, NV36 supports pixel shader 3.0

El shocking but no driver support though

By Fuad Abazovic in Wien: maandag 01 september 2003, 10:00

WE HEARD THAT Nvidia took one step forward from ATI as far as hardware development is concerned.
You can hardly see any game that has support for Pixel shader 2.0 and its fancy stuff. Even the first hardware that was capable of handling it, the Radeon 9700 PRO, R300 was introduced more than a year ago now.

Games like Half Life 2 will change this and games like Tomb, lot of clipping bugs Raider have support for it already.

Some of Nvidia guys that know how things work have told our friends that NV36, Geforce FX 5900 Ultra already has support for pixel shader 3.0 but there is no any driver publicly available that will support it. µ The same source implied that when Nvidia tested pixel shader 3.0 internally, there was a hardware problem.

We reckon that Nvidia is practising for NV40 and who knows, if it fixes things NV38 could end up with pixel shader 3.0 support, highly unlikely but still possible.

We would like to know what developers think about Pixel Shader 3.0 as we know that it can make a difference and give you guys more freedom. Feel free to share your comments.

Nvidia still might have some more ammunition than it want people to know about. µ

Personally I don't know

Dragunov

***Veridian3*** · Sep 1, 2003, 05:30 AM

I find this funny for a few reasons...

1. Its The Inquirer
2. Finally, that the performance is so bad on PS 2.0, who would want to use 3.0 on it!

Stu

Dragunov · Sep 1, 2003, 06:09 AM

The problem in AOD was through a wrong compiler for the Nvidia-cards, but this just a rumor i heard

Dragunov

Global_Inferno · Sep 3, 2003, 04:06 PM

I seriously doubt that... Otherwise NVIDIA would have kicked Beyond3D so hard up the ass that they wud have had to of made a public statement about why...

Down1oader · Sep 9, 2003, 11:53 AM

im gonna cry... the fx 5900u wont run tomb raider??? the card i just spent £389 on!!!!!!!!!!! ARGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

barbaricworm · Sep 10, 2003, 12:24 PM

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Originally posted by Down1oader
im gonna cry... the fx 5900u wont run tomb raider??? the card i just spent £389 on!!!!!!!!!!! ARGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

your unlucky then because mine plays it ok. shame its a crap game though