ATI & Nvidia Duke It Out In New Gaming War

geek_on_a_stick writes "I found this PC World article about ATI and Nvidia battling it out over paper specs on their graphics cards. Apparently ATI's next board will support pixel shader 1.4, while Nvidia's GeForce3 will only go up to ps 1.3. The bigger issue is that developers will have to choose which board they want to develop games for, or, write the code twice--one set for each board. Does this mean that future games will be hardware specific?"

Simple way to help you choose

[Dr_Cheeks]

Just do what I do; utterly fail to save up for that latest bit of kit. Every game I've bought in the past year has supported my TNT2 M64 chipset. Sure, I can't render something like Shreck on my machine, but since I blew the graphics card money on beer I can't tell the difference.

Hell, Half Life and Doom are barely distinguishable from each other if your beer-goggles are thick enough. And it doesn't matter if the frame-rate slows down thru lack of processing power - your reactions are already terrible from the booze.

Yet again, beer is the cause of, and solution to one of life's problems (thanks to Homer for the [slightly paraphrased] quote).