Not the case for Crysis 2. Crytek scaled it back a lot, and actually focused on making a game rather than just a tech demo. When it came out, it was DX9 only. Later they released a patch that introduced DX11 support and had some bigger textures, but at launch it was a DX9 title.

Well if you really are unable to do a minimal amount of research to find out, ok I guess that's a reason not to buy, but I would think it wouldn't be to hard to just, you know, look shit up. nVidia's site is a good place and not hard to get to.

Also if you are talking desktops, and I assume you are from the use of the term board, then you are talking nonsense. The rebranding has been in the laptop space, not the desktop space. With laptops they do have some mixed naming as there are 600 series parts from their 40nm and 28nm lines. With desktops all 600 series parts are 28nm.

Ultimately it really doesn't matter as what you should check are features and speed, not an arbitrary choice of what technology they use.

But whatever you like to justify your purchase decisions.

If it has graphical glitches, ya that's probably the game, Poor performance, depends on. The problem with Rage is it is OpenGL and AMD has shitty GL drivers, they have for a long time. nVidia has long had GL and DX drivers that performed equally, AMD has long had GL problems (used to be much worse than now).

If it is BSODs or GPU driver crashes though? No, that is 100% on the graphics drivers. No matter what the program does, it shouldn't bring the system down. Anything running in Ring 3 can't bring the system down without a problem form something in Ring 0, or a piece of hardware. That means the drivers (though they are largely Ring 3 these days) or card.

Drive quality has long been a problem with AMD (formerly ATi) graphics cards. There was a time when they were near unusable for anything but 2D. Some of the old Rage products you wanted to run with the included Windows drivers not the ATi provided ones because they had so many problems. They've gotten a lot better, but they still have more issues.

An example of a recent issue I've run in to was with Sony Vegas. It uses GPGPU to accelerate video effects. For nVidia, it uses CUDA, for AMD it uses OpenCL (since those are what they prefer). I was having all kinds of crashing issues with it on my work system, which had an AMD card. I tried disabling GPU acceleration, no crashes. So I tried an nVidia card in it. Again, no crashes. Not long after Sony released an update disabling a bunch of GPU effects on AMD cards until AMD fixed their driver (which they just did not long ago and Vegas has now reenabled the effects).

You cant get addicted to jumping off highway overpasses

Well... Maybe you can. Then to rephrase: you cant take meth with a bungee cord

Right. This republican attitude might work in certain circles of callous and selfish, but those actualy interested in a better society, anyone with a heart and a brain, will try to our darnedest to make sure tea party douchebags like yourself dont get to make policy decisions.

lsd is a drug

caffeine is a drug

therefore, they are the same legal entity

no, this is just intellectual dishonesty, sophistry, or you're just stupid

marijuana should be legal, but there's drugs out there where the effects are so horrible, they should stay illegal. simply because the effects of those drugs being illegal, while bad, are less than the effects drugs being legal: screwed up lives

methamphetamine. what this shit does to you? permanently? this shit should be legal?

then we get into a discussion about how safe environments and how carefully monitored dosing prevents tragedies

what the fuck?

when did society get in the business of enabling drug use?

if someone has fallen through the cracks and is addicted to drugs, society should treat this person, not put them in jail. but this should be reactive, not proactively enable "safe" use of highly addictive substances that really fuck up your life. addiction is a REAL PROBLEM, not a vague idea that a little application of will power can get over.

of course, some treatment is ineffective. with more resources, they might be effective

well yeah, with inffinite resources, even the most helpless basically suicidal self-destructive addict can be saved

but we don't live in a world of infinite resources

there's a difference between recreational casual use, and a person that is basically trying to kill themselves in slow motion

highly addictive substances have probably destroyed more lives in the history of homo sapiens than all wars combined, by orders of magnitude. making it all legal really just enables a lot of us walking around with the seeds of self-destruction to go full blown self-destructive. there has to be a barrier in society against the use of really vile substances

you have to understand what chronic drug use really is: suicide. society is not interested in enabling suicidal tendencies. therefore, there will always be illegal substances. come to grips with this, naive idealists

don't engage in sophistry and reductive nonsense when you talk about drugs. it is one of the most if not most complicated issues ever to face mankind. there are no easy answers, and there is really just a lot of pain, no matter what the legal approach

all i can say about drug use with certainty is this: as soon as someone says the answer is simple, and that simple answer is complete legalization or complete prohibition, you are dealing with a fucking moron who doesn't understand drugs

You are sooo wrong, sadly. This woman has gone far beyond being an idiot. Even an idiot at some point would know to just shut up. This is much worse. She is full-blown narcissistic paranoid-delusional loony-bin material. There is no person left on this planet that she will listen to, because EVERYONE who says anything negative to her or about her is automatically assumed to be in cahoots with the EEEVIL Sheriff Garcia. This includes all kinds of random internet people on Twitter, the commenters on the photographer's original article (the initial "lynch mob"), as well as the commenters on the PetaPixel article. According to her all of these random people are part of a conspiracy run by this Sheriff Garcia that she's trying to get rid of. If she ever finds out about Slashdot we'll all be included in the conspiracy too, I'm sure.

Even if you got the Christ-figure in this drama, her immaculately-conceived hero Louis Guthrie, to speak to her about this, it wouldn't make any difference. In fact, the next article on her blog afterward would be something like, "Guthrie Sells Soul to Garcia, Satan Wins!" And it will be yet another extensive, zig-zaggy, rambling diatribe about how the whole world is trying to destroy her (and by extension, how the world is trying to destroy the disabled children she has supposedly dedicated her life to serving).

This woman seriously needs to be put in a padded room and given some intense psychological help before she ends up living on the streets arguing with imaginary people. It may be as simple as a dose of lithium to even out a manic episode. I'd hate to think she's been this crazy her whole life and nobody's noticed, but that's not unheard of either. Witness Michelle Bachmann.

P.S. It's really interesting going through the comments on the PetaPixel article. With her odd writing style it's quite easy to identify the dozen or so comments she made in support of herself WHILE PRETENDING TO BE OTHER PEOPLE. Hint: She's the only one who keeps harping about Jay Lee (the photographer) "taking down her websites" and slipping in references to "Garcia". Oddly she never says a word against her beloved web host GoDaddy, the ones who actually took her sites down.

So if these potential criminals are all finding other lines of work, who's committing the violent crimes in the US? Just that.. there are rather a lot of them.

And you'll need to use your social skills when your sister gets raped because you'll only find out about it afterwards, and she'll need some support. You owning a gun will be of fuck all use when she's in another town in some bloke's apartment.

This is not true at all. I do this on a regular basis and it's enjoyable to do in rails.

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