Let's see what happens next to Valve, ATI, Nvidia (Score 1)

It's not really fair to say that ATI is sleeping with vavle and that Vavle is making optimisations for just ATI cards. Think about it, this is a game company and it wants to get the best customer base, so there are defintely more Nvidia cards then ATI, and besides Valve would gain nothing if they leave out like 70% of what brand of video card the population had. Besides look at the number of games which have the logo "Nvidia the WAy it's meant to be played" I don't see many people complaining about that? Besides the point that still the ATI has a small lead or loss compared to the 5900 ultra in these games (such as UT2003). I both have a geforce 3 ti 200 and a ATI 9800 i must admit, whatever problems ATI had with drivers, they have done a really good job so far (windows drivers of course, i'm not sure about Linux/Unix). And ATI have had a new driver every month Cat 3.7 is the 12th driver so far. Besides it's really hard to say, Nvidia maybe able to catch up with ATI performance- wise in HL2 with their drivers. But as end users it's better to have 2 companies battle it out as this will get them to get better products (and prices down). So until the 50 det drivers arrive and the HL2 benchmark arrives. It's still too early to say.