um, nothing new here... or 'hidden/cheating etc' I even saw one of the far cry dev's talking just yesterday in one of the interviews over the whole vs1/2/3 thing about how one of the FC patches reduced many the nv3x shaders to version 1.1 to overcome performance problems.

Well we all know nobody bought a Nv3x to see PS2.0. I mean who would even be that dumb, as to spend 500$ on a "DX9" card that sux a** at DX9? Geeze get real like duh! Everybody saw the 3dmark03 results, that are over a 18 months old. Well thats what the Farcry Devs did thats why they DUMB DOWN the shaders for the DUMBYS who bought the cards. But they will have a patch for the 6800 so it wont be the dunnce of the shader class. Heck they might even run some 3.0 top of the class shaders. Now Now, yes the old ATI smartys are only going to go 2.0+ But they wont say its a 3.0 card. Only nVidia needs to lie to there dumba** apologists. LETS KEEP THE HEAT ON!

nv3x is a 2.0 card, it doesn't matter that it may be slower than it's competition, it is still fully 2.0 capable, and if the dev's choose to force it through a 1.x path that's their prob, it's still not a lie to call it a 2.0 card.

I think you'll find the FC dev's like the nv40 a lot and the ps2/3 patch for FC will get an official release some time arround, maybe even before the nv40 cards are at retail. then you'll be winging that the 'r3/4xx is only loosing cycles to lack of branching, it's a better card otherwise' instead..

I am surprised that people didnt already know about this. There's even a tweak that turns on/off PS2 on nvidia cards. Its just the same as the Half-Life 2 issue, that we learned about a long time ago. They also used a separate NV path. I am also surprised there's a load of thickheads that see's this as an opportunity to whine about 6800... although they dont have the card, and never seen the card. The ATI 'fanboys' needs to learn to shut up, realise that the only winner between ATI and NVIDIA is the CUSTOMER... The best card wins, and whatever label it has means shit in the end. We DONT KNOW if x800 will beat 6800. We DONT KNOW what cards ATI and NVIDIA have up their sleeves to win the war... and we WILL NOT KNOW that until several months from now, so shut up, shut up, shut up! And lets bury this frigid PS1.1 thing already... Its dreadfully annoying to still see 'news' about it.

You only have to go down the Far cry forums for the last three weeks to know about this. Boy Tommtiti sure are quick NOT, any they only had to look at the Log file to see what version of PS it was using LOL. Both ATI & Nvidia cards have issues with this game until further patches, but yes ATI has better performance when it works.