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Originally Posted by stabiz
The 1950 was launched way earlier than SH4.
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Hadn't the discussion at the time been that the box art/min specs/etc for the game had been completed a bit before the X1900 series launched?
In any case, it's rather a moot point - none of the X1Ks differed much in design, just number of shader units/etc. And the "X1300 to X1800"
were listed as 'supported' cards, and none of them work with sun bloom. I would imagine the difference is simply between the X1K's not-quite-full SM2.0 support compared to the HD 2900/38xx series. Or, perhaps, there is something about the built-in "gamma-corrected AA" quality on the X1K cards that caused it (GeForce 8-series users are well aware that enabling "gamma-corrected AA" disables the sun bloom on those cards).
But that's kind of spinning off into the weeds.
Point is, the X1K series never worked with sun bloom in Sh4. It's now two generations old, and ATI has 2 generations newer cards that DO all
completely, in every detail work with SH4. And the new 3850 - as affordable as it is - blows the doors in performance off in it, too. Not only does it WORK better than my X1K card, but it's twice as fast, and it is a LOT more quiet (no kidding - when the X1K went into 3d mode, I could hear it over the case - but I cannot hear my HD 3850 at all, ever, under any circumstances. It stays whisper quiet!)