NVIDIA tilbakekaller alle GeForce 8800 GTX/GTS

[zathan]

http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=391

 

An NVIDIA engineer, who wishes to remain anonymous, has just clued us in on the whole deal. This engineer claims that while allegations of poor gaming performance are correct, the reason is not really poor drivers. Brace yourselves for the truth.

 

Right after the G80 was taped out, NVIDIA discovered a bug in the vertex shader that causes the GPU to generate slightly incorrect geometry transformation data. The difference was minimal enough to escape attention but it was significant enough to render a scene incorrectly.

 

Now, what's the big deal about a slightly incorrect scene? After all, you can't even tell the difference between 2xAA and 4xAA. What would a slightly different scene matter when you are zipping along at 60+ fps? Well, that's what YOU think.

 

Here's the bummer. What it really means is that objects can be rendered off to one side. For FPS gamers, this can cause shots aimed at those objects (like your opponents) to miss when they should really hit. In RTS games, it may cause you to click on the wrong unit or send your units to attack a different target. So, yeah, you can now blame your poor gaming skills on a bug.

 

The Solution

 

There is no solution actually. NVIDIA engineers have been cracking their heads over this bug and came to the conclusion that there is no solution other than to correct the bug. So, what does this mean for current GeForce 8800 GTX/GTS users?

 

Well, the engineer isn't too sure what NVIDIA marketing has in mind, but s/he thinks it will be one of the following "solutions" that they have been throwing around the last few weeks :

 

  1. NVIDIA might recall all affected cards and replace them with GeForce 8900 GTX/GTS cards when they are released in the "near future".

     

  2. NVIDIA might recall all affected cards and replace them right away with GeForce 8600 Ultra/GTS cards, and offer those affected a free day-trip to NVIDIA HQ and lunch with NVIDIA CEO and President, Huang Jen-Hsun.

[dado]

LOL det er jo 1 april i dag he he:) Hadde du skrivi det før så hadde jeg nok banka meg i hodet fordi jeg kjøpte meg en ny 8800gts he he:)

[Duddelmus]

Hahahaha!

Blei redd her

[P__i__Nx]

sko ønska det va sant eg .

 

I mitt tilfelle gjelde jo nesten d her.