D.P. said:
As an update, I found some newer reviews and it looks like things a more even quality wise. But the fact that pretty much all of Nvidias hardware can do H.264 at Full 1080P resolution while with ATI only the X1800 and up can do it is quite important.
If someone wanted a gfx card that can do H.264 you can go as cheap as a GF6200 with Nvidia, but with ATI you will need an X1800, but these aren't made any more with production stopped back in December so really the only cards that ATI can do full H.264 on are the X1900 cards.
That to me is a big difference.
I still haven't found a reason why Nvidia drivers haven't got H.264 enabled though. The feature has been in the drivers since the very first 80 dets and was talked about back in july. Recent news about it in January but still no release date. Adds to my suspicion of Nvidia doing something pretty awesome sometime soon, e.g. Cebit. Nvidia have been amazingly quite over the last couple of months. What happened to the 85 drivers?
i thought it was because of a hardware bug in the early revision cores of the 6x00 series, so it was disabled...
However its still disabled today... which makes no sense at all???
Goksly said:
Maybe something is
detrimentally wrong with the drivers
maybe...i mean
apparently ATI drivers suck, and Nvidias rule, however ATI release drivers monthly, and are constantly getting speed bumps or bug fixes out. However Nvidia you have to wait MONTHS for official drivers, and bugs that was there in august 05, are
STILL there today. There last official driver is from late november also (81.98 was updated for new card support, but nothing else added since the original from november)... Why so few updates?