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( 3D card thoughts and ramblings... )
Yeah, I know. There's likely some huge gotcha I missed with this idea... but so much of modern 3D hardware is wasted on compatability, or at least a nod towards such. And yet the OS itself is usually breaking compatability with the very games the 'antique' compatability is usually intended to support, like out-dated filtering compared to single-mip-level Anisotropic filtering (which works everywhere Bilinear works) and texture-compression in the face of perhaps a gigabyte or more of memory on future video cards.
Might as well just throw out the cruft entirely, accept the performance hit on older titles, and impress with the visual quality across the board. Get the hell out of the higher-FPS-is-better loop so many benchmarks are fixed on. I'd be much more impressed with the longevity of a video-card that showed minimal performance drop across all the modes of, say, the 3DMark 'Game' tests, regardless of options enabled or disabled. Because that means the video-card won't be rendered obselete in a few years.
Yeah, I know. There's likely some huge gotcha I missed with this idea... but so much of modern 3D hardware is wasted on compatability, or at least a nod towards such. And yet the OS itself is usually breaking compatability with the very games the 'antique' compatability is usually intended to support, like out-dated filtering compared to single-mip-level Anisotropic filtering (which works everywhere Bilinear works) and texture-compression in the face of perhaps a gigabyte or more of memory on future video cards.
Might as well just throw out the cruft entirely, accept the performance hit on older titles, and impress with the visual quality across the board. Get the hell out of the higher-FPS-is-better loop so many benchmarks are fixed on. I'd be much more impressed with the longevity of a video-card that showed minimal performance drop across all the modes of, say, the 3DMark 'Game' tests, regardless of options enabled or disabled. Because that means the video-card won't be rendered obselete in a few years.