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I hope they're good stewards. This reminds me of the Microsoft GitHub acquisition in terms of the importance to the broader community.

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As someone who've played video games and obsessed over graphics cards long before this all started, don't get your hopes up.

as gamers, we got burnt by nvidia way too many times. I'm still holding grudge over shutting down 3dfx.

Nvidia is indeed a terrible company when it comes to open source, etc. however, as someone who has been gaming on desktop hardware since the 6xxx card days, Nvidia hardware has always worked. I switched to Linux full time since the 2XX days (maybe it was the 280 gtx?) and never had a lot of the problems everyone else got on Linux (using only the closed source drivers).

Likewise, their hardware has been rock solid and very performant for me. I bought most of my current setup second hand and they've been going strong for years now.

NVIDIA introduced programs like The Way It's Meant to be Played, optimizing major game titles specifically for NVIDIA architecture, which made competitions like AMD cards underperform in critical releases.

I'm old enough to remember.

Amd and Intel have the same programs.

But they don't/didn't have the same level of market share as Nvidia, particularly in the PC gaming market. Nvidia had 65%-85% market share, and still worked with game studios to make sure their competitions failed. That's the opposite of good stewardship that's all I'm saying.

You are being disingenuous.

They worked with studios to optimize games for their hardware. I don’t think they went around sabotaging other companies hardware. They did what was good for them.

Why did competition not do the same?

I fail to see how this is a problem?

AMD could’ve done the same.

3dfx was going through bankruptcy

3dfx had their own API which locked in game developers. This was far worse than anything NVidia has tried

have you heard of PhysX, Hairworks, or the CUDA moat?

3dfx hardware didn’t run anything but Glide very well. It did run some OpenGL after iD twisted their arm, but it was a really crummy implementation

While ATI and Nvidia never tried to implement a Glide emulation layer, several hobbyists did and 3dfx shut them down with legal threats

Were there any legal barriers to ATI/AMD or Intel implementing CUDA or PhysX on their systems?

You Jews just make shit up lol

No gamer had a problem with nvidia.

Many bought their mobos and video cards.

Mac was pretty hated, Steam was very hated, we didn’t bow to any software company.

Nvidia actually made hardware.

Your propaganda is so awful because it’s always obvious you have no experience

I think they will be, Nvidia has released open source model that also included the data it was trained on. I think they are the only ones that have done that.

Handing out digging spots if you are the shovel manufacturer sounds reasonable.

As long as the spots continue to be compatible with shovels from other shovel manufacturers

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