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Nvidia specular lighting

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timbo2410

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I'm doing a new system and I remember from long ago that there was something about Nvidia graphics cards that enable "shine" on aircraft ... I think it was called specular lighting ... probably wrong with the name ... but anyway, does ATI now do it? or is Nvidia still the way to go to get all the eye candy? :ernae:
 
As far as I know, ATI doesn't support specular shine. It happened sometime many years ago when they updated the drivers. Before that (and before my old card died), I did have specular shine. So yes, my next card will be a Nvidia...
 
So the newer cards still don't support it? bugger! I've been told to go for a 5850 vid card as it is better than a gtx 2.. So that leaves me wondering what to get?
 
can anybody show me a screen shot of this specular shine, or lack of from a ATI system and then possibly from a Nvidia system to compare ? That would be really helpful
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Up until last year both ATI and Nvidia regularly updated their offerings. ATI have released new cards for 2010 but Nvidia's Fermi range seems to have been stuck on the back burner in favour of other product lines. Always favoured Nvidia because ATI never renewed support for specular shine. I think 3.5 was the last ATI driver to support it.
 
My old system had sli gtx 7800's and CFS3 looked very nice ... but as my new sytem is being built now and Nvidia don't have a DX11 card out, I'm left with getting an ATI card ... I was just wondering if anybody had screenshots from both Nvidia and ATI so I could compare the difference .. still, when Nvidia do put out a DX11 card I can always upgrade :applause:
 
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