Battlefield 2 Demo

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IntRed Wrote:Mind you EA made themselves very unpopular, dx 8 cards are \'officially\' not supported, meaning the geforce 4 TI cards do NOT work with this game, due to the shaders. (note that Nvidia sponsors this game), now for some weird reason the Ati 8500 (a dx8 based vid card) actually runs this game
Insiders believe Dice, and EA got some cash from Nvidia to make the game incompatible with the TI cards so gamers need to upgrade, and somehow they forgot about the Ati card hehe

not quite correct in my opinion, although they\'re both dx8 cards, the Ti version is directx 8.0, while the ATI version is directx 8.1.
Now these differences seem small, and they are, heh. The only difference is that the directx 8.1 cards can handle longer and more complex shaders. I think this is the reason the Ati card still works with BF-2, as the shaders are probably dx8.1+

Then again, you might be right