HomeLAN - Do you think it was a mistake to release a line of MX budget cards with the GeForce name that don't contain many of the DirectX features that the current GeForce line has?
Tony Tamasi - We took a lot of heat, but the reality is no naming convention is perfect and GeForce4 Mx is a great product. To call it anything else would have been a disservice to the product. All in all, the GeForce4 Mx line-up is solid and delivers and incredible amount of performance for the money. It really has more in common with a GeForce4 than it does with any of our previous generation products. The GeForce4 MX offers a competitively priced solution and marks a significant increase in performance over similar products in the market while adding new features such as Accuview Antialiasing and nView multi-display support, characteristic of the GeForce4 family. The GeForce4 MX was designed specifically for the mainstream PCs. Typically, mainstream owners play games like The Sims, Rollercoaster Tycoon and Who Wants to Be A Millionaire that don’t take advantage of pixel and vertex shaders and don’t require the high-end graphics processing power of a GeForce Ti. To include those features in the GeForce4 Mx would have forced a higher priced product. If a mainstream customer wants vertex and pixel shaders, we offer the GeForce4 Ti 4200 for well under $200 dollars.

Release Highlights:

• Up to a 25% increase in performance
• nView™ 2.0 multi-display technology increases productivity and provides the necessary tools to control the way users access and view applications.
• NVRotate™ enabling image rotation on today’s advanced flat panel displays.
• NVKeystone™ allows for real-time image correction on portable projectors and heads-up displays.
• Digital Vibrance Control™ allows users to adjust color controls to achieve accurate, bright colors under all conditions.
• New control panel streamlines user interface and enables faster and easier access to all video settings
• Robust Channels enables higher faster performance and better stability for all applications through fail-safe paths in the drivers
• CineFX Simulator allows developers to use Cg—“C for graphics”—to write complex shaders in a high level language faster and more easily than before.
• NVIDIA’s patented Unified Driver Architecture (UDA) – supports all products in single a driver binary

First of all, get your facts straight before making any accusations about bad netcode etc, here's the real deal:

there is NOTHING wrong with the netcode, its actually quite excellent. BUT, in the demo there is a SERVER - bug, that causes all those "warning connection problem" and making people's ping go up to 1023. Also there is a problem in the client that can cause the server to go fubar.

This has all been adressed in the final version.

Also, the crash-bug, ie; you get a black screen and it crashes back to the desktop with an error log saying "invalid videomode specified"

Solution: If you have ANY sort of Nvidia REFRESHRATE-FIX,/Refresh Force etc remove it, or move back to 60hz for the resolution that you play with, there's a bug with those sort of programs that causes the crash. This has of course also been adressed. //Tony

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Differences between the vertex shaders of the NV3x and ATi's R300 are primarily down to the NV3x's advantage of higher actual number of executable instructions through its 256 max static instructions via loops and branching (65,536 versus R300's 1024, also the NV3x flow control of loops and branching is data-dependent versus the R300's constant-based; the loops and branching abilities greatly reduces bandwidth consumption and may mean both the R300 and NV30's maximum vertex processing performance will be limited by current CPUs), an additional address vector (2 versus R300's single one), additional temporary vectors (16 versus R300's 12) and the availability of high-precision trigonometric math functions (SIN, COS, both not available in the R300).