GA-Hardware has posted a Q&A session with Loyd Case, NVIDIA´s Product Marketing Manager.
Q5: While at the moment, having hardware T&L on your chips doesn´t equate to a phenomenal increase in visual quality due to the fact that there aren´t that many mainstream games out there that support it. Even though it is a good hedge against the future to get a card with T&L, when do you think that we will come to a point where buying a card without hardware T&L will seriously detract from your gaming experience in the majority of games?Read more
A5: Well if you go to:
http://www.nvidia.com/products/geforce2ultra.nsf/xform.html you will see a list of about a hundred games which have all been optimized for NVIDIA`s Transform and Lighting engine. If you take a close look at that list you see that it`s full of really cool titles - like Colin McRae Rally 2, Black and White, Sacrifice and Real Myst. Some of these titles are shipping now, some will be shipping in the near future. Our competitors are also starting to adopt T&L so it won`t be long before not having transform and lighting will seriously detract from the gaming experience.
