I think we have quite different levels of quality standards.
Maybe I should explain that a bit:
I want to make games which look as real enough, that it's hard to tell if it's a photo or a in-game screenshot.
Yes, I know it's possible to do with Raytracing and make a game like Dragon's Lair which just shows different pictures in Raytracing quality. But I think it's also nowadays possible to do that in real-time with some limitations.
Long time ago there was a game called Crysis (almost a year ago) which showed us that it's possible even with non-GeForce 8800 cards, but if we go a step further and say that GeForce 8800 is minimum, it should be possible to refine the quality even more.
I saw some months ago that there is a new card called GeForce 9800 GX2, but it's apparently not really +1000 better than a 8800. I think I will wait until the GeForce 10800 GTS comes out and see if it has native OpenGL 2.5 or even OpenGL 3.0 support.
I'm still happy with my 2 years old GeForce 8800 GTS, not even Crysis could bring it down to it's knees with hacked very high DX9 settings (=same as DX10), so I'm still looking for bigger challenges.
Maybe I should explain that a bit:
I want to make games which look as real enough, that it's hard to tell if it's a photo or a in-game screenshot.
Yes, I know it's possible to do with Raytracing and make a game like Dragon's Lair which just shows different pictures in Raytracing quality. But I think it's also nowadays possible to do that in real-time with some limitations.
Long time ago there was a game called Crysis (almost a year ago) which showed us that it's possible even with non-GeForce 8800 cards, but if we go a step further and say that GeForce 8800 is minimum, it should be possible to refine the quality even more.
I saw some months ago that there is a new card called GeForce 9800 GX2, but it's apparently not really +1000 better than a 8800. I think I will wait until the GeForce 10800 GTS comes out and see if it has native OpenGL 2.5 or even OpenGL 3.0 support.
I'm still happy with my 2 years old GeForce 8800 GTS, not even Crysis could bring it down to it's knees with hacked very high DX9 settings (=same as DX10), so I'm still looking for bigger challenges.