The serious and correct reply is:
Half-Life 2 is based on the Half-Life 1 engine. All this crap about being written from scratch is just PR garbage.
Half-Life 1 was based on a mixture of Quake 1 and QuakeWorld, thus Half-Life 2 is still mostly the Quake1 engine. Don't diss it tho, there are...
Patents are the main reason that 3D drivers with sufficiently advanced capabilities cannot be released open-source. ATI must license a lot of patents, both software and hardware, to produce a viable commercial product. Nvidia has the same restriction, since a lot of graphics technology is...
Boogah. This is somewhat a long one, but I'm specifying a specific example since this class of question has been either poorly answered or worded in the past:
- "How, and when, do ATI plan to improve their Linux community relations and support? Does ATI actually read the Linux DFeedback, and...