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Here though it is not about blaming software or hardware people.

Here is what John Carmack talks about his troubles with the lack of PC performance due to the multitude of APIs to reach the hardware:

John Carmack: ... That's really been driven home by this past project by working at a very low level of the hardware on consoles and comparing that to these PCs that are true orders of magnitude more powerful than the PS3 or something, but struggle in many cases to keep up the same minimum latency. They have tons of bandwidth, they can render at many more multi-samples, multiple megapixels per screen, but to be able to go through the cycle and get feedback... “fence here, update this here, and draw them there...” it struggles to get that done in 16ms, and that is frustrating.

Later in the article John expands on the thick software problem.

The article is here: http://pcper.com/reviews/Editorial/John-Carmack-Interview-GP...

[lutorm]

That quote is a bit out of context. The paragraph starts "I don't worry about the GPU hardware at all. I worry about the drivers a lot...". He's talking specifically about GPU performance.