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what, like freesync, or ryzen? edit2: or 64bit or multicore processors?
FreeSync is AMD’s branding of a standard that already existed.
what G-Sync or that's the standard you think is better?
cmon... 2 cores on the same die was meant to replicate a single core that got 10-15% more performance in multi-threaded loads by using smt vs 90-100% having two actual cores, on the same multi-threaded workload?
well, no because back then amd wasnt cheating benchmarks by running their processors in an insecure state. edit: that mess is still biting intel in their as_ to this day..!
Adaptive Sync has existed as a thing since the 60’s it was needed to make CRT tubes work correctly with different voltages. Matriox and SiS cards had the feature in the 90’s but its support was spotty. There were forums that existed on how to modify monitors to better make it work but it was very hit and miss.
Basically yeah, AMD was in very bad shape at that time, they didn’t get SMT working until 2008 a full 6 years after Intel released their Hyper Threading. Hyper Threading was first introduced by Intel for their Xeon lineup and it made a big difference there it was immensely popular for servers especially those running in “Small Business” because it got similar day to day performance to their Dual CPU systems with only 1 socket.
I can’t really answer this because I don’t know what it means to “cheat benchmarks” and I certainly can’t say for certain they knew at the time what they were doing was going to have any security implications. I mean there was a time when the very idea of adding out-of-order execution was considered “cheating” I remember back in the 90’s people complaining about how the SPARC processors were “cheating” because they weren’t executing commands in the order instructed. And Intel was cheating when they followed with the Pentium Pro, but by the time Citrix got around to adding it, it was a good thing. So I would need some specific examples of these cheats.
Mass Effect LE is not a Xbox Series/PS5 title. It's running previous gen BC on current gen consoles, which would exclude it from any current gen tech implementation in its code.
ME:LE runs natively on gen 9 consoles and always has. It does not run through backward compatibility.
50% type of increase so close to launch is quite something, but I would not underestimate how much motivation from top to bottom, bottom to top would be gained by the employees once the product is in the wild, who know how long it would have took without a release (if ever) got done.
I bet it was a management thing, they wanted it out ASAP probably to meet some Disney contract agreement about a pre May 4’th launch date.
It's almost always management pushing things out the door before things are ready. Your average developer doesn't have any say really. I think we're at a point where games takes 3+ years to properly develop across all platforms and these large corporate entities don't want to hear it so we get much lower standards for MVPs. Say what you will about Blizzard (they're a horrible company), but when D4 comes out, aside from server issues the game will run well.
That and costs have increased some 3x what they were according to the EA/Sony discovery documents that were presented to the EU team.
That's typically been true but they also rarely (if ever) push graphical boundaries. I'm still hoping they let us zoom out more in D4, that was my biggest gripe from the beta.
100% agree on D4, camera was locked in way too close
Yeah we're basically headed off a cliff, I think it's why so many companies are dropping building their own engines and tools and just getting UE5. It's just too damn expensive to compete with those tools any longer. The amount of engineering investment is astronomical, then on top of it asset quality has to grow along side your tools. I think AI could help in the art and programming department for game dev, but people need to understand it still needs a capable human driving it, correcting it, and making their code / art production ready. I'm working on a piece of architectural software in unity and I used GPT 4 to generate a ton of stuff for me to get me started on a recent portion where I had to swap out a bunch of shaders and generate assets. It absolutely cut my work time in about half, but under no circumstance could it have done what I needed it to with just one prompt and been fitted to our code base. Basically, the industry is building better tools, and I think particularly for AAA games it's required. It's why games have become just like Hollywood, no one is willing to take a risk anymore and make new IPs, the bar for success keeps getting higher.
It's honestly interesting that costs for AAA games have increased so much, and for me personally I feel like the entertainment value has dropped, but I think largely due to publishers trying to expand the market for these hugely expensive games to more casual gamers. At the same time the quality of what can be produced by smaller, even solo, developers with a fraction of the cost is amazing. I think it's more comparable to the music industry than movies. There has been an independent element in movies for quite a while & technology doesn't really seem to have disrupted things to the same degree as music. For music, renting a studio is expensive, outsourcing producing, mastering, manufacturing, & distribution of physical media is expensive. Technology has disrupted that to the point you can do it at all yourself at home with a modest investment even as a hobby with no real or pressing need to recoup costs.
If you take away the shoddy release of Jedi Survivor including all the menu issues and performance issues......The game is absolutely amazing. The story, graphics, combat, and the cut scenes are all top notch. This game has great value in that department.
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No I think this is spot on, I was merely referring to the AAA industry. But you're totally right in regards to single A and AA titles, it's amazing what's being made by small groups of passionate people. It still takes a significant effort, a huge amount of time and talent to produce things worth while. I think people are okay with shorter, more focused games these days too so there's also that benefit. I've had my fill of pretty but bland a skin deep open world games.
Nope. She is totally gone. But the one fugly night sister from the 1st game, first duel, shows up with more metal than meat in the 2nd.
If you change your hardware configuration five or six compared to your initial EA account info, EA is likely to lock you out of your account for this game.
Cyberpunk 2077 is Nvidia sponsored and it has AMD FSR.
Correct. FSR is open source right?
In both case, not sure you need the code.
DLSS can not be used my AMD. FSR can be used by any vendor. DLSS is not open source.
yes, it's all on github.
Seem like we say exactly the same thing ?
Yes that all well establish, but I am not sure the link with the original point.
It has one of the lowest implementations FSR. Meanwhile the nVidia version is the latest version of DLSS. nVidia is extremely anti-competitive and zero nVidia users care about it. So there shouldn't be any complaints if you end up on the losing side of that deal.
Available for you to install is NOT the same as something being open source. One of the key aspects of open source software is that it can be altered freely. You cannot alter DLSS to run on AMD hardware without nVidia's permission.
I don't see how not using a competitor's tech is being anti-competitive.