Adrenalin driver breaks Command & Conquer games

Re:Adrenalin driver breaks Command & Conquer games by barrkel on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @03:24AM (#16050651)

This is a tough one for AMD, because while the number of gamers directly affected is low (~1500 daily players on Steam), it hurts the brand badly - people will think other games might lose support also. That kind of FUD is gold for a competitor.

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Re:Adrenalin driver breaks Command & Conquer games by kitsune_ on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @03:57AM (#16050764)

How is this a tough one? What I mean by that is that any marketing & comms person worth their salt would have prevented this employee from ever making this statement in the first place.

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Re:Adrenalin driver breaks Command & Conquer games by slivym on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @05:39AM (#16051113)

The statement is bad but the underlying choice not to fix it probably won't change. If they do fix this it's likely because of the PR backlash rather than because fixing compatibility with a very old API is important.

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Re:Adrenalin driver breaks Command & Conquer games by LoSboccacc on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @06:23AM (#16051249)

there's a good correlation between age, having disposable income and a preference for older games.

AMD is playing with the fire here.

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Re:Adrenalin driver breaks Command & Conquer games by ForRealsies on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @08:53AM (#16051815)

lmao You guys are a riot.

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Re:Adrenalin driver breaks Command & Conquer games by dang on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @01:24AM (#16058946)

Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to HN? We ban accounts that do that repeatedly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:Adrenalin driver breaks Command & Conquer games by drucik on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @06:19AM (#16051235)

Tbf fixing compatibility with a very old API might become important _because_ of PR backlash.

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Re:Adrenalin driver breaks Command & Conquer games by megaman22 on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @07:33AM (#16051496)

And these aren't even obscure, fly-by-night titles. Command an Conquer 3 and Red Alert 3 were AAA titles, no matter how tarnished and moribund the franchise is today.

They aren't particularly old titles, either... maybe this is just me, but most of my gaming time is on DX9 games older and more obscure than that. I'm not in the market for a new GPU now, but this wouldn't encourage me to switch from Nvidia.

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