Re:Nvidia Playing with Fire
by dimgl on Monday March 26, 2018 @02:56AM
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Nvidia being dicks to gamers because of Gameworks is like saying Apple are dicks to business people because of iOS. Both Nvidia and Apple create software products and only want their products to be run on their walled garden. The fallout of Gameworks wasn't even that bad as Nvidia released the source code under a restricted license and allowed AMD to optimize their drivers for the API. So like... what...?
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Re:Nvidia Playing with Fire
by PaulKeeble on Monday March 26, 2018 @06:29AM
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Given the stated goal of Gameworks was to get usage out of high end GPUs using the latest effects in games that were otherwise ported poorly from console I think it has really been delivering. Now we have the opposite problem where these special effects can genuinely be hard to run on anything but the latest and greatest. It is a better situation than the alternative where you could 4x SSAA a console ported game and max out the FPS.