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Poll: AMD Screws Gamers: Sponsorships Likely Block DLSS

Are AMD out of order if they are found to be blocking DLSS on Starfield

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The tech channels are taking turns reheating the same conjecture from the original speculation and rewording it in the style of copying homework.

All they have to do to be actual journalists and not rumour mongers is get a source.

A wall of games are listed and no one not even anonymously wants to back this up?

I said it before, there were people ratting on Nvidia when it was being weird with contracts to the point of leaking the paperwork.
 
Cyber-Mav said:
Nvidias statement says they dont do the dodgey deeds. Amds statement is otherwise.

I do know that intel used to do this sort of stuff with dell and HP telling them not to use amd cpus but don't know if that happens now
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Well I would expect Nvidia (or AMD and any other tech company) to say that but the proof is in the pudding. Just one example I can think off was the release of Final Fantasy XIV which rendered useless amounts of tessellation (and in places you would never see it) which crippled AMD cards, but I don't recall Nvidia ever outright blocking 3rd party games from using AMD technology (tbf there hasn't been much to block).

As for Intel they were giving Dell 'marketing funds' in exchange for exclusivity it got so out of control that Michael Dell was quoted at one point saying 'Intel is our best customer'. In the end Dell was losing too much business and they ended up selling AMD CPU's but for a while Intel were determined to use their financial clout to fix the market.
 
hyperseven said:
How long before this devolves and gets locked like the other thread?

What’s up with the missing NVIDIA DLSS support In AMD Sponsored FSR Titles?

AMD paying devs to block DLSS :eek: https://wccftech.com/whats-up-with-the-missing-nvidia-dlss-support-in-amd-sponsored-fsr-titles/
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GN did a two-part piece about this a few days ago.

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HW News - Bad Timing for AMD, Intel Arc Isn't Dead (Again), & Right to Repair Phones

Sponsor: Lexar Ares DDR5 RAM on Amazon https://geni.us/fRSIWIThis hardware news episode talks about confusion regarding Intel Arc's continued existence, AMD ...
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Let's reverse things. All this noise started with Starfield.

Fallout 4 was Nvidia sponsored. Had Nvidia only tech,and runs much better on Nvidia cards. Nobody cared.

Let's say Starfield was Nvidia sponsored. No FSR for a year,just DLSS3. Would anybody say anything - no.
 
CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
Let's reverse things. All this noise started with Starfield.

Fallout 4 was Nvidia sponsored. Had Nvidia only tech,and runs much better on Nvidia cards. Nobody cared.

Let's say Starfield was Nvidia sponsored. No FSR for a year,just DLSS3. Would anybody say anything - no.
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Fallout 4 released in what, 2015? Were AMD even in the game at that point? Why would you not prioritise the brand that dominates the market?
 
RavenXXX2 said:
Not a good look for AMD.

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Its not a good look for PCMR.

Nvidia sell cheaply made GPU's at a performance to cost ratio that can only be justified through DLSS, which is exactly what they do and why, people fall for it hook line and sinker, to such and extent that DLSS is now everything and the moment we don't get it in a AAA game we dawn the proverbial tin foil hats screaming its an AMD lockout conspiracy, not for a single moment to we realise the scam that DLSS is. Nvidia know us all too well. They know we are primed for it.
 
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It shouldn’t be a surprise that companies make sponsorship or partnership decisions not out of the goodness of their heart, but based on commercial decisions that will ultimately affect their bottom line. Sure, DLSS and FSR have brought this into the public eye more recently but this has been going on for years, if not a decade.

Why would AMD allow DLSS into a game they have sponsored and partnered with, to the detriment of their own product and to the advantage of their main competitor? To do so would be an incredibly silly mistake to make. You can argue it’s anti-consumer, but that charge should be levelled at CDPR who made the decision to partner with AMD originally too.
 
MissChief said:
It shouldn’t be a surprise that companies make sponsorship or partnership decisions not out of the goodness of their heart, but based on commercial decisions that will ultimately affect their bottom line. Sure, DLSS and FSR have brought this into the public eye more recently but this has been going on for years, if not a decade.

Why would AMD allow DLSS into a game they have sponsored and partnered with, to the detriment of their own product and to the advantage of their main competitor? To do so would be an incredibly silly mistake to make. You can argue it’s anti-consumer, but that charge should be levelled at CDPR who made the decision to partner with AMD originally too.
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Because without DLSS performance on a lot of these cards is sub par, instead of saying "hang on a minute what is up with that????" they blame AMD for robbing them of that performance by not letting them have DLSS.

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