Its very interesting how in the past Nvidia's Gameworks program used to cripple AMD cards by using proprietory features but now the shoe is on the other foot. Nvidia sponsored games do include FSR and XESS, even those which were likely funded by Nvidia like DL2 and Cyberpunk. But almost none of the AMD sponsored games support Nvidia features. In fact they seem to be going out of their way to ensure the game does not play to Nvidia's strengths. There is no reason why the Jedi Survivor does not support XeSS or DLSS considering its UE4 title and DLSS integration is just a checkbox if FSR 2 is already implemented. The modder PureDark has already released a Frame Generation mod for the game and is saying DLSS 2 is likely on the way. If a single modder can do this, its quite clear the omission of DLSS and XeSS is intentional. Also the RT in the game as usual is very underwhelming likely because it was developed on AMD cards. RT adds a lot of longetivity to the game. In Cyberpunk, I am looking forward to playing it in the future through 4 bounces and 6 rays which dramatically change the look of the game again. Limiting RT serves no purpose as even AMD cards at some point will get good at RT
Nvidia itself has limited the RT performance of its own dGPUs with not enough VRAM. RT games tend to use more VRAM,as some of the RT data needs to be stored in VRAM.
If Nvidia had included 12GB~16GB on the RTX3070/RTX3070TI,then AMD would be able to show some advantages
You think 40m total PS5s sold is some big number? There were 31m+ Steam users online at the same time yesterday evening. The equivalent PS5 concurrent users number would be 10-20 times less than that.
Some of the most popular PC games are not even on Steam such as League of Legends, Valorant, World of warcraft, Escape from Tarkov etc. The PC gaming userbase dwarfs all consoles combined.
FF15 sold 10m on all platforms.
https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2022/05/final-fantasy-xv-hits-10-million-units-sold-worldwide
Valheim on PC outsold it with no advertisement just word of mouth.
And you think FF16 will somehow outsell every PC game?
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There are PC gaming juggernauts with playerbases bigger than all PS3s + PS4s + PS5s ever sold. You're completely out of touch with reality son.
Which is not the point he was making. If you want to go on about PC gaming,stuff such as The Sims,etc has tons of players. I still play lots of older games which are great. RTS games such as SupCom,StarCraft 2,etc are still great fun. But these are all old games,or based on older engines.
He was making the point about modern mainstream hardware stagnating and as a mainstream PC gamer,I am seeing it happening in front of me for the last 7 years. I hardly know anyone with better than an RTX3080 level dGPU,and most of my gaming friends have worse hardware.
This is limiting the potential of PC as a cutting edge platform. Just because all the RTX4090,etc owners pop up on forums doesn't hide the fact you shouldn't be excuse making for 8GB VRAM stagnation or trash like the RTX4060,RX7600,etc being released today at useless pricing.
After three years,no newly released £300+ card should have 8GB of VRAM. VRAM directly impacts not only RT performance but texture quality. One of the biggest advantage PC had over consoles is texture quality and to mod older games to have better textures,as people such as
@KompuKare and I have talked about for years.
Modding games is one of the biggest advantages of PC over console,yet these rubbish cards also limit that too. FFS,I literally have to now curate texture mods in older games(at qHD) so I can stay within the 8GB VRAM framebuffer of my dGPU.
PCMR need to stop defending Nvidia,AMD and Intel. All the stupid spin about DLSS,FSR,etc which economy hardware consoles sold on the cheap need to do. Yet we need to do it on dGPUs which cost more than a 3 year console.
For years these companies have been taking the mickey with pricing at the higher end,which has meant hardware for normal users has stagnated. PCMR on forums keep defending this.
There should be situation where nearly three old consoles should be competing in hardware with a mainstream gaming PC,especially as the same consoles are going to be refreshed with better hardware in the next year according to rumours.