It's just further confirmation of what is already known, whether people choose to accept is another matter....
NVidia go through to a lot of effort to optimise games even when they do not have access to the the source code, they take personal responsiblity for how a game runs on their hardware without complaining if/when things fall short.
AMD prefer to complain constantly because they have an ideology of developers doing all of the work instead of them which has no real basis in reality (developers don't give a **** about PC) and whenever performance is less than the competition they never fail to accuse NVidia of underhanded tactics.
Complete twaddle again, you can say it as often as you like but it's still not true.
AMD, without access to source code released an optimised driver before the launch of Watchdogs, this is their own work improving performance. YOu keep claiming they want to leave everything up to dev's and ignore that they work with far MORE dev's than Nvidia and for longer. Again I'll bring up the Stalker example, under TWIMTBP Stalker was a buggy pile of crap, Nvidia were happy with that and offered no support to the point where they asked AMD for help, who offered support adding DX10 or 11 to the game, fixing many of the bugs and getting it running better.
You keep stating this crap that is absolutely, categorically not true that AMD don't bother working with dev's.
It's also been stated for basically a decade on multiple titles that Nvidia has dev's keep AMD out of development of TWIMTBP titles, now when AMD does the same thing since their game development platform was increased drastically 3-4 years ago, nvidia pretends it's never done it, enough time has passed to throw that accusation out there like Nvidia don't do it.
AMD's game developer program encompasses more games than TWIMTBP now, more devs say they hate working with Nvidia and find AMD helpful. AMD released source code of TressFX for anyone including Nvidia to use, while Nvidia claim they protect theirs like "everyone else does", even though we know this isn't true. There is no proof, absolutely no hint that AMD's philosophy is to let game dev's "do all the work". Their philosophy is to help game dev's do what the game dev's want. Not push their own idea's on to game devs. They make TressFX and let whoever wants to use it, use it, they work to improve it, make the performance better and game devs are free to adapt it or use it in any way they like. Nvidia pays a company to use their version, they way they want. They can get help only if they are doing something that promotes Nvidia.
He failed to mention that they offer source licensing, which they only announced AFTER accusations about hiding the source code from dev's, they also refused to say how much it cost and didn't offer a source code licence as a default option before they were accused. nvidia could be offering Gameswork licensing for 100k without source code and 50million with source code.... just because they offer the option doesn't mean it's a realistic option for any devs to utilise while Nvidia can claim it's an option, while refusing to say how much it costs.
Again I'd ask Nvidia guys to explain how Nvidia, with a paid for title in Watchdogs, with a company they partner with, who have been involved all along.... do nothing to prevent their partner who they pay from releasing dumbed down (graphically) versions of Watchdogs, Division... everything else they do.
Well done Nvidia, your work seeing these graphics options throughout development and doing nothing when Ubisoft turn them all off, brilliant. Also all that work with the dev's "helping" Ubisoft... helping them launch a game not ready with huge stuttering problems for AMD and Nvidia users. Thank god they had Nvidia's help otherwise Watchdogs would just be a joke. ......
Funny that Nvidia's biggest (only really) game partner, Ubisoft, is now easily the worst big game dev in PC< actively sabotaging PC games, releasing games that run like utter ****. Fantastic advert for how helpful and involved Nvidia is with game devs isn't it.
