Story was superficial tbh and suffers greatly from the same issues as other open world RPGs: you should be driven for a quick resolve due to an impending doom (personal or world ending), but you're doing relative meaningless side quests without any repercussions
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As for a city, I think Novigrad was pretty good, too, and in general I liked all the communities from TW3.
Still though, what does it better? Only games I would argue is RDR 2 and GTA 5 but their game worlds are empty and don't have as much going on not to mention are just as scripted, if not more so.
Can't give any credence to AMD for anything, if you do then the "nvidia invented everything and AMD make poor copies" narrative can't be maintained.
Seriously like you i have watched this BS for more than a decade, its incredibly childish, remember the reaction to Mantle? Even some tech jurnoes reaction to it? Suddenly Microsoft was the gamers darling and DX11 was the most perfect thing ever created....
5 minutes before everyone agree DX11 was crap!
Because Nvidia didn't do it.
Mantle was great, we wouldn't have vulkan without it but as per amd fashion, they didn't want to be stuck supporting it or pushing to get it in games (like all their tech.) hence why they handed over the reigns. I was a big fan of mantle because it worked wonders in BF 4 and hardline on my aging cpu with a powerful gpu but alas, amd couldn't or didn't want to get it in more games.
The problem with Free-Sync is its a better solution than what Nvidia had, so it can't stand that AMD had anything to do with it.
First they rubished it, then they tried to prove it was rubbish with apples to oranges data because simply saying it was rubbish didn't work, and now its just AMD claiming something that had already existed all along.
Bloody hell...
Fee-Sync does the same thing G-Sync does, only AMD recognised you can do it without a specialised hunk of £150 hardware, all you needed was a handshake between the Displays V-Blank Scaler and the GPU, this is the bit Nvidia thought you need the hardware for.
That scaler just needed to take instructions from the GPU as to when or not to display an image, a variable V-Blank scaler already existed, all it needed was a modification to accept software instructions, AMD created that software and R&D'ed the V-Blank scaler modification, manufactures follow those instruction pretty much now as default for monitors and increasingly TV's.
So you're now a more qualified monitor tech expert than 2 of the best reviewers in the market?
Post evidence to go along with your ridiculous statements as no one takes such posts seriously anymore.
Gsync HDR (aka Gsync Ultimate) came out in like 2018, back then a module was required, AMD didn't have a solution for 144Hz HDR with guaranteed 1000 nits, Nvidia did, hence why a module was necessary and why the whole Ultimate certification exists, to offer that guarantee . Even today none of AMD's FreeSync tiers guarantee a luminance maximum for HDR.
Obviously on modern displays things have changed and up to 1000 nits is possible without a module. You're talking about the early days, so that's what it was like during those early days of VRR factoring in HDR performance. At the baseline ALL of these VRR displays follow the same adaptive sync standard that has been dictated. It's the additional features that once was only possible with the Gsync module.
Yes the module is basically defunct now since monitor's onboard scalers have been able to do what the gsync module has been able to do for some time. But let's not gloss over the actual specs and timeframes in question.
It wasn't even just hdr and refresh rate related, nvidias gsync module had various advantages over freesync, the first iteration of freesync was basically pointless for a long time because monitor manufacturers were skimping on scalers and so on, there was no low frame rate compensation (majority of monitors had terrible ranges of like 48-75hz), there was and still is on the cheaper models, no variable pixel overdrive to match your fluctuating fps and don't even forget about all the flickering and black screens issues. AMD somewhat resolved some of these with freesync premium certification and as per blurbusters chief, gsync module is still held as the gold standard for a VRR experience but yes, after years, freesync eventually caught up to be in the same league as gsync module and with oled, the advantages it had/has are less important i.e. variable pixel overdrive since oleds pixel response is instant.
To get back on topic.....
RT has existed for decades before it was called RTX.
You're wrong on this too....... Stop falling for nvidia marketing. RTX is not RT..... RTX is nvidias feature set. There are tools, which fall under the RTX umbrella to help add RT.
