Witcher 3 nvidia gameworks!

It happens though, you get a series of games specifically enhanced for certain hardware brands.
AMD have dominated the last year or 2 of games (not in performance, just enhancements and so), so not surprising Nvidia now will do the same, and then AMD , then Nvidia and so on and so on..
You AMD guys have had your turn, now it's our turn :P
 
Surely this violates all kinds of non-competitive laws? How is this allowed to go on? This takes a product that should work fine on different brands of hardware, and alienates the other brand for simply being a competitor, and the end-user suffers. That doesn't seem right at all.
 
From opening post link:

"Here are some quotes from AMD's Robert Hallock on this matter:
Gameworks represents a clear and present threat to gamers by deliberately crippling performance on AMD products (40% of the market) to widen the margin in favor of NVIDIA products"

Lol, 9 months later they do not have even 20% market share. Stop crying losers, release some decent stuff and I do not have to pay £900 for top nvidia card.
 
CHokKA said:
Surely this violates all kinds of non-competitive laws? How is this allowed to go on? This takes a product that should work fine on different brands of hardware, and alienates the other brand for simply being a competitor, and the end-user suffers. That doesn't seem right at all.
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Not at all, though it wouldn't look good on nVidia if it came to light they were actively implementing artificial performance limitation on non-nVidia hardware using gameworks.

Much of it is just people not understanding game development and a bit of AMD trying to capitalise on that - games use closed dll and/or static linked libraries all the time that neither AMD or nVidia have access to the source of and manage to optimise around fine.
 
There needs to me a general format of libraries so that both companies can edit away at their desire.

However, considering its been a good few decades without any vision regarding this, i doubt it will happen.
 
This queue forming up to kerbstomp AMD is bad news for gaming. Nvidia are already able to charge £450+ for the 980, which lets face it, is uncomfortably close to a mid-range part. And sadly people are lapping it up, like a pitiful herd of so many myopic sheep. It can be argued that AMD aren't exactly a paragon of virtue either, but its getting dangerously one sided now. Nvidia having a monopoly will only benefit Nvidia's shareholders and senior management, who are probably already busy laughing at us. The inane, life wasting, video game playing child-idiots that they view us as. Their steadily growing heard of pathetic cash cows.
 
^^ nVidia are more indifferent than laughing at their customers, in the words of one employee "the market will bare higher prices, we see no need to reduce prices when our customers will pay".
 
Rroff said:
Not at all, though it wouldn't look good on nVidia if it came to light they were actively implementing artificial performance limitation on non-nVidia hardware using gameworks.

Much of it is just people not understanding game development and a bit of AMD trying to capitalise on that - games use closed dll and/or static linked libraries all the time that neither AMD or nVidia have access to the source of and manage to optimise around fine.
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What bugs me in the case of The Witcher though, is the gtx770 = R290. That's just one sided devs all the way. :rolleyes:
 
Wucked said:
This queue forming up to kerbstomp AMD is bad news for gaming. Nvidia are already able to charge £450+ for the 980, which lets face it, is uncomfortably close to a mid-range part. And sadly people are lapping it up, like a pitiful herd of so many myopic sheep. It can be argued that AMD aren't exactly a paragon of virtue either, but its getting dangerously one sided now. Nvidia having a monopoly will only benefit Nvidia's shareholders and senior management, who are probably already busy laughing at us. The inane, life wasting, video game playing child-idiots that they view us as. Their steadily growing heard of pathetic cash cows.
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Completely agree, I hope AMD can claw back some of the market because a lack of competition will be bad for everyone, I'd hope even the most ardent Nvidia fan would recognise that.

I've never really understood the weird levels of brand loyalty that exist with hardware and other technology, I just buy whatever is best within my budget at the time, I've switched between the two over the years.
 
opethdisciple said:
They mean in this game, being game works, a 770 will deliver the same experience as a 290.

Except the 770 will have access to all the Nvidia goodies in the game which the 290 wont. ;)
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There aren't that many extra "goodies". Hindering the performance of a faster card to look just a like weaker one, is a cra**y move on their part. Also they've said somewhere, that Recommended means high quality 30fps, just the same as PS 4. PC Gods and all that. :rolleyes:
 
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