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Hoo boy. Not a good look AMD. It was scummy when nVidia did this, it’s scummy when you do it.

  • Poopfeast420@feddit.de
    3·
    1 year ago

    I mean this is literally just sponsoring a game

    This usually means only FSR, no DLSS. What does it matter that FSR can be used on all hardware, if it’s the inferior technology? Let those who can use DLSS, and others FSR and XeSS.

    Since it’s your mom-and-pop multi-billion dollar company, it’s fine that they can screw over consumers. They are not like the evil multi-billion dollar company from down the road.

    • valpackett@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      4·
      1 year ago

      Keeping out a vendor-specific one in favor of a vendor-agnostic one seems actually positive to me. That vendor-specific “superiority” must be fought.

      • Sev@pawb.social
        3·
        1 year ago

        Agreed. The net effect of this kind of choice - what the person above you is saying - is exactly the intended effect. It lowers the value of Nvidia users’ cards to them, but, critically, only because Nvidia plays these bullshit exclusivity games.

        Nvidia users can’t get the most out of their cards on a big, popular new game and they’re all mad about it? Well, there’s an easy fix, Nvidia, to prevent these situations in the future: Just open DLSS up to everybody. Boom, done. AMD and Bethesda aren’t the ones being assholes, here, and it’s not their fault that Nvidia’s customers aren’t getting the most out of their cards.

      • Poopfeast420@feddit.de
        0·
        1 year ago

        Blocking support for a superior technology, that almost half of all Steam Users can use, is truly what’s best for gamers.

        It would be one thing if you had to choose between FSR and DLSS (or XeSS), but these aren’t mutually exclusive. You can actually add all three, quite shocking, I know.

        • Mika@beehaw.org
          1·
          1 year ago

          but it’s cool to say fuck the other half entirely for the other 99% of games? because FSR1 isn’t comparable to FSR2 or DLSS and that’s what happens when a game is sponsored by NVIDIA, they don’t allow FSR2. but a game dev could still add DLSS to an FSR2 sponsored title, but why do free labour for NVIDIA?

    • Mika@beehaw.org
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’m not interested in spending my energy on hating the underdog who makes their tech open so everyone can use it and works with 1/10 games when the bigger corporation trying to make a monopoly is working with 9/10 games and forcing out the other. Nvidia goes and tries to force third party card makers to change their AMD branding and nobody says shit but the moment AMD even just sponsors a game (they can still add DLSS if they wanted!) and suddenly its a problem and AMD is “just as bad” as nvidia. no, fuck that. fuck “but but but superior technology!!1”