Originally posted by: evolucion8
Originally posted by: apoppin
The way you put it, makes it sound like a conspiracy
-i was being facetious
AFaiK,
twiimtbp is a program designed to help the devs utilize Nvidia cards to their fullest
- it is quite a good program really that does not preclude ATi at all - it is up to ATi and the devs to communicate well - or we have hotfixes
Kinda of a conspiracy, do you remember original Far Cry? A game which was optimized for half precision for nVidia cards, Lost Planet? A game with lots of shader dependant texture reads which was created originally for Xbox 360 which in such case, it was supposed to run flawlessly on ATi hardware? Or DeadSpace, which it runs great on ATi, runs much faster on nVidia, Cryostasis which is a pita, original Crysis which took a lot of driver revisions to match (Or outperform) nVidia in some scenarios. Doom 3 which used a look up table which was slow on ATi hardware. ATi isn't holy though, they artificially crippled the Anti Aliasing on Call of Juarez in DX10 so it would run in shader hardware which benefits ATi and affected nVidia.
From my perspective when comparing graphics and stuff, Games under the ATi Get in The Game program tends to have huge amount of shaders and normal resolution textures, which make the game to look realistic, while games under TWIMTBP program tends to look a bit blocky with huge amount of textures and less shaders which gives a look of a CG, I like both looks though.
http://www.hardocp.com/article...wxMCwsaGVudGh1c2lhc3Q=
Developer Relations
Once again, we feel compelled to talk about developer relations with AMD and NVIDIA. In this case, however, the situation is reversed from our last evaluation of Cryostasis. In the short collection of splash screens in Demigod?s startup routine is a great big AMD logo, stating "The future is fusion." So, it seems that AMD was on top of this release for once.
On the first page of this article, we asked the question: Will NVIDIA video cards suffer for AMD?s involvement in Demigod?s development. No, they do not suffer. AMD?s video cards do outperform NVIDIA?s offerings consistently in Demigod, but it is nowhere near as one-sided as we saw in Cryostasis. This is a part of AMD that is not flexed enough. If Demigod is any indicator, it appears that GPU manufacturers can actually work with game developers to make their games actually run better, not just more exclusive.
That's why in many scenarios, the ATi GPU goes underutilized in such games and hence, less overheating. ATi hardware loves long complex shaders with huge amounts of math processing which will run slower on nVidia hardware, while nVidia hardware loves huge amount of short shaders and lots of dependant texture reads which doesn't help at all ATi's Superscalar architecture, before HD architecture, the difference was less noticeable than now.
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