AMD finally getting some better dev relations?

[thilanliyan]

http://www.semiaccurate.com/2010/03/11/amd-starts-banging-developer-relations-drum/

Hope this works out...better for all of us with 2 strong competitors.

 

[cbn]

With that in mind, AMD's Nigel Dessau kicked off what AMD calls the Gamer's Manifesto, basically that AMD will put gamers first. It has a few major points, drive innovation, industry standards, committing to PC gaming, continuing education, and developer support.

If Consoles become more PC-like, how will this affect AMD/ATI's market position?

Is there anything AMD/ATI can do to make Gaming PCs more attractive to the average consumer?

 

[soccerballtux]

If Consoles become more PC-like, how will this affect AMD/ATI's market position?

Is there anything AMD/ATI can do to make Gaming PCs more attractive to the average consumer?

I think we're kinda dependent on the games market. WoW has gone a long ways for this.
Most other games people would rather play with a controller. FPS and RTS is about the only thing I want to play on PC, controller good for everything else. When I play a game on a console though I do miss my 60fps on my computer though

 

[Kuzi]

Taylor was introduced by saying that Gas Powered Games added Eyefinity support to Supreme Commander II in less than a week. Chris shot back that it was far less than that, probably a few hours getting it up, and a day or three tweaking things like where menus went, and other minutia. He went on to show a video of a single 5870 running Supreme Commander II across three monitors.

So it only takes a few days to get Eyefinity support up and running.

 

[brybir]

So it only takes a few days to get Eyefinity support up and running.

Seems to be in certain games it is a minor tweak. Some other games are probably a bit more involved. Think a racing game vs a game like Supreme Commander where in Supreme Commander you are just stretching the field horizontally over more pixels and tweaking menu placement, vs a racing game where you are trying to an immersed effect of things that are not normally on the main screen.


I really hope that eyefinity takes off. I am about a year off buying a new rig and when the time comes I plan on a 3 monitor eyefinity setup. Hopefully by then I can pick up some decent priced displayport monitors and a good graphics card for about $800.

 

[sandorski]

Turn around is Fair Play. This is AMD's chance to put Code in Games that uses Fermi to convert all Graphics into ASCII code Output. With a message on the screen, "You ASCII for it!"

It will be epic.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

This is nice to see. Rather than get all stuffy about the way Nvidia conducts business I've always felt a little put off by how distant ATI seemed to be in the dev relations department. You could throw a stone and hit half a dozen TWIMTBP titles, while a meteor'd miss any AMD branded games.