[Guru3D]AMD to Enable Optimizations and Enhancements for Monster Hunter Online

[Azix]

http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/am...or-monster-hunter-online-with-radeon-gfx.html


Making moves.

AMD announced it is collaborating with Tencent Games to bring new features, performance and functionality to Monster Hunter Online (MHO) in January, a leading massive multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG) for the China market.

Beyond the features, performance and functionality improvements, AMD and Tencent also announced a marketing collaboration around MHO in China, including the first cross media "pan-entertainment" contest co-sponsored by Tencent, AMD and Sapphire, including promotions with i-Cafés and university campuses around the country. AMD will also offer customized PCs and AMD Radeon graphics cards for MHO throughout Mainland China.

 

[ShintaiDK]

I dont get the news worthy part. Should we see news/threads for every single game that gets optimization/PR from x vendor?




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[tential]

I dont get the news worthy part. Should we see news/threads for every single game that gets optimization/PR from x vendor?

If you want to post it no one is stopping you. If you don't find te topic interesting let it fall off the front page.

 

[Azix]

That's like asking if we should see a thread for every single benchmark of a game or every single new law suit etc

if its a big enough deal it's worth it. This is huge (for AMD) imo.

Beyond the features, performance and functionality improvements, AMD and Tencent also announced a marketing collaboration around MHO in China, including the first cross media "pan-entertainment" contest co-sponsored by Tencent, AMD and Sapphire, including promotions with i-Cafés and university campuses around the country. AMD will also offer customized PCs and AMD Radeon graphics cards for MHO throughout Mainland China.

Also sounds like it will be the first game to show tressfx on more than just main characters. Hopefully it does. Want to finally see how that works.

 

[railven]

AMD finally realizing that the MMO market is the biggest money cow right now on PC gaming? They've ignored it long enough. Perhaps they will fix their known issues across the multiple MMOs out there now.

WildStar and FFXIV are waiting.

 

[kawi6rr]

Good news lets hope they keep moving on more MMO's.

 

[kawi6rr]

I dont get the news worthy part. Should we see news/threads for every single game that gets optimization/PR from x vendor?

You don't have to post on it if you find it "not news worthy" or is this another attempt to derail an AMD thread?

 

[MrTeal]

AMD finally realizing that the MMO market is the biggest money cow right now on PC gaming? They've ignored it long enough. Perhaps they will fix their known issues across the multiple MMOs out there now.

WildStar and FFXIV are waiting.

Could be. It will be interesting to see how they market little Polaris, as something slot powered (and optionally half height) but with 950-960 levels of performance would be a great upgrade of a lot of limited OEM SFF PCs.

 

[Headfoot]

A new entry into half height cards would be welcome. Not a whole heck of a lot of choice in that space

 

[Despoiler]

RTG making moves. Tencent is a giant partner to pull in. Not only are they huge in China, they own Riot Games who devs League of Legends. LoL being the biggest e-sports title in the world.

 

[dogen1]

Forward + huh? I wonder why they focus on a technique that requires multiple geometry passes, when that's a known limitation of their cards(at least compared to the competition).

Wait, was the forward + lighting the reason that dirt showdown initially ran (very)poorly on kepler cards? Or was it something else?

 

[Headfoot]

isn't forward+ generally more CF/SLI friendly? Maybe that's a reason too since Fijix2 is coming soon

 

[dogen1]

isn't forward+ generally more CF/SLI friendly? Maybe that's a reason too since Fijix2 is coming soon

Idk, maybe. It probably doesn't matter as much as other factors. I mean, plenty of games that use traditional deferred shading(and forward shading) work fine with multi gpu, and everything recent from dice uses tiled deferred(forward+ is essentially tiled forward shading) and those scale excellently with extra gpus, but I'm more inclined to believe that's down to the huge amount of money and resources that's been put into the frostbite engine.

 

[Silverforce11]

Forward + huh? I wonder why they focus on a technique that requires multiple geometry passes, when that's a known limitation of their cards(at least compared to the competition).

Wait, was the forward + lighting the reason that dirt showdown initially ran (very)poorly on kepler cards? Or was it something else?

Forward + is a compute focus implementation, as for Dirt Showdown, it was compute Global Illumination, that was why it ran so badly on Kepler. It was the reason touted by TechReport for not using Dirt Showdown to test GPUs because it was unfair to NV.

 

[MajinCry]

Isn't Monster Hunter really big in Asia? It's what made the PSP a commercial success in Japan, IIRC. Could edge in some market share fer AMD.

 

[tviceman]

I like seeing an aggressive AMD. Good stuff.

 

[DarkKnightDude]

Well at least they're doing something, Nvidia is promoting their usual Ubi deal but this time they also have the new Tomb Raider.

 

[Pariah]

It's good to see AMD doing this. However is this also an announcement that they are conceding the US and European markets to Nvidia? Are they trying to be the Buick of video card makers?

 

[tential]

It's good to see AMD doing this. However is this also an announcement that they are conceding the US and European markets to Nvidia? Are they trying to be the Buick of video card makers?

Nope, I think it just shows that they're making moves where they can. A lot of people ignore China, but that market is massive and many companies become major players with just the Chinese market alone.

So maybe, AMD is hoping to secure a lot of the Chinese market with products that are lower costs, supported longer due to GCN, and may appeal more to that market than to the western market.

Who knows, but I mean, we'll see whether all of this matters to GPU units sold right?