Raptr and AMD Partner to Create AMD Gaming Evolved App

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http://www.hardocp.com/news/2013/09/25/amd_raptr_together

AMD and RAPTR Together

Hot on the heels of the GeForce Experience application, is Dennis "Thresh" Phong's company called RAPTR, that will be powering AMD's solution to getting your optimal video settings per game. RAPTR will detect your games installed. The application will build a FPS histogram of your actual gameplay and that data is sent to RAPTR cloud where the data is compared to analyze and figure out the best video settings. One click to optimize, just like GeForce Experience.

Here's the full press release:

Raptr and AMD today unveiled the AMD Gaming Evolved App Powered by Raptr, which was designed to make PC gaming as simple to use as consoles. The App will enable AMD users to get the most out of their gaming experience by suggesting customized optimal game settings for their rigs, earn real rewards just for playing games, and have instant access to in-game tools such as broadcasting live video via Twitch, taking screenshots, web browsing, and chat.

With a single click in the app's Control Center, gamers will be able to optimize their games based on performance, quality or a balance of both for their AMD hardware. Optimal game settings are determined using system and game data captured from millions of PCs stored in Raptr's Cloud combined with extensive testing of various combinations of GPUs, CPUs, and resolutions. The Control Center will also be the hub for gamers to access Raptr's tens of thousands of dedicated game communities for the latest discussions, streams, and more.
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[OCGuy]

All of this stuff is nice, but I was hoping to hear more about hardware today. This seems very gimmicky.

"Raptr and AMD today unveiled the AMD Gaming Evolved App Powered by Raptr, which was designed to make PC gaming as simple to use as consoles."


More console talk...in the first sentence of the press release. If PC gamers wanted to game on a console, they would buy one.

 

[Sohaltang]

Can it change my settings to 11? If not no interest

 

[nitromullet]

installed and immediately uninstalled.

Raptr just looks and feels like adware/scumware to me. AMD shouldn't have farmed this out to a data mining company, which I assume is how Raptr makes their money:

Raptr’s Analytics Dashboard helps publishers identify and understand the habits and behaviors of their players & players of competitors’ games

http://blog.raptr.com/about-raptr/

 

[JimKiler]

I was interested in this, but isn't each in game optimal settings good enough? Is this really going to change compared to those settings?

 

[MisterMac]

I'm more interested if it works.


Fuck the whole data-mining thing - as employee within the AdTech\Ad-Data industry that' been happening for years and will continue happening.
(With google leading the charge).

I just can't imagine how it will do anything other than 2-5% improvement - which is to say close to unnoticable for 99,9999%?

 

[sushiwarrior]

I was interested in this, but isn't each in game optimal settings good enough? Is this really going to change compared to those settings?

Often "Optimal Settings" simply sets your options to default or is not optimized to your card. With a tool like this, it can compare your CPU and your GPU to other users and determine what settings will match the criteria (perhaps you can customize that? IE. I want a min FPS of 30, or I want an avg FPS of 60, or 120 for 120HZ).

 

[JimKiler]

Often "Optimal Settings" simply sets your options to default or is not optimized to your card. With a tool like this, it can compare your CPU and your GPU to other users and determine what settings will match the criteria (perhaps you can customize that? IE. I want a min FPS of 30, or I want an avg FPS of 60, or 120 for 120HZ).

Then I will have to give it a try even if it is not a great app, perhaps it will become a great app.

 

[BrightCandle]

A tool that monitors your frame times and also takes your preferences about how you want to game (30 fps, 60 fps, 120fps, blur or no blur etc etc) could be very useful to cloud source good settings for others with similar preference who also have increased and decreased settings to get it working well. But the idea its just card based is utterly wrong, the games developers largely already optimise for that, its the other aspect of your target performance and latency that is actually what matters here. This is why GeForce experience utterly fails for me, I don't want 45-60 fps most of the time with occasional dips below 30, I want 120 fps if at all possible and certainly no lower than 60.

 

[Red Hawk]

So this is AMD's answer to Geforce Experience? I'll give it a shot.

 

[smackababy]

So this is AMD's answer to Geforce Experience? I'll give it a shot.

This is what I was thinking. Does this really offer anything other than "you're a moron, so here are your settings!"?

 

[OCGuy]

nm

 

[KingFatty]

My question about these kind of tools in general, is can overclocking be accounted for?

If it just does a dumb lookup of my hardware identifiers, then it will not realize I am overclocked and have more power on tap.

On the other hand, if it somehow runs a test to see how powerful my system is to try and attempt to quantify the overclock and the power, well won't that be unhelpful because whatever they are testing with, is different from the particular game I plan to run? I mean, if they use a general performance test, but I'm running a game specifically optimized for my GPU, then my overclock will help even more and the game will run better than the tool predicts. Vice versa for the tool missing when the game I'm trying to play is not optimal for my GPU.

So I just can see how these tools can accommodate overclocked systems, either because they won't know I'm overclocked, or unable to properly quantify my overclock because each game responds differently.

 

[nitromullet]

I'm more interested if it works.


Fuck the whole data-mining thing - as employee within the AdTech\Ad-Data industry that' been happening for years and will continue happening.
(With google leading the charge).

I just can't imagine how it will do anything other than 2-5% improvement - which is to say close to unnoticable for 99,9999%?

Yeah, I know the whole data mining thing has been going on for a while now, but I guess it's the way Raptr feels. It's riddled with ads, gimickly promotions, it wants you to register with a username, ties into social media, and has a toolbar that sits on the left side of the screen. I really don't need any of that crap just to get some suggested optimizations.

...nvidia did a better job with GeForce Experience. Who knows what info it's collecting about my gaming habits, but the interface itself is clean, intuitive, and to the point.

Raptr reminds me of the uselessly cluttered access portals and browser toolbars that were common in the late 90s and early 00s. Like something I would need to uninstall from my mom's PC because it was running too slow.

 

[Carfax83]

This software, just like Geforce experience, is really for n00bs and people that are inexperienced with PC gaming.