Watch Dogs 2 to feature Gameworks (looks amazing!)

[dogen1]

Spending the time to develop software that half your userbase can't use is a bad idea imho.

Who does that?

 

[Arachnotronic]

Spending the time to develop software that half your userbase can't use is a bad idea imho.

NVIDIA is now >70% of the gaming dGPU userbase

Anyway as long as the IHV pays for it and/or provides the dev support, doesn't really matter.

 

[AtenRa]

NVIDIA is now >70% of the gaming dGPU userbase

And more than 60-70% of them cannot run any new 2016 game at 1080p with GW features enabled at 60fps or more. So having all those Gamework features that only the select 10-15% of the NVIDIA user base can actually use and get acceptable framerate doesnt mean a flying fart for low/middle-end dGPU users even if NVIDIA had 100% of the dGPU market.

 

[Arachnotronic]

And more than 60-70% of them cannot run any new 2016 game at 1080p with GW features enabled at 60fps or more. So having all those Gamework features that only the select 10-15% of the NVIDIA user base can actually use and get acceptable framerate doesnt mean a flying fart for low/middle-end dGPU users even if NVIDIA had 100% of the dGPU market.

Sounds like NVIDIA is trying to add features for people who bought their latest GPUs. Would you prefer that NVIDIA not add them at all?

 

[Krteq]

So, according to your post, GameWorks are the marketing tools only... yes, they are.

Yes, I would prefer not to add them at all or add a open-sourced and optimizable alternatives.

 

[Arachnotronic]

So, according to your post, GameWorks are the marketing tools only... yes, they are.

Yes, I would prefer not to add them at all or add a open-sourced and optimizable alternatives.

If you don't like GameWorks features, turn 'em off.

 

[Bacon1]

If you don't like GameWorks features, turn 'em off.

So its time well spent to have developers use unoptimized effects ones that most people will just turn off?

 

[dogen1]

Yes, I would prefer not to add them at all or add a open-sourced and optimizable alternatives.

If the only difference is that there's an option to add a certain effect, you'd rather not have that option?

Btw, any code that goes to the GPU is optimizable. It has to be compiled to native code and optimized by the driver. That's what it's there for.

 

[SlickR12345]

If you don't like GameWorks features, turn 'em off.

Its not the features that are the problem, the problem is all the optimizations that purposely affect AMD GPU performance in a negative way. Not to mention their "features" are nothing more than performance hogs that even with the latest 1080 you can't run without suffering massive drops in performance.

 

[stahlhart]

Thread reopened. Keep it on topic per the rules for this subforum.
-- stahlhart

 

[GAO]

So now that it is out, what do you all think?

 

[Headfoot]

graphics do not look great in this. GTA V still wins for best looking truly open world game in my book.

 

[GAO]

That was what I thought too ... meh. At least it was free. Will give it a shot.