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0 pointscitizenpaul3mo ago0 comments

Its not really just that AMD drivers are not that great (they are not) but they have been stable for a long time.

Its that nvidia relentlessly works with game developers to make sure their graphics tricks work with nvidia drivers. Its so obvious you miss it. Look in the nvidia driver updates they always list games that have fixes, performance ect. AMD never (used?) to do this they just gave you the drivers and expected developers to make their game work with it. The same strategy that MS used for their OS back in the 90's.

Thats at least how things got where they are now.

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Account_Removed3mo ago

AMD provides this. Example: "Fixed Issues and Improvements

Intermittent driver timeout or crash may be observed while playing Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 on some AMD Graphics Products, such as the AMD Ryzen™ AI 9 HX 370.)

Lower than expected performance may be observed in Delta Force on Radeon™ RX 7000 series graphics products.

Intermittent stutter may be observed while playing Marvel Rivals when AMD FidelityFX™ Super Resolution 3 frame generation is enabled. "

https://www.amd.com/en/resources/support-articles/release-no...

citizenpaulOP3mo ago

Glad to see. Ive been 100% certian that nvidia will ultimately abandon the gfx market since 2022. If AMD doesnt pick up the torch computer gfx will stagnate for at least a decade. Its already regressing.

Waterluvian3mo ago

The whole “improve a game’s performance on the driver side” thing: does AMD simply not do that at all? Or just far less?

wincy3mo ago

They definitely do it some, like Starfield came out with FSR out of the box but they didn’t add DLSS for several months. I got Starfield for free when I bought my 7800X3D which was a nice bonus. Definitely to a lesser degree than Nvidia though.

m4rtink3mo ago

Frankly, this always seemed like dirty hacks - either the game or the drivers don't actually comply woth the graphics API and then the drivers need to hack around that. :P

citizenpaulOP3mo ago

I don't work in the industry but as I've understood from reading stuff from people that are. Basically the entire industry is dirty hacks from the top down and bottom up.

That is not to say this is good or bad. Just that it appears common.

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0 pointscitizenpaul3mo ago0 comments

Its not really just that AMD drivers are not that great (they are not) but they have been stable for a long time.

Thats at least how things got where they are now.

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Account_Removed3mo ago

AMD provides this. Example: "Fixed Issues and Improvements

Intermittent driver timeout or crash may be observed while playing Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 on some AMD Graphics Products, such as the AMD Ryzen™ AI 9 HX 370.)

Lower than expected performance may be observed in Delta Force on Radeon™ RX 7000 series graphics products.

Intermittent stutter may be observed while playing Marvel Rivals when AMD FidelityFX™ Super Resolution 3 frame generation is enabled. "

https://www.amd.com/en/resources/support-articles/release-no...

citizenpaulOP3mo ago

Waterluvian3mo ago

The whole “improve a game’s performance on the driver side” thing: does AMD simply not do that at all? Or just far less?

wincy3mo ago

m4rtink3mo ago

Frankly, this always seemed like dirty hacks - either the game or the drivers don't actually comply woth the graphics API and then the drivers need to hack around that. :P

citizenpaulOP3mo ago

I don't work in the industry but as I've understood from reading stuff from people that are. Basically the entire industry is dirty hacks from the top down and bottom up.

That is not to say this is good or bad. Just that it appears common.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse