Saturday, August 23rd 2014
AMD and Creative Assembly to Deliver the Ultimate Alien: Isolation Experience
AMD today announced a new technology partnership with Creative Assembly, developer behind the highly-anticipated "Alien: Isolation." Developed in conjunction with the AMD Gaming Evolved program, "Alien: Isolation" is fully optimized for a premium PC gaming experience, including native support for: AMD Eyefinity technology, 4K UltraHD, AMD CrossFire multi-GPU technology, and a wide range of DirectX 11 effects tuned for the Graphics Core Next architecture in recent AMD Radeon GPUs and AMD Accelerated Processing Units.
"The AMD Gaming Evolved program is committed to making games look great and run well for all PC gamers," said Ritche Corpus, director of ISV Gaming and Alliances, AMD. "By working with truly talented developers like Creative Assembly, we deliver on that commitment with fun and beautiful games like 'Alien: Isolation,' which give PC gamers the high-end technology they deserve."
Players will discover the true meaning of fear in "Alien: Isolation," a survival horror set in an atmosphere of constant dread and mortal danger. Fifteen years after the events of the "Alien" motion picture, Ellen Ripley's daughter Amanda enters a desperate battle for survival, on a mission to unravel the truth behind her mother's disappearance. As Amanda, players will navigate through an increasingly volatile world confronted on all sides by a panicked, desperate population and an unpredictable, ruthless Alien. Underpowered and underprepared, players must scavenge resources, improvise solutions and use their wits, not just to succeed in their mission, but to simply stay alive.
"'Alien: Isolation' is a game that plunges players into a haunting, terrifying atmosphere," said Clive Gratton, Lead Programmer, Creative Assembly. "The visual experience plays such a fundamental role in the 'feel' of the game that we went the extra mile to craft an in-house engine that fully articulates our vision. AMD has graciously helped us augment that engine for the PC with a number of effects, such as contact-hardening shadows, compute-based particles, HDAO and DirectX 11 tessellation. Support for immersion and performance technologies like AMD Eyefinity and CrossFire technologies make the whole PC experience even better!"
Gamers looking to try the rich graphics and terrifying environments of "Alien: Isolation" for themselves can secure a complimentary copy by purchasing an eligible AMD Radeon R9 Series graphics card from a retailer participating in the new Never Settle: Space Edition promotion beginning Sept. 2, 2014.
"The AMD Gaming Evolved program is committed to making games look great and run well for all PC gamers," said Ritche Corpus, director of ISV Gaming and Alliances, AMD. "By working with truly talented developers like Creative Assembly, we deliver on that commitment with fun and beautiful games like 'Alien: Isolation,' which give PC gamers the high-end technology they deserve."
"'Alien: Isolation' is a game that plunges players into a haunting, terrifying atmosphere," said Clive Gratton, Lead Programmer, Creative Assembly. "The visual experience plays such a fundamental role in the 'feel' of the game that we went the extra mile to craft an in-house engine that fully articulates our vision. AMD has graciously helped us augment that engine for the PC with a number of effects, such as contact-hardening shadows, compute-based particles, HDAO and DirectX 11 tessellation. Support for immersion and performance technologies like AMD Eyefinity and CrossFire technologies make the whole PC experience even better!"
Gamers looking to try the rich graphics and terrifying environments of "Alien: Isolation" for themselves can secure a complimentary copy by purchasing an eligible AMD Radeon R9 Series graphics card from a retailer participating in the new Never Settle: Space Edition promotion beginning Sept. 2, 2014.
56 Comments on AMD and Creative Assembly to Deliver the Ultimate Alien: Isolation Experience
The aqasition resulted in the dismissals of a patent infringement claim though and any number of future such claims,......which probably weren't frivolous patent trolling.
The problem there is that the loss of 3Dfx was the loss of another player in the graphics segment of the market. Helping to leave us with the two camps that so many like to champion now.
Well you can blame 3Dfx's demise on its own management - as Tarolli and Campbell have admitted on numerous occasions. Buying an overvalued company (GigaPixel) when your own financial base isn't secure is a great way to gut your company ( sound familiar?). Cutting out AIB's/partnering up with STB, and thinking that Juarez (Mexico) was a better manufacturing centre than Taiwan certainly didn't help.
In the end, 3Dfx just failed - failed with (mis-)management, and failed with a business evolving faster than their development. They weren't alone - 3DLabs (and Dynamic Pictures and Intergraph before them), Tseng Labs and Chromatic Research - all acquired by ATI, as well as Trident, Rendition, Number Nine, SiS/XGI (who picked up Trident), and S3/VIA (who picked up Number Nine) all lacked the force of will, knowledge base, and strategy that ATI and Nvidia employed.
Of course it costs money to develop games with Mantle. I wasn't debating that. The devs who have gone on record using Mantle have said they do it because it's the highest performance API available. It allows them more freedom with their projects. Not that AMD has written anyone a check to pay them.
You skipped the questions that i have asked and are going with things that mantel cost - HSA cost - You even moronically trolled that Free sync requires a new monitor - (LOL yes its a new standard so wouldn't it require a new hardware genius)
- oh and Free sync will work with Nvidia card.
So here i am again asking the same question - do you find other big guns foolish to support and pay for joining HSA standard ???Tell me something, if you are graphic and CPU company and i say give me a chip (Should have latest tech) that can at-least do HD resolution gaming along with 8GB ram under 100 dollar (I am sure 100 is generous in real life this was lower) -Plus - support with the entire architecture and other upkeeps -
what do you do ???
EDIT: - Trust me there is a reason Nvidia didn't qualify.