Wednesday, April 26th 2017

id Software Talks AMD Ryzen, Hints at Heavily Optimized New Game Engine

id Software, the pioneering game studio behind "Doom" and "Quake," in a marketing video about how its developers and gamers are benefiting from AMD Ryzen processors, hinted that it is working on a new next-generation game engine that succeeds idTech 6, which is heavily optimized for AMD Ryzen processors. id CTO Robert Duffy spoke at length about how Ryzen is putting more CPU capabilities in the hands of gamers at attractive price-points, which is letting game developers add that much more content and production design that benefits from this level of parallelism and performance.

The most interesting part about Duffy's comment comes later in the video, where he talks about a new game engine that id is working on, which will be "far more parallel than idTech 6" (far more multi-core and multi-thread friendly), and that it will be able to consume "all of the CPU [compute power] that Ryzen can offer." Duffy also confirmed that "Quake Champions," the studio's upcoming online hero-based FPS, will be optimized for both Ryzen and Radeon Vega.
The video follows.

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27 Comments on id Software Talks AMD Ryzen, Hints at Heavily Optimized New Game Engine

#26
Vayra86
Somehow the only thing that strikes me here is 'why not come up with this idea BEFORE Ryzen gets released'.

Right now it feels like too little too late. We just had DOOM which runs great. I don't see the economic incentive to push development on this while Vulkan is still gaining traction.
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#27
cyneater
If It was ubisoft or someone that lets 3rd parties make games on there engine id take notice.

But ID software are Bethesda softworks so only they will use there game engines.
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