Tuesday, January 2nd 2018
AMD Will Fix Adrenalin Driver Game Incompatibility Issues After All
Right in the last corner of 2017, as our collective minds were getting ready to move onto a new year at full warp speed, we covered this bit of news regarding AMD's Adrenalin Driver incompatibility with some older game titles under DX9 ("C&C3 Tiberium Wars," "C&C3 Kane's Wrath," "C&C Red Alert 3," "C&C Red Alert 3 Uprising," "C&C4 Tiberian Twilight," "Battle for Middle Earth 1-2," and "The Witcher Enhanced Edition.") At the time, AMD stated that they were "unlikely to devote any valuable engineering resources to this issue." User backlash ensued, and with the new year comes a new AMD: one that has found the valuable engineering resources needed towards working on a fix for said issues.
Apparently, the problem stemmed from a driver-level incompatibility with SAGE engine games, and AMD's Terry Makedon took to Twitter to make things better for fans of those games, saying that "We will for sure fix this bug with SAGE engine games in an upcoming hotfix." All in all, a good guy move by AMD. For sure, the initial statement might not echo the full sentiment of the entire company on the issue, though it's a fact that it was an AMD employee that started the whole debate. That said, the user backlash certainly goes to show that PC gamers want their systems to always have backwards compatibility with older games - one of the more important differentiating factors between PCs and games consoles.
Sources:
Terry Makedon's Twitter, via Overclock 3D
Apparently, the problem stemmed from a driver-level incompatibility with SAGE engine games, and AMD's Terry Makedon took to Twitter to make things better for fans of those games, saying that "We will for sure fix this bug with SAGE engine games in an upcoming hotfix." All in all, a good guy move by AMD. For sure, the initial statement might not echo the full sentiment of the entire company on the issue, though it's a fact that it was an AMD employee that started the whole debate. That said, the user backlash certainly goes to show that PC gamers want their systems to always have backwards compatibility with older games - one of the more important differentiating factors between PCs and games consoles.
71 Comments on AMD Will Fix Adrenalin Driver Game Incompatibility Issues After All
Even charitable events some do are meant to stir favorable reactions they hope will lead to sales, etc.
No matter what they did good in the public arena, the eye was always on whether it had future good impact on revenue and market share.
I like AMD too. Just don't get the idea that they don't care about profit as much as their passion for computers. It's just that they aren't very good at making money, that's all.
“You’ll be able to overclock this thing like no tomorrow,” AMD CTO Joe Macri said. “This is an overclocker’s dream.”
Review here was a disappointing 10% OC for a gain of 5% in FPS
www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/R9_Fury_X/34.html
Are you going to fix his computer because of your passion, or because you want to halt any future revenue loss based on his/her bad reviews?
I can see how it was easily misconstrued, however. ;)
Will be testing this tomorrow across The Witcher, Command & Conquer 3, Command & Conquer 4, Command & Conquer Red Alert 3, Command & Conquer Red Alert 3: Uprising, Mini Ninjas, The Witcher 2 (might be related), and Sanctum (might be related).
Now i haw to find crack for steam purchased game because they don't work in offline when internet limit has been spent. Shit Steam.
You never let me down ford!! :toast: