AMD and Creative Assembly to Deliver the Ultimate Alien: Isolation Experience

[MxPhenom 216]

Yawn....AMD.....

I find it funny how you complain about how the mods here have an inability to do their job with all the "trolls" on this site, yet you are one.......

 

[Octavean]

Just for the record, SLI (Scalable Link Interface) from NVIDIA has nothing to do with 3dfx SLI (Scan-Line Interleave).

I didn't say it did,.....

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.

 

[HumanSmoke]

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.

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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.

 

[Relayer]

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I was referring to "Mantle does cost extra cause you have to modify the game code to use it".

Let's back it up.

Mantle does cost extra cause you have to modify the game code to use it, which also requires more time to debug etc. Most games with mantle now got a check from AMD to add it.

I might not have been clear, but I would love to see a source of any type to back the claim that AMD writes checks to devs to incorporate Mantle. People like to point to the Fudzilla article (usually quoted by some other source as to conceal who actually originated the article) where they stated that AMD paid EA 5-8 mil for the exclusive marketing rights to BF4. They gave no source for that claim at all, but even if it were true it doesn't even elude to Dice being paid to add the Mantle pathway. There has been no other articles from any industry sources showing/claiming AMD has to pay anyone to use Mantle. They now have over 70 devs in the beta program. It's obvious to anyone who thinks about it that Johan Andersson (Dice) is as much involved with Mantle as AMD is.

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.

 

[jigar2speed]

You must overdose AMD cool aid because I never did that.

Here Nike and Fly Emirates logos. Does it mean they are in football? No they are sponsors.



I was referring to "Mantle does cost extra cause you have to modify the game code to use it".

WoW, thats some elite trolling mate, you do realize HSA foundation and contribution fees are basically joining fees to promote a standard.

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 ???

What about all those PS4 and Xbox one games ruined by AMD ? They only run on AMD hardware.

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.

 

[ZoneDymo]

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.

Where did you get the information on who got paid what in the development of the Xbox One/PS4/WiiU ?

 

[HumanSmoke]

Where did you get the information on who got paid what in the development of the Xbox One/PS4/WiiU ?

He's talking about unit cost. $100 is probably pretty light - although he said it was a guess, considering the component break down estimate.