That is the internet for you. Present a possible theory based on a personal bias. Within a few discussions the theory is absolute fact and it is every body elses job to disprove the made of theory.
No, it a biased opinion and I look forward to your...well, nothing.
Because this is the amount of "evidence" in this thread.
Now if you insist on using it as a valid fact, you nedd to get confirmation from CryTek.
Or hell...were is Fuddy?!
That he is silent = there is no foul play.
I did say something about DA2 running horribly for an ugly looking game a few pages back. However nobody was too concern about DA2. AMD performed better than NV there.
I did say something about DA2 running horribly for an ugly looking game a few pages back. However nobody was too concern about DA2. AMD performed better than NV there.
I don't see why everyone doesn't want it to be touched up a bit for better performance for everyone.
Who said anything about mid-range cards? There's 3 current cards that give you playable framerates (~40fps) @1080, the 590, 580 and 6990. What percentage of gamers use those cards? That's why I said useless for almost everyone.
Condescend much?
You might try actually reading what people are complaining about. Nobody's complaining about the feature. Nobody's complaining about tessellation. Everyone's complaining about the shoddy implementation.
AMD often beats nVidia given same parameters. I have no idea why you say they don't. How about perf/mm^2? perf/watt? There are other areas AMD typically leads too. Like first to use GDDR5. First out with Dx11. Heck, even first with tessellation. They're even infringing on areas where nVidia has typically held the lead. SLI/Crossfire scaling. We'll see how GCN does with compute. Supposed to be much improved over the VLIW architecture. It looks like they're going to have the lead in 28nm too. I'm sure you know this though.
Now we can say that Electronic Arts have really done a good job. The DirectX 11 version of the Crysis 2 engine is a new milestone in game development. Just like the synthetic benchmark 3DMark11, EAs game is an excruciatingly hard test for your graphics card and can stress every single unit of a modern GPU. At last, the game can be said to be worthy of its famous predecessor in terms of 3D graphics technologies.
So, is the Crysis 2 DirectX 11 Ultra Upgrade worth the long wait? Yes, of course! You will be fascinated by the beautiful visuals, yet also disappointed with the weakness of your computers graphics subsystem.
No, not who will someday benefit from this patch? Or, who will likely benefit? Who is actually benefiting from it? It's nVidia. You could stretch it to include an extremely small percentage of gamers who own the hardware to run it. Even those are using their hi-end, minimal market share, gear very inefficiently.
And just as ridiculous is people jumping to Nvidia's and Crytek's defense as if these people are paid to do so by these Corporations{ATi and Nvidia both} who either don't really give a rat's a** about them or who might toss a few free pieces of hardware their way to trumpet the Company's name so they can defend companies name to deathlike good little boys and girls.Almost everyone is fine and dandy with Crytek going back and rethinking their tessellation methods. The part that irks me is that people are claiming Nvidia had something to do with it, because their name is shown in the opening credits of the game. Instead of blaming the developer, they blame a graphics card company. Its ridiculous.
Yes! Now they are citing Fudzilla, this gets better and better.
Senior Vice President, Content and Technology Tony Tamasi has confirmed this to Fudzilla and he also said that for some marketing purposes money does exchange some hands. This is mainly for in game and external advertising. Mr. Tamasi said that his software division of approximately 220 people cost Nvidia tens of millions
And just as ridiculous is people jumping to Nvidia's and Crytek's defense as if these people are paid to do so by these Corporations{ATi and Nvidia both} who either don't really give a rat's a** about them or who might toss a few free pieces of hardware their way to trumpet the Company's name so they can defend companies name to deathlike good little boys and girls.
The truth is we might never know what happened in this case or in others like it....but sometimes a gut feeling is all it takes to suspect something stinks.
I thought it was common knowledge by now that the TWIMTBP program consists exactly in this: Nvidia "sends" (they can work from a distance) her own programmers to help develop the game. Coding a game is the biggest cost for a game developer so the developers actually make money from it (they spend less) and Nvidia gets to "tweak" the game in order to suit their agenda.
Nvidia's coders (Nvidia employees, paid by Nvidia) are especially used in the graphical effects and multi-GPU support, game settings, etc.
http://www.fudzilla.com/graphics/item/11030-twimtbp-pays-game-developers-with-free-development
All the extra tessellation in this game is done by Nvidia. One doesn't have to be Einstein to connect the dots.
I guess people can keep their tin foil hats on, because soon Nvidia will be powerful enough to read our minds!
So whats the problem.
This is the problem
The GTX 560Ti better than the HD 6970? Two HD 5870 as good as one? Mission accomplished.