railven
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I'm not accusing id of taking a bribe, I am open to the possibilities that several things could have happened, one of which is the Pascal marketing deal. Are you saying it's an impossibility?
Sure, AMD can and does drop the ball. But here?
How does AMD decide to regress back to an OpenGL version released from 2012 when it was running the newer version just fine in Beta 2 weeks prior? AMD does not control Bethesda/ID Software's final build. -_-
We're talking an out-date OpenGL that's missing a lot of newer extensions that enhance performance here.
I am not the first to notice this, many folks have asked ID Software this question on social media, they aren't saying anything as to why it happened.
Even some reviewers noticed it, because they played the beta as well as some of us here.
https://youtu.be/oYLVcZCjXSI?t=4m06s
And oh, when the game finally gets updated to fix it, by putting back OpenGL 4.5 for AMD, make sure you guys are here to say stuff like "oh, it must have been an honest mistake, surely!!"
Another review: http://www.techspot.com/review/1173-doom-benchmarks/page6.html
Can you even think for a moment if this happened to NV? Imagine a DX game, which had a beta 2 weeks before launch, running DX11 great for NV/AMD... then it releases, it reverts to DX10 for NV and performance is crippled. Even a non-biased person would have to raise a real concern as to why it happened, no? Now let's say that studio went on stage with AMD hyping up AMD GPUs... what's a logical person to think of such a thing? Come on, be honest.
So basically you're still accusing id of taking a bribe? Gotcha.
But I'll go along with these accusations: You're going to argue to me that NV paid/convinced id to sabotage SOME not ALL of AMD's hardware?
So my only options are:
A) id is incompetent
B) AMD is incompetent
C) NV is bribing people
I'll take D)
NV got access to code and optimized for it.
Isn't that what you're saying happened with Oxide? But I guess you'd rather toss id into the dog house because poor AMD got borked performance on SOME cards. 3 days after launch AMD fixed performance issues on the select cards. Funny thing that.
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