Great!

The walkie talkie voices strongly remind me of "The Dig". :)

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Quoting: liamdaweIt seems to work fine, but it does start on the wrong monitor for me, which is a little annoying.

I'm so glad, I gave up my multi-monitor setup on Linux!

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Quoting: lucifertdarkI was bought this last year for my birthday, it's on the list of games I've hardly touched, so many games so little time.

"Hardly touched games"...

Hey, lets create a Catholic Steam Curator! :D

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Alien: Desolation

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Tears of joy for the announcement of the single-player campaign! :)

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Quoting: Narcotixjust read, that Nintendo joined the Khronos Group. So with the Nintendo NX, the PS4, Android, SteamOS all using Vulkan, why would a multiplatform developer even consider using DirectX12 ?

Who says PS4 will support Vulkan?

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Quoting: Mountain Man... won't let it go without a fight, and many programmers are already familiar with DirectX while they would have to learn Vulkan from scratch.

Right, since Direct3D 12 shares so much with previous Direct3D versions...

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Quoting: Mountain ManYou say that coders can "get away with murder" on Nvidia cards, but isn't that evidence of a more mature API?

Hell, no! WTF....
At least not if it is an implementation of an open API used by more than one hardware vendor..

Great post, PsynoKhi0!

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Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: sigz

Quoting: Leflmmh too bad that only NVIDIA is supported, would get that even if its a horror game and im afraid of horror games

I think this situation is not going to change, AMD sales are dangerously declining these last months (less than 20% market this year instead of 50% last year)

People act like it's fault Nvidia's when we should be blaming AMD for not stepping up their game.

I guess it's not that easy.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: GuestGeneric all: Feral write their code to work with nvidia's blobs. They don't care beyond that. In doing so, they write code that has performace issues if you stick to the opengl spec, because of (bad) hacks in nvidia's blobs.
The game will likely run on AMD hardware, using fglrx, but Feral won't support it and won't tweak their code to work properly.
....which is all the fault of Feral. We should be pressuring them to up their game, not give them a free pass for mediocre work. My own opinion anyway.

Sure. That's how Alien: Isolation got into AMD's driver release notes. By Feral not working together with them.

Having looked through previous ports and talking to Feral directly, they do not code with AMD in mind. They code against nvidia blobs only. They might test later, but read back to where I talk about issues if you stick to the opengl spec. One in particular that I've seen should cause a GPU stall on all implementations, except it apparently does not with nvidia (due to a driver workaround). It then magically is blamed on AMD for being a problem.

This.

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: GuestTesting with AMD, and writing things with AMD in mind originally, are entirely different. That cooperation you're talking about is likely testing only - i.e, Feral just hand over the game and ask AMD to take a look. Feral won't change their code to make it perform better with AMD, mostly because, I suspect, it'd require a re-write of their d3d translation layer to actually do things properly.

You've started with "Feral write their code to work with nvidia's blobs. They don't care beyond that.", which I consider proven wrong by AMD's release notes, Feral buying AMD GPUs and saying they are running all AMD drivers.
I consider the rest speculations ("likely", "suspect" ). I'd prefer facts from AMD and/or Feral and I choose to suspect that they are going for full support for AMD as well.

C'mon, you got his point, didn't you?

In case they really send AMD, mainly Nvidia optimized code, it's not what I consider "caring about AMD".

It's like providing math exams in a foreign language to pupils and concluding that they're not good at math.

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