AMD and Nvidia put hacks and workarounds in their windows drivers for individual games, to make those specific games run better. Usually only for the big AAA releases. They won’t be doing that anymore for the “old” cards.
Wait so for example if they didnt support dlss/fsr on cyberpunk, someone Else will do that? I Read some comments around the fedi with ppl saying there is nothing to worry about on linux…🤔
You know when a product is super old and so it only gets the bare minimum needed for the driver not to have security problems or major flaws? That, except the products aren’t super old in this case, hence the anger.
It means that a card you could have bought yesterday will not be getting the typical game specific driver updates that fix common issues that game devs don’t fix.
Is this system of drivers fixing game bugs logical? Its kinda not, but its just been how graphics and games have evolved to being over the years, which potentially means that some new games may have graphical glitches and crashing problems that it would be purely up to the developers to fix. More than that, there would also likely be optimization problems drivers sometimes fix, that these drivers will not.
This might not actually be the end of the world on NVidia cards because they have such significant market share, but for AMD cards with very small marketshare by comparison its a big problemm, because devs won’t be as incentivised to do so. AMD cards are pretty much at linux levels of adoption and we can see how poor support is there, so while the cards will still run games for sure because this is not like being a different OS, they probably just will run worse.
What does this actually mean???
AMD and Nvidia put hacks and workarounds in their windows drivers for individual games, to make those specific games run better. Usually only for the big AAA releases. They won’t be doing that anymore for the “old” cards.
Wait so for example if they didnt support dlss/fsr on cyberpunk, someone Else will do that? I Read some comments around the fedi with ppl saying there is nothing to worry about on linux…🤔
Read a statement from AMD, they are still providing day zero updates to rdna 1 and 2…
Not really. They use a vague weasel word to basically say “we will, whenever we feel like, no promises”.
The phase they used was “as required by market needs in the maintenance mode branch”.
That could mean anything, any time.
You know when a product is super old and so it only gets the bare minimum needed for the driver not to have security problems or major flaws? That, except the products aren’t super old in this case, hence the anger.
It means that a card you could have bought yesterday will not be getting the typical game specific driver updates that fix common issues that game devs don’t fix.
Is this system of drivers fixing game bugs logical? Its kinda not, but its just been how graphics and games have evolved to being over the years, which potentially means that some new games may have graphical glitches and crashing problems that it would be purely up to the developers to fix. More than that, there would also likely be optimization problems drivers sometimes fix, that these drivers will not.
This might not actually be the end of the world on NVidia cards because they have such significant market share, but for AMD cards with very small marketshare by comparison its a big problemm, because devs won’t be as incentivised to do so. AMD cards are pretty much at linux levels of adoption and we can see how poor support is there, so while the cards will still run games for sure because this is not like being a different OS, they probably just will run worse.