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Hoo boy. Not a good look AMD. It was scummy when nVidia did this, it’s scummy when you do it.

  • Mika@beehaw.org
    7·
    1 year ago

    you can use FSR on Nvidia too but you can’t use DLSS on AMD. Nvidia has been trying so hard to force a monopoly for decades now with these features they lock down to not only their hardware but specific series of them.

    it’s reminiscent of Microsoft making sure Linux can’t use a wide range of software via directx and such, forcing people to resort to WINE and effectively becoming an operating system monopoly outside of apples gated garden

    meanwhile AMD let’s everyone use their software tech and people cry foul the moment they do 1/1000th of the anti competitive behavior Nvidia does in its sleep, I mean this is literally just sponsoring a game

    • Poopfeast420@feddit.de
      1·
      1 year ago

      I mean this is literally just sponsoring a game

      This usually means only FSR, no DLSS. What does it matter that FSR can be used on all hardware, if it’s the inferior technology? Let those who can use DLSS, and others FSR and XeSS.

      Since it’s your mom-and-pop multi-billion dollar company, it’s fine that they screw over consumers. They are not like the evil multi-billion dollar company from down the road.

      • valpackett@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        1·
        1 year ago

        Keeping out a vendor-specific one in favor of a vendor-agnostic one seems actually positive to me. That vendor-specific “superiority” must be fought.

      • Mika@beehaw.org
        0·
        1 year ago

        I’m not interested in spending my energy on hating the underdog who makes their tech open so everyone can use it and works with 1/10 games when the bigger corporation trying to make a monopoly is working with 9/10 games and forcing out the other. Nvidia goes and tries to force third party card makers to change their AMD branding and nobody says shit but the moment AMD even just sponsors a game (they can still add DLSS if they wanted!) and suddenly its a problem and AMD is “just as bad” as nvidia. no, fuck that. fuck “but but but superior technology!!1”

      • Mika@beehaw.org
        0·
        1 year ago

        NVIDIA does not and will not block, restrict, discourage, or hinder developers from implementing competitor technologies in any way.

        lmao this is such a straight up lie. NVIDIA is one of the most anti-competitive companies in the industry.

        Of course, this is pure conjecture and unsubstantiated

        OK

        • beefcat@beehaw.org
          0·
          1 year ago

          I’m struggling to find games released in the last two years that support DLSS but not FSR.

          The problem is, like it or not, DLSS is way better than FSR. So naturally, people who have capable hardware feel a little miffed when they are saddled with the inferior solution.

          Plenty can be said about Nvidia’s anticompetitive practices, but I don’t think this is explicitly one of them. They don’t block games from supporting FSR, though probably not out of the goodness of their heart. They know DLSS is better, so having games support both makes it a lot easier for reviewers and consumers to make this comparison. AMD obviously doesn’t want this unfavorable comparison, which is why they pay developers to not include DLSS.

          • Umbrias@beehaw.org
            1·
            1 year ago

            Or, just a thought here, it’s because FSR is open source. You can literally go look at it on github right now.

            DLSS is not. Guess which one is easier to implement into a game? If you guessed FSR, you’d be right. You don’t need to involve AMD the company at all to implement FSR into your game. That is not true of DLSS and Nvidia.

            You’re taking a selection bias as a causative argument from a conclusion.

            DLSS being closed source is literally an example of Nvidia’s anticompetitiveness, by definition.