Tuesday, June 18th 2013
All Frostbite 3 Titles Will Be Optimized For AMD Only
All Frostbite 3 Titles Will Be Optimized For AMD Only (Updated)
According to a report from IGN, EA and AMD have entered an agreement which sees the latter benefiting from exclusive rights to optimization for games based on EA's Frostbite 3 engine. Titles like Battlefield 4, Need for Speed Rivals and Mirror's Edge 2 are subject to this rumored accord between AMD and EA, but also many other current and future EA titles. Of course, this will not completely remove NVIDIA from the Frostbite 3 table, they will simply be absent from it until the actual launch takes place, meaning that pre-launch testing and driver optimization can only be done by AMD, leaving NVIDIA at a clear disadvantage.
While still an unconfirmed rumor, AMD refused to deny it in a reply to Ryan Shrout's query regarding the story. AMD's reply below.
"It makes sense that game developers would focus on AMD hardware with AMD hardware being the backbone of the next console generation. At this time, though, our relationship with EA is exclusively focused on Battlefield 4 and its hardware optimizations for AMD CPUs, GPUs and APUs."
Update
EA and AMD have issued the following statement in response to IGN's initial piece on the subject:
"DICE has a partnership with AMD specifically for Battlefield 4 on PC to showcase and optimize the game for AMD hardware," an EA spokesperson said. "This does not exclude DICE from working with other partners to ensure players have a great experience across a wide set of PCs for all their titles."
Source:
PCPerspective
According to a report from IGN, EA and AMD have entered an agreement which sees the latter benefiting from exclusive rights to optimization for games based on EA's Frostbite 3 engine. Titles like Battlefield 4, Need for Speed Rivals and Mirror's Edge 2 are subject to this rumored accord between AMD and EA, but also many other current and future EA titles. Of course, this will not completely remove NVIDIA from the Frostbite 3 table, they will simply be absent from it until the actual launch takes place, meaning that pre-launch testing and driver optimization can only be done by AMD, leaving NVIDIA at a clear disadvantage.
While still an unconfirmed rumor, AMD refused to deny it in a reply to Ryan Shrout's query regarding the story. AMD's reply below.
"It makes sense that game developers would focus on AMD hardware with AMD hardware being the backbone of the next console generation. At this time, though, our relationship with EA is exclusively focused on Battlefield 4 and its hardware optimizations for AMD CPUs, GPUs and APUs."
EA and AMD have issued the following statement in response to IGN's initial piece on the subject:
"DICE has a partnership with AMD specifically for Battlefield 4 on PC to showcase and optimize the game for AMD hardware," an EA spokesperson said. "This does not exclude DICE from working with other partners to ensure players have a great experience across a wide set of PCs for all their titles."
43 Comments on All Frostbite 3 Titles Will Be Optimized For AMD Only
People, Y U NO learn hardwarez
My mind = Blown
I never noticed anything regarding optimization, at least for the last years. Well I don't play all games that come out, I don't benchmark either. I only play games I really like, even when sometimes I'd like to stay away from everything EeeeAaaaa related.
now AMD or NVIDA come in and tell them "if you do this calculation differently, it will run faster on all gpus, here take this piece of code", or ".. it will run faster on _our_ gpus".
Even if the developers don't listen, AMD/NVIDIA driver programmers can override shaders in the graphics driver. Basically the driver looks for a specific shader code that the game sends to the graphics card and replaces it with a highly optimized version that runs faster. Both companies have been doing that for years now, and both promise it will not affect image quality. You still could imagine replacing the shader with one that is a bit simpler, not as nice looking, but running much faster.
www.giantbomb.com/pc/3045-94/forums/new-nvidia-driver-update-kills-cards-392493/ :nutkick:
People need to stop being dicks about this. What AMD are doing now is what they should have been doing more of during the TWIMTBP years. Finally they understand the importance of snagging top titles. Funny thing is, it doesn't mean Nvidia cards won't work - just that AMD cards should work smoothly from release.
1.) It shows PC gaming is strong and much cared about.
2.) It shows that AMD have increased it's marketing efforts. With EA behind them their brand awareness will increase. Marketing was always AMDs weak point, seems they are fixing it!
/fixed
This is going to be the case with almost every single PC game that's being developed in parallel on PS4 / XBOXGoHome. Even the titles that aren't under an explicit agreement with AMD or co-developed / marketed with them, everything will be much more heavily optimised for AMD's graphics architecture than NVIDIA's, and to a lesser extent their CPU architecture over Intel's ... this is a big reversal for AMD, as for years it's been the opposite on both counts.
It would be fitting if AMD cheated the way Nvidia does to really piss them off, but make no mistake that they would be attacked relentlessly for such behavior.
If the majority of people can't even remember/easily forgave that AMD attempted to hoodwink both the client and enterprise sectors with a fictitious CPU and its supposed benchmarks, what chance has an EA (ugh!) game whose lifespan is determined by when the next pretty game arrives got of being a long-lived talking point?