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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.

  • Umbrias@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    a stretch to claim that proprietary software is inherently anticompetitive

    That’s exactly the point of making something proprietary. Like, literally the point, so your competitors cannot use it. It’s anti competitive.

    no more fundamentally difficult than implementing FSR

    So we’ve established:

    1. That FSR is freely available to implement

    2. That DLSS is proprietary

    3. That FSR is on more games than DLSS and/or that games with DLSS often have FSR.

    4. That DLSS works only on NVIDIA cards

    5. that FSR works on, for all intents and purposes, all cards.

    And you think it’s evidence of foul play that FSR is on more games? Really? You don’t see how your sampling bias has played into this?

    • beefcat@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      You really don’t believe AMD sponsoring these games has anything to do with it?

      Ease of implementation in most cases can’t have anything to do with it, because most games don’t even need to do any work to enable it. DLSS support is included in Unreal and Unity, right alongside FSR. They’re both just checkboxes. Being open source has nothing to do with choosing to enable one but not the other. Trust me, as a developer, a library being proprietary means very little to us when building a video game.

      AMD isn’t your friend anymore than Nvidia, they just want you to think they are because they don’t have an abusable market position yet.