[BSN] Batmangate: AMD vs. nVidia vs. Eidos fight analyzed - Overclock.net

sodaholic134 · 3 Weeks Ago

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A war of words recently broke out between AMD and nVidia over Eidos using nVidia's code for Anti-Aliasing implementation in Batman: Arkham Asylum. There is a large discussion going on over at various Internet forums, but we decided to take a deep breath and get to the bottom of Batmangate.

In the past 48 hours, we talked with Chris Hook [Senior Manager Public Relations, AMD], Richard Huddy [WW Developer Relations Manager, AMD], Bryan Del Rizzo [GeForce Public Relations Manager, nVidia] and Brian Burke [Public Relations Manager, nVidia]. We have also discussed the situation with Tim Sweeney, the creator of the game engine and three game developers who commented on the matter under the condition of anonymity. In order to keep the matters unbiased, one developer comes from a team which recently released a The Way It's Meant To Be Played title that scored excellent reviews and runs great on both ATI and nVidia hardware. In fact, runs on ATI's Eyefinity technology even though the developer didn't work with ATI on implementation of Eyefinity. The second developer is working on a DirectX 11 title set to be released in 2010. And finally, the third developer may even come on-the-record [in that case, we'll update the article].

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Very good read.

Wishmaker · 2 Weeks Ago

Amazing read mate.

**grunion** · 2 Weeks Ago

Shame on NV.

I'll hit on a couple of topics here.

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The controversy raised questions such as whether AMD's ISV team [Independent Software Vendor] was being aggressive enough, was prepared enough, and if games really run better on nVidia hardware. We’d like to address those questions publically."

BM AA does not run better on NV hw.

And OT but very interesting.

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On March 28, 2009 Richard Huddy received confirmation inside AMD that the company taped out their DirectX 11 chips and that the situation is looking really good for the company

Evergreen taped out Mar 28th, released in Sept.
If Fermi taped out this week, what does that say?

glenbuck1914 · 2 Weeks Ago

That was a great read, thx. +rep

It really is a quagmire of crap. Unfortunately we now have to live with basic graphics options now becoming proprietary..

.. on the green side anyway.

BTW: The ATI tray tools hack is still alive on the eidos forums here.. works like a charm

lol @ grunion... 295 for physx. Nice

scaz · 2 Weeks Ago

I hear you can even use the 220 for physx. I read that on http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...m,2465-11.html.

I might look into grabbing one.

Spooooon!!! · 2 Weeks Ago

great read

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