People just keep buying Nvidia, so no need for them to change.
And why wouldn’t they? (they = average Windows gamer)
AMD decided that my Vega-based iGPU had enough driver updates. Reminder that Vega was kept in iGPUs for quite some time. Vulkan is completely broken under Windows, so I need to enable my NVidia dGPU for things like Doom I+II and Quake I.
It’s different under Linux where Radeon drivers are open source and developed by Valve and others.
Damn I didn’t know the driver situation is that bad in Windows. I’m using my 7900xtx on Linux with absolutely no issues for over a year now.
But with Linux being popularized by Valve and the steam deck I can see a shift happen where the average consumer might just get a Linux device, fingers crossed.
Damn I didn’t know the driver situation is that bad in Windows.
It’s better for RDNA GPUs but it’s not the fault of the customers that AMD was still putting Vega cores in relatively recent notebook APUs. Vega is fine for regular web browsing etc but a Vega GPU should easily be able to handle lower end games such as Quake I but just doesn’t.
Quake 1 was released in 1996. Hardware T&L didn’t even exist, I don’t think that’s the driver’s fault that a 90s game can’t launch. Unless you’re talking about the remaster.
I don’t think that’s the driver’s fault that a 90s game can’t launch. Unless you’re talking about the remaster.
The remaster replaced the old release and I explicitly said Vulkan, so obviously it’s the remaster. You need to jump through some hoops to get the original DOS release these days.
And why wouldn’t they? (they = average Windows gamer)
AMD decided that my Vega-based iGPU had enough driver updates. Reminder that Vega was kept in iGPUs for quite some time. Vulkan is completely broken under Windows, so I need to enable my NVidia dGPU for things like Doom I+II and Quake I.
It’s different under Linux where Radeon drivers are open source and developed by Valve and others.
Damn I didn’t know the driver situation is that bad in Windows. I’m using my 7900xtx on Linux with absolutely no issues for over a year now.
But with Linux being popularized by Valve and the steam deck I can see a shift happen where the average consumer might just get a Linux device, fingers crossed.
It’s better for RDNA GPUs but it’s not the fault of the customers that AMD was still putting Vega cores in relatively recent notebook APUs. Vega is fine for regular web browsing etc but a Vega GPU should easily be able to handle lower end games such as Quake I but just doesn’t.
Quake 1 was released in 1996. Hardware T&L didn’t even exist, I don’t think that’s the driver’s fault that a 90s game can’t launch. Unless you’re talking about the remaster.
The remaster replaced the old release and I explicitly said Vulkan, so obviously it’s the remaster. You need to jump through some hoops to get the original DOS release these days.
ROCm support for RDNA cards it’s somewhat bad as well. It works, at least on my 6700XT, but it has no oficial support, which is pretty lame.
AMD is weirdly bad with their software side.
I feel that pain too, I had an Intel Skull Canyon NUC with the VEGA 56, and one day, no more graphics drivers!
Still mad about it, but not as mad as I am about Nvidia’s prices.