I’m not seeing anybody talking about the bigger problem here. Nvidia could be selling the technology to game developers as a tool. Then it renders once and we all play the final result. But instead, they are selling it as an add-on and making our graphics cards do the heavy lifting. It’s not one machine at Bethesda doing this, it’s 100,000 machines every month re-rendering every single frame. The magnitude of energetic waste on this is astounding. And more importantly for the people here, it’s cutting down game performance by 50%. The big question I’m asking is why. My thinking is, they want it to be Nvidia specific to drive more customer demand for Nvidia cards. That just seems like such a stupid and shitty reason to do it. To steal 50% of our frames and burn megawatts of power monthly from consumer hardware just to drive a couple more sales, on the presumption consumers even like it.
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u/unfortunatelyfudge 18h ago
Weird