Then what was Unity? You forgot about it or?
And i never said "disaster", i said fail.
I edited my post to include Unity. Surprisingly, my performance was really good at launch but there were issues regarding textures and stability. Were Nvidia responsible for that ? I doubt it.
All these games i mentioned (excluding JC3, just because i didn't tried it) had problems on the launch, until they were fixed, some after few weeks, some after few months.
I'm aware of that, hence my comment on Nvidia's choice of release to put their brand in a good light. No idea who greenlit those deals but they should evaluate them more carefully.
Whether or not they are responsible is not even in dispute, fact remains that people will tend to associate Nvidia branded games with wonky day one releases.
Unity was unplayable for me with 280X,. After few months and 4-5 patches it was ok.
Watch Dogs is still very demanding and it goes below 30fps for no reason, most of the time.
Dying Light was running like crap until they downgraded it few weeks after the release.
Do i need to mention AK, and JC3 that is still not fixed, just look at the Steam user score. And read reviews.
Watch Dogs can drop below 30fps in situations where tons of alphas, explosions, and car craches occur at the same time. I don't think this is outrageous. In most cases though performance has been really good on Nvidia and AMD from what I heard, I never tested the game on anything other than Nvidia cards (5 of them).
Lastly, I tend to take some distance from Steam "reviews" and user impressions. Too many so called PC gamers not understanding anything about settings for once, along with those who believe they bought a piece of limitless alien technology.
With those people the only way for your PC version to be praised is to be extremely conservative pertaining to scalability, Mad Max is the prime example. It sure runs well and it sure looks like a last generation game as well.
More ambitious projects will run worse but that does not mean they are not well optimized.
Back on topic, AMD owners have nothing to worry about. Rise of the Tomb Raider is technologically opulent on Xbone already, and this will translate well to AMD hardware I reckon.
Hence my surprise, do Nvidia "need" this game ? They already have bundled Rainbow Six Siege and AC Syndicate in November-December.
Do they need this partnership to move cards ? Maybe the game will so much favor AMD cards that Nvidia need something to counter that, but it seems awfully counterproductive to me.
Sorry, it did not seem to make much sense a week or so ago and it has yet to make sense for me today. That could make sense if Nvidia and whoever is working on the PC version are collaborating on a slew of high-end rendering techniques which will be Nvidia optimized.
