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Pemalite on 20 August 2018
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JEMC said:

Ugh, it's Monday. I guess I have to make the news, right? Oh, great! It turns out that there's a lot of them... >.>

Appreciate everything you do!

JEMC said:

SA_DirectX 2.0 mod makes Grand Theft Auto San Andreas look almost as good as modern-day video games
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/sa_directx-2-0-mod-makes-grand-theft-auto-san-andreas-look-almost-as-good-as-modern-day-video-games/
Modder ‘Makarus’ has released the final version of his graphical overhaul mod for Grand Theft Auto San Andreas, SA_DirectX 2.0. While the modder did not reveal the changes he has made to the change, he did release some screenshots that showcase the new and improved visuals achieved with this mod.
From what we have gathered, SA_DirectX 2.0 has some new shaders that Makarus has implemented via the ENBSeries mod for GTA San Andreas. The result is incredible and almost makes the game look as good as modern-day titles (of course we’re not talking about the current-gen triple-A games, but something you could find in an indie/lowered-budget title).

>>The mod is available from Nexus Mods.

This is actually impressive.
Although the Depth of Field is pretty terrible and there is a few artifacts.
Plus the reflections update at a low rate...

But all in all, considering the engines age, it's stupidly impressive.

haxxiy said:

Mmm, I'm a bit skeptical of the long-term success of Nvidia turning their backs on the hardware design that propelled them to greatness in the first place: unified compute engines and nothing else inside their GPUs. It feels like they've contracted IBM's disease, though IBM had Intel selling more efficient and simpler hardware to keep them in their place. On the other hand AMD, though, designed what was possibly their worst GPU ever since buying ATI (and subject to the same "disease", with all of Vega's useless bells and whistles).

The fact nVidia are willing to reserve so much silicon to propriety features may actually play into AMD's hands in the long run anyway.

If anyone remembers the Geforce FX for example... Allot of that chips issues was due to the fact it retained allot of the older fixed-function hardware which consumed die-space that ATI with the Radeon 9700 Pro pretty much dedicated to improving it's overall performance, especially in SM2 scenarios... End result was that ATI pretty much utterly dominated that era.

Chazore said:

Well, with how AMD is steering itself with Sony/Apple and long term plans, we're looking at 2021, maybe 22 for when AMD decide to come back for high end desktop GPU's. Competition at this point is basically dead.

Pretty much.
That isn't to say that AMD GPU's can't be impressive... It just takes a very particular scenario (Asynchronous Compute) for it to happen.

AMD's Next Gen GPU design should be something to watch out for though.

Heck, I ain't even willing to buy AMD's low-end GPU's at this point, that's very telling.




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