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BasilZero said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

Or downloaded them when they were available on GOG, got them both in my library. Or downloaded them before somewhere else, since both games had been freeware for over 10 years now. Really makes you wonder why it took so long to come to Steam...

Ahhh, did not know it used to be on GOG, wonder why they removed it lol

Maybe due to the Microsoft takeover, the legal basis changed and had to be removed temporarily. Already happened with Fallout before.

Captain_Yuri said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

I wonder if that 900W GPU ain't actually 2 GA102 in some kind of SLI setup.

Either way, no need for a heater anymore if you got a Lovelace GPU. I wonder how NVidia wants to use those in the laptop market if they are so power-hungry...

Captain_Yuri said:

NVIDIA claims superiority with its Game Ready drivers, jokes about competitors’ sub-par beta drivers with multiple forks

https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-claims-superiority-with-its-game-ready-drivers-jokes-about-competitors-sub-par-beta-drivers-with-multiple-forks

While AMD drivers aren't as buggy anymore as they once were, Nvidia does overall have better driver support. Especially when you consider how AMD has stopped driver support for their 300 series GPUs that released in 2015 while Nvidia continues to support their 900 series GPUs that released in 2014...

Could be due to Maxwell supporting DX12_1 while GCN3 only supports DX12_0 and WDDM 2.0 (Maxwell: 2.1). GCN3 is just too outdated for modern Games.

Meh, I think 300 series had plenty of life left in it.

Just look how well the open source community driver performs in the tests and it can still play a ton of games. The fact that Kepler with it's terrible architecture received longer driver support than 300 series which had a much more modern feature set is nuts.

This only applies to GCN 3, GCN 1 and 2, which are the bulk of the GPUs (only Tonga and the Fury/Nano cards were GCN 3) had a similar tech level as Kepler did (Kepler: DX 11_0, GCN 1+2 DX 11_1).

I do agree that Tonga and Fury/Nano should have had their support extended, they are still good. AMD probably didn't want to divide the Generation and give some cards future support and other not, and thus decided to cut it for all.

Speaking of such old cards, I wish there are more tests on how those old cards perform against more modern entry-level/Mid-range cards. Really could shine some more light upon the longevity of such cards.