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Cyran said:

JEMC said:

Captain_Yuri said:

AMD Polaris GPUs Can’t Run Forspoken Due To Lack DirectX 12_1 Feature Level Support, NVIDIA Maxwell GPUs Run Fine

https://wccftech.com/amd-polaris-gpus-cant-run-forspoken-due-to-lack-directx-12_1-feature-level-support/

What surprises me is that, by Videocardz article, Metro Exodus Enhanced actually required an even higher DX12 level, yet I don't recall seing reports of the game not working on those cards.

Metro Exodus enhanced edition require a GPU with ray tracing to run but on PC it also something you don't buy.  It a free update to the base game and even today if you want to play it on PC you would just buy the base game and then install the free update.  It was never sold which is probably why no one ever made a big deal about there GPU not working since it was marketed as a free Ray-tracing update on the PC side.

Forspoken a new game that you cant play with a older GPU is a bit of a different situation then a old game with a free ray-tracing update not being playable.

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Captain_Yuri said:

JEMC said:

It's extremely disappointing for those AMD users, and those on GM107/GM108 based Maxwell cards, tho those are kind of low end cards by now and, given how poor does the game run, it would be a slideshow if it worked.

What surprises me is that, by Videocardz article, Metro Exodus Enhanced actually required an even higher DX12 level, yet I don't recall seing reports of the game not working on those cards.

Well Metro Exodus Enhanced doesn't work on any GPUs that doesn't have Ray Tracing so it simply doesn't run. It wasn't a big deal cause non RT cards could play the non enhanced edition of the game and it was a free upgrade for the owners of the original. Forspoken on the other hand is a brand new $80 game that's AMD sponsored. If nothing else, one would expect more favouritism towards AMD but for whatever reason, Nvidia seems to do unexpectedly well.

Edit: Cyran beat me to it while I was typing lol

Thank you to both of you. It was something that bothered me, but if it's a DLC with extra requirements, then that explains it.