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Nvidia being assholes with HairWorks again - go figure.

 

Errata: Technically the decision to put Hairworks-heavy objects far away / hidden from sight was on the developer, but one has to think that the artificial decrease in performance for cards that aren't optimized for tessellation be it AMD or Pre-Maxwell Nvidia has something to do with the GPU maker that's got its name written all over this title's marketing.

  1. ARikozuM

    ARikozuM

    Loading single hair follicles causes a decrease of performance... AMD users can disable it or wait for the proper driver to come through in three weeks a la Witcher 3. 

  2. Skanky Sylveon

    Skanky Sylveon

    Dear Nvidia,

    Nobody is buying your GPUs for gaming right now anyway.  Cut that shit out!

  3. Techicolors

    Techicolors

    i wonder if tinkering with the Tessellation settings will have any impact 

  4. Energycore

    Energycore

    @Technicolors Yes, if you disable / tone down tessellation, you will have increased performance on Kepler / AMD GPUs. We'll likely get a driver that does this for FFXV and anyone on the "AMD Optimized" Tessellation settnings is likely to see better frames than those who don't.

  5. Princess Luna

    Princess Luna

    but this was expected since begin as the game uses gameworks

  6. Energycore

    Energycore

    @Princess Cadence it being expected doesn't make it any less obnoxious so I'll continue to post this every time it shows up

  7. Princess Luna

    Princess Luna

    its features meant for maxwell and pascal, if you have amd or older nvidia simply disable it ain't that much of obnoxious to me personally :P

  8. Energycore

    Energycore

    Well see, the problem isn't that. We could enjoy HairWorks on other cards and take the performance hit whenever we're looking at an object that's got it.

     

    The problem is that very often, Nvidia (or the dev working for with them) manages to sneak in additional HairWorks or Tessellation in places that are completely unnecessary. For instance, on the cows that are so far away you can't even see them behind the foliage yet still have full res hairworks in, tanking performance for no visual gain whatsoever.

     

    You have to think that this is on purpose. If it was by accident, then it's very unlikely that the "accident" of adding these would have happened over 4+ games in the last 2 years.

  9. Skanky Sylveon

    Skanky Sylveon

    @Energycore So, you are saying that you will continue to beat a dead horse until this shit ends?

    All joking aside, the squeaky wheel DOES get the grease.

  10. Energycore

    Energycore

    @Cinnabar Sonar I will continue to beat this dead horse until it stops trying to eat my brains

  11. Skanky Sylveon
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