AMD Partners With Creative Assembly

[Bloodyvalley]

 

 

 

AMD today announced a new technology partnership with Creative Assembly, developer behind the highly-anticipated "Alien: Isolation." Developed in conjunction with the AMD Gaming Evolved program, "Alien: Isolation" is fully optimized for a premium PC gaming experience, including native support for: AMD Eyefinity technology, 4K UltraHD, AMD CrossFire multi-GPU technology, and a wide range of DirectX 11 effects tuned for the Graphics Core Next architecture in recent AMD Radeon GPUs and AMD Accelerated Processing Units.

"The AMD Gaming Evolved program is committed to making games look great and run well for all PC gamers," said Ritche Corpus, director of ISV Gaming and Alliances, AMD. "By working with truly talented developers like Creative Assembly, we deliver on that commitment with fun and beautiful games like 'Alien: Isolation,' which give PC gamers the high-end technology they deserve."

 

Players will discover the true meaning of fear in "Alien: Isolation," a survival horror set in an atmosphere of constant dread and mortal danger. Fifteen years after the events of the "Alien" motion picture, Ellen Ripley's daughter Amanda enters a desperate battle for survival, on a mission to unravel the truth behind her mother's disappearance. As Amanda, players will navigate through an increasingly volatile world confronted on all sides by a panicked, desperate population and an unpredictable, ruthless Alien. Underpowered and underprepared, players must scavenge resources, improvise solutions and use their wits, not just to succeed in their mission, but to simply stay alive.

"'Alien: Isolation' is a game that plunges players into a haunting, terrifying atmosphere," said Clive Gratton, Lead Programmer, Creative Assembly. "The visual experience plays such a fundamental role in the 'feel' of the game that we went the extra mile to craft an in-house engine that fully articulates our vision. AMD has graciously helped us augment that engine for the PC with a number of effects, such as contact-hardening shadows, compute-based particles, HDAO and DirectX 11 tessellation. Support for immersion and performance technologies like AMD Eyefinity and CrossFire technologies make the whole PC experience even better!"

Gamers looking to try the rich graphics and terrifying environments of "Alien: Isolation" for themselves can secure a complimentary copy by purchasing an eligible AMD Radeon R9 Series graphics card from a retailer participating in the new Never Settle: Space Edition promotion beginning Sept. 2, 2014.

 

 

I don't they AMD should be partnering with the company who made Aliens: Colonial Marines

 

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Here's some gameplay of Alien: Isolation

[Fulgrim]

I don't they AMD should be partnering with the company who made Aliens: Colonial Marines

 

Gearbox Software made Colonial Marines, not Creative Assembly. And they outsourced most of the work for the game to TimeGate studios, as well as Demiurge Studios & Nerve Software.

[Trik'Stari]

Who won't AMD sleep with?

[patrickjp93]

Who won't AMD sleep with?

Nvidia? No, wait, they actually went to Nvidia first proposing a merger before they bought ATI.

[Trik'Stari]

Nvidia? No, wait, they actually went to Nvidia first proposing a merger before they bought ATI.

And Nvidia was all like "no way, you got the herp"

[SnowGhost1212]

Alien: Isolation is a good game. Different devs. 

[patrickjp93]

And Nvidia was all like "no way, you got the herp"

Not true. Nvidia said yes as long as it retained the top dog position in the merged entity. Ruiz (AMD CEO) refused because he didn't want to give up control. ATI fan children get really angry when you bring that up.

[Humbug]

No problem with this as long as they work with both companies and make sure the game is optimized for both Nvidia and AMD, with no artificial constraints.

[Humbug]

I don't they AMD should be partnering with the company who made Aliens: Colonial Marines

Wasn't that gearbox?

[SuperfastJellyfish]

Not true. Nvidia said yes as long as it retained the top dog position in the merged entity. Ruiz (AMD CEO) refused because he didn't want to give up control. ATI fan children get really angry when you bring that up.

I bet you're really fun at parties

[patrickjp93]

I bet you're really fun at parties

I am, but that doesn't mean I let lies go.

[SuperfastJellyfish]

I am, but that doesn't mean I let lies go.

If you look really closely, you'll find that the post you responded to was a, 'joke'.

[patrickjp93]

If you look really closely, you'll find that the post you responded to was a, 'joke'.

The need for sarcasm font presents itself once again.

[fojacko]

The need for sarcasm font presents itself once again.

 

Really? Because everyone uses the line "I bet you're really fun at parties" sarcastically...

[deviant88]

Nvidia? No, wait, they actually went to Nvidia first proposing a merger before they bought ATI.

 

The tought still bothers me, what if Intel + nvidia BFF's loveydovey , except for higher prices i wonder what can it come out of it,my neurons get very agitaded thinking of it.

[patrickjp93]

The tought still bothers me, what if Intel + nvidia BFF's loveydovey , except for higher prices i wonder what can it come out of it,my neurons get very agitaded thinking of it.

Very little. Intel already has the edged in scalability. Every chip maker who has doubted intel has died. AMD and NVIDIA combined don't have the engineers or R&D budget to complete nor the engineers. Eventually Intel will beat out both with its iGPU. Cost aside, Intel has had the lead since 2007 in performance. That won't change in the next decade.

[ItsComrade]

Who won't AMD sleep with?

 

Which company is the whore in this situation?

[LAwLz]

Alien: Isolation is a good game. Different devs.

Is it out yet? Because if it isn't then I wouldn't say it is good. I'd say it has the potential to not be a catastrophic failure like the previous Alien game.

[Altecice]

I don't get why people make jokes about who AMD sleeps with.  Both Nvidia & AMD partner with games...

But whos the company that uses Gameworks that kills the FPS on AMD cards? Nvidia.... At least AMD doesn't pull that shit.

whos the company that when they use there Gameworks API's the game runs like a bag of shit? Nvidia (Watchdogs... etc)

 

Think before you start slating one company... they are both at it

[Scionyde]

Seems like a game well-suited for TrueAudio. To my knowledge, Thief is the only game that's used it so far, right? Anybody know if that was well-implemented?

[LAwLz]

But whos the company that uses Gameworks that kills the FPS on AMD cards? Nvidia.... At least AMD doesn't pull that shit.

whos the company that when they use there Gameworks API's the game runs like a bag of shit? Nvidia (Watchdogs... etc)

[Citation Needed]

 

I've said it before and I will say it again. It's up to the developers to use whichever tools they want. They can implement GameWorks features in their game if they want, and if they do they can add on/off switches.

Watch_Dogs had major issues because Ubisoft is a terrible company, not because they used GameWorks.

 

 

Seems like a game well-suited for TrueAudio. To my knowledge, Thief is the only game that's used it so far, right? Anybody know if that was well-implemented?

I am not sure if they fixed it, but when it launched the audio in Thief was completely messed up.

[SnowGhost1212]

Is it out yet? Because if it isn't then I wouldn't say it is good. I'd say it has the potential to not be a catastrophic failure like the previous Alien game.

 

I've been following the development of it, its pretty much nearly done now and has been pretty well received.

[Trik'Stari]

Which company is the whore in this situation?

Not whore, whore's do things for money, AMD is just a slut.

[Scionyde]

I've been following the development of it, its pretty much nearly done now and has been pretty well received.

 

I think the point is, that until the full game is in the hands of reviewers, we can't be sure of anything. The demo for Aliens: Colonial Marines looked and played pretty good, but that turned out to be a scam.

[Eroda]

alien isolation actually looks good seen gameplay the alien looks quite random