>invitation for everyone to increase tesselation that ship sailed with the introduction of Gameworks - an Nvidia program that paid game studios to deoptimize g

>invitation for everyone to increase tesselation that ship sailed with the introduction of Gameworks - an Nvidia program that paid game studios to deoptimize games on AMD hardware. https://techreport.com/review/21404/crysis-2-tessellation-too-much-of-a-good-thing/ https://techreport.com/review/21404/crysis-2-tessellation-to... https://wccftech.com/fight-nvidias-gameworks-continues-amd-call-program-tragic/ https://wccftech.com/fight-nvidias-gameworks-continues-amd-c... "Number one: Nvidia Gameworks typically damages the performance on Nvidia hardware as well, which is a bit tragic really. It certainly feels like it’s about reducing the performance, even on high-end graphics cards, so that people have to buy something new. "That’s the consequence of it, whether it’s intended or not - and I guess I can’t read anyone’s minds so I can’t tell you what their intention is. But the consequence of it is it brings PCs to their knees when it’s unnecessary. And if you look at Crysis 2 in particular, you see that they’re tessellating water that’s not visible to millions of triangles every frame, and they’re tessellating blocks of concrete – essentially large rectangular objects – and generating millions of triangles per frame which are useless."