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the horrific stuttering (I'd think) is easier to fix than simply trying to optimize the drivers to improve overall performance.

• nottorp 4y ago
  One can hope... some people do replay older games. Or just have a huge backlog.
  • BuckRogers 4y ago
    It depends if it can be patched in drivers or has to be patched in the game. If it's the game, all bets are off. No truly popular game is abandoned though. There's even a FreeCiv. If can be done in the drivers, expect nearly every even remotely popular report coming in to eventually be fixed. This hardware is going into Intel's CPUs sooner than later. Support won't be lacking. The support for this card may dwarf AMD and Nvidia's own support. Intel is using D3D9On12 and perhaps D3D11On12. I would expect any extremely popular titles like CSGo (DX9C) and LoL (DX11 and offers a legacy DX9 mode) to get hand-tuned by Intel. For most recent games and going forward, most games target engines, not APIs. Between that trend and DX12, I expect Arc to be just fine. I can find you driver bugs with both Nvidia and AMD today. I've experienced visual bugs with both. I'm using an older branch of Nvidia's drivers right now due to stuttering that occurs on newer branches. There's no outrage because this happens all the time with GPU vendors. Intel puts out a very good dGPU and people are hyper-critical.
    • nottorp 4y ago
      > There's even a FreeCiv. Well, for every FreeCiv and Devilution there are 10K other titles that no one is reimplementing.