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Cryptic, Please Clarify Optimizations

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This matter has come up a bit in the graphical support thread and I felt it would be easier to get a direct answer. On the website for STO there are two prominent tags at the bottom of the page. One says the game is Enhanced for Intel Processors and the other is the Nvidia, Way It's Meant To Be Played. Both of these would seem to indicate that there is some enhancement to the game play experience of STO if these two specific hardware brands are used.

Could we, the consumers of this product please get an explanation of what enhancements have been made that are specific to these two brands of products or what we lose by using AMD based products?
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    i would guess a couple of things are they may have gotten money to take sponsors and the machines they build and test STO on are intel & nvidia machines so they have light testing in other enviroments since they have to work with what they have.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    This matter has come up a bit in the graphical support thread and I felt it would be easier to get a direct answer. On the website for STO there are two prominent tags at the bottom of the page. One says the game is Enhanced for Intel Processors and the other is the Nvidia, Way It's Meant To Be Played. Both of these would seem to indicate that there is some enhancement to the game play experience of STO if these two specific hardware brands are used.

    Could we, the consumers of this product please get an explanation of what enhancements have been made that are specific to these two brands of products or what we lose by using AMD based products?
    Considering both Nvidia and AMD/ATI do their own optimizations and implementation of certain features (catering to their hardware on a driver level), who knows? Sometimes certification by a developer doesn't mean there's a ghost behind the curtain pulling strings.

    I would also suppose that in the ATI performance issue thread where Cryptic_Dave said he had to pass on the demo to ATI to replicate the steps, that it's due to a non-standard driver implementation of certain features lying on the hardware side.
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