Nvidia Responds to Witcher 3 HairWorks Controversy

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Obviously because it's IP and needs to be licensed. You missed the point entirely, did you even read anything else? In order for AMD to make the game look and have the same experience as people with Nvidia cards, they have to pay Nvidia to do so. How is that fair to consumers? Because some people buy AMD cards they automatically get a slightly worse product and maybe even performance issues? How does that benefit anyone but Nvidia? Nvidia are doing more and more gameworks titles.. soon many AAA releases will be Nvidia Gameworks supported. That will make no one buy AMD and hurt the market. Don't see how it's good business. No one ever gives Nvidia shit.. or not nearly enough. AMD always gets it worse. Barnsely would agree on that too.

this is a pretty silly argument..
If the AMD cards cannot doe tessellation at a high enough performance level then It dosent matter if they have the code or not.
its not like NVIDIA cards dont take a hit with the options enabled. because they do and will drop fps. Its not magic, its just features given to developers that can make a game look nicer, these are made within limitations that nvidia know that their cards can accomplish.
You can give amd the damn code and it will still not perform as well as the nvidia card. The GPU's just do not do that feature at a high enough performance level.
hell even a bunch of nvidia cards wont be able to use it. And the ones that do will suffer lower frames.

It is a highly gpu intensive task. MAYBE with the 3 seriese r9 cards then amd cards will be able to use hairworks because they will be able to run at a high enough tessellation performance level. And even then they wont need the damn code to make it work. they just need the power.

Like i said. AMD cards just dont have the power needed to do the work. can give them the code and they still wont have the power. and you are saying that it is unfair to the amd users.
But the truth is the only thing that could have ever happen with this is AMD would not be able to use it without a huge performance hit "with or without access to the code".
so the only way to keep amd happy would be Not to implement it in any games. So no one has better looking games.. and that would actually be unfair. You cannot hinder developers abilty to make games look better just because AMD cards cant do the work. I do understand that you have it stuck in your head that some how if they had the code they could make it work.
but its just not the right way to look at it
Its like saying if you taught a 4 year old the correct technique to lifting weights he could lift 800lbds But because you wont tell him the technique you use he cant and thats the only reason he cant, which is unfair.