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Isn’t it different optimization, not better? Since it’s using different rendering techniques for older GPUs?

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Fallbacks are incredibly common. There are fall backs for Ray Tracing, for example. All of these are optimization.

Lacking this level of optimization from the start was a sham. And Alex helped let them.get away with it.

Thankfully the game flopped, Im sure in no small part to its inaccesibility on a larger range of hardware, so the devs lowered the functional requirements.

Digital Foundry puts tech demo featuresets over a reasonably designed game, every single time. Nvidia relies on these narratives to push wasteful hardware.

John and Richard are the only hosts I care about these days. Alex and Oliver have become insufferable .

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I still don’t know if I’d call lower settings to be optimisations. I see optimisations to be ways of making the current solution to work faster and more efficient. Swapping out a process for a “lower” one because some hardware can’t support the original is not optimisation in my books, and pedantically doesn’t follow the definition either.

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