Andrew Cunningham said:
Unlike past launches, AMD is not providing its top-end laptop silicon for desktop use, at least not yet.
What a world. Desktops allow for much higher thermal loads than laptops which would allow chips to run faster, longer, wider, etc. but the notebooks (we can't legally write laptops because of how hot they have been in the last several generations) get the more performant chips?
For Christ's sake, AoE IV's AI is NOT that much better than AoE 1's... just play a map with a puddle and it will build the Spanish Armada in it.
I didn't expect the Spanish Armada.
Remember when GPUs first appeared on the market and pundits considered perhaps someone would eventually make Physics Processing Units to calculate better physics and that experience designers would simply model real-world physics for everything even down to the vibrations of vocal cords in order to make speech?
The problem is if it fundamentally changes how the in-experience world works, then it'll be another system requirement and as it was, proper GPUs were difficult enough to wrangle. If say, you could purchase a card to make the hit tie-in Jurassic Park Trespasser behave, how many people would do that for one title? How many publishers would be willing to tie their fortunes to a nebulous bit of hardware like that? Did PhysX set the world on fire? Or was it mostly used for incidental animations that didn't affect anything important? I remember Nvidia dropped support for a bit.
