Thief will not ship with Mantle support
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lucidus
They used to tack on DX 11 and now they tack on Mantle? Oh boy.
Firefox72
Honestly the game runs on UE3. That engine runs fairly well across the board. And the PC port devs are Nixxes which made the Hitman, Tomb Raider and Deus Ex ports and they all turned out pretty solid.
Plug2k
im not saying the game will not run great from the getgo even with dx11 i am confident that it will run sweet and the sound well i have a great sound card so i dont need that true audio from graphics card anyway.....
im just posting the information and for yet again we the customer was promised something and yet again the gamer has to wait for that said support until a month later and by that time we all the consumer/gamer will have already completed the game by then... so there for whats the point lol
ASLayerAODsk
I love how 'launches' these days are anything but...
its like paying for early release...what the actual f**k??
Plug2k
yeah im sick and tired of games coming out that are half arsed and piss poor ports when the company can take there time and release games that are COMPETE technically and don't require patches on launch for how ever long it takes they should release when they have it right not when its the best time to fill there pockets.
You will always get people who are impatient though hence why we the gamer/customers have to put up with this crap every year nothing changes and i don't expect anything to change.
WhiteLightning
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doesnt surprise me at all, mantle comes in 2nd place
eclap
It's all in their business plan, games have to come out when they're scheduled for. Gaming is a huge business. You don't have to buy it on day one, either, if you don't think the game is ready
ASLayerAODsk
yeah, well I think its time the masses REALIZED that 'final' means 'final alpha' these days, for the most part. I can't think of a company anymore that doesn't need 20 patches to get to an operating level AFTER release anymore, and that includes main portions of the games too. AMD is obviously no different in this regard. If you want to lose customer confidence, this certainly seems to be the trend these days.
yasamoka
People are too serious these days. What's the point of opening a whining thread?
DiceAir
looks like by the time mantle will be fully working everyone would've moved on. But it looks like every game will not have mantle support at launch. This is so bad for AMD. By the time the game get's mantle support no one will care about the game anyway. Such a bummer AMD.
AMD keeps on blaming the developers and so on but then just tell them they must have support at launch or so. This is my first and last AMD card. I've learned my lesson now. Nvidia is always on the ball with driver support while AMD is just sitting and doing nothing. Whenever a game launches Nvidia is quick to support it in their drivers.
yasamoka
Prescient too. LOL
k3vst3r
flogging dead horse springs to mind
Fox2232
I wonder what kind of mind calls developing new Graphical API, bringing most exiting technologies which shaped and will continue to shape x86 market like this:
"AMD is just sitting and doing nothing".
But it may be due you are too young. As at time those things get to wide use and masses benefits from them, most already forgot who developed them.
Those poor people living in this very moment not remembering past not envisioning future.
I wish you lived in alternative universe where AMD and ATi never existed. (yes I am quite evil with such wish, but you likely can't comprehend it without me stating it)
eclap
What if this is AMD's fault? We are yet to see a driver with official mantle support for 79xx cards.
Anarion
Could very well be. Current drivers probably do not work well at all in Thief and they just want to postpone those features to avoid issues.
Bleib
As it has already been said, it's not a heavy engine to run, so mantle is not really that important. But I do hope that trueaudio doesn't give better sound than the engine alone.
Fox2232
http://forums.guru3d.com/showpost.php?p=4771167&postcount=15
TrueAudio can do such stuff in real time. If that is put in use right way, nothing you had in game till now will compare to it.
Barry J
enjoyed the BF4 mantle threads wonder when we get the first Thief mantle patch in march thread then in April .... guess they want to make sure thief runs well before adding mantle to it
signex
I really don't see the issue here.
Gizmo
LOL im not surprised AMD + Nixxes no way would i buy it at launch! (add in its built on UE3 so no doubt it will load/stutter every few mins till after a few patches)
Do yourself a favor & just wait for it to hit the sales by then it might be playable/patched & have driver fixes in place,after all both AMD and Nixxes (IMO) have terrible Q&A/testing........
