bit-tech News: Nvidia: We didn't request to pull DX10.1 from Assassin's Creed

news · May 12, 2008

Hi all,

We have just published some news regarding the removal of DirectX 10.1

from Assassin's Creed, in which we talk with AMD, Nvidia and Ubisoft -

if you could post a link on your site that would be very much appreciated.

*Link:*

*Quote:*

"I spoke to Richard Huddy, AMD's head of developer relations, on Friday

in an attempt to find out when we can expect to see the path implemented

again, because I'm sure that owners of Radeon HD 3000-series graphics

cards aren't too happy that they're missing out on a 20 percent

performance increase (when AA is enabled). Huddy said that he is working

hard with his team to get DirectX 10.1 support back into the title for

Radeon HD 3000 graphics card owners.

I pressed this point further on Saturday during a call with Nvidia

spokesperson Ken Brown, and asked him if Nvidia had requested for

DirectX 10.1 content to be removed from the game. "/We aren't in the

business of stifling innovation - it's ludicrous to assume otherwise.

Remember that we were the first to bring DirectX 10 hardware to the

market and we invested hundreds of millions of dollars on tools,

engineers and support for developers in order to get DirectX 10 games

out as quickly as possible,/" said Brown.

That response was to the point, but I felt it was worth pushing from

another angle. I asked him if Nvidia ever signs exclusive deals with

developers. "/Every developer we've worked with on TWIMTBP has not been

part of an exclusive arrangement - we do not prevent any developer from

working with other hardware vendors,/" responded Brown. "/Assassin's

Creed is a great example of this because both Nvidia and ATI developer

relations teams worked with Ubisoft to help during the development

phase./""*

*Cheers guys!

Tim Smalley

www.bit-tech.net

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