Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart

From what @Aluminium Can posted above, the issue seems to be related to stability. So there isn't some grand conspiracy on Nvidia's behalf to prevent AMD GPU owners from playing Ratchet and Clank with ray tracing enabled

Likely AMD is going to issue a driver update to rectify whatever the problem is. Nvidia should hopefully have the GRD out on launch day as well.

 

Has this been confirmed for launch because the specs sheets, posted a few pages back, clearly show the RX 6800 XT and RX 7900 XT as being recommended for AMD for the two ray-tracing options!!!

*EDIT*
Ah, OK, didn't see the post below... so it's a last-minute bug that resulted it RT being disabled for AMD GPU owners rather than launching it semi-broken. That does happen and surely it is better that it was caught before launch rather than after? I suspect whatever the issue is that it will be very quickly fixed.

 

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There has never been a game that didn't run on AMD hardware with RT. Why all of a sudden would a game that originally ran on RDNA2, all of a sudden not work on AMD GPUs.
And this seems to be a tech sponsored game by NVidia, with RT and DLSS3.

 

Where did you see it's the drivers? The only thing we saw is that AMD and Nixxes are working to find a solution.
And why does AMD only now get to work with Nixxes to fix this? Is nvidia blocking AMD from accessing game code before launch again?

 

Devs always sent out game keys for Intel, AMD and NVidia for them to test and prepare drivers.
The only time when that didn't happen was when nvidia was blocking devs from sending them to AMD. This used to happen a lot, several years ago. That's why I asked if it's happening again.
And it's very strange that only a couple of days before launch, is getting to work with Nixxes to fix this. In a game packed with NVidia tech.
You are right that nvidia's driver team is bigger than AMD's driver team. But if AMD had access to the game sooner, this probably would not happen.
And let's keep in mind this game is a PS5 game, which ran on RDNA2, with RT on.

 

Because only a few days ago, did Nixxes remove AMD GPUs from the requirements page.
And because this is the kind of thing that nvidia did so many times before.

And why do you think that a game that originally ran on RDNA2 with RT, all of a sudden stops working with RDNA2. Don't you think it's strange?

 

lol at people already mixing nvidia into crashy amd drivers

 

Probably the PC was rushed and they prioritized Nvidia since it's clearly sponsored. The Nvidia YouTube page is full with ratchet and clank advertising the rtx package....

 

no it isn't. it's just not blocking nvidia's tech.

 

How many games have you seen, where RT didn't work at launch on AMD GPUs? All of them work.
So it's very strange that all of a sudden a game packed with nvidia tech, has problems running on AMD GPUs only.
And you keep ignoring the fact that this game originally ran on an AMD GPU with RT.
But yes, let's keep pretending it is always AMD's fault.

 

But even with just reflections, most of the work was already done for RT.
Adding more effects should only affect performance. Not stability.

 

Whatever... You could say they "worked closely" with Nvidia engineers to support rtx IO. I call it sponsored game.

 

RT shadows are the most basic RT effects. Every time a game wants to pretend to have RT effects without much work, it's always RT shadows. And the visual diferences are always minimal.
Reflections are more complicated and more performance intensive. And more dependent on a good BVH.