NVIDIA and Intel have been fighting a legal battle for a long time now that involved chipsets that NVIDIA was making that supported newer Intel CPUs. We first heard grumblings back in 2008 that NVIDIA could be leaving the chipset business, but things were seemingly chugging along. Today NVIDIA has officially announced that its nForce chipset line is on hiatus.
Digital Foundry : Bethesda's Starfield was generally a well-regarded RPG, but the game's 30fps target on consoles was the subject of some controversy. The game's massive scope arguably justified that 30fps refresh rate, with only high-end PCs capable of hitting 60fps and higher, but now Bethesda has changed course and opened the floodgates on Xbox Series X consoles following significant optimisation work. Players can now independently select performance and visuals modes at arbitrary frame-rates. How exactly do these new combinations fare, and is 60fps really a possibility after it was explicitly ruled out before?
An inside look at Assassin's Creed Shadows, Ubisoft's ambitious open world Japan where your every move is affected by weather, season, and lighting systems.
Assassin's Creed Shadows digital storefront pages are up, and it confirms the game will require an internet connection, and MTX.
Avatar only had an online requirement to install the disc version, not to play.
This AC really does have Online Play Required marked on it.
One thing that's messed up about this, is there will be people playing pirated versions of this without that restriction, while the paying customers will suffer. Just like how some games will have lower performance on PC due to DRM, while pirated copies don't.
Anyone that wants to say something like "Who doesn't have internet access in this day and age?" There's plenty reasons people won't always have access, such as living in rural areas with spotty coverage, for example.
Three single-player games in a row they've done this with now. Those f***ers weren't kidding when they said gamers need to be comfortable with not owning their games. As a physical collector, and somebody who enjoys Ubisoft's open worlds, this is a nightmare scenario for me. Absolute scumbag company.
They haven't really had much need to continue with it. Ever since the X58 motherboards came around, Nvidia hasn't had a chipset market.
gah do you think theyll still support the current ones, cos i have an XFX 780i
I had a PC for only about a year, and had to replace it because it was buggy as hell. the reason according to Microsoft? The NVidia chipset is incompatible with Vista. How about that? A motherboard chipset made for a Vista computer incompatable with Vista.
Thanks for the ripoff. Stick to GPU's that you at least know how to make well, NVidia.
It burned us with Mother boards that sucked.
It burned us when they made chipsets that had trouble with VISTA funny how other boards did not have that trouble especially laptop chipsets.
It burned itself when it made the xbox(1) chipset to so that it would not lower the price as manufacturing cost decrease. It burned Microsoft directly.
They better watch out because pretty soon there will be no one to sell the GPU cards to! Including the end user!
IT DID THE SAME THING with the PS3! Poor Sony they also had to sue Nvidia. That was the last thing Sony needed, it cost them the chance to get the ps3 into more peoples hands sooner! Now finally Sony can do it but still they should be making profit at 299 and 399 but thanks to Nvidia NOT!
Nvidia also burned Asus and canopus, they found out the hard way there are only so many people you can burn in that business. Who are they going to sell it to? I bet that is the reason it suddenly dropped everything, because they cant sale it! It has to be sold AHEAD of time.