the54thvoid As someone looking to almost certainly buy a 1800X, if Nvidia announced this, there'd be a f*cking furore. AMD effectively locking down Bethesda games? C'mon, is this not a double standard. Or does fanbase determinism make objectivity obsolete?

ShurikN This could very well be an all around adoption of Vulkan idTech engine.

Blueberries People without the hardware will still have Normal or High modes, this fills the niche for enthusiasts with underutilized hardware. This might allow Bethesda to add another tier of physics or queue density that isn't achievable with normal hardware or a console without backlash.

anyone remember the strained relationship with amd & bethesda? the nightmare that was 2011 (rage+skyrim) launches? the story that an ati beta tester leaked doom3 or something id that caused ati to be blacklisted from prerelease?why are you purposely ignoring how nv has actual proprietary features, while amd 'doesnt', & that nv consistently has caused features to be disabled from competitors even though they work (batman when spoofing the vendor)vulkan has standards, nv probably has to do the same, why should devs be in the dark to guess how to optimize per arch when it's low level?bethesda has said that they wont allow id to be used externally anymore, so it's the same situation as ea with frostbitewhy wouldnt that be achievable on nv? why are people assuming so much from this news? amd has 'strategic relationships' with other devs & you dont see problems there, only with nv when they have closed source or vendor locked features (although it's not like hairworks has no problems on nv either)