You’re talking about a specific AC. Your OP was a general statement about all ACs. And it’s not true because many simply do not offer this option to run in userspace mode only, as seen by battlefield and COD and other games like League of Legends.
Could they? Maybe? We don’t know it’s a bunch of proprietary black box code anyways.
But presenting it like it’s a choice by Dev studios to just tick a box during AC setup is not a valid thing to say about all cases.
That’s not the case with kernel-level AC, those don’t run on Linux at all. They shouldn’t run on anything really but that’s a different story.
Now I wish we had riscV mobile phones too…
The 9070xt is a very fine exception for efficiency really. I was able to cap mine at 230watt with a minor underclock and it barely lost 5% perf compared to stock.
Even base models were clocked way too high, probably to help it ensure vfm victory over NVIDIA midrange in the market when reviewers were looking at it.
The realistic answer IMO is that SSD should be the default with client overrides being available.
Yes consistency is important but if someone wants to do something weird, let them. Open software ecosystems should prioritize flexibility like that.
IT crowd heh. What a nerdy show.
More options is always better. I may be wrong, but I would much rather use an SDK as-intended and fine tune my integration with an external dependency (FSR or otherwise) rather than to connect my software to a DLL, which I understand is more like a static, pre-built blob.
Upscaling and Framegen is a crutch unfortunately that enables studios to focus on “photorealism” that pushes sales instead of proper optimization and gameplay that many games care about. And I blame suits of course that make decisions not my fellow engineers who follow the company line.
I don’t like that this is the state of game graphics either but I would much rather it be an open technology than a proprietary, vendor-lock, black box tech like nvidia tends to do.
That’s fair.