Anyone use the AMD Raptr in AH2 or Alpha? Any advantage if you do?
This is the 1 item that AMD is developing that I'm gonna sit on the fence for now, Randy1.............& Nvidia is the reason why w\ the Geforce Experience scenario & the direction that I envision this is headed...........which I'm not a fan of & I'm afraid that AMD may also go there as well IF they become too desperate to forego real, creative innovation & ALLOW the consumer to choose how they want to use their software w\ their hardware products & ALLOW their products w/ their innovations alone to determine the direction of the graphics industry & begin to mimic the competition too much............
Now to put out here what I'm meaning concerning Nvidia is that IMHO Nvidia is using the popularity & the strengths of their products (graphics cards) that they've rightly deserved to enjoy to slowly introduce a software solution to "trap" the user into going along w/ their vision of graphics usage in the gaming industry to then introduce the control of the same industry to fall along their vision of how all should be......starting w/ G-Synch & now Geforce Experience. G-Synch is 1 such example of what I'm referring to. This was a revolutionary innovation for Nvidia to develop to deal w/ a specific graphics industry issue that ALL faced but they got greedy & tried to control it to use it as a tool....along w/ the popularity & capabilities of their graphics products & their ability to use this innovation....to try to "sway" the industry & the market (us the consumer) to their view of how all should be.........for their capital gains.......but NOT necessarily w/ the goal to make the graphics industry better for ALL by making it an OPEN standard..........because to do that, you will HAVE to also AID your competition to a certain degree (AMD & Intel), which when you do this, you will HAVE to depend solely on the superiority of your GRAPHICS CARDS alone which is what got you there. In the short run this strategy looks good & promising but in the long run it's a losing strategy.....& the decision for AMD to not take AdaptiveSynch....known as FreeSynch....down that road but to hold onto it as being an OPEN standard innovation which allows the ENTIRE graphics market to invest in the innovation to use it to help expand the marketability of their own products but also maintain INTEROPERATIBILITY w/ each other's products....even your direct competition's products.....is beginning to pay off, not JUST for AMD, but for everyone else (like Intel for 1 who has adopted AdaptiveSynch for their graphics products & now the monitor makers are increasingly moving to this standard to cover the increasing majority market share over Nvidia's G-Synch tech).....except those who CHOSE to not participate (like Nvidia).........at least not yet. Nvidia can only afford to maintain their position w\ G-Synch IF they can maintain their position w/ their graphics cards but in the long run Nvidia has lost this 1 & would actually be smarter for them to actually abandon G-Synch to be used w/ their products for the short run & join the rest of the industry & make FreeSynch the priority w/ Nvidia's newer graphics product line & into the full graphics industry standard for all that it's going to be anyway regardless of what Nvidia does now..........which will translate into a win for AMD as this will put AMD in front of Nvidia.....as long as AMD CONTINUES to actively develop & vet the FreeSynch tech to work FLAWLESSLY w/ their products so that the ONLY thing that Nvidia can do is to reach "parity" instead of "superiority"................& current developments w/ FreeSynch to address the low frame rate issues when using FreeSynch to compete w/ G-Synch for instance are showing that AMD is doing exactly that..........
I am seeing the same process being tried again by Nvidia w/ Geforce Experience & I'm hoping that AMD doesn't try to "trap" you by tying this software into forcing the user to HAVE to have it installed just to use their products to "trap" you into having to BUY their products.......I'm hoping that AMD really understands that their best weapon is to stay w/ an open market approach w/ their products & stay w/ the company's innovative vein but get better, MUCH better in envisioning how to fully VET their OWN innovations within the open market to stay ahead of the competition & NOT ALLOW the competition the luxury of doing this for them & end up w/ the COMPETITION REAPING all the long term BENEFITS of AMD's OWN INNOVATIONS.......it is here--& only here--where I believe AMD has lost to Intel & Nvidia in the short run, but have a very real opportunity now to absolutely regain major market share against both Nvidia & Intel in the long run IF they don't get spooked now & throw in the towel on open market development w/ their products AND software......
That's my take on all this & why I'm gonna wait on Raptr to see where AMD really goes w/ this.....................
