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   :ihavenomouth: (inginsub@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Thursday, 26-Feb-2026 04:38:52 JST :ihavenomouth:
   SDL3 GPU doesn’t seem to support tessellation shaders
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     :ihavenomouth: (inginsub@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Thursday, 26-Feb-2026 04:47:55 JST :ihavenomouth:

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     @i that's not a good reason, all the platforms that matter support it. they included other features that don't work everywhere
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     :blank: (i@declin.eu)'s status on Thursday, 26-Feb-2026 04:47:56 JST :blank:

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     @Inginsub not enough platforms support it, so it can't be included in the baseline
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     Rusty Crab (rustycrab@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Thursday, 26-Feb-2026 04:50:36 JST Rusty Crab

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     @Inginsub did they have poor performance or was that just geometry shaders?
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     :ihavenomouth: (inginsub@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Thursday, 26-Feb-2026 04:54:40 JST :ihavenomouth:

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     @RustyCrab just geometry shaders, i think tessellation always sucked on amd cards though
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     idk anymore, man (benis_redux@cawfee.club)'s status on Thursday, 26-Feb-2026 05:33:50 JST idk anymore, man

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     @Inginsub @RustyCrab the story goes that AMD was the one who introduced tessellation with a certain methodology, then Nvidia put an invisible tessellated ocean in one gameworks game that only tanked performance on AMD cards and the word spread from there. Going purely from memory, some details may be wrong.
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     :ihavenomouth: (inginsub@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Thursday, 26-Feb-2026 05:34:06 JST :ihavenomouth:

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     • idk anymore, man
     @benis_redux @RustyCrab it was hairworks in the witcher 3
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     :ihavenomouth: (inginsub@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Thursday, 26-Feb-2026 05:38:17 JST :ihavenomouth:

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     @benis_redux @RustyCrab crysis 2 or 3, crytek added heavy tessellation to everything and nvidia cards handled tessellating flat surfaces with no deformation better
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     idk anymore, man (benis_redux@cawfee.club)'s status on Thursday, 26-Feb-2026 05:38:18 JST idk anymore, man

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     @Inginsub @RustyCrab I remember that, I was also under the impression that there was an earlier incident involving tessellation
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     :blank: (i@declin.eu)'s status on Thursday, 26-Feb-2026 05:42:46 JST :blank:

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     @Inginsub @benis_redux @RustyCrab https://pcper.com/2011/08/never-mind-the-barrier-we-even-tessellated-the-water-table/
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     :ihavenomouth: (inginsub@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Thursday, 26-Feb-2026 05:51:28 JST :ihavenomouth:

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     @benis_redux @RustyCrab @i yeah, i was about to post that. the ocean was under the map and not literally invisible, and the cause was likely the difference in how pre-occlusion worked on nvidia and amd cards from that time
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     idk anymore, man (benis_redux@cawfee.club)'s status on Thursday, 26-Feb-2026 05:51:29 JST idk anymore, man

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     @i @Inginsub @RustyCrab from the linked source: https://techreport.com/review/crysis-2-tessellation-too-much-of-a-good-thing/
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     idk anymore, man (benis_redux@cawfee.club)'s status on Thursday, 26-Feb-2026 05:57:09 JST idk anymore, man

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     @Inginsub @RustyCrab @i so basically I had the gist of it right 😤
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     john paul grips (grips@cawfee.club)'s status on Thursday, 26-Feb-2026 06:20:43 JST john paul grips

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     @benis_redux @i @Inginsub @RustyCrab
     >Then, in late June, Crytek and publisher EA unloaded a massive, PC-specific update to Crysis 2 in three parts: a patch to version 1.9 of the game weighing in at 136MB, a 545MB patch adding DirectX 11 support, and a hulking 1.65GB archive containing high-res textures for the game.
     TAKE ME BACK NIGGA!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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     Rusty Crab (rustycrab@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Thursday, 26-Feb-2026 06:36:20 JST Rusty Crab

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     • idk anymore, man
     @grips @benis_redux @Inginsub @i yes because comcast executives belong in a woodchipper
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     idk anymore, man (benis_redux@cawfee.club)'s status on Thursday, 26-Feb-2026 06:36:21 JST idk anymore, man

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     @grips @Inginsub @RustyCrab @i we should halve data caps for both landline and mobile internet contracts
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     john paul grips (grips@cawfee.club)'s status on Thursday, 26-Feb-2026 06:36:21 JST john paul grips

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     @benis_redux @Inginsub @RustyCrab @i you guys have landline caps?
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