I’ve heard of Intel Arc users for instance not able to play certain games because it checks for AMD/nVidia, so you’d have to fake the GPU vendor to get it to work.
That is usually more incompetence than malice. They write a game that requires different operation on amd vs Nvidia devices and basically write an
If Nvidia:
Do x;
Else if amd:
Do Y;
Else:
Crash;
The idea being that if the check for amd/Nvidia fails, there must be an issue with the check function. The developers didn’t consider the possibility of a non amd/Nvidia card. This was especially true of old games. There are a lot of 1990s-2000s titles that won’t run on modern cards or modern windows because the developers didn’t program a failure mode of “just try it”
I’ve heard of Intel Arc users for instance not able to play certain games because it checks for AMD/nVidia, so you’d have to fake the GPU vendor to get it to work.
Eg see stuff like this: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Graphics-Hogwarts-Legacy
Or https://www.phoronix.com/news/The-Finals-Intel-Arc-Graphics
That is usually more incompetence than malice. They write a game that requires different operation on amd vs Nvidia devices and basically write an
If Nvidia: Do x; Else if amd: Do Y; Else: Crash;
The idea being that if the check for amd/Nvidia fails, there must be an issue with the check function. The developers didn’t consider the possibility of a non amd/Nvidia card. This was especially true of old games. There are a lot of 1990s-2000s titles that won’t run on modern cards or modern windows because the developers didn’t program a failure mode of “just try it”
This is actually more stupid because it’s literally Intel’s fault
Their own fucking XeSS crashes on their own fucking GPUs under Linux so you have to fake the GPU and beg for it to not actually recognize it’s Intel.
“Powerful graphics cards? Psshhh, who’ll ever need those?” - Intel, from 1990 to 2015