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

[–] Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

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"

[–] Vivendi@lemmy.zip 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 6 months ago

"Powerful graphics cards? Psshhh, who'll ever need those?" - Intel, from 1990 to 2015