John carmack claims better graphics drivers from amd and nvidia

John Carmack, the legendary creator of Doom and one of the fathers of 3D video games has been at the Oculus Connect event making some comments, which could almost be considered an ear flip for those in charge of developing AMD graphics card drivers and Nvidia.

John Carmack: "They often make mistakes"

According to Carmack, teams in charge of GPU controllers often make development mistakes that ultimately break game optimizations.

"They often make mistakes, " he said, referring to driver updates that can break things.

"Let me do specific low-level things, I know what I'm doing, I'll take care of it, you're going to make decisions that are not going to be optimal for me , " Carmack said.

His comment was made while talking about Oculus Go and various VR technologies, which Carmack is fully into right now.

AMD and Nvidia continue to release frequent updates but…

When it comes to optimizing graphics drivers, AMD is probably the one that has suffered the most from this in the past, at least until Raja Koduri joined to lead a dedicated group of Radeon Technologies Group that AMD formed in the early phase of Vega..

Currently, AMD and Nvidia are focused on offering frequent updates of their controllers to coincide with the releases of the main games and that these come out as optimized as possible, but judging by what John Carmack says, it is still not enough.

Carmack joined the Oculus VR team in 2013 to help improve everything related to virtual reality technology.

Source: pcgamer