The developer in question is the one who designed Microsoft's shader language while he was employed at Microsoft.

You will find no developer that knows more about shaders than Dan.

The current Nvidia DirectX 12 drivers (the December ones) have problems with Async compute. We have a private driver that appears to address it but it hasn't been released yet.

I'm not suggesting anything other than the DirectX 12 APIs that make use of Aync compute have issues on the public drivers of Nvidia but we think they might have it working in a private driver.

How Nvidia implemented the API behind the scenes is not our concern.  

Our game is in pre-beta. I have no doubt there will be people having issues with DirectX 12 for sometime as the drivers improve.

My dev box uses a Geforce 970. It runs fine with DirectX 12.  

The only one treating us like "second rate" programmers is the guy who suggested that the inventor of Microsoft's shader language doesn't know what shaders are. That would be you.

Wow - have we reached peak crazy with this nonsense yet? Between here and the Steam forums (Green banana or whatever he is calling himself these days), the spam on this topic is full-blown OCD. On the off chance that it is not some elaborate, ill-conceived troll, dude, for everyone's sake, just relax, play the game, and focus on something, anything, other than AMD vs. Nvidia. When everyone is telling you you are misinformed and coming to wrong conclusions, you might want to stop and reflect a little on that.

This is not how a community should be. This discussion is not helping anyone, and the negative attitudes are completely unnecessary.

Molokoww, I gave you the benefit of the doubt, and it looks like I was totally wrong. Firstly your manner hasn't changed and you have the gall to insult the developers. The people who are giving their time and effort to make sure this game goes well, and you are practically spitting in their face. Not to mention your arrogance believing that you are more knowledgable in shaders than the developer who actually wrote the code for Microsoft. I don't know much about MS's hiring attitude, but I assume they have a level of standard that you can only imagine.

And now you make threats, saying this game will blow when Far Cry comes out even though they are two vastly different games from genre, gameplay, scope etc. Your posts come across as deliberately trying to instigate some sort of division or ill-formed criticism of the game and the community. I seriously suggest you take a look at yourself properly before assuming the air of arrogance and false intelligence that you take so much pride in.

PS: I apologise to Ticktoc about yesterdays thread, even though your language was unnecessary for the thread, it was totally understandable and perhaps warranted.