We started the year with the news that AMD Radeon Crimson Adrenalin drivers have performance problems in some games under DX9. These are the issues that in principle were not going to be solved although finally the brand has backed off and will.
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Among the affected games we find heavyweights like Command and Conquer, Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle Earth 1-2, The Witcher: Enhanced Edition, Sim City 2000 and Neverwinter Nights. So we would expect the ball to go away inflating and end up forcing AMD to react.
So it seems the problem relates to an incompatibility of these new Adrenalin Crimson drivers with the SAGE engine. Also, Terry Makedon of AMD has already confirmed on Twitter. That the company is working on solving these problems with a future update of its drivers. After this, we are sure that the official pronunciation of AMD did not reflect the general feeling of the company about a problem that has a solution after all.
The reaction of the user shows that PC players want their systems always to be compatible with previous versions of games. That is one of the most crucial differentiation factors between PC and consoles.