Most of my job was stuff like, "So, Intel Onboard Graphics Cards lost 10% of their framerate again. Will someone please check the shaders?" or "(in game asset) is not showing up on any Radeon cards pre-(insert cutoff here). I need an engineer to check the asset for changes and figure out how we managed to add an instruction that doesn't work on older cards." I wasn't working the lab for any of the hardware companies, I was just working on a popular game that had to run on toasters.
Most of my job was stuff like, "So, Intel Onboard Graphics Cards lost 10% of their framerate again. Will someone please check the shaders?" or "(in game asset) is not showing up on any Radeon cards pre-(insert cutoff here). I need an engineer to check the asset for changes and figure out how we managed to add an instruction that doesn't work on older cards." I wasn't working the lab for any of the hardware companies, I was just working on a popular game that had to run on toasters.