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Kaldaien spent some time updating Special K for Iceborne earlier tonight, this release is the latest and works for me. It might help with at least some of the issues on older computers. Ideally this is something Capcom would fix but the issues it addresses have apparently been active since launch and worsened with the DLC.
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Azran posted:Apparently Iceborne has some big performance issues like a memory leak, no idea if it's connected to the anti-cheat but do keep that in mind. ...so what you're saying is that it would make me dropping 32 GB of RAM into my laptop worth it? Ugly In The Morning fucked around with this message at 09:48 on Jan 12, 2020 |
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Ugly In The Morning posted:...so what you're saying is that it would make me dropping 32 GB of RAM into my laptop worth it? No. It's simply poorly coded and there's some stupidly high CPU usage for no reason whatsoever. The game was always pretty poorly optimized on that front, hence why Special K for MH became a thing in the first place, but Iceborne went balls to the wall making it worse by adding constant, useless scanning of the processes related to the game. You either wait for an official fix, hope that the new versions of Special K don't get you banned or buy a new CPU.
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Det_no posted:No. It's simply poorly coded and there's some stupidly high CPU usage for no reason whatsoever. The game was always pretty poorly optimized on that front, hence why Special K for MH became a thing in the first place, but Iceborne went balls to the wall making it worse by adding constant, useless scanning of the processes related to the game. Oh, that’s just bad coding and not a memory leak then. God, I remember back when a gig of RAM was a lot and some games would never release any memory they took; so you’d have to save, kill them through task manager/kill em all, and reboot them. E: not being pedantic to be a dick, just saw a LAN party thread and been posting in the DX thread. Also talked about computer upgrades in the unpopular video game opinion thread. It got me nostalgic for the bad old days. Those were fun. Ugly In The Morning fucked around with this message at 10:24 on Jan 12, 2020 |
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Oh, that’s just bad coding and not a memory leak then. I only caught the very end of the DOS era, but I’m pretty sure there are people here who will laugh hard at “a gig of RAM”. There will be war stories about spending hours managing their computer memory just to get a game going.
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Mierenneuker posted:I only caught the very end of the DOS era, but I’m pretty sure there are people here who will laugh hard at “a gig of RAM”. There will be war stories about spending hours managing their computer memory just to get a game going. The struggle to keep enough conventional memory free (that's out of the base 640k for you whippersnappers) to actually get Ultima 7 running while still having drivers running for mouse, soundcard and extended memory. Those where the... no actually thank god I don't have to do that anymore.
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Mierenneuker posted:I only caught the very end of the DOS era, but I’m pretty sure there are people here who will laugh hard at “a gig of RAM”. There will be war stories about spending hours managing their computer memory just to get a game going. Oh god, are you talking about the boot disc days?
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vaginite posted:I talked poo poo about Pathologic 2 in this thread awhile back but I gave it another go and feel the need to rescind my prior statements. One of us! One of us!
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OzFactor posted:I found the Prey thread so I'm posting about it there, but man, I know it gets recommended every time anyone asks for a game of basically any genre, but, like, you should all play Prey. It is exceptional in just about every way. As I get older it's pretty rare for me to even beat a game, and exceedingly more rare for me to beat a game and want to keep playing it or start over and play it again. I'm Mooncrashing right now but I'm really looking forward to starting the regular game over to play less cautiously and inject everything I see into my eyeballs and launch aliens into space with my mind. Prey is incredible. I had the big reveal spoilered for me because I'm an idiot who can't control himself but I still loved it JollyBoyJohn fucked around with this message at 12:57 on Jan 12, 2020 |
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Oh god, are you talking about the boot disc days? brb, gotta edit autoexec.bat
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bentacos posted:brb, gotta edit autoexec.bat Giving me ‘nam flashbacks over here. If F-15 Strike Eagle II was on GOG I’d probably pick it up for old time’s sake after this. Commanche, I think, was the one that always took the most boot disc finagling for me, but that game was pretty well past was an IBM PS1 should be able to handle if I remember right. Lot of messed up colors. E:25 MHZ and 2 MB of RAM? Holy poo poo, I hope I never fall in a wormhole to 1993.
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bentacos posted:brb, gotta edit autoexec.bat 1. Windows (default option 10 sec timer, for when my dad used the computer) 2. XMS 3. EMS 4. Base Memory
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I remember the approximate price of RAM being ~£1 per 1MB for the longest time. Looking at those fancy new 256MB DIMMs with longing. Wondering if I’d ever really need that much. 
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Every time I get a new piece of computer storage I fondly remember installing Daggerfall with my dad when I was 12 and both of us goggling at there being a Huge install size that was 450 MB and wondering how anything could possibly need that much space.
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My main computer tech memory is our copy of Ultima VI/Wing Commander becoming unplayable from CPU speed (386 to 486? Pretty sure it was when we moved from DOS to Windows 3.1). We later downloaded MoSlo from the school's computer lab (we didn't have internet at home) to hamstring the home computer to play them.
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CarlCX posted:Every time I get a new piece of computer storage I fondly remember installing Daggerfall with my dad when I was 12 and both of us goggling at there being a Huge install size that was 450 MB and wondering how anything could possibly need that much space. I remember when TekWar came out and people were talking about its 50 MB footprint.
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Bruceski posted:My main computer tech memory is our copy of Ultima VI/Wing Commander becoming unplayable from CPU speed (386 to 486? Pretty sure it was when we moved from DOS to Windows 3.1). We later downloaded MoSlo from the school's computer lab (we didn't have internet at home) to hamstring the home computer to play them. When we put a CD drive in the PS/1 it came with a disc with like 16 full games on it to blow your mind about how much CDs held. One was Wing Commander Academy, which I loved, but I could not, for the life of me, get Strike Commander to run. I read the manual for that over and over as a kid, it looked like exactly my kind of poo poo. It also had Shadowcaster which I still want GOG to get so loving bad. E:If I made a “back in my day”:weird poo poo you did to get games to run thread, would anyone be interested? I have a fun story involving a new PSU and a band saw with my old Compaq. Ugly In The Morning fucked around with this message at 19:17 on Jan 12, 2020 |
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I played and beat Katana Zero which was fun. Wish it had a real ending though.
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AirRaid posted:I remember the approximate price of RAM being ~£1 per 1MB for the longest time. Looking at those fancy new 256MB DIMMs with longing. Wondering if I’d ever really need that much. Haha a buck a meg. Back in the DOS days the normal price from ram was $70-80 per meg, and that price was standard for a long time. Not sure of the truth of this but the reason I heard for ram prices finally dropping was Windows 95, because it needed more ram and supposedly MS told the ram cartel (which basically price fixed) that they could either lower prices or MS would build/buy their own RAM factory and undercut them out of business.
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Blaster Master Zero was pretty good, but I got BM02 and had to refund it after like thirty minutes. What happened?
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Zachack posted:Haha a buck a meg. Back in the DOS days the normal price from ram was $70-80 per meg, and that price was standard for a long time. Not sure of the truth of this but the reason I heard for ram prices finally dropping was Windows 95, because it needed more ram and supposedly MS told the ram cartel (which basically price fixed) that they could either lower prices or MS would build/buy their own RAM factory and undercut them out of business. For a while in the 2000’s a decent stick of RAM was basically something you’d find in a box of cracker jacks. Then the price spiked a few years ago, but the 32 GB I slapped in my laptop cost me like... 60-80 bucks last summer? 2 bucks a gig still kind of blows my mind.
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Fuligin posted:am I insane or is Post Scriptum's claim of a free weekend a filthy, filthy lie. no i played it this weekend, but that weekend also just ended in its timezone
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So what's the best non-Steam Controller controller purely for Steam Link usage? After failing to click anything whatsoever in Slay the Spire/Baba Is You through both Parsec/Chrome Remote Desktop, I was completely blown away by Steam Link which is just so incredibly smooth. This is made even more impressive by the fact that I'm connecting through my mobile connection, instead of wifi connection. So now I'm looking forward to finishing Outer Worlds etc on my phone, just need a proper controller now.
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Well after seeing the ad for Sayonara Wild Hearts during GDQ I snagged it and I have to say I love the "audiosurf but more aesthetic and with a story" thing they have. My one complaint is that the Xbox 360 controller I have connected to my PC seems to have some awful input lag in this game and there's no way to correct for that in game as far as I can tell. Luckily it plays just as well with a keyboard, but that does limit me to playing at my PC and not from the couch.
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srulz posted:So what's the best non-Steam Controller controller purely for Steam Link usage? I think a dualshock 4 or the xbox one controller should both be fine, it's just based on preference
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For me the biggest reason to get a PS4 controller was that it has a built-in rechargeable battery. Xbox controller requires separate AAA batteries, which can be a nuisance.
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Smol posted:For me the biggest reason to get a PS4 controller was that it has a built-in rechargeable battery. Xbox controller requires separate AAA batteries, which can be a nuisance. https://www.amazon.com/Xbox-One-Play-Charge-Kit/dp/B00DBDPOZ4 The whole point of the Xbox controller is that you can pick and choose what you need. AA (not AAA, that's absurd), Enloops, a battery pack you recharge through USB, whatever, the choice is yours and you can replace it at will. Litteraly every option is better than the DS4's tiny internal battery as well. And it means you don't have to throw out the controller after 3-5 years when the battery eventually dies, just replace the easily accessible battery and you're golden. Heck, you can can even run it through USB without any batteries connected at all if you wanted. It makes the Elite 2's strictly internal li-po battery very frustrating and regressive. I do not understand why they went with that, I'd love to ask the engineer what they were thinking. Rocket Pan fucked around with this message at 10:04 on Jan 13, 2020 |
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Weird problem: For some reason since yesterday every time I launch Steam it kills the signal to my monitor (dislpayport) completely. The second screen (HDMI) is fine. Any ideas how to fix this??
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Rocket Pan posted:https://www.amazon.com/Xbox-One-Play-Charge-Kit/dp/B00DBDPOZ4 While you're totally right about the PS4 controller battery being garbage, the Xbone controllers have been dropping in quality since release. I get 300 or so hours of use until at least one button has issues. Right now, I have two Bone controllers less than a year old that have faulty A buttons. One has squeaky analog triggers too. 100 presses might register as 90 or they might register as many as 130. They also happen to be the only product in the US somehow only covered by a 90-day warranty instead of the default year so good luck getting them replaced! I can't think about the Elite controllers without thinking about the goon who made a post in coupons saying they were on sale for $120 and when I commented about its high price, I was told I should try to design and develop controllers for less than that. Me, a guy with an R&D team and Foxconn contacts to get them produced. You could buy an okay HOTAS or racing setup for the price of one overpriced xbox controller. Didn't know the second iteration had an internal battery too. What a poo poo show. Nintendo, the company who invented the d-pad, sells a controller for $70 with a broken d-pad. Screw these expensive pieces of junk. Madcatz quality, first-party price.
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Hwurmp posted:Blaster Master Zero was pretty good, but I got BM02 and had to refund it after like thirty minutes. What happened? I liked both just fine? What problems did you have?
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MZ posted:Weird problem: Are you AMD video card drivers? I recently updated drivers and have had a shitload of issues. Especially with anything related to an overlay on top of a game (e.g , changing volume via keyboard pops up an overlay which then stutters the video signal. )
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