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Oct 13, 2021 05:03
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if you want to buy an nft of it instead i can dm you my paypal
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Oct 13, 2021 05:28
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I'm only into NFTs of 3DMark99 benchmark runs
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Oct 13, 2021 05:33
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my gpu has 3 fans on it and even that is extreme now. this motherfucker needs like is own custom case. nothing on the market now would fit it
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Oct 13, 2021 07:04
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It's possible I'm being oblivious, but you guys all know that thing is a joke, right?
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Oct 13, 2021 12:07
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George RR Fartin posted:It's possible I'm being oblivious, but you guys all know that thing is a joke, right? What, Quake XI: Murder simulator is not a real game??????
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Oct 13, 2021 12:41
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My uncle works at id software and gave me a demo of quake xi No you can’t play it
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Oct 13, 2021 13:02
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You kids these days with your one graphics card. You don't know the struggle of having to have your 2D card and a 3D Voodoo card.
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Oct 13, 2021 13:08
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Medullah posted:You kids these days with your one graphics card. You don't know the struggle of having to have your 2D card and a 3D Voodoo card. The Voodoo 2 was the poo poo! I miss Diamond Multimedia.
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Oct 13, 2021 14:29
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Bit Boys
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Oct 13, 2021 17:04
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I had a voodoo 3 3000... AGP I believe. Is it just me, or do computers not need to be upgraded as quickly anymore? From about the mid-90s I recall having to update the GPU/CPU/RAM or something every year or two, but for the last many years I only occasionally start to 'fall behind the tech curve'
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Oct 14, 2021 01:34
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JustJeff88 posted:I had a voodoo 3 3000... AGP I believe. it's not just you. you can confirm your suspicion by looking at a 2010 game vs a current year game and a 1990 game vs a 2000 game. you can talk back and forth about the upper limits of silicon atoms and all of that - and you'd be right, to some extent anyway, that's one of the primary reasons why raw Ghz stopped going up and more cores got added instead - but just as much as anything else there's a general disinterest in increasingly more fidelitious graphics or whatever if it comes at the cost of a game doing something well. the indie scene has helped counterbalance that by proving how well a loving run of sprite styles can go over. combine that with processors more or less settling at 3-and-change Ghz a core and game makers generally not wanting to seriously double down on multithreaded programming (most game makers are not hard core tech nerds) and you have a bit of an entente until the next major breakthrough like quantum whatevers comes through and we see another 20-year run-up to the limits of whatever that can do. and - honestly - fine and good. the graphics races of the 2000s were incredibly tiresome to me. let there be games for games' sake, not for polygon count or lens flare's sake.
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Oct 14, 2021 01:45
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Coolguye posted:it's not just you. you can confirm your suspicion by looking at a 2010 game vs a current year game and a 1990 game vs a 2000 game. you can talk back and forth about the upper limits of silicon atoms and all of that - and you'd be right, to some extent anyway, that's one of the primary reasons why raw Ghz stopped going up and more cores got added instead - but just as much as anything else there's a general disinterest in increasingly more fidelitious graphics or whatever if it comes at the cost of a game doing something well. the indie scene has helped counterbalance that by proving how well a loving run of sprite styles can go over. combine that with processors more or less settling at 3-and-change Ghz a core and game makers generally not wanting to seriously double down on multithreaded programming (most game makers are not hard core tech nerds) and you have a bit of an entente until the next major breakthrough like quantum whatevers comes through and we see another 20-year run-up to the limits of whatever that can do. I think that, on the PC, the proliferation of retro/classic games has had an impact on that. On consoles, manufacturers and game makers are desperately trying to pretend that old beloved games and hardware don't exist for fear of cannibalising their current crap. On PC, that's not really possible and people embrace and imitate retro games all the time. I think that the lack of backwards compatibility in consoles is more of a choice than a financial limitation. After all, there is no money for Sony etc when people sell games secondhand.
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Oct 14, 2021 03:25
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it's nothing to do with pc hardware and everything to do with the fact that consoles are the prevailing medium and those are captured by 7 year lifecycles not that i mind, how the gently caress would any person be able to manage a 1.5 lifespan on a gpu when they cost $400-2000 nowadays
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Oct 14, 2021 03:43
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site posted:it's nothing to do with pc hardware and everything to do with the fact that consoles are the prevailing medium and those are captured by 7 year lifecycles that's bs, consoles were WAY MORE the prevailing gaming medium in the 90s and 2000s eras before digital delivery platforms like steam etc standardized selling to PC consumers. it still didn't stop pc gaming from being a matter of 'that stuff you got 3 years ago is no better than the pus dripping from your boyfriend's dong after that business trip to san francisco he tells you not to worry about'
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Oct 14, 2021 06:17
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Coolguye posted:that's bs, consoles were WAY MORE the prevailing gaming medium in the 90s and 2000s eras before digital delivery platforms like steam etc standardized selling to PC consumers. Coolguye posted:it still didn't stop pc gaming from being a matter of 'that stuff you got 3 years ago is no better than the pus dripping from your boyfriend's dong after that business trip to san francisco he tells you not to worry about'
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Oct 14, 2021 06:46
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The Kins posted:...what are you talking about? 
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Oct 14, 2021 06:50
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ok i don't know where the gently caress this conversation is going now, let's veer back on course for free games edit: i've spent literally ten minutes staring at that sentence trying to figure out what the hell it means and why you would say that Metis of the Chat Thread fucked around with this message at 07:51 on Oct 14, 2021 |
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Oct 14, 2021 07:46
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The Kins posted:...what are you talking about? New Super Metis posted:edit: i've spent literally ten minutes staring at that sentence trying to figure out what the hell it means and why you would say that A PC bought in the 90s and early 00s wouldn't be able to handle things made just 2-3 years later. A bit of a hyperbole, but some games did introduce new graphical inventions, that just slightly out of date cards wouldn't know what to do with.
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Oct 14, 2021 08:23
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Free games on various are like 90s 3D APIs, there's millions of them and everybody says theirs are better
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Oct 14, 2021 09:06
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THE BAR posted:A PC bought in the 90s and early 00s wouldn't be able to handle things made just 2-3 years later. A bit of a hyperbole, but some games did introduce new graphical inventions, that just slightly out of date cards wouldn't know what to do with. It's mad to me that my current PC that I bought in 2015 (and it wasn't the top hardware back then) is still perfectly fine for new AAA games. Last year I've upgraded my GPU from GeForce 980 to 2070 Super because old GPU just broke. 4k was problematic on the old GPU but everything was fine on 1080p. Now I remember my first PC from 1998 and how would it handle anything from 6 years later like Half-Life 2. Hell, it couldn't handle 1999 game Quake 3 because it didn't have a "3D accelerator".
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Oct 14, 2021 09:32
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My brother once completed Quake 2 on a laptop. With that little knob mouse thing. In software mode. You had so much more spare time back then.
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Oct 14, 2021 14:03
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THE BAR posted:A PC bought in the 90s and early 00s wouldn't be able to handle things made just 2-3 years later. A bit of a hyperbole, but some games did introduce new graphical inventions, that just slightly out of date cards wouldn't know what to do with. Pixel shading broke so many cards and hearts it was darkly hilarious
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Oct 14, 2021 15:44
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Stubbs the Zombie and some junk for Paladins are free on EGS this week Among the Sleep next week
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Oct 14, 2021 16:15
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Coolguye posted:Pixel shading broke so many cards and hearts it was darkly hilarious Final Fantasy 7 on PC worked fine for me and then I got to the crater and wanted to see the end in even better 3d so I bought a new gpu and traded my old one to fund part of it. Get home, install it, and now FF7 refuses to run and 25 years later I’ve still never killed Sephiroth.
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Oct 14, 2021 16:47
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the GPU arms race of the early aughts was probably what ended up driving me to console gaming for a long time tbh, but with the jumps that have been made in more recent years with the smallification of technology making gaming laptops at least viable, i really don't see myself going back to consoles as a primary device. dat bloodborne and death stranding director's cuts, tho...
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Oct 14, 2021 16:51
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repiv posted:Stubbs the Zombie Just in case anyone missed it under pc gaming chat under the last week of chat, this game was a sleeper hit/hidden gem that you really should play.
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Oct 14, 2021 17:25
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pseudorandom name posted:Those things benchmarked well, for their era. Holy gently caress, that's a real thing. I thought it was a photoshop.
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Oct 14, 2021 17:52
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Tormented posted:Holy gently caress, that's a real thing. I thought it was a photoshop. It is. Someone created a prop to make it seem real as a joke. I got fooled once by this channel, since they have other benchmarking videos for fake GPUs and some with a bit more convincing names than "Bitching Fast". edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3iHV0NvLPI Saoshyant fucked around with this message at 18:57 on Oct 14, 2021 |
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Oct 14, 2021 18:43
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Tormented posted:Holy gently caress, that's a real thing. I thought it was a photoshop. cornholio mark
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Oct 14, 2021 18:45
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In undergrad we got our hands on an old Sun 3Dlabs graphics card that the computer science department put up for salvage. It weighed a couple pounds and was too big to fit into a normal desktop.
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Oct 14, 2021 18:51
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There's some pretty crazy cards out there these days but I think even this one, which to my knowledge is the most powerful available anywhere with 48 GB of graphics memory, can still fit in a standard ATX case that one video with the comically large graphics card that caught on fire was pretty funny though https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/acce...XEaAi_PEALw_wcB
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Oct 14, 2021 19:08
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Nah, a RTX 3090 is still faster, the Quadro just has more ram for ~business use cases~
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Oct 14, 2021 19:29
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Yeah the 3090 has GDDR6X memory but the RTX8000 had to settle for vanilla GDDR6 in order to cram 48GB on there
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Oct 14, 2021 19:32
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Play posted:There's some pretty crazy cards out there these days but I think even this one, which to my knowledge is the most powerful available anywhere with 48 GB of graphics memory, can still fit in a standard ATX case Walmart has them in stock but it doesn't package a free game with it so sorry thread.
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Oct 14, 2021 22:14
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Nah, a RTX 3090 is still faster, the Quadro just has more ram for ~business use cases~ Double floating point vs single floating point performance. It's difficult to express decimals in binary using powers of two as fractions, so many systems use a bounding approach. That is, 'the number we want is close to this binary fraction' . For games and many visual renderings, close enough is good enough, for a piece of machinery or many scientific calculations, numbers need to have more accuracy. Also, ECC memory, often more of it, and a few other things also help depending on use case. An equivalent Quadro chip often won't deliver the same gaming performance as its Geforce/RTX equivalent.
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Oct 14, 2021 22:20
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cage-free egghead posted:Walmart has them in stock but it doesn't package a free game with it so sorry thread. That's absolutely baffling. They're also $2500 cheaper. Still, at least my 3080 has that sweet, sweet GDDR6X, and I didn't have to buy it from the same place that employed me to stock fruit for minimum wage.
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Oct 14, 2021 22:21
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Wow Just imagine all the bitcoins it's mining in some dipshit's garage right now
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Oct 14, 2021 22:22
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tokin opposition posted:Wow considering the current mining difficulty the answer is not many. which just makes the entire craze funnier to me.
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Oct 14, 2021 22:28
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Nah, a RTX 3090 is still faster, the Quadro just has more ram for ~business use cases~ I didn't say faster I said most powerful, but it's true that it depends on what you're using it for. I don't really understand that stuff anyways so I shouldn't pretend that I do! I just saw that card in this youtube video where they are making a PC version of the mac pro with the most ridiculous specs they could come up with and they put two of those things in it lol cage-free egghead posted:Walmart has them in stock but it doesn't package a free game with it so sorry thread. I know I'm sorry GPUs have very little to do with free games except that they can play them
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Oct 14, 2021 22:34
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