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Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:Whatever happened with the 4090 cables that burnt? Did that ever get fixed, confirmed user error, still could happen? it's not perfect, but the margins for error are probably so small now that it's not worth worrying about, as long as you don't add another point of failure like a third-party adapter outside your gpu and psu manufacturer
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YerDa Zabam posted:Wonder how they will feel on a keyboard and mouse? Planing on getting a gamepad at the end of the month anyway, but it'll be interesting to see how they compare. I always run the PS5 ports on a controller because they are usually made for one, and can definitely recommend the Elite 2 controller for that purpose. It just feels good to hold. Don't tell anyone else in the thread because it would be embarrassing, but sometimes if I'm watching a movie or something I'll just hold the Elite 2 controller for a minute  and the way you can modify the actuation levels and slot in different (both included and third party) sticks / paddles / directional pads is surprisingly fun and useful for getting a more tailored feel in your hands. Mouse and keyboard supremacy for sure, overall, but the ports are really beggin' for a controller (imho) Animal posted:Can confirm. So far it runs perfectly smooth and looks beautiful. Not a single hint of stuttering or performance drops. Just a flat consistent frame time graph. I think this is the single largest win for sure, yeah. It shows that devs can, in the end, fix the stuttering. They just don't want to put in the time and money. The most disappointed I've ever been with a game's performance was trying to play that Jedi dark souls game.. Fallen Order I think? The stuttering was so bad I didn't boot that game up for months after out of PTSD. Nixxes is probably the goated pc port hitmaker. The fact that they're doing this AND Tsushima is incredible. I've been playing through FF7 Rebirth on PS5 and all I can think about is how big of a mistake I'm making playing it now because if they give that game to Nixxes it's going to be stellar. That's easily my most anticipated port, but I'll take Ragnarok too! What a good time to be a gamer recently, it's absurd. People say that there aren't that many good games coming out these days and I'm always like... wtf are you talking about, are we on the same planet... The other thing that immediately made me very happy is the texture work on the vegetation. I would like to say it's second to none, but the new Avatar game exists. Speaking of which, that game is super underrated and has amazing graphics. I suppose it was ignored because it's a Far Cry-Like, but it's far better than that would suggest. Zero VGS posted:I don't know who this guy is so I googled him and the cringe physically knocked me to the floor Literally refuse to believe this is real This specific strain of internet cringe is the worst. Imagine how many things had to go wrong in this person's life for them to ultimately contribute this song to humanity  sheesh
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Geohotz is the guy who went to help Elon with Twitter search because it was so bad (gave woke results) So geohotz was all “I’ll fix in two weeks” and then he was never heard from again Also I remember Apple hired him when he was a wiz-kid who cracked the iOS protection, but they kicked him out like 3 months later
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Taima posted:I've been playing through FF7 Rebirth on PS5 and all I can think about is how big of a mistake I'm making playing it now because if they give that game to Nixxes it's going to be stellar. Square Enix does their ports inhouse, FF7R1's graphics options in-game are still entirely Textures: Low/High and Shadows: Low/High. It also deliberately ignores loose engine.ini files so you have to put your changes into a pak, at least if you're not using FF7Hook. Which is to say, I don't expect FF7R2 to be any different. Other SE games get more options, even other FF games, but the FF7R team doesn't seem to bother.
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Well, poo poo. Thanks for the heads up! e: as I play through FW I am still amazed at the near perfect frame timing and consistency. It's like the visual equivalent of swimming through butter. There's something magical about games that have high refresh and perfect frame timings (90 fps+ I would say, is fine) It's like your brain trusts what you're seeing more. It's instantly more engaging in a way that's hard to communicate. Legitimately curious if anyone else feels the same way. It's imo one of the most important features that gets overlooked a lot. It's not just the game either. Just going through the menus is absurdly smooth and satisfying  super solid port 
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Forbidden West runs fantastically out of the box on Linux via Proton, too. Unfortunately, there's no options for DLSS even with the binary Nvidia drivers, and I do notice a second or two of slight hitching on area transitions, so Proton likely yet has a nonexistent or incomplete DirectStorage implementation. Other than that, it's perfectly smooth so far at 1440p native res on a 3080. This was the litmus test for me to see if I could dump Windows for Linux, even for gaming, and so far it's passing with flying colors.
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istewart posted:Forbidden West runs fantastically out of the box on Linux via Proton, too. Unfortunately, there's no options for DLSS even with the binary Nvidia drivers IIRC there was some environment variable you needed to add in the Steam run options to get DLSS working on Linux in Cyberpunk—have you tried that?
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Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:Geohotz is the guy who went to help Elon with Twitter search because it was so bad (gave woke results) He also is behind a DYI self driving car kit that is horrifying to know some idiots have in their cars today. https://www.comma.ai/ It runs on loving cell phone hardware.
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Lowen SoDium posted:He also is behind a DYI self driving car kit that is horrifying to know some idiots have in their cars today. Oh that's right, trust your life to a Snapdragon 845. I remember him making Elon big mad, saying his self-driving was better than Tesla's:  He's weaponized cringe, but he's also "Elon Musk Antagonist", so who can say if he's good or bad
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parasyte posted:Square Enix does their ports inhouse, FF7R1's graphics options in-game are still entirely Textures: Low/High and Shadows: Low/High. Looking forward to Rebirth's Upcaling: Off/Nearest Neighbor option
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Zero VGS posted:Oh that's right, trust your life to a Snapdragon 845. I remember him making Elon big mad, saying his self-driving was better than Tesla's: He willingly worked for musk twitter. Bad.
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Yeah I don't think he's an antagonist as much as he desperately wants to be Elon Musk.
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Kazinsal posted:Geohotz is the guy who managed to accidentally crack the first gen iPhone and create the first iOS jailbreak as a teenager and has spent 20 years since coasting on that. Subjunctive posted:He did the PS3 after that too, I think. Nah, in both these cases he did something like: find a project which other people built, briefly join and make minor contributions, break away and release a copy of the community's work while making enough noise to convince the public it's all him. https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/109561314682149814 When he got hired by Musk to do something to Twitter's code and quickly began asking the Internet to do his job for him? That wasn't really a degradation in his personal abilities at all, that's all he's ever been.
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Man for a while I was wondering whether I'd wasted money on getting the 4070 Ti super. But I've spent hours and hours in Cyberpunk just looking at path- and raytracing. Really got back some childlike wonder. I wish I hadn't played through Alan Wake 2 already. Might try out Battlefield V again, but tbqh WW2 games hit too close to home for me and may send me spiral into obsessively reading about massacres and pitying the human condition. IDK might do minecraft instead, but only the lovely bedrock edition does raytracing.
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Lord Stimperor posted:Man for a while I was wondering whether I'd wasted money on getting the 4070 Ti super. But I've spent hours and hours in Cyberpunk just looking at path- and raytracing. Really got back some childlike wonder. I wish I hadn't played through Alan Wake 2 already. Might try out Battlefield V again, but tbqh WW2 games hit too close to home for me and may send me spiral into obsessively reading about massacres and pitying the human condition. IDK might do minecraft instead, but only the lovely bedrock edition does raytracing. If you aren't sick of the Far Cry formula, the new Avatar game is a nice graphical showcase.
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Lord Stimperor posted:Man for a while I was wondering whether I'd wasted money on getting the 4070 Ti super. But I've spent hours and hours in Cyberpunk just looking at path- and raytracing. Really got back some childlike wonder. I wish I hadn't played through Alan Wake 2 already. Might try out Battlefield V again, but tbqh WW2 games hit too close to home for me and may send me spiral into obsessively reading about massacres and pitying the human condition. IDK might do minecraft instead, but only the lovely bedrock edition does raytracing. I was the same with my 4080. Just looking at stuff and walking around cooing There are some Cyberpunk mods that make the path tracing even more of an eye-popper too. It's quite the rabbit hole though It's worth trying Minecraft imo, even if just for a "wander about looking at things" session. Maybe fire up your Alan Wake save and have a look round the diner. That really brew me away. Other's that I've used to satiate my graphics wonderment are Metro Exodus, RE Village, Control, Spider Man, Portal, Quake, A Plague Tale. Not tried Avatar yet though. I might get that subscription thing for a month when I have the time. Can't see myself getting the full price out of the game, and there's nothing on Ubi that will make me want it for more than a month. YerDa Zabam fucked around with this message at 15:41 on Mar 23, 2024 |
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Sigh I bought the windforce v2 4090, and yeah it's ridiculous. It basically fires up fans only during benchmarks, and maybe CyberPunk at max settings (whatever they are, still not sure about Path Tracing/RT differences, but running tests is fun  ) . stupid powerful cardHonestly I feel a bit bad paying MSRP for an "old" tech product, but oh well, it's kind of amazing. The 12VPHWR cable had 4 ext connections o_0 I'd only seen them with 3. I only plugged in 3 cables, from what I understand it prevents overclocking but increases safety for a bit. what is this cat of 9 tails cable bs pictured upcoming cable for the 5090 
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YerDa Zabam posted:
Metro Exodus is interesting because it was one of the first RTX titles, and the 2080 was the big card that it was showcased with. As a result it still looks really loving good on 2080-equivilent hardware today, and does a lot to highlight what less ambitious, more limited RT can still add to games. The shadows from lamps are what got me. Realistic shadows cast by lamps with different types of light and different shapes of shades and covers on them, plus swinging in a train.
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Control looks so quaint even after maxing everything out on a modern card when compared to AW2. I can't wait to see how much of a generational leap Control 2 is going to be
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Once in a while Dying Light 2 just really nails the lighting streaming in to otherwise shadowed or indoor areas and it makes you stop and just look around because its dynamic lighting that isn't broken in some fundamental video gamey way that it always was before. There was always this jank around the edges in dynamic lighting where some shadow or light broke/leaked/etc, pretty much not seeing that in a game anymore is simply amazing. It makes me want to see RTX remix in some 2005-2015 era games that otherwise still look largely acceptable but have that lighting jank. Like what would Far Cry 2 look like with RTX global illumination (and a rust filter delete).
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Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:pictured upcoming cable for the 5090 Actually a dude in the retrogaming thread made a 5090 cable. wa27 posted:I decided to take a cue from this vid and make myself a power squid.
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njsykora posted:Actually a dude in the retrogaming thread made a 5090 cable. Yeah, lets push 60 amps through some barrel connectors, what's the worst that could happen?
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Indiana_Krom posted:Yeah, lets push 60 amps through some barrel connectors, what's the worst that could happen? Which barrel connector is going to get 60 amps? They’re each in one system which presumably worked with under 15A draw individually. I’m more worried about that sweet spot where they all join to the thicker wire… But of course his breaker is probably going to trip at 20A tops, so it’s likely just some plastic smoke and not a real good house fire.
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njsykora posted:Actually a dude in the retrogaming thread made a 5090 cable. Hope the power is super clean, I was never happy with using a switch mode psu on my mega drive, so I went back to a linear psu, after all that's what they were designed around, they're not expecting any junk on the line
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change my name posted:Control looks so quaint even after maxing everything out on a modern card when compared to AW2. I can't wait to see how much of a generational leap Control 2 is going to be
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If I ever have to slowly unpaint ghosts with a flash light again I'm gonna flip the tableEnos Cabell posted:If you aren't sick of the Far Cry formula, the new Avatar game is a nice graphical showcase. YerDa Zabam posted:I was the same with my 4080. Just looking at stuff and walking around cooing I quite like open world games so I might try Avatar. Control and Spiderman are on my Steam account, could give those a try as well. Might also try Metro - although the first ones were pretty intense buttclenchers and I just wanna vie atm. Actually I reinstalled Wreckfest. Doesn't have RTX to my knowledge but it goes at 144Hz. Blazing through a cloud of debris, dust, and flying track barricades with everything going butter smooth is such a pleasing experience. Not sure how I can stomach simulators in VR now lol. Lord Stimperor fucked around with this message at 22:22 on Mar 23, 2024 |
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I know and they made it worse imo. Specifically the part with Alan. AW1 was fine, AW2 the parts with the lady were perfect. But when playing Alan I'd walk around the corner, hold the flashlight at ghosts for five minutes, walk 10 steps forward, hold the flashlight at ghosts again. Backtrack through an area you were in earlier? Rinse repeat. To me the Alan-parts were gruelling tedium. I guess you were supposed to play them in an action-oriented way and actually try to fight the ghosts instead of shooing them away, but idk that went against my gut instincts. Have to conserve ammo and all that  I loved the game from start to finish but I almost went insane advancing with Alan through the Metro, practically meter by meter
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Lord Stimperor posted:I know and they made it worse imo. Specifically the part with Alan. You can just run by enemies as Alan without engaging them
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pyrotek posted:Considering it uses 20Gbps memory but clocked at 18Gbps speeds, the card should actually be a good overclocker when everything gets unlocked.  That indeed ended up being a pretty nice jump in performance
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The Alan metro level was annoying, if for no other reason than often it’s not clear what you need to do to progress
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HalloKitty posted:Hope the power is super clean, I was never happy with using a switch mode psu on my mega drive, so I went back to a linear psu, after all that's what they were designed around, they're not expecting any junk on the line How did you determine your linear PSU provides better regulation than your SMPS? This is not a given. And how do you know the Mega Drive wasn't designed for some PSU noise? Chips from that era are typically specced for 5V +/- 10%, which is 4.5V to 5.5V. So power supply noise can be as bad as 1V peak-to-peak! Honestly, your worst noise issue with either kind of PSU is likely to be the locally generated digital switching noise on the Mega Drive's motherboard. The solution to an excess of that is to recap it, since when that's a problem, it's typically due to old and tired electrolytic bypass caps. Fake edit: looked poo poo up before hitting post, apparently the original Mega Drive PSU is 9-10V unregulated. That means there's some DC-to-DC regulation happening on the Mega Drive's motherboard, which in turn means you really do not have to worry about linear vs SMPS in the wall wart!
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What's more baffling I'd why that person didn't just get a $30 guitar pedalboard power supply off AliExpress, given that as I recall the consoles of that generation all used 9V positive tip AC adaptors (I used to steal the wall warts from my consoles to power my distortion pedals)
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pyrotek posted:
Given that you can pick those up for like $500, that's got to be the price/performance king right there if those numbers are at all common.
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Lord Stimperor posted:I know and they made it worse imo. Specifically the part with Alan. I got to the Alan level last night in the subway and was very tempted to look up a guide for the first time, the scene-changing stuff is nonsense. It's easy enough to juke the ghosts on Hard but "guess what random poo poo the level designers had in mind" is whack. I don't have the patience for games like this and BG3 where the story/graphics are solid and the gameplay is inching along clunkily while I pull up a map every 5 seconds. Outside of From Soft it's been dire lately.
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BobHoward posted:How did you determine your linear PSU provides better regulation than your SMPS? This is not a given. It was probably a garbage tier switching psu, it came with the console when I picked it up. I have to admit, I didn't try another smps, I just picked up a very old original one, which immediately fixed the image quality issue
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FuturePastNow posted:Do games show similar gains? I haven't seen anything but that 3DMark graph Very interesting. I guess I missed the bit where memory oc became possible on gre. This is going to be the value winner
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