technology

[digital hill]

SEC "So why did you tell people to invest and then sold when it went up"

I bet he did that on purpose

[quick locust]

He did before it dropped

So effectively lost a ton of money

Pretty dumb to do intentionally

[coarse nimbus]

redditors wasting money, unmatched

[molten flame]

buy now because LNL will put Ryzen laptops in the ground

[molten flame]

Lmao so the reason Fallout 4 was crashing was from consuming antibiotics in survival mode, clicking on the consumable with mouse can cause game to crash instead of pressing E, or avoid crashing completely by playing with controller

Bethesda should be outlawed from making games. Period

[prime jasper]

and they were allowed to spend $400 million on Starfield. Imagine how far we could have shot Todd Howard into space with $400 million?

Actually, the Voyager program ended up costing $800 million. So we know exactly how far we could have shot Todd Howard. Voyager 1 is 15.2 billion miles away. He would have never hurt us again.

[molten flame]

[pale quartz]

@willow schooner conceptually yeah, luckily it's more or less much easier, because it automatically detects xyz launcher, it's also able to identify where backups are (they are in the same area as the launcher), so all it is in reality is having to give the user the option of what games to restore

the tricky part is doing the user prompt correctly, it's fairly easy to get wrong/over engineer, I'm in 2 minds to create a UI for it or not, in conversations with other engineers rn to try and mainline one, solves a lot of issues

[willow schooner]

Either than, or simply renaming the OG file...but permissions may be an issue for file editing, depending on location?

[pale quartz]

won't be an issue

the program requires administrator elevation so there's full R/W control

[willow schooner]

Then thats one less headache

[pale quartz]

if it didn't it wouldn't be able to function well at all because of how low level the operations are

[willow schooner]

Just add .backup to the end of OG file DLSS dlls...then detect those to restore 😛

[pale quartz]

nah it'll have to be .dlsss as DLSS swapper uses that extension scheme

what it does mean though, is you can restore backups with either program

[willow schooner]

Thats good

[pale quartz]

tbh I feel weird about the entire thing, it's been only a day and it's hit this level of stratosphere reception

I anticipated maybe like 30 people would see it

[pastel field]

This one will cost me a kidney

👀

In pristine condition

[digital hill]

@dry pike Well the server is so old, I cannot turn it into a firewall

Every USB installer, ended up failing on it booting into a menu, it isn't the usb itself

It's the server, as using my prototype gateway laptop, it boots into the installer fine, but the server refuses to do so

It's forever cursed to be on vista

[tawny mauve]

how do I make my phone turn off the wifi automatically when I close it?

[dry pike]

If you want a firewall. Probably just use a Raspberry pi like device. Will be way more power efficient.

[digital hill]

But does it have 2 ethernet ports

[dry pike]

Look up something like EtherCAT

[digital hill]

My server was cheaper than that

[dry pike]

Sure. If your time and power consumption has no value that is certainly true 😄

[digital hill]

Fan control

and it has a 450w power supply

and assuming I can turn down the fans, I might be able to get it efficent

though the scsi drives might limit the value of power efficiency

[dry pike]

That is all up to your judgement 😊

[molten flame]

https://videocardz.com/newz/new-ryzen-7-7800x3d-scam-exposed-fake-heatspreaders-and-empty-pcbs

Romania

not surprised

[prime jasper]

But the Romanian black market is where I get all my processors

this is not good

[digital hill]

It'll be hard to tell, as it is cents for them to make

a cheap pcb, a heatsink which help disguise the missing chip

and then adding caps on it, and making sure the bottom matches the pin outline

[prime jasper]

Ok...so looking at this Romanian black market, I found an MSI A320M-A Pro Motherboard for 150 lei, or about $33.30. A little less than half MSRP. Apparenetly it is sealed. So if you want to take your chances on the Romanian market for your first micro ATX build

[turbid verge]

why did I tohught that was a raspberry

[digital hill]

@dry pike I think, I know why it won't work no AHCI support

[prime jasper]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7C_x5EI-fQ

crazy

[lost cargo]

who wants a AMD CPU

[prime jasper]

[dry pike]

Just to illustrate that any fanboyishm is pointless https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUi37kKdQIU

[dry pike]

I do, currently

[lost cargo]

only i was rich.

could always get a fake one

[digital hill]

Damn you don't want two old xeon processor for the same cost of a new AMD cpu

They can do 3.0ghz

with hyperthreading

[lost cargo]

Where is my superhyperthreading

[digital hill]

Ask intel

[lost cargo]

Mmm 🤔

They going through a lot rn

[dry pike]

Hyperthreading is bad. Just add more cores and make them faster, it's better for gaming.

[dry pike]

https://imgur.com/eDY4u79

Intel crisis management

[digital hill]

But imagine having super hyperthreading and more cores

now that 8 core could be 32 threads

[dry pike]

That would just add more overhead.

[pale quartz]

partly yes

HT isn't inherently bad, it serves it's objective, it's just mostly flawed in that it's insecure at an architectural level

[digital hill]

Ah, but if superhyperthreading solves them problem

that mean it is possible to have 8 cores with 64 threads

[pale quartz]

..?

no lol

[digital hill]

So you cannot hyperthread more then 1 core?

[pale quartz]

of course you can

it's been possible for over a decade

[digital hill]

But the flaw cannot be fixed?

[pale quartz]

yes it cant

nothing in life is free, especially in hardware and software and in order to achieve what it does with HT it's a casualty

[dry pike]

But just be be clear, no commercially available CPUs have had where 1 physical core is 3 or more logical cores through some Advanced Simultaneous Multithreading?

[pale quartz]

yes they exist

consumer space no

enterprise and hyperscaling they've existed for a decent while now

the problem is virtualization of a core has a latency penalty and that is exponential the more threads you are instantiating per core, so if it was done in the consumer space there is a decent/high risk of performance degradation for most tools

[dry pike]

Isn't that more handled through virtualization more than what we would think of as an expansion of hyperthreading?

[pale quartz]

no, hyperthreading itself, is a virtualization of something, that is what threads are, if you virtualize one core into independent threads there is a seek penalty cost over (a single core) by the nature of virtualization, so when you get into territories of 4 or higher, that penalty delay becomes exponential (log n) to the number you are threading for

put in short terms you cannot hyperthread a core without virtualization, because threads don't then exist

note virtualization in this context means logical, rather than (virtualized software) like a hypervisor, on a hardware level they mean mostly the same thing

the proper term is virtual execution contexts but getting into the weeds of things for mostly redundant info

[dry pike]

So I guess are CPUs out there with hardware based hyperthreading that makes 1 physical core into more than 2 logical cores. Guess that is probably what SMT is now that I think about it again.

Actually, SMT is just hyperthreading. Guess that clears things up.

[pale quartz]

yeah they do exist, you'll never see them in the consumer space though, SMT2 is the number associated with how many threads are being virtualized (threaded), there are others like SMT4 which is well 4 threads per core, just different use cases for different mediums essentially

hope that makes sense

there is a general idea that more threads = better but this is far from the truth, multi threading with software has way too many different variations and implementations that one universal thing isnt an answer

some don't even like/work with hyperthreading correctly as is, it's a territory of beast which still isn't solved some 20 years later

[dry pike]

Perhaps quantum computing will overtake it

[digital hill]

I cannot wait to own a giant freezer

Remember quantum computing needs to be super cold

[dry pike]

For now

Quantum Computing at Room Temperature is a goal for many researchers I would imagine

[digital hill]

True

Though would it have x64 emulation

I want to run bf4 at 1000fps

[coarse nimbus]

so you can see every pixel of detail when the tower falls?

[lost cargo]

https://tenor.com/view/rick-noob-morty-thisguygetsit-gif-9975174

[pale quartz]

nevermind, i said screw it and just did the slog to get it working along with ray reconstruction and frame gen

[lost cargo]

https://youtu.be/YWLAQY3P8RI?si=zkQ7PrE6I3JYF3iL

I love his chat when he say “don’t wash your pc”

[lofty light]

I loathe asmongold so damn much

Almost as much as xqc

[storm osprey]

so how was the review from GN for that

[lost cargo]

Bro he flamed him especially for the heatsink

It’s not available to be sold to US

[sullen zealot]

Bringing an asmongold item into a foreign environment is like bringing the conquistadores to the aztecs.
Gamers Nexus has now been exposed to diseases they are not immune to, unlike asmonmold

[lost cargo]

[sullen zealot]

[coarse nimbus]

he doesnt build the PCs

[quick locust]

IBM has that

[brave sundial]

Finally, someone here who agrees with me

[toxic wigeon]

Asmongold is just one of those rando ass streamers who's just an idiot.

Is there an independent upload of the gn video on his PC?

Oh wait a sec

Oh that clickbaiting piece of shit.

[brave sundial]

https://youtu.be/yI_SN7cpTas

[toxic wigeon]

YEAH

[brave sundial]

He partially owns starforge

[toxic wigeon]

I realised it was that.

No what made me think that was GN offering to buy his pc in specific.

[brave sundial]

"My PC" lmao

[toxic wigeon]

Cause he was having issues.

Oh that's funny.

[toxic wigeon]

I should just watch the video and hear him just get destroyed.

[brave sundial]

I forgot he owned starforge since he is otk, maybe I will too now

[toxic wigeon]

THE MORE YOU BUY THE MORE YOU SAVE.

[molten flame]

tbh RTX 4090 is actually the best example of that

[toxic wigeon]

I KNOW

But it's such a meme.

[tawny mauve]

Ps4, what's the difference between extended storage and exfat?

[brave sundial]

You mean external hard drive for 'extended storage'?

[tawny mauve]

yes

[brave sundial]

exFAT is just a format, recommended to format an external drive with that

FAT32 is pretty old and you'd only really use it now for older tech with smaller sizes.

Your PS4 would probably be able to format the drive for you, no need to format it on Windows beforehand. Unless your PS4 has the rare chance of not recognising it

I keep a 512gb sata ssd as external storage for my series x, I keep emulated(via dev mode) and non-optimised games on there

[tawny mauve]

incase I want a usb flash drive for clips transfer
there's extended storage and exfat idk which is better

[brave sundial]

exfat is a form of extended storage, it's a format.

Is this some option your PS4 gives you?

[tawny mauve]

yes both of them

[brave sundial]

Oh, I read through a PS Support article and it seems like the 'exfat' option is if you just want to save clips or captures

Extended storage seems to be for games only

https://www.playstation.com/en-us/support/hardware/ps4-external-hdd-support/

So I guess you'd want to pick exfat

[tawny mauve]

thanks I wasn't sure it was yet

[brave sundial]

You should technically thank Sony for clarifying it with that link

Really weird they named the 2 options that

Should've gone for "format for games" and "format for captures"

Stuff like "exfat" and "extended storage" is confusing

[tawny mauve]

and only ps5 was given captures transfer to ps app without needing backup

1 min clip max though

[brave sundial]

[lost cargo]

https://tenor.com/view/5090-gif-8410949786358132089

[coarse nimbus]

You'll need a 220v circuit just to power it?

[digital hill]

220v circuits

what you mean

it's going to be even higher

you need 5 of them

[molten flame]

https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-geforce-rtx-50-blackwell-rumors-hint-at-higher-power-consumption

🔥

[coarse nimbus]

My joke was prophetic?

[digital hill]

Congrats, you can now attempt to sue nvidia for taking your idea

[coarse nimbus]

Ai will just kill me off

[plucky token]

R.I.P Concord

[midnight crypt]

in piss

[molten coral]

Noo my favorite game

[umbral crater]

nobody will miss it

[lost cargo]

Rip Sony overall

200+ mil spent and made less than a mil

Not even 2 weeks and cancel service, approve refunds

[umbral crater]

Make good games next time

[lost cargo]

Sony spending cash like they rich rich

Sony profit -200 mil

Should’ve ported it to Xbox gamepass

[dry pike]

Concord...hmm, wasn't that the "we got Overwatch 2 at home" game?

[lost cargo]

All I know. I heard about the game coming out. Now it’s the biggest flop

[modern gull]

Rip Sony

[modern gull]

According too reddit person 🫡

[lost cargo]

Yea it’s true

[modern gull]

Sad imo

Even if the game had high target for earning money

[lost cargo]

https://blog.playstation.com/2024/09/03/an-important-update-on-concord/

[modern gull]

Sad

[storm osprey]

Definitely sad. Idk why some people get off on games failing

[modern gull]

Talk about throwing money out the window though

[modern gull]

🤷

[storm osprey]

Gamers are weird

[lost cargo]

Very

[storm osprey]

“Hahaha the video game that has no negative situations around it other than try to charge for its game failed, fucking idiots”

[modern gull]

I mean, if they only care would be money i probably wouldn't feel this sad for the game. maybe i even shouldn't in the first place, but i do think it's sad a game failing this hard tbh

[lost cargo]

Honestly if they gave it 3 months. It prob would be a lot different compared to not even 2 week

[storm osprey]

I dont get why anyone cares either way. It’s just weird to me to seem happy that a game failed?

[lost cargo]

I have to say. This makes Sony look so bad.

[modern gull]

I mean, they offering full refunds etc... and what not

[lost cargo]

They didn’t even let the game go for couple months, they just said fuck it

[modern gull]

But nobody probably would see that, and ofc its pretty expected

[modern gull]

Could maybe have pulled it down temporary and what not. Idk much about the game so can't comment much tbh

[storm osprey]

Why? They seemingly did the best thing for the customers

[lost cargo]

You just wasted 200 mil

[storm osprey]

Yea obviously they were wrong about the game and its ability to bring in players/sales. But they are refunding and likely going to do a f2p model

[storm osprey]

Sucks for them but that has nothing to do with the players

[modern gull]

Btw since we in #technology just add random words like cpu or gpu too your setence so we can still talk off topic here

[lost cargo]

The pint is, they didn’t even try.

That’s the wild part

[storm osprey]

Idk if I would label it that

[lost cargo]

They just ate it and swallowed

[storm osprey]

Wording around official posts makes it seem they are just going to figure out what to do next, which is likely f2p

[quick locust]

[midnight badger]

Hello all.

[lost cargo]

Hope they do sum about it. If they leave it in the dust. Smh 🤦‍♂️

[storm osprey]

Ehh even if they did it’s at no loss to players other than excitement

[quick locust]

Maybe f2p or PS plus game

[storm osprey]

They aren’t just taking money and running. They are refunding

[lost cargo]

Obviously

[storm osprey]

Again, they did just about the best thing they could do for the players and it will likely come back f2p

[quick locust]

Yeah

Although it only got 2K players while free to play for a bit

[digital hill]

My new server got delayed today

To tomorrow

[modern gull]

Jokes aside though, ideally #general #other-games

[storm osprey]

On steam? That was invite only though

[modern gull]

Rip

[digital hill]

Now I gotta till tomorrow to have a 2u hp server with pcie

[quick locust]

Yeah Steam numbers

[digital hill]

To become the ultimate windows xp gaming machine

In virtual machine

[pale quartz]

it was doomed to fail, time wouldnt have changed anything

[modern gull]

🔨

[quick locust]

I still use XP daily running bare metal

[lost cargo]

If they saw the end. Why didn’t they stopped development

[digital hill]

Eeh the server got 8 cores since the processors are both dual Xeon

So I think running xp bare metal would be overkill

As I can run crisis on max with no performance drops

[lost cargo]

Wins98

[quick locust]

I do at work due to annoying software

[digital hill]

That’s for my other 2005 server with Ati rage xl

[quick locust]

You have stuff that costs 20K usd then require Windows XP

[digital hill]

I wanted to use that as a firewall

Or router

But error in opensense

And same with the other one

As if they no longer support ide quad raid anymore

[lost cargo]

Make one

[modern gull]

Made me think of my first pc, it had like IDE connectors

[digital hill]

Nah you can make one, make sure to base it off Linux and not freebsd

[modern gull]

The case i still kept until few years ago haha

[digital hill]

Imagine having four that can do raid 0, 1 and 10

[quick locust]

Never had IDE raid

[modern gull]

I dont know much about raid tbh

[digital hill]

Though it isn’t ide

It’s scsi

But has two working sata ports

[modern gull]

Had this from around 2006 until 2021 ish https://images.nvidia.com/geforce/sites/default/files-world/attachments/antec-900.png

[digital hill]

Ah mine is a literal 1u server

[modern gull]

Fans still alive after all that time

[digital hill]

Fan on my server is also alive

They go brr all the time

[modern gull]

Wasn't raid for speedup, and mirror drives?

[pale quartz]

redundancy mostly

[quick locust]

Put these in it

[digital hill]

Mostly to combine drives

[digital hill]

Is that pci x or pci

[pale quartz]

RAID 0 is a dangerous and sure fire way to corrupt your operating system within half a year

[digital hill]

But server go brr with having all sorts of files

[modern gull]

lol what its for raid0?

[digital hill]

To get even more storage

[modern gull]

Other raid is nice, if one drive fails you still have the data from what i understand as they mirrored

[digital hill]

Essentially you don’t mirror and combine all drives

To one

One drive fail, then majority of the data is lost and needs to be recovered

[pale quartz]

raid 0 is used to split data amongst multiple drives, the idea is you fragment it

[quick locust]

Just be like me and have dual drive failure at the same time on raid 5

[pale quartz]

the only problem is as soon as there is a single issue at all in one of those drives all of the other fragments are toast and unrecoverable

[digital hill]

Raid 0 is even cooler when it fails

[modern gull]

So basically one drive fails you potentially loose soo much on other one then?

[pale quartz]

not potentially

you do

[digital hill]

You lose all data like deco says

[pale quartz]

it doesn't need to fail, it can be anything like a smart error

[digital hill]

But usually failure

[modern gull]

Damn, so they share 50/50 example all files?

[pale quartz]

or just memory corruption in general

[pale quartz]

yes

[modern gull]

Damn, risky

[pale quartz]

increase the ratio by drives

[digital hill]

That’s why you use raid 1

[quick locust]

If they're still readable you can mount them as virtual drives in RAID with the disk images from them

[digital hill]

You mirror all of them to other drives

Or use other methods that are useful

[pale quartz]

it's mostly done by idiots thinking it's speeding up their windows when it does nothing and mostly reduces performance because they read some post online about optimising

[quick locust]

Totally not needing to do that with my dead raid 5 right now

[digital hill]

What

[pale quartz]

yes raid 0, can reduce performance

[digital hill]

Your telling me people believe raid 0 increases performances

[pale quartz]

sure they do, they see double bandwidth and think it's better

[quick locust]

They just forgot to optimize their registry as well /s

[digital hill]

How your forcing two drives that act the same

[pale quartz]

placebo mostly and a general misunderstanding about computing

[digital hill]

And spinning two for data transfer which could impact performance since when you copy one file

Your copying that as well to the other slowing down

Since you got two, with one it’ll be quicker as it isn’t copying using two drives

[quick locust]

I am sure my ISP is loving my multi TB uploads of disk images rn

[pale quartz]

that's not the problem

the problem is RAID 0 needs total coherency, so there is a seek penalty because with hard drives it's having to source multiple fragments at once

[digital hill]

The fact one fails, you need to contact some data recovery

[digital hill]

Ah ok, make sense

[quick locust]

Raid 0 RAMdisk for OS

[digital hill]

That’s why you also make sure to combine it all for the os to get largest storage

Just don’t store anything important

[pale quartz]

won't do anything

raid 0 is just a bygone era and it should probably be blocked tbh as an option

[digital hill]

The server was from 2005

[pale quartz]

even during that time raid 0 was questionable at best

[digital hill]

True that’s why it does raid 1

As default

[quick locust]

Just PCI iirc

Raid 10

[digital hill]

Eeh the other server is cheaper as I already do have two pcie old gpu

That was picked from the curb

[digital hill]

One is a 3870 and the other is rvs something

[candid flame]

https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-geforce-rtx-5090-reportedly-targets-600w-rtx-5080-aims-for-400w-with-10-performance-increase-over-rtx-4090

[quick locust]

Maximum power

[brave sundial]

supposedly the mobile 5060 will be very efficient compared to the 4060 which means we could start seeing it in much thinner and more portable laptops instead of a 50

[quick locust]

Not thin enough until it challenges the bladed weapon law

[coarse nimbus]

600w and only a 16 pin?

[candid flame]

https://tenor.com/view/lights-gif-10166688

[coarse nimbus]

The wires on that connector trying not to melt

[dry pike]

https://tenor.com/view/burn-elmo-pyro-burn-it-down-ashes-gif-7510700295202730251

when you start gaming on a 5090

[umbral crater]

Finally i can use it as a toaster

Makin Bacon

[formal sigil]

what are the wires made of

[quick locust]

https://tenor.com/view/happy-dance-happy-dance-happy-walk-trexmorgan-walk-gif-15965377640656032384

But yeah hope it has a lot of AIO versions then lol

[lost cargo]

4206090

[prime jasper]

"based on rumors"

[brave sundial]

https://fixupx.com/gibbogame/status/1831321550185959553

Switch 2 still expected to be announced this month

[storm osprey]

damn, i thought i was being excessive buying an 800w psu several years ago (it was on deep sale), and now its actually coming in handy..

[brave sundial]

https://youtu.be/wLGXsE9GTrA

Meteor Lake laptop buyers after Intel releases a completely differently built CPU that supposedly significantly more efficient in under 6 months

[coarse nimbus]

A bald man in glasses?

[brave sundial]

[brave sundial]

https://tenor.com/view/vsause-michael-michael-vsause-vsause-michael-gif-25125732

german tech vsauce is pretty good, He makes great videos, I recommend his main channel - TechAltar

[willow schooner]

Mobile users be like this forever haha

[digital hill]

@dry pike Well in some good news the server cpu mount survived shipping

bad news I dunno what these are used for but the mounts did not survive

two voltage regulators

plastic pieces aren't that important

I mean who needs it when you got 2 800w psu

[gentle bluff]

https://tenor.com/view/zap-beeker-shock-electric-shock-electrocuted-gif-10050151034248972926

[lost cargo]

https://tenor.com/view/red-alert-tesla-coil-zap-red-alert1-shocked-gif-20074868

[brave sundial]

https://tenor.com/view/dancing-kane-command-and-conquer-gif-27702502

[digital hill]

@pale quartz how important is the plastic clips for these

As one side broke in shipping

They are 12v regulators

[pale quartz]

very lol

[molten flame]

RTX 50 series might be actually named 60 series

gimmie dat 6090

[storm osprey]

https://tenor.com/view/nice-click-nice-man-guy-gif-21933845

[digital hill]

But can it work without it

Ah ok, so the top clips broke

but the bottom ones are fine

[molten flame]

I'ma get RTX 6090 for 1080p ultrawide

[digital hill]

Ah good news

The lsi logic card was placed in the wrong pcie header in the riser

They placed a x4 card in a x16 slot

Damn, two pcie slot though meaning nvme time

[lost cargo]

240p ultra wide

[digital hill]

Your going to need a power transformer to be able to power it one day

[molten flame]

MEG X870E GODLIKE

[coarse nimbus]

my god how much are you paying to not see the pcb?

[prime jasper]

it's a shame that if I ever go full hard-on enthusiast the motherboards just get progressively uglier

that thing will cost at least $1400

and it comes with the dragon

egads

[digital hill]

Man, it looks like they really want the server board appearance

[molten flame]

RTX 6090 has 12,288-bit memory interface with HBM4

[digital hill]

and requires a power transformer in your home

[molten flame]

Nuclear fusion core generator inside house

[digital hill]

Make sure to maintain it

or else government put giant concrete around your home

[molten flame]

I want that tbh

Concrete rebarred and lined with lead and depleted uranium layers

Nothing gets through depleted uranium as dense as it is

[dry pike]

Nothing wrong with that

[digital hill]

There is

They had a x4 port

in the pci e riser

the riser has 3 pcie slots

you got the top pcie full slot and then the smaller port

[molten flame]

skill issue

[tawny mauve]

in 2021 and 2022 ps5 got its weight lowered while keeping its size the same

2020 model right, 2021 left and 2022 middle

[lofty light]

That’s significantly less fin stacks

[coarse nimbus]

They want it to overheat so you play less?

[tawny mauve]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gEmsnaTj_kw

@coarse nimbus

[coarse nimbus]

Damn if he's reporting it, must mean the opposite is true

[tawny mauve]

real

[brave sundial]

Oh yeah I remember that whole debacle

Austin Evans did a test and concluded that the revision was worse and then ebay scalpers price hiked the original launch skus

[toxic wigeon]

Oh yuck Yong yea.

[digital hill]

@pale quartz the top clips that held in the voltage regulators was not that important

Soon it'll have a hd 2600xt, if I can find it

or rv630

I found the 3870 but no pcie power, just need to find the other gpu

I found the 5450, but you know how crap that'll be

and the batteries of the raid controller is

[midnight crypt]

Surely you can ignore those

[digital hill]

You can

I got all the cores to play crysis at max settings

also @midnight crypt a much better bios

like god damn it has so many options

The penguin one had very little

[nocturne drift]

I need a 6090 for black myth wukong lol

Only 120-160fps at very high with dlss 1440p no raytracing

Not even cinematic

Game looks great tho.

[midnight crypt]

Cinematic barely changes the fps for most settings

[prime jasper]

cinemas are 24 frames per second

so I'm pretty sure 120 is past cinematic

[jagged mango]

Does anyone have a picture of the Battlefield V game files?

[molten flame]

7900XTX can only keep up with 4060Ti when path-tracing is on

RDNA4 ray-tracing capabilities might only match Ampere

[molten flame]

Damn 7800X3D is being scalped, $600 on Amazon, was only $310 about a month ago before Windows patch

[quick locust]

Windows? Couldnt be me

[molten flame]

Hardly knew her

[brave sundial]

[candid flame]

wtf bruh

[brave sundial]

ey I finally got that amd boost patch on windows update

[molten flame]

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-ryzen-5-7600x3d-is-8-slower-than-7800x3d-in-gaming-beats-7900x3d-and-9700x#disqus_thread

7600X3D faster than 7900X3D and 9700X in gaming

[willow schooner]

No surprise there

[coarse nimbus]

Is that another like microcenter exclusive CPU?

[willow schooner]

I don't think it was actually exclusive

[brave sundial]

Total American thing to have a cpu exclusive to one retailer

[coarse nimbus]

Hah get dookied on euro

[midnight crypt]

[coarse nimbus]

Not even sure how many of those they made? Probably had low enough stock to warrant the partnership with MC for it

[quick locust]

Wish we had a microcenter equivalent

[prime jasper]

its mindfactory exclusive

at least that what it says in their website

and they dont ship outside germany

[terse glade]

[vast valley]

Anyone have some monitor recommendations?

I would like 2 to 3 monitors for my setup.

The main one for gaming, and then two additional monitors (videos & nonsense like discord)

[light wave]

I have a ROG XG32AQ back home. 32 inch, can be oc’d to 175hz, overall great

[vast valley]

Just the one monitor?

[pale quartz]

1: main one, always have a QD-OLED, the others don't matter as much

it depends on what card you have aswell

multi monitors are not as straightforward to do as people think, there's a lot involved

[vast valley]

I have a dual monitor set up right now, just with a monitor from the Vista era and a LED TV from like 15 years ago lol

[vast valley]

I'm looking at no more than, say, $175-$200 for the gaming monitor. Would it fit into that criteria?

[pale quartz]

ehh at that price range your options slash by a considerable amount, you may be able to grab a VA monitor but don't expect anything like good hdr etc

chg70 might be acquirable which is quantum dot, but not sure entirely you'll need to look around

[vast valley]

Hmm, send me some recommendations then.

For the OLEDs

[pale quartz]

you won't be able to buy a oled at anywhere at that range

at a minimum you'll need 700 for a oled monitor

[vast valley]

We looking like 250-300?

Jesus wtf

[pale quartz]

<200 for monitors is more or less budget category, it's a pretty confined market, 300-400 has some decent offerings, but oled/mini led etc are firmly out your price category

monitors aren't like the TV market, there's a huge premium

[vast valley]

Well, I'm saving about $170/wk, I just don't want to drop half of my mortgage on a monitor lmao

[pale quartz]

yeah not a criticism or anything just advising on options

imo consider at least the 300-400 range even if it takes longer, your options expand significantly, there's a massive tier difference between those price ranges

that will net you a very decent IPS/QD LCD monitor with serviceable HDR, but under 200 you are compromising a lot

[vast valley]

Well, I'd only need the one for gaming; the other two would be just solely used for misc bullshit

[pale quartz]

yeah this is solely about the main (gaming) monitor

being totally honest the under 200 category are that compromised that they are not worth considering except as media monitors

[vast valley]

Hmmmm

What inch screen would be best? I'm thinking like a 32?

[pale quartz]

27-32 is the "normal" monitor range, so that's fine

[vast valley]

Ok, so I've got a 3070ti for the gpu

It is capable of 4k

[pale quartz]

in realistic terms you're not powering 4k in games so those monitors needn't apply

you won't be able to afford that price category of resolution anyways

1440p is your best bet realistically

3070ti w/ 4k is finally in running out of vram territory

[vast valley]

Lets say i'm looking the 250-499 range. That's what, 160-165hz refresh?

[modern gull]

I need to upgrade my gpu

Starwars outlaws killing my gpu Didn't think i'd see it this fast, but could be some issues with the game

[pale quartz]

250-499 you are in about 1440p 140-240 depending on the monitor range

though the monitor panel is more important here

[pale quartz]

the game is not greatly optimised but it's also not the first and last this will happen too

[vast valley]

And this is where I'm lost. Lol

[modern gull]

Pretty shocked by the vram usage tbh, but at same time not so unrealistic i guess. Max graphics and all

Would expect this few years down the line

[pale quartz]

the tldr is do not consider TN panels, IPS/VA are your absolute defacto minimum, ideally you are targeting quantum dot panels as they are significantly better than non ones, but the LCD market is more or less a landmine

[pale quartz]

for better or worse they're (already) here, it started more or less in 2022, it'll only get worse

[vast valley]

Samsung or LG?

[pale quartz]

both work fine

LG don't do QD panels for LCD so Samsung is going to be your main priority

[vast valley]

What brand is "better" in terms of quality?

[modern gull]

But hey at least i got 16gb vram now and i guess should be fine for most games in the future, unless a game like this comes again

[pale quartz]

LCD monitor quality it's going to be Samsung

[pale quartz]

16 will be fine for a bit yet, probably about 4-5 years id say

by that point the card isn't going to be able to rasterise the game anyways

next gen consoles are in 2028 so that's when <16 cards will actually die off a hill

[modern gull]

Kind of what i was thinking but we'll see. Well, good thing i am still on 1080p i guess. Defenitelly need 1440p if i get bigger monitor

[pale quartz]

1080p then definitely you'll be fine

[modern gull]

We'll see

[pale quartz]

avatar and others are spectacular games but vram takes a hit, should have happened way before now but that's a rant for later

[vast valley]

@pale quartz, is IPS or VA better?

[pale quartz]

in general for you you'll want VA

IPS benefits don't particularly apply for your use case

[modern gull]

I guess soo hehe

Something i have been thinking about a few times, has AMD caught up with Nvidia in terms of raytracing performance or is Nvidia still top here? 🤔

[pale quartz]

the answer is no and it's nowhere close

[vast valley]

Samsung Odyssey a decent monitor?

[pale quartz]

it'll only get worse

[pale quartz]

yes

they're very good monitors

g7 etc are very good considerations

[vast valley]

What would you recommend in the 300-400 range

[modern gull]

Oh i see 🤔 Kind of expected them too caught up a bit really. How could it have gotten worse? Maybe you thinking diffrence too Nvidia or just performance too earlier AMD cards 🤷

Either way, kind of suprised

[pale quartz]

the G7 2021 model is going to be what you're wanting, it's a old monitor now but it's still very good, see if you can get it for a decent price

[vast valley]

I wonder if Amazon would have it

[pale quartz]

no performance has regressed for raytracing, the xtx is a 4060ti competitor in raytracing, this is because games are using global illumination and AMD cards fall apart in very RT heavy scenes, this will only get worse as time goes on

Alan wake/black myth wukong etc it's nowhere close, if you care about RT at all then AMD aren't an option

[modern gull]

Rip AMD i guess, would have thought they managed too do at least ok in this area

[pale quartz]

RDNA3 can only handle more or less bad RT implementations they just aren't built for it, if you switch it off there's something absurd like a 150% difference in framerate, the only problem is you aren't going to be able to turn it off for much longer as ultimately GI will replace traditional lighting in time

so they are going to age very badly in a few years

[modern gull]

Rip

[pale quartz]

FSR can't do anything either as the base framerate is that low there's no increase in performance

[modern gull]

There is voxel based GI and other voxel based rendering features though, which looks pretty neat but couldn't beat ray tracing in the end in terms of quality

I think Dice has been using voxel based GI for ages now if i am not wrong 🤔

BF3+ or BF4+

[pale quartz]

yes they have, they are similarish SSR rendering techniques so they can't well compare to RT GI, there are a few big RT advancements which are appearing in games like ray reconstruction etc, SSR is just on the way out as it's inferior in every form, way things go

I dont think we'll see it replace voxel in the next game it's a bit too early yet, the second (next) game, it's possible

[vast valley]

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/sku/6577214.p?skuId=6577214&sb_share_source=PDP

[pale quartz]

you've still got the consoles and well those are RDNA2 cards which are absolutely terrible with RT, so they still need to account for it

[pale quartz]

HDR 400 = not an option, you'll want 600 to be able to use it without degrading quality

the C32G75T is hdr600 so that's an option

[vast valley]

At this rate, I'll never get a monitor!

Lol

[pale quartz]

welcome to the land of monitor landmines

[modern gull]

I think it's 50/50 though on top of this maybe they will even change engine, devs seem to have some difficulties with frostbite from what i read. I wouldn't be suprised if they moved to UE5, it's top tier, at least in terms of rendering and graphical features. Early raytracing in games was really bad compared to voxel based solutions, not really worth the performance hit at all. Now these days Raytracing/path tracing is becoming much, much better. I do belive more and more games will use RT/PT in the future, i don't see why

We'll see i guess in the future

[vast valley]

Are the G5's any good??

Can't find a g7

Thats a 32 that is under 500

[pale quartz]

UE5, is a good engine.. but it won't replace frostbite, those saying otherwise are misinformed, it still has fundamental limitations that have only been resolved very recently like having proper multi threading implementations, and trying to replace a game like battlefield which has absolutely tons of physics assets would have performance worse than 2042 had on launch, in short, it would be a disaster, the thing with people struggling with frostbite is/(well) was correct as a lot of the veterans of the old guard who knew the engine in and out have retired over the years, to DICEs credit they've tried to bring them back but this is typical corporation shenanigan things

things like shader traversal compilation are still a huge problem on unreal engine and aren't resolved, it's not something that can replace FR, such is the nature of engines built for and designed for specific purposes, they perform their task well

now when you try and port something like dead space to it you are going to run into massive issues, Andromeda, etc, battlefield games though, that's why frostbite even exists

[modern gull]

I see, i see 🤔

[pale quartz]

yes it's a good monitor, you'll need to send the model specifically

[modern gull]

As for RT/PT at least i am curious too see if they upgraded Frostbite for the next game or still keeping voxel based GI

I mean, engine probably upgraded anyway not saying that

I look at that as 50/50 for RT/PT

[pale quartz]

I have not been keeping up with the FR white papers, so I'm not sure personally, wouldn't be too surprised as they already had experimental tests from years ago, but unsure

[vast valley]

https://a.co/d/2tOkLPl

[modern gull]

Fair enough tbh

[pale quartz]

it's kinda ironic in a way that a game can be a total disaster at launch but DICE have always been leagues ahead of everyone else in technology with FR and implementations with SEED etc

tale of 2 sides

[modern gull]

Well, mistakes does happen

[pale quartz]

quick scan VRR implementation is very bad and HDR is bad so not an option, if you send more I can scan them for you, I'll reply later, got stuff to do for now

[vast valley]

G2724D, Q27G3XMN, XG27ACS. Any of these decent?

[digital hill]

I say if your looking for a second monitor

for discord and videos

thrift stores

like you don't need 27in, just a decent size monitor

[vast valley]

No. Primary.

[pale quartz]

1: same problems as before
2: best monitor out of the lot, by a wide margin
3: ok, worse than the second

if you are wanting a monitor then get the Q27G3XMN

its actually very impressive for this price category, excellent VRR and HDR performance

has vrr flicker but not a huge deal

[vast valley]

That was also recommended by some other people, so it'll probably be the one I get in the meantime until I can save up the $$$

[pale quartz]

you wont be disappointed with this, it easily trounces every other model suggested thus far

i wasnt expecting a hdr1000 certification for this sort of range, excellent monitor

[digital hill]

Jesus, it is impressive with hdr certification compared to otherts

Like they always go with hdr 10

with that sort of price

[pale quartz]

its more or less not beatable for LCD monitors in this price category

[digital hill]

Like it has issues, but then you look at the other monitor in the price category and see hdr 10

[pale quartz]

meh for 300 usd roughly all monitors do

just the issues are way way worse

[digital hill]

https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-2560x1440-XG27ACS-Compatible-DisplayWidget/dp/B0CV24GQ9W

Like this is what it is competing against

[pale quartz]

you can only get better with the qd panels, and even with that id still advise this model over them

[digital hill]

True but at the same time you never get hdr 1000 for this price range

usually hdr 10

and it always is some really lowgrade shit, like only a couple that you can definitely see

[pale quartz]

1000 cert is just local dimming

you wont find it in the 300 category because its expensive to do lol

[digital hill]

Damn, I wonder how did AOC do it

[pale quartz]

costs of scale

[vast valley]

So then that monitor is good?

Lmao

[pale quartz]

you wont get better for the price

[digital hill]

Yeah, I think that monitor is the top in that category

[pale quartz]

is the answer

[vast valley]

Good. So that's a starting monitor that I can transition out of.

[brave sundial]

Plus their money printer games all run on Frostbite too, same as NFS

Little incentive to switch to UE5 and cough up fees for Epic too

It also pushes Epic to be more complacent with the engine if they do submit and shutdown Frostbite.

Frostbite has good potential imo, it just wasn't utilised right with 2042, we all saw the new guys learn it as 2042 slowly fixed everything and added stuff in according to player feedback after launch

[dire osprey]

Hi everyone, I want to know if i can run Battlefield 5 on my Asus tuf gaming laptop with at least 60 fps, my specs are
i5-11300H @ 3.10GHz
8 gb ram
rtx 3050 ti GPU GDDR6 @ 4 GB

[brave sundial]

Probably why it took them so long to code in a scoreboard

[midnight crypt]

Those are some shit specs for a gaming laptop

[dire osprey]

so is the answer no

[willow schooner]

Youll probably be able to play BFV.

[brave sundial]

Nah its pretty common for the entry level stuff

TUF is Asus's budget gaming lineup basically, ROG is usually associated with more 'premium' devices

But that should run BFV fine

[dire osprey]

bet thanks

[pale quartz]

run yes but dont be surprised to run out of memory

[tawny mauve]

https://www.killscreen.io/bdm-050-revealed-whats-new-in-sonys-latest-ps5-dualsense/

fifth controller model revision

[lost cargo]

How many models they need

[tawny mauve]

they do it every year, modifying internal components

[lost cargo]

To much time into their controllers than their games

[thick ginkgo]

my PC is new and runs EVERYTHING in max graphics. BF is the only game that is giving me trouble. After playing for about 5 minutes my PC freezes. Any suggestions?

[lean kettle]

specs?

[quick locust]

Imagine not having 16 GB

[willow schooner]

Did they post what their PC was before?

[pale quartz]

nevermind was the wrong guy

getting confused by these blue tags

[willow schooner]

Just tested 2042 out on an older 11700k/GTX 1070 PC and it was surprisingly playable even in 128P conquest. Was always over 60 at low/medium 1080p

[brave sundial]

Yeah someone posted gameplay of 2042 on a gtx980 here

[willow schooner]

Input does feel absolutely terrible at below 80 FPS tho.

[vast valley]

Oh god lol

[vast valley]

@pale quartz, so, question; what's the difference between a mini-led qhd and regular qhd monitor?

[pale quartz]

its just the backlight for hdr, get the one that was said before, dont need anything else

[vast valley]

I thought so, just the backlighting

Q27G3XMN then; cause I was also looking at the Q27G4XN as it was cheaper, but didn't know if the quality suffered

[vast valley]

I appreciate it.

[pale quartz]

np

[vast valley]

I got one more for you.

I forgot I have AAFES privilege. Means no taxes on shit I buy.

LS27CG552ENXZA

It's on sale, normally 300, for 199

[pale quartz]

nice

[vast valley]

Nevermind, I found a website that let's me compare monitors

[tawny mauve]

how do I know if my router is wifi 5 or 6 etc?

I don't have the box or manual

and seeing below it and didn't understand which writing says so

[molten coral]

There is probably a product code somewhere that you can search

Or just login into the router

[brave sundial]

most phones these days can tell you if you tap on the info circle next to your network

[tawny mauve]

I did with the laptop, the router has wifi 4 2.4ghz and wifi 5 5ghz

idk about ethernet connection since the laptop doesn't have its port

[molten coral]

Probably just a 1GB port

[vast valley]

Well, 802.11ac is a wifi 5.

Go to your network settings and look for the Protocol section; right under the SSID

[tawny mauve]

it showed earlier thanks

[vast valley]

No worries

[modern gull]

@pale quartz Pretty neat, seems to work no problem in 2042 so far. Wish you could adjust icon sizes though

[pale quartz]

it's a UWP app so it's tied to Windows scaling, you can increase the portion there

can't recall if it supports cntrl + mouse wheel scaling or not

[modern gull]

Eitherway thanks, i like the white color more for fps. Also it seems to have shadow so still easy too see regardless of background

[pale quartz]

np anytime

[modern gull]

Less intrusive as well

[pale quartz]

the key combo for the overlay can be annoying with certain games so just keep it in mind

[modern gull]

I set it to something else

I commonly use alt+z for else things

[pale quartz]

ah fair

[modern gull]

UNDO 😛

[toxic wigeon]

What's with w11 and nvidia shadowplay? Why does it run worse there?

W10 zero issues.

[pale quartz]

shadow play on GFE is essentially abandoned, it hasn't had any real (feature) updates for eons

[toxic wigeon]

Oh I see

Old on old versus old and new.

[pale quartz]

sorta, its been more or less silod for years just unofficially

[toxic wigeon]

It chugs on bl3 and 2042 but other wise it's fine.

Yeah

[pale quartz]

the actual reason is due to how Geforce experience hooks into games for instant replays, essentially it does not play nice with kernel level anticheats at times

secure boot tie in shenanigans with windows 11

[toxic wigeon]

Oh yeah side topic about sofrware i jjust learned that mechwarrior is now 35 year old.

Even when the pentium 1 is being emulated through DOS box is still crashes.

[toxic wigeon]

Yeah

If the game crashes on good old DOS BOX then it's too old anyways!

[pale quartz]

it's a pretty asinine way how the old shadow play works tbh very stupid but eh oh well

[toxic wigeon]

It just happens.

[pale quartz]

nah it's just designed badly

[toxic wigeon]

By the way I'm sick so I can't think lol

[pale quartz]

they call it shadow play but it's more akin to force play because it will take over applications that use exclusive full screen which is why games go err crash/stutter

[toxic wigeon]

Oh yeah

[safe epoch]

anyone good with pc's? My nvidia control panel doesnt wanna open done everything 2070 rtx

[pale quartz]

ddu and reinstall the driver

[safe epoch]

ive tried that

some reason my geoforce doesnot reconize its own install

like control panel overlay doesnt not want to work something to do with frameview SDK im sure

[pale quartz]

are you on a insider build?

[safe epoch]

i have a laptop 2070 geforce rtx from when i was in the military for some reason it doesnt wana install the new driver update imma use ddu real quick

[pale quartz]

i mean of windows

[safe epoch]

no

i just did ddu and uninstalled and reinstalled nvidia contorl panel still nothing

downloads the driver then wants me to do it again

[pale quartz]

weird behaviour, probably missing a installation, try the nvidia app as a workaround

[safe epoch]

i have a mic

ive tried the nvidia app

apparnetly alot of pp have had this problem

[arctic lynx]

Does anyone know how to get PS5 controller working on PC some reason I can't use DS4 windows and it didn't even work before hand anyways

[sullen zealot]

I'm sure you've probably tried this already but have you tried using a cord first?

[arctic lynx]

I use a cord anyways my PC doesn't have bluetooth

[sullen zealot]

thats probably why its not working then ngl
gonna have to get a wired controller

[arctic lynx]

??

I connect it VIA cord

I don't use bluetooth I can't lol

[sullen zealot]

ok, so it works if you use a cord yes?

[arctic lynx]

yh but all the button are like

not right

I press X it does something else completely

and if I go in game

it just makes the camera look down constantly

[sullen zealot]

im ngl it kinda sounds like you might have stick drift for that last one, and i would check the controller bindings just to be safe

[arctic lynx]

no stick drift doesn't do it on any other game

[sullen zealot]

which game is it doing that in ?

[arctic lynx]

2042

only 2042

controller works perfectly fine for assassins creed

siege

etc etc

[sullen zealot]

might be a setting in 2042?

[arctic lynx]

idk never seen anything in there

I can't even map my buttons on the game

I go to bind a button and nothing happens

[sullen zealot]

weird

[arctic lynx]

no fixes on YT

[sullen zealot]

nothing on any forums?

[arctic lynx]

they all just say use DS4 windows but EA app is flagging it up and forces you to close it down

[slender dust]

reinstal the drivers?

[arctic lynx]

I checked reddit nothing on there has worked

[arctic lynx]

what drivers?

[sullen zealot]

i got nothin reinstalling the controllers drivers might be the next best thing, but idk how to do that

i think it might be in your connected devices in your windows settings

[modern gull]

It's the anti cheat, it wont allow you to start the game. Also i don't know where you could even give feedback about their new anti cheat 🤷

[arctic lynx]

have you seen this problem? I see my friends playing with controllers all the time but I can't use my PS5 controller at all

[modern gull]

Don't really make sense too me why it would be an issue since it's not hooking into anything or interacting with the game. Maybe there is some reason why they decided to block it 🤷

[modern gull]

What controller does he have?

[arctic lynx]

I'm not sure

probably xbox if I were to guess

[modern gull]

xbox360 controller should work natively with most games that has controller support

[arctic lynx]

I don't own any other controllers lol so RIP

how this game has been out for this long and some how you can't use PS5 controller on it

[modern gull]

Yep, was another guy here yesterday trying to use ps4 controller but seems it dont have native support

[arctic lynx]

glad some of the Devs are coming into this server

we can finally complain to them properly LOL

[modern gull]

Well, they always appreciate constructive feedback. You could maybe make a post here https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues/bd-p/battlefield-2042-technical-issues-en

Ea anti cheat don't really have it's own section from what i have seen at least. So i guess that is best bet for feedback regarding controller support and issues caused by the anti cheat

[pale quartz]

the EA app does not support controllers natively, this functionality only exists on steam, 2042 is bugged and cannot interpret 2 inputs correctly (kbm/controller) so this is why the game bugs, there isnt much you can do to resolve this as its a inherit platform/game limitation

[quick locust]

EA skill issue

[brave sundial]

I mean it does, you just have to plug then in

It doesn't like then wirelessly for some reason

[dire osprey]

EA app always being shitty at any given point in history, its like a challenge, Steam dominates in every aspect

mine always crashes

every single time i turn on my pc, tried clearing cache, freeing up storage, rebooting pc, and installing it again

[willow schooner]

You can get input on almost any pad to work either by playing through steam, or adding any title as a non steam game. I posted a video guide a while back (Cant repost it but ill include a message link below)

#technology message

[turbid verge]

https://fxtwitter.com/PlayStation/status/1833158510030516386

[brave sundial]

PS5 Pro, $699

[prime jasper]

so it'll run a little bit hotter with better specs. cool

[lost cargo]

9 min stream

[brave sundial]

Could've just been a blogpost

[turbid verge]

Also in about an hour Apple event

[molten coral]

https://tenor.com/view/wow-apple-meme-tim-cook-wow-apple-event-meme-tim-cook-meme-gif-26571525

[prime jasper]

I think my 14 will last one more year. Unless Apple AI blows my mind, which I sincerely doubt.

[molten coral]

im on the 12 right now

[prime jasper]

I'd probably have kept my 12 if I had known how little I used my phone these days. Do I really need to open up web pages 400 ms faster? Will that enhance my life?

[lost cargo]

I’m on the 15 pro

Last phone was 13

[north crow]

400ms here, 400ms there.. you could save minutes every year!

[lost cargo]

No

[molten coral]

i just want the 120hz screen

[lost cargo]

That’s why I got the pro version of 15

[north crow]

120Hz on a phone is so nice

[lost cargo]

120hz hits different, especially having a type C port

[molten coral]

I don't care about the port, they could remove it and I wouldn't miss it.

[prime jasper]

ooh. no port. completely sealed. i like that idea.

[lost cargo]

I love my port

[molten coral]

fr

[prime jasper]

i love mag safe crap. i keep my wallet/debit on a portfolio on my phone.

[molten coral]

I don't really trust that

[prime jasper]

it would be more catastrophic to me if i lost my phone. losing my debit card is a phone call to my bank and a week of patience waiting for a new one

so i'll keep a grip on it

i wonder what it costs to replace a phone with ASS'urion these days

[molten coral]

insurance*

[prime jasper]

no, I knwo it's insurance

but it's called asurion

i wanted to add the ass part

[molten coral]

[prime jasper]

NA thing probably

[molten coral]

I would pay 50 euro

[prime jasper]

the last my wife totaled her galaxy it was $200 to replace

but that was a few years ago

i'm afraid to total my phone now

looks like the deductible is still $200. better than $1500 buying a new phone I guess tho, even though they send you a refurbished one when you file a claim

[brave sundial]

Meanwhile budget android phones also have 120hz

[molten flame]

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-udna-to-unify-gaming-and-data-center-gpu-architectures-successor-to-rdna-and-cdna#disqus_thread

GCN 6.0

[pale quartz]

doesn't matter when top end rdna is cancelled

[modern gull]

He needs to use emulator and ds4 is blocked by ea anti cheat though

I tried myself the other day

[pale quartz]

well yeah, that's why I said he has little options

rewasd and DS4 are banned

[modern gull]

Yeah sadly

I am really surprised, but when i think further on it, it could be cause i heard people fake controller input to get aim assist with keyboard and mouse 🤔

Could be the reason 🤷

[pale quartz]

they can

its been possible for eons which is why they are banned

not that it prevents it entirely but easiest one to detect

[modern gull]

Only if people could play the damn games normally like everyone else

[pale quartz]

just users needing to be aware that steam is really the only platform for controllers

the EA app is just a bad piece of software

[modern gull]

Ehh, it works without any special controller emulator built inn

[brave sundial]

I just plugged my controller in and it worked

[modern gull]

You are less likley too use controller for fps game on pc as well, me personally at least. But console players might want to enjoy it on pc as well

[brave sundial]

For NFS and 2042

[modern gull]

Xbox right?

[brave sundial]

But maybe that's just xinput being better recognised

yeah

[modern gull]

Xbox360 controller at least should have native support in most games with controller support tbh

Could be with the newer ones also but that idk

[pale quartz]

the reason steam works is it has full support for xinput

the EA app doesn't and it well never will

it's just designed badly much like origin was

[brave sundial]

origin but it looks better basically

[pale quartz]

kinda yeah

[brave sundial]

Who even pushed for a total overhaul

I still get installation or corrupted installation errors

Never really had them on origin

[pale quartz]

they (the issues) never really changed between them

the underlying infrastructure is more or less just refined origin implementations

[willow schooner]

Everytime I login to EA app (The app itself, not running a game through steam) it forgets my login details. But running a game through steam, via the launcher helper always just works. Its so ass backwards that their launcher itself is hindering people from playing games.

[prime jasper]

those "remember me" and "stay logged in" are ceremonial tick boxes for the EA app

it's like the buttons people push to initiate a traffic signal crosswalk. more often than not, they're just there to make people feel better. they don't actually do anything.

[lost cargo]

Luckily for me I have no issues because I only use Ubi and EA games for their respective launcher

[brave sundial]

https://c.tenor.com/iauphimYh_wAAAAC/tenor.gif

[thick ginkgo]

BF 2042 is the only game that freezes my PC. I play everything on high graphics and have tried everything i know to do.

[steep apex]

When I try to launch Battlefield 2042 it crashes and shuts down my pc

[brave sundial]

Your PC saved you

[coarse nimbus]

whoa calm down on the edge

[prime jasper]

[molten flame]

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/1fcwuig/apples_iphone_16_pro_has_a_bigger_screen_new_chip/

AI craze caught Apple off guard and now they're scrambling to make the new OS update compelling with the same time frame. Something has got to give, and since the hardware can't be delayed, the software is.
They launch hardware on September every year as a tradition and their software engineers are becoming overwhelmed by being forced to speed up software development

[turbid verge]

They already have siri and like google has google assistance and even samsung had bixby which are a form of Ai. This AI craze is literally not even or minimally interesting

but at least Apple showed some interest concepts for Siri like the resumed emails or notifications and even the transcript for text. I dont even call it craze

but even google or apple or whoever is actually bothering to have their own algorithm that isnt a chatgpt wrap wont have a good AI for like the first 3-4 years

atm maybe google is on a good position by themselfs with their own models since they kind develop some stuff around AI before but wasnt anything like OpenAI or even some of the private sectors with their own AI models have

but TL;DR - Everyone rushed out AI because its a trend and its a selling point. Tbh about 90% of them are just a chatgpt wrap, unless its the big tech groups or OpenAI lol

[molten flame]

AI

[turbid verge]

for fun. The current public AI models arent even impressive

its not like they're going to replace everyone jobs like all the crazy futurologists were rambling about it like it was the end of the world lol

its just a helpful tool tbh and makes some stuff easier to work with

[molten flame]

AI only useful for gaming GPUs with upscaling, plus other features like RTX Voice

[turbid verge]

not really

AI is mostly used in some realms of research

has been used for study cases in physics, health, chemistry so on

actual AI models for cancer research and even for cell simulation is actually impressive

but no one cares unless you're in the field

[molten flame]

AI for precision pathology

[turbid verge]

hum, can be used for many things

understand pattern formations and even how virus develop and mutate

[candid flame]

lol my boss made me sit through 4 sales meeting where AI companies pitched their AI tool to us

[turbid verge]

also the mRNA does use a form of AI

[candid flame]

rejected all of them

waste of money

[turbid verge]

its just a tool with chatgpt wrapped

trust me

[candid flame]

exactly

reskinned chatgpt

one even told us they have a team of global freelancers to help the AI

bro that's "Actually Indian"

[turbid verge]

lemme find the meme

https://images-ext-1.discordapp.net/external/VdhdojJmtkhomH7IWCQQB9lPg6oRCPJBqbxiimIUps4/%3Fauto%3Dwebp%26s%3Dddd6837b7324ee6e0973db7655d73aeee088fa2e/https/preview.redd.it/qa8p7m45h8ed1.jpeg?format=webp&width=460&height=458

[umbral crater]

hope you get paid enough for this shit

cus i defo would have dipped

[icy lake]

T-2 minutes for Polaris Dawn launch. I've put my blood, sweat, and a tear or two into this mission. Godspeed and fly safe ❤️
https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=polarisdawn

[brave sundial]

but jensen huang said that AI will replace programmers

[turbid verge]

who?

[candid flame]

https://tenor.com/view/nvidia-jensen-huang-the-more-you-buy-the-more-you-save-keynote-2018-gif-12315008507302833354

[molten coral]

https://tenor.com/view/nvidia-jensen-huang-the-more-you-buy-the-more-you-save-keynote-2018-gif-12315008507302833354

[brave sundial]

Mr leather jacket

[turbid verge]

who?

I know who it is

I just srly can't take their opinions since its mostly a marketing stunt than a valid argument

[molten flame]

https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-core-ultra-200k-cpus-listed-in-canada-similar-pricing-to-14th-gen

Core Ultra 200 naming just isn't eye-catching, looks the same as laptop CPU names

when I first saw article title I didn't know whether or not it was laptop or desktop CPU until I noticed there isn't an 'H' in the name

hardly anyone is anticipating LGA1851 CPUs anyway

[brave sundial]

the new naming schemes from both companies is awful

[molten flame]

they should make their names as short and sweet as possible

just remove the 'Ultra' out of the name pls, gives me those flashy RGB LED gamer vibes

[brave sundial]

And amd should remove "AI" from theirs

[molten flame]

AI naming is worse

[brave sundial]

But how else will people know it has a very good NPU with plenty of TOPS?

Totally makes a difference in day to day usage

Just 5G all over again

I hate that a regular 'core' 7 and 9 exist

Why seperate them into 'core' and 'core ultra'

[molten flame]

give me CPUs simply named "Core 285K' and 'Ryzen 380HX"

[brave sundial]

And then on top of that differentiate each sku with the usual K or KF moniker

so stupid

[brave sundial]

That actually makes sense. They'll never do that

Watch them change it again after a few years

[molten flame]

having AI in a CPU name is worse than if Nvidia put 'CUDA' in the name of every SKU

RTX CUDA 5090

[brave sundial]

don't tempt them

[candid flame]

Cuvidia 7090

[lost cargo]

If you Flip Nvidia around, it starts with AI

[brave sundial]

Huang when forming the company : "Two steps ahead"

[lost cargo]

Yes

[dry pike]

Remove 2 letters, move 1 letter and it spells diva.

[lost cargo]

Nvidia is a Diva alright, a Sexy Diva

[lost cargo]

Aye man, it’s the RTX

[digital hill]

Not good enough

We gotta wait for the new model rtx for even more detail

[lost cargo]

AMD finally get cuda cores due to EU

Nvidia been having them for years

[lost cargo]

Not better than Nvidia RTX 5090

[digital hill]

Ah you already got the 2000w rtx 6090 ti

[lost cargo]

[lost cargo]

https://youtube.com/shorts/soefTJxuMSQ?si=3b9GWaM48GKwOg2l

I’m dying

[toxic wigeon]

Ps5 pro @ 1200 aud.

What the flying fuck.

[umbral crater]

https://fixupx.com/BobToasters/status/1833619869670985932?t=oMG_rbts7q2EaJ7DA0Lv_g&s=19

diskless console

games require disks

ps5 pro got no games again

600€ shitware

[karmic leaf]

A colleague has just opened up my mind to Rubber Duck Debugging!!!

• https://rubberduckdebugging.com

[candid flame]

what

[karmic leaf]

click the link and find out :P it's a funny/witty programmer's technique to debug programs; but dumb/hilarious at the same time - it involves inanimate objects 🖥️

I had a Wikipedia masked link but, obviously @proper crescent would beat the living sh*t out of me cause there's freaking scammers/abusers everywhere and so we, the legit users, have to eat sh*t because of it

[brave sundial]

No vertical stand and a controller that costs $5 more

And MS isn't there to humble them anymore