🎮│game

[fading spade]

thats the same as retail price for the curret Switch :O not bad

[feral ferry]

Now I'm kinda thinking

This is not the Pro edition

[fringe salmon]

.. ofc it's not

[feral ferry]

It's just an incremental upgrade to the existing one

[fading spade]

NGL, I am loving the white JoyCons

[feral ferry]

Pro one is yet to come

[fading spade]

My cousin is really liking A Hat In Time, hes been playing it on my Switch the last few days hes visited

[fringe salmon]

could just be a test run to see how people like the 7" screen, as 4k on the pro would be really expensive if you go below 7"

[fading spade]

why tf

would you need

4k on a 7 inch screen?

[trim rock]

Why not

[fading spade]

Same for phones, it pointless

and uses too much battery

[feral ferry]

4K upscaling

[fringe salmon]

because you can see the difference so until you cant see the difference it makes sense to increase pixel density?

yeah it's obviously not native 4k rendering

[feral ferry]

There is no way the screen on the device is 4K

[fading spade]

on my phone, its 1080 and I cant see pixels unless my eye is so close to the screen

[feral ferry]

Rumours are saying it's handheld is 1080p

Docked 4K

[fading spade]

probably will be

That would make sense to me

[feral ferry]

Also the new SoC is nowhere to be seen

[fading spade]

Nice balance between performance and battery life

[feral ferry]

The fact the announcement came out of random

And skipped E3

It's most likely a split announcement

Was meant to be a joint Pro model and the normal model refresh announcement

But Pro model is not quite ready

So they're launching this thing rn as a replacement to the old one

And Pro like next year with BoTW2

[fading spade]

As long as they arent going to drop support for the current models on release of the OLED model....

Speaking of Switch....There was a software update today
Anyone know where the changelog is?

[trim rock]

Probably just some more exploits fixed

[feral ferry]

Also

The model they just announced

Is codenamed Aula

[fading spade]

aha

[fringe salmon]

also a 4k screen might just be cheaper to make than a "between 1440p and 4k" resolution that other screens use in that size, so there'd be enough potential reasons to go for it

[feral ferry]

@fading spadehttps://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/22525/kw/nintendo%20switch%20system%20update

[fringe salmon]

we'll know more in a couple months or whenever it's announced

[fading spade]

oh hmm ok

[ripe tendon]

So is the main thing just OLED? No more horsepower or res increase?

[feral ferry]

nop

[ripe tendon]

Seems like a complete waste

unless you don't already have a switch, I guess, and still wanted one.

[fringe salmon]

yeah, introduced as a different model, not as a big upgrade or new thing

[ripe tendon]

ah ok

[fading spade]

Ok ok, I doubt a headset can provide better immersion to dedicated surround sound

what BS this?

[novel umbra]

is wrong

[feral ferry]

Astros?

[novel umbra]

outputs up to 1080p

[feral ferry]

Astro A40s are fairly good

[fading spade]

Yes

[feral ferry]

Read the context first

Please, before commenting

[fading spade]

They may be good but saying they offer better immersion than a dedicate surround sound system is a bit sus I think

[novel umbra]

true

[ripe tendon]

What do you expect

though when

[feral ferry]

Yeah what they released is defo just an upgraded old one

[ripe tendon]

people scatter their sen

tences

[feral ferry]

It's a "gaming" headset

[fading spade]

upgrade of an upgrade xd

[feral ferry]

Meh astros are astros

[novel umbra]

ehhhhh

headsets can provide perfect surround sound

[feral ferry]

RN I'm debating whether I open my wallet to a K712 & a DAC

[unborn spruce]

[feral ferry]

Or Sundaras

[novel umbra]

the only thing they really lack is bass

need a big woofer for decent bass effectively

[unborn spruce]

Jesus fuck, @fading spade, where’d you find nonsense like that?

[feral ferry]

Bass is great on closed backs

[fading spade]

On the Astro product page

[feral ferry]

Look up Focal Elegias for some high end bass

[novel umbra]

oh yea for music etc for sure

[unborn spruce]

LMFAO

[fading spade]

https://www.astrogaming.com/en-eu/products/headsets/a20-gen-2.html

[novel umbra]

but a decently tuned speaker setup can just be a better experience

not like people will have that

[ripe tendon]

hideous things

[novel umbra]

they get some crummy 7.1 system at best

[unborn spruce]

Closed backs also ruin the sound stage. I’d just buy opens and use a convolution filter with EqualizerAPO for more bass like a smart child.

[feral ferry]

Lana, be real with me. Were you watching a video of a specific youtuber talking about Astros?

[novel umbra]

which would get demolished by a decent set of headphones

[unborn spruce]

Convolution filters are great.

Love em.

[feral ferry]

The fuck are you talking about "ruin"

[fading spade]

These headphones look so fragile

[feral ferry]

You can't ruin it by being closed back

[fading spade]

CaptainSparklez.... Yes xd He's worn A40's for his whole youtube career

[unborn spruce]

@feral ferry Closed versus opens the opens will win in sound stage and they’ll outstrip closed.

[novel umbra]

you literally do

[unborn spruce]

^

Closed backs absolutely demolish the sound stage.

[feral ferry]

Depends on the implementation

[novel umbra]

no

not really

you can just use open backs

[feral ferry]

I knew it cause I watched the exact same vid this morning

[novel umbra]

and tune them to whatever

[fading spade]

LOL

[novel umbra]

will get much better results

[unborn spruce]

Few headphones like the HD800S closed can do it fairly well, but even lesser products that’re open backs will far outpace them.

[novel umbra]

yea but why get HD800S

when reg HD800 are a thing

[unborn spruce]

Same price.

Why not?

[novel umbra]

I mean yea

preference

ig

[fading spade]

I love how they are out of stock already xd

[unborn spruce]

The 800S are just kinda better unless modding is your thing.

[feral ferry]

I mean fair open backs are always better than closed backs

But that does not mean closed backs don't have good soundstage

[novel umbra]

imo people ready to spend that much for good sound would prob prefer reg HD800

on average

[feral ferry]

Elegias from what I'm hearing have a great soundstage

[unborn spruce]

Bruh.

Yes, they do, but almost any open backs will be far better.

[feral ferry]

"far better", no

Better, yes

[unborn spruce]

When we say they have a good soundstage we say they have a good sound stage for closed backs.

[novel umbra]

Btw

[unborn spruce]

Opens are just vastly better, it’s fairly commonly known.

Kinda just headphones 101.

[novel umbra]

How is he400i build quality as bad as it is

[feral ferry]

Budget cans

[novel umbra]

Ig

It is just stupidly bad though

The whole earpad design is

[feral ferry]

I still need to find some place where I can test out 650/660S, K712s and Sundaras at the same time

[novel umbra]

A single stitching could make the earpads last several times longer

[feral ferry]

I can't decide between the three

[novel umbra]

But no

Entirely glued

To itself and it’s carrier

[feral ferry]

K712s cost cheapest of the 3, but Sundaras are the most touted

Still need a DAC

[novel umbra]

Apple dongle op

Ngl

[feral ferry]

Fuck the dong

[novel umbra]

Lol

[unborn spruce]

Honestly, either go Sundaras or 6XX.

[feral ferry]

I'm getting a dac with EQ built in

[unborn spruce]

Why not run the EQ on a PC?

[novel umbra]

6XX bad option in EU

[unborn spruce]

You can use convolution filters then.

[feral ferry]

712s have amazing soundstage and I kinda want to test that out

[novel umbra]

Usually

[feral ferry]

I really love good soundstage

AKG does that perfectly

[novel umbra]

Dac with EQ will be a tough nut

Gl

[unborn spruce]

Yep.

[feral ferry]

I saw some locally second hand for <200$

[unborn spruce]

Better to run it on a PC so you have better stuff.

DACs with EQ are dumb.

A fun concept, but just a concept, not really smart.

[feral ferry]

Sorry, ain't polluting my PC with shit software

[novel umbra]

And with no advantages

You still need software for the dac though

To adjust it

[unborn spruce]

So you’ll waste money for a shitty product that will barely work and you need software anyway.

[feral ferry]

I got advised to get the ADI-2s... which are amazing.. for 999$

[novel umbra]

Or do you want an eq with 13 physical sliders

[feral ferry]

If I'm spending over 1k I'll just get the FiiO M15

[unborn spruce]

All DACs need software to work their best as a default, you’ll be stuck with it anyway.

[feral ferry]

But rn looking into SMSL and Aune

[unborn spruce]

May as well just run EqualizerAPO like everyone else does.

AND you can use convolution filters at that. :)

[novel umbra]

I don’t

I listen to my cans raw

[unborn spruce]

Gross.

[novel umbra]

Mainly because i cba to set up an eq

[unborn spruce]

No Harman curve?

[feral ferry]

I haven't EQd my cans either

[unborn spruce]

Feels bad.

[feral ferry]

To be fair K371s come pre-EQd to Harman so

And they sound quite great

Just the soundstage is.. eh

Needs quite a bit more

[unborn spruce]

The HD800S have an insane soundstage.

It’s massive.

[feral ferry]

Yes for 1k

I'm not spending over 400$

[unborn spruce]

shrugs

Sundaras or 6XX.

[feral ferry]

Or K712s

Whichever sounds good

[unborn spruce]

Can confirm 6XX is a tiny bit more narrow than 800S with Dekonis.

[novel umbra]

Lol

[unborn spruce]

Still fantastic if you EQ correctly.

[novel umbra]

Totally worth it then

[unborn spruce]

800S just feel way more open, probably due to them just not touching your ear at all.

[novel umbra]

My 6XX don’t touch my ears

If my he400is didn’t have shit pads and I got sent the wrong replacement ones they wouldn’t

[unborn spruce]

I mean the sides.

The pads only slightly brush up against em.

But on the 800/S? Lmfao it’s nowhere close. Everything sounds like you’re in a concert hall.

[feral ferry]

Shit just found SMSL M8A on ebay for 150$

The chip is really damn good on that thing

[novel umbra]

not for me

[unborn spruce]

Tiny ears?

Or do I have weirdly bit ears...?

[novel umbra]

not really

idk

how old are you?

[unborn spruce]

Life is a lie.

[novel umbra]

lol

[novel umbra]

huh

same as me then

[unborn spruce]

[novel umbra]

like I will prob get big enough ears by 30 for that to happen

[unborn spruce]

The simulation is breaking.

[novel umbra]

lol

[fallow bronze]

during e3 a game was announced that looked exactly like subnautica but on land, does anyone remember the name?

[ripe tendon]

PC, Switch, PS, Xbox?

[fallow bronze]

uh.. think pc

[ripe tendon]

I don't remember too many survival type games except maybe Icarus

[bleak pike]

Think ya drunk

[barren pewter]

very hungover and with a sore left arm

take it or leave it

[fallow bronze]

it looked the same down the the white aesthetics

its not icarus

[ripe tendon]

Yeah I don't know. I didn't watch E3 and none of the lists of "all e3 games" ring a bell

[trim rock]

Oh yeah I member

[ripe tendon]

Was it a survival game like subnautica or just looked like it visually?

[trim rock]

Perhaps

[barren pewter]

@feral ferry

[feral ferry]

Meh

Obsidian did fine

Needed more time though

Game is unfinished

[barren pewter]

fair point

tbh, a metacritic score of 84 for a game made in less than 2 years is damn impressive

[feral ferry]

18 months

1.5 years

Yeah if it had a full development cycle

3-4 years

That'd be some impressive game

[fallow bronze]

you dont remember the name?

[trim rock]

Yeah

My memory is bad

[keen urchin]

I like them both

[keen urchin]

It's gigantic

[feral ferry]

Got both?

Which one do you prefer

And what type of music do you listen to

[keen urchin]

On my cheapo E10K? Sundara
I'm still sad about the soundstage, though

[feral ferry]

Is it that bad?

I heard it ain't that horrible

But it ain't amazing

[keen urchin]

Compared to the K712? It's like moving from a concert hall to a side room

I don't know how they will compare on an actually good AMP

[feral ferry]

I'm on a Schiit Heresy rn

Well I'm just going to have to test them out somehow

Or just buy both when I'm rich

[orchid prism]

https://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/odfopt/sgdq_vod_thread_2021/

SGDQ is ongoing - Watch those games get absolutely splintered apart. Like DA: Inquisition finished in under an hour. 😄

[fading spade]

I miss Grandma Yahoo from links awakening

She was nice

[small comet]

https://discordjs.moe/4a9lbcpr5vdw.png

why the shit

are the speedtraps not spawning in

am confused

only got these 7

and it should have spawned in more

[fading spade]

No
Only a few at a time

[small comet]

yes

but i have cleared all 7

if u clear a certain amount they spawn in

usually if u got 2 - 7 left

depending on how much is spawned in

i mean im lvl 500 by now

[fading spade]

Oh....

[small comet]

and still only have these 7 traps

[fading spade]

Wtf is your playtime? Xd

[small comet]

too long

[fading spade]

I bet XD

[small comet]

i mean sometimes i cry when i read the loading screen stats

like time spent in first place was smth like 25hrs

really

really makes me sad

[fading spade]

:')

[small comet]

but today i got the last 5k influence board i was too lazy to get

[barren pewter]

that's not bad at all

[small comet]

and i wanted to finish drift zones cause i hate drifting

[fading spade]

OH YEH .-. FUCK DRIFTING

[small comet]

but i noticed i havent even finished speed traps

[barren pewter]

I don't mean to flex, but I've spent over 100 hours in first place on forza horizon 2

on my xbox one

[small comet]

https://discordjs.moe/raezyamftbjf.png

[fading spade]

drifting is only fun on Mariokart

[small comet]

easy drifting

with the hoonigan cars

[fading spade]

O

[small comet]

i mean

if id play on ez

id prob also be in first places all the time

but usually im only first place last round or the last few percent of the race

[barren pewter]

I play on...forgot which, something between normal and hard

not too hard

[small comet]

i play hard

for the extra stuff from challenges

[fading spade]

There was one fucking bullshit race I had to do
3 laps around the town

ALL THE TURNS ARE 90 DEGREES

TOOK ME LIKE 8 ATTEMPT TO FINISH FIRST

[barren pewter]

usually, I can slip into first place ezpz, the hard part is driving as good as you can to make a huge lead, give yourself some room to fuck up

[small comet]

i feel like drifting is impossible without proper steering wheel

[fading spade]

I found shaders with this strange option to make it all dark and red

now its purple

[orchid prism]

Oh neat. You're Predator now.

The uhh... alien kind. Not the rapey kind.

https://tenor.com/view/predator-laser-eyes-searching-gif-15509478

[fading spade]

This shader pack is funky and I love it

O.o

Minecraft using 8GB ram

[fringe salmon]

java allocation != what's being used

[fading spade]

There is meant to be aurolas in the end sky.... why not? hmmm lemme look

[barren pewter]

😋

I love me some curried goat

[orchid prism]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Screaming goat :3

[slim token]

any goat is a screaming goat if you kill them hard enough

[orchid prism]

https://youtu.be/wxGRGpBaaAo?t=532

AAAAAAAA

[barren pewter]

found this little gem of dialogue in fallout 4's far harbour DLC

Yorkshire = Washington, D.C.?

[hot spire]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcBqPla5Mfo

[ripe tendon]

https://tenor.com/view/boo-gif-9983256

A fucking classic

[fading spade]

It's OLED
Uses less energy

[lone oasis]

just to let you know, oled uses less power when there isn't extremely bright shit going on, when 95% of the screen is white or bright colours, it can actually use more power

[ashen lark]

What shaders are that?

[fading spade]

"ComplementaryShaders"

They have a fuck ton of awesome settings if you are using Optifine to load them

[novel umbra]

my friend is suffering through the ME3 remaster atm

lensflares go BRRR

[fading spade]

Ah

Reminds me of the time I played BattleField 4

Or was it 3? idk, there is a section in a ship and its a long narrow room and you can barly see shit cause lenflare like that

[novel umbra]

ye ik what you mean

btw

there is a helicopter in that image

[fading spade]

..

Ah yes

[novel umbra]

yes

[fading spade]

totally visible

[novel umbra]

there also was this NPC in the original

he looks like this now

lensflare guy

[fading spade]

McRiot: Trust Us & Buy

[fading spade]

I miss 2LP, and the intro being "hey guys, its your 2 lesbian mums here"

https://youtu.be/K8fB6IubzDc

[fading spade]

ah, now his headphones match the color of his Ford GT!

Im tired...

[novel umbra]

https://twitter.com/Nibellion/status/1412735766522904579

Nibel (@Nibellion)

Bloomberg: Ubisoft is working on Assassin's Creed Infinity, a live-service platform

• evolving platform with multiple settings
• games are connected but feel/look different
• inspired by Fortnite or GTA:O
• Quebec and Montreal working together on this

https://t.co/yckRcpb5y8

Retweets

224

Likes

1204

Twitter · Jul 7, 2021, 11:30 AM

[orchid prism]

I... don't hate this?

This was honestly the natural evolution both AC and Watch Dogs needed.

[fringe salmon]

does sound like something I'd be willing to give a shot

[orchid prism]

Better "open world" multiplayer to really hammer down the whole community and secret groups fighting for control.

[novel umbra]

the big problem is

we are still talking ubisoft here

[orchid prism]

[novel umbra]

I would say can't be worse than avengers

but not too sure about that

[fringe salmon]

yeah, but something new means theres a chance it also gets handled differently which could be refreshing

[novel umbra]

hopefully

I mean

[fringe salmon]

sure, everything can go bad, but at least this has the potential to go well unlike some other things

[novel umbra]

they got away from ctrl+c ctrl+v every game

only to then repeat it with the new formula

twice

what are the odds it will just be some AC branded regular MMO

[fading spade]

ooo gimme

I need that car though :/ have to do a playlist though

[small comet]

so

i posted my speedtrap issue on r/forza

and the replies i got feel more toxic/gatekeepery than i expected

[fading spade]

o?

[small comet]

basically questioning why i didnt report it earlier

[fading spade]

o..

[small comet]

cause im lvl 100 prestige 4

which is like

why

[fringe salmon]

feel like that's normal for every reddit of any game lmao

[small comet]

ya but cant i just enjoy a game casually

and then when i decide to.give a shit about speedtraps

have an issue

[fringe salmon]

every reddit for a game I visited so far has a very specific idea of how one should enjoy the game and no other way

[fading spade]

^

except DDLC

apart from not getting it from Steam

for the purposes of easy file reverting

[small comet]

like idk man

feels like enjoying a game and not having issues is forbidden

and next i know they laugh at me for not having known that forza has a Ticket systen for such problems

[fading spade]

wait FH 5 is set in Mexico?

[small comet]

yes

[fading spade]

oo

Interesting reddit username you got there

[small comet]

ikr

[fading spade]

OH HOLY BLACK HOLE
Jordan Maron - 2021

[ripe tendon]

We need a Forza night where everybody tries to find the 1 person in a basic bitch car 😛 with all usernames and stuff turned off

[novel umbra]

lol

just one guy in his mini cooper

chillin somewhere in the woods

[ripe tendon]

following all the rules and nobody knows

[fading spade]

I FUCKING HATE THE DRIFTING LEVEL .-0.

For the Upgrade Heros chapter

[wheat kraken]

tomorrow is gonna suck while waiting on the gpu

[fading spade]

This is a smaller bulge than normal

[orchid prism]

That's what... Uh... She said?

[orchid prism]

Why hello... there?

[fading spade]

ff 15?

[orchid prism]

14, but yes! The MMO

[fading spade]

ahhhha

right, 14 is the MMO one

[stuck pebble]

General…… Kenobi?

[orchid prism]

https://tenor.com/view/kenobi-star-wars-ewan-mcgregor-obiwan-kenobi-funny-gif-13545825

[ripe tendon]

Well hellooooooooooo there

[unborn spruce]

https://tenor.com/view/grevious-general-kenobi-star-wars-gif-11406339

[fading spade]

https://youtu.be/TtxyLa24Gxs

I wanna play her mod but:

1. I dont have this game
2. IDK how to mod it
3. I suck at platforming

[orchid prism]

1. Oof
2. You need a hackable Switch and need to be willing to become a pirate through sheer risk of having the console banned from Nintendo.
3. Oof 😄

[fading spade]

ooh

Is Bowser's Fury a seperate game or is it just a gamemode addon for Super Mario World 3d? cause they are bundled together on the eShop

[orchid prism]

Separate game. 🙂

[fading spade]

ahh

Then how the bundle work, it adds two games to the homescreen I assume
Or does it take the Orange Box route and have a menu when you launch it? XD

[orchid prism]

shrug

I'd assume two separate games.

Buying the combo would just add both individually to your account.

[fading spade]

yee

I imagine id have the same issue as SM Galaxy xd

the perspective is tricky :')

W I D E Goombas

[keen urchin]

Wide check

[orchid prism]

[fading spade]

wait.... If you have a hacked Switch, you can still use the official OS?

Cause shes got mods and this seems the official OS

[orchid prism]

It's a toggle. But if you're ever careless and accidentally forget ... then your console likely gets banned.

Hence "willing to risk having it banned"

[fading spade]

Her homescreen is just Mario xd

[keen urchin]

Oh I would probably forget. Lol

Good thing I don't need a Switch

[fading spade]

I assume if you went through the hassle of hacking the Switch, youd not forget about it being hacked..... xd

[orchid prism]

You need to constantly toggle back and forth.

[fading spade]

Not mentioning the effort to find the OG Switch that can be hacked

[orchid prism]

So if you accidentally launch a multiplayer game while it's in hacked mode... cause it's 11pm and you forgot to check.

[fading spade]

o

What if you launch a single player game with the option of being multiplayer such as MK or SMM2?

[orchid prism]

It's like locking yourself out. You know you shouldn't....but you only have to forget once 😄

[orchid prism]

It gets a little complicated with regards to being on Wifi, or having the OS blocked from going online in hacked mode.

But honestly - The best solution is just to have a second, vanilla Switch.

[fading spade]

I guess so yeah

That;s what Tony has done :')

But then you need to buy the games on both Switches? Unless you want to risk being logged into your account

[orchid prism]

Realistically you'd probably just pirate the games on the already internet-less console.

Cause... you wouldn't be able to get patches either.

And piracy apps offer those anyway.

[fading spade]

oh wait nvm, game cards would work still?

[orchid prism]

Yep.

They're basically just non-rewritable SD cards.

[fading spade]

yeh xd

[wheat kraken]

My switch is nodded and looks like that

Atmosphere doesn't give a new ui

[orchid prism]

I don't recall anyone claiming otherwise 😄

[wheat kraken]

well Avanna said it looked like a normal one.

[weak cypress]

She's back, in Mii form.

[fading spade]

The door was the hoe

[fading spade]

There is a shop in Mafia town called "Juice Bar?"

why the question mark?"

[small comet]

i feel like a boomer now

[fading spade]

?

[small comet]

i remember playing the alpha in 2014

i remember speedrunning it on release

[fading spade]

oh :P

is a great game :D <3

Ive only gotten as far as the haunted house

[small comet]

the haunted house?

[fading spade]

Spooky house

where the thing hunts you and you must hide

[small comet]

oh queen vanessas mansion

[fading spade]

yes

[small comet]

the thing u can skip literally intended

[fading spade]

o?

[small comet]

in the cellar (where u enter) u can crawl between 2 wine barrels and skip straight to the timepiece

[fading spade]

O.o

wow

[small comet]

literally left in for the faint of heart

and speedrunners

[fading spade]

oo

well dang

[bleak pike]

BATTLEEYE FOR A SINGLE PLAYER GAME?!?1?!

?

https://mrpl.me/L04405b_rfL8.png

Not bad

Full rtx

Quality dlss

Should prob update me drivers

Watch Dogs legion

[keen urchin]

This looks like a CPU bottleneck

Yep, 100%

Need a better CPU, DLSS will not even net you more frames

Just lower quality

[bleak pike]

5600x

Ooft

[ripe tendon]

Then your choices are...limited lol

actually no, in Legion it looks like you have basically no options 😂

[small comet]

washdogs isnt SP

but ok

or well

it def wasnt when it was a relevant game

[bleak pike]

Well OK

My perf got worse updating drivers

Sure w.e

[fringe salmon]

time to update gpu and get a 3090 for more frames

well, in reality I assume not having max rtx but just some features should be a nice fps bump and not look too different

[bleak pike]

Doesn't run much better without rtx

[barren pewter]

o.O

even then, that's a pretty tiny improvement in gaming performance (considering the price), and a good OC on a 3080 can net 3090 levels of performance

[fringe salmon]

what resolution?

[barren pewter]

I assume 1440p

it's tiny...for the price

10-15% improvement is solid, but not for double the price or more

[fringe salmon]

dont have a shot with the 3080 also, but I guess if you can come close to that it's as good as it gets with gpus for now

[keen urchin]

Guys... he's entirely CPU bottlenecked

Needs more cores

[barren pewter]

but intel said "you don't need more than 4 cores for gaming"

[keen urchin]

Well, guess who's not relevant any more

[bleak pike]

1440p

[barren pewter]

welp

I guess my idea of snagging a 5800X on clearance in a few years is not a bright idea

[orchid prism]

All of the Watch Dogs games has for ced, always on Multiplayer, Callum.

[barren pewter]

better to grab a 5900X

[barren pewter]

anyone can jump in and try to hack you, unless in a mission already

made me paranoid as fuck, and the one time it did happen, I ended up just mowing down people in the search area until I killed the hacker

that U100 is really kinda nutty in Watchdogs 1

[fringe salmon]

nah 5800x should still be better, less chances for CCD hopping and all, for gaming at least, since I doubt games will use more threads anytime soon given that consoles have the same as the 5800x

[bleak pike]

Ye but no one cares about the Co op

Or MP for wafch dogs

[fringe salmon]

that's why I'm more than content with the 5600x I got, more than enough for a good ammount

[orchid prism]

People used to troll massively in WD1

[barren pewter]

fair enough

[orchid prism]

I played through all of Legion offline to avoid being interrupted.

[barren pewter]

I'll snag one when next gen comes out

[barren pewter]

that's really big brain

[fringe salmon]

speedrun strats, run dark souls offline to not get invaded by hacker or someone dropping you gear lmao

[barren pewter]

I'd do something similar with GTA Online on my xbox

test the network connection in the settings to just join an empty public lobby

I have no clue as to how it works...just that it does work

:P

[orchid prism]

Yeah you can force offline in GTAO. Not in RDR2

[barren pewter]

seriously good for when you want to sell cargo, without some jackass in an oppressor mark II blowing it up

[orchid prism]

It was... Quite surreal to play racing minigames completely by myself.

[barren pewter]

I was the one man motorcycle club

[orchid prism]

And yes - griefing ruined both games for me online.

[barren pewter]

Mansen...embrace the toxicity

[orchid prism]

RDR2 was just a pain to get anywhere with deliveries. Always some asshole camped on a roof with a sniper rifle.

[fringe salmon]

I wouldn't mind griefing if it would be legit and not full of hackers

[barren pewter]

if someone comes after your cargo, do the same

[orchid prism]

They didn't gain shit, I just lost shit.

[trim rock]

Griefing? Isn't the point of the game to kill all you see on sight

And steal their shit

[barren pewter]

idk, in gta online you got a solid 2k for destroying millions of another player's cargo

xD

I can't believe people actually use that as an excuse for blowing up cargo

seriously though, someone blew up a shipment of mine, a few hundred thou iirc, and welp

I destroyed, by my math, anywhere from $500k to several million dollars worth of their cargo

don't do something unless you're fine receiving that treatment as well

safe to say, that regardless of if that person will grief again, they learned why it sucks the hard way

[bleak pike]

Can you not block match making via ports on gta

[barren pewter]

GTA Online doesn't provide incentives for random murder

[orchid prism]

GTA you can port block ish.

RDR2 not so much.

[barren pewter]

wdym by that? (I'm a recently converted console peasant, please forgive my lack of knowledge)

[orchid prism]

By blocking certain ports at specific times, you can get an empty lobby that stays empty.

[barren pewter]

oh

that's awesome

[wheat kraken]

Actually it's way easier to just go into system monitor and suspend GTA5 for about 9-10 seconds

[orchid prism]

shrug

Didn't play long enough to bother experimenting.

RDR2 on the other hand will disconnect you, if you attempt something similar.

[barren pewter]

😬

[bleak pike]

https://youtu.be/3RO-APzz6l4

well ok then

[bleak pike]

[barren pewter]

😬

I'm no expert

but me thinks that's either an error or a seriously bad sign

[bleak pike]

this makes me feel shit

i cant even run watch dogs legion smooth

even after spending 800 quid on a gpu

[barren pewter]

this is what 833 quid gets ya in GPUs in 2020-2021

sadness and regret

just game at 1080peasant like me, and suddenly that (admittedly still pretty beefy card) can handle whatever you throw at it with no issues

[ripe tendon]

Is that your 3080 hitting 81C?

[barren pewter]

I'm gonna game on 1080p until games stop supporting it or somehow 4k panels become the budget option

[bleak pike]

tbf

fan was on 0%

https://mrpl.me/514407b_rfN4.jpg

[ripe tendon]

...but why

[barren pewter]

because suffering?

idk, these MSI gaming X trio cards run pretty cool and pretty quiet in my experience

why turn off the fans?

[bleak pike]

forgot to turn them on

[barren pewter]

how does one forget to turn on something that should be automatic?

[ripe tendon]

So you turn them off intentionally?

I would get something like "I forgot to turn them off X% and back to automatic" but not "forgot to turn them on"

[barren pewter]

Cal, my card runs passive until it hits a workload and gets a bit spicy

I coulda sworn it was the same for the 3080 model as well

[barren pewter]

that fan speed is nuts

~3150 RPM?

[ripe tendon]

that's like 100%

I'm 1000 rpm at 30%. I dunno if my fans ever hit above 80%. They get loudish at 70

[bleak pike]

yes its 100%

[fringe salmon]

have you tried turning rtx of?

[bleak pike]

that is rtx off

[barren pewter]

o.O

boi

that ain't right

but first, turn on RTX, keeping DLSS off for shits and giggles

[fringe salmon]

https://youtu.be/NxvoxpeeIaQ?t=1063

timestamps for optimal settings

[ripe tendon]

They're not doing those anymore 😦

I get it but still 😦

[bleak pike]

@fringe salmon thanks

helped a lot

neeto even rtx is doable now

https://mrpl.me/t74408b_rfA5.jpg

[orchid prism]

❤️

HWUs settings videos are great.

[young hill]

So watchdogs is poorly optimized and gets worse over time in terms of performance

[fringe salmon]

..how did you get to that conclusion

[fading spade]

https://www.pcgamer.com/minecraft-is-now-an-r-rated-game-in-south-korea/

[bleak pike]

https://mrpl.me/vf4410b_rfr3.jpg

[young hill]

The way Ubisoft saves data over time is excessive and over time it gets worse, someone mentioned they autosave a ton. Imma see if I can find the comment. Anyways I noticed not even so recent Ubisoft games get worse in performance over time and it is not some updates necessarily that mess them up.

[fading spade]

Are there any Xbox 360 emulators on computer?

Cause I wanna play black ops and I don't want to pay €40 on steam for it

[fringe salmon]

I still dont get how you got to the conclusion watch dogs got worse after new updates based on cal's settings and fps

[young hill]

No I mean like his performance in watch dogs legion will get worse over time. Only truth currently is game is poorly optimized.

And I said it is "not some updates necessarily"

It can be, but if Ubisoft stopped updating the game over time it will still deminish in performance

[solar lily]

https://xenia.jp/

[fading spade]

Oo

[ripe tendon]

Good ones? no

[keen urchin]

Dude, it's your CPU, not GPU

[trim rock]

BuT cPu UsAgE iS nOt MaXeD

[keen urchin]

86% CPU utilisation...

It's literally screaming for air

It's suffocating

[barren pewter]

ok

I'm starting to get confuzzled

why are fortnite players running windows 7?

what optimisation improvements does it offer to be worth the security risks and nothing in the way of software updates?

[keen urchin]

Do they do it on purpose?
Or is it because most Asian Internet Café's still run Windows 7?

They've also been visible in the Steam HW survey last month after reopening, I hear

WIDE DUCK

[ornate cedar]

Quack

[trim rock]

Because windows 10 bad

[barren pewter]

that would just create a loop

[unborn spruce]

Pog, bois! Yuzu's Hades shader decompiler just came out!

It's kinda snowballed past that, but more emulation speed!

https://yuzu-emu.org/entry/yuzu-hades/

[fringe salmon]

oh god, regular shader code with structure is already complicated enough, working with decompiled files has to be hell sometimes lol

[young crow]

brain damage

really can’t think of anything else

[barren pewter]

yeah, that's what I was thinking

:(

one of them even complained about the virtual controller used by the double movement software not supporting windows 7 anymore

yeah... it's ancient, we're considering moving beyond windows 10...and you're using windows 7

👏

[unborn spruce]

WhY WonT EvErYOnE SupPoRT mY OuTDAtED oS????

Just...

Update.

Even if you don't like WIn10, update anyway because with mods you can get the Win7 experience.

[bleak pike]

https://youtu.be/neeWkNnD2WY

Oh god no

God no

No no

https://tenor.com/view/nooo-no-nope-no-way-screaming-gif-15477187

[unborn spruce]

<rustycage-noose-song-original.mp4>

[small comet]

this one?

[unborn spruce]

Exactly that one.

[orchid prism]

[trim rock]

Yeah sounds about right

[ornate cedar]

Good to know, will pirate capcom games from now on instead to avoid inferior product

Thanks shareholders for telling me that

[ashen lark]

[young crow]

capcom is incompetent, what a surprise!

https://www.theregister.com/2016/09/23/capcom_street_fighter_v/

[orchid prism]

[young crow]

https://github.com/notscimmy/libcapcom

[bleak pike]

https://www.dsogaming.com/news/resident-evil-village-crack-completely-fixes-its-stuttering-issues/

https://www.reddit.com/r/EmpressEvolution/comments/oh6i59/residentevilvillageempress/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

@barren pewter

[trim rock]

literally what was just talked about here a few messages up

[unborn spruce]

Wait what?

Was the DRM so bad it was killing the performance?

[orchid prism]

It was adding noticeable stutter, yes

[unborn spruce]

Bruh.

[orchid prism]

Or IS rather.

[unborn spruce]

“DrM doEsNT iMpAcT pErForMAncE!!!1!1!11!1”

[orchid prism]

Adding another, internal layer onto Denuvo definitely doesn't sound great 😄

[unborn spruce]

Denuvo can actually just get fucked, tbh.

[trim rock]

DRM can get fucked

[keen urchin]

Yes, yes it can

[unborn spruce]

It’s a pointless piece of stupid bullshit anyway.

Anyone pirating games wasn’t going to buy them originally or they want to experience it before committing.

Just run demos, ffs.

[keen urchin]

I am making purchase decision based on that

[unborn spruce]

If everything had a demo it wouldn’t be a problem.

I miss demos so much.

Just being able to play the thing for an hour or two.

[young crow]

could raise another issue where developers put the best in demos and garbage in full game

[hot spire]

It's been proven again and again the denuvo causes performance and stability issues

And developers don't remove it once it's cracked which is even more smooth brained

[trim rock]

Ah shit, here we go again

[fringe salmon]

why are you replying to bots...

[young hill]

Some of them are people

[fringe salmon]

no all of them are bots, the accounts are hijacked

[young hill]

Oh

[fringe salmon]

why would anyone do this manually

[young hill]

I mean I saw one of accounts before playing Fortnite

[fringe salmon]

and?

[young hill]

I could spam them

And did so until they went offline

[fringe salmon]

yes spam people who got their account hijacked because the bot will care and the one who lost the account will also want to see that 🙄

[young hill]

Ah well I see your point

[trim rock]

They'd probably want to know their account got yoinked tho

[young hill]

Though this time they replied back

[unborn spruce]

You just do mass call centers where the people are paid like 50 cents an hour.

You'd be surprised how much more effective that is.

Gotta remember that bots need to be developed which is WAY more expensive when you consider operational cost.

Using bots means you need to pay for something to actually run it.

Whereas most of the scam centers just sell tens of thousands of messages at a time.

Maybe it costs you a bit, but it's more effective than bots since you have effectively zero operational cost.

[fringe salmon]

with how many of these things are on github where you can just copy paste the code and change url

think that would be faster

[unborn spruce]

Oh for sure it's faster.

But the scammers don't actually need speed.

Completely unreliant on speed.

[fringe salmon]

I meant faster to set up and faster to adjust probably too, no need to deal with other people etc.

[unborn spruce]

It's all a cost effectiveness game, and when you get 200 people all typing on shit tier hardware you don't need to pay for that can actually adjust their shit like humans can...

Plus antibot systems don't actually work on em.

And usually what happens if those same centers will pay their keyboard slaves something like 1 to 5 cents per account they make and they'll have clients ordering thousands of accounts and then simply paying for those accounts to be used in prewritten scams.

[fringe salmon]

guess I'm just expecting them to mostly focus on scam calls and noy text etc.

[unborn spruce]

Mmm.

That's super common, yeah.

But never forget that desperate scum will employ desperate measures.

Ever wondered why you get waves of scammers and all of the accounts happen to be made in the same week? :P

[fringe salmon]

not really because so far I've only really seen hijacked accounts

[unborn spruce]

Huh.

You got betterdiscord installed?

[fringe salmon]

nope

[unborn spruce]

Mm.

If you grab it and a plugin called CreationDate you'll see exactly when they're made.

Typically it's the badge and steam DM scammers that all have account dates ranging within 3 weeks.

The in server ones will typically have a range of between a month and a few years for hijacked accounts.

Fun fact, it's the badge scammers hijacking the accounts that then get drained of all funds possible and then sent as suicide accounts into servers.

Personal guess, but I'd say a few shell companies and rings are running the badge, steam, CS knife, and discord mod scams.
I'm about 99% sure that the crypto scams are unrelated to those dudes.

[barren pewter]

why was I pinged for this?

[orchid prism]

Cause you simp for miss D. Clearly.

[barren pewter]

...

not true, but ok

[keen urchin]

D too tall. Pass.

[ashen lark]

Life is strange BtS is imo really great story game, same as LiS. Also the soundtrack is great

[fading spade]

https://youtu.be/CcygM714vxY

[young crow]

i feel no guilt for making an eft hack

tbh

this fucking game

is programmed like garbage

you have to set the mouse's polling rate

to 500

so it doesn't stutter

you'd think

developers in 2021

would know

how to handle mouse movement

[tender sequoia]

eft was designed to be hard, they decided that added to the challenge

[young crow]

not even joking

[wheat kraken]

uh

what's your hack for eft?

[ornate cedar]

Invis through labs?

[young crow]

👀

[wheat kraken]

EmuTarkov for me

[fringe salmon]

I'm impressed how much ETF must've done wrong for these hacks to be so easy/fast to appear

how did they manage to make it run well enough when they have so many flaws lmao

how did they manage to make it run well enough when they have so many flaws lmao

[wheat kraken]

metro exodus has about 2 hours left to download

i'm seriously debating on waiting til tonight to finish it

or play games and do nohting internet related for 2 hours

[ashen lark]

Oh they don’t, Microsoft with Minecraft actually upgraded to new mouse handling software for unknown reason which apart from disabling some features started causing issues with 1khz polling mouses which were not previously present, from 1.13 up

[fading spade]

Yeah, I had to set mine to 500Hz

[ornate cedar]

Stop running half a decade old software or somethin

[fading spade]

They upgraded to a new version of LWJGL

[ashen lark]

The upgrade also disabled possibility of assigning fn to some key

[ornate cedar]

They 100% dead

[ashen lark]

Had ticket opened about the mouse issues, but didn’t have time to write up everything when it got attention, and when I written more about it month later, got no response

[fading spade]

I only found the reason the mouse sensitivity was broken and how to fix it due to Antvenom's video on youtube

[ornate cedar]

Smh, they be poisoning the ants now

[ashen lark]

I did not want to bother changing polling rate because of one game so just ignored it, and since I mostly play on 1.12.2 it’s usually not an issue

[ornate cedar]

The oceans do be so sterile tho

[fading spade]

it easy to change it

I found a really nice app to configure gaming mice with called Piper

[fringe salmon]

you do realise not every mouse is the same and some you can't change polling rate on?

[fading spade]

You cant? o.o

but yeah, this app has quite a long list of mice it supports

https://youtu.be/cM2FATeEixo

ZOMBEES

[ornate cedar]

Technically since the pc is the host it decides the polling rate. But it might be a lost cause if it only updates every so often and all you do is reread the same value

[fringe salmon]

well yeah the actual polling on pc, not what it uses on the mouse chip though if that is hidden/not exposed to be adjusted

[ornate cedar]

Easier to cache the value and reread it again.

[fading spade]

Candle looks like mice in the hotbar :')

[ornate cedar]

It looks like a dill... pickle

yea

[fading spade]

:')

[fading spade]

oh, found this on the Switch store again....

How TF did this get approved by Nintendo?!

[barren pewter]

probably the same reason Ms. D's model in RE8 is outright impressive

a bunch of horny dudes were in charge of that project

[fading spade]

OOOO, thats pretty neat....but not worth it maybe
Cause you lose two games in the process

[young crow]

switch

definitely not worth it

[fading spade]

Shush

Im enjoying my Switch a lot

[barren pewter]

yeppers

[young crow]

enjoying 2011 graphics

[barren pewter]

metro 2033 redux at 720p low?

fuck no

my 4 year old cheapo laptop does that

[fading spade]

That game barely works on my computer

[barren pewter]

[barren pewter]

o.O

girl

you missing out

[young crow]

also barely works on your switch!

[fading spade]

Cant stay over 60FPS

[young crow]

absolute win

[barren pewter]

have you considered...dropping settings?

[fading spade]

Oh, I have dropped them

[barren pewter]

wow, I smell like soot and sardines

[young crow]

honestly be glad

tarkov barely works on any computer

[fading spade]

yes

[barren pewter]

but only salty russian hackers play that game...

oh

right

my bad

[fading spade]

I wanna get a physical copy of DDLC+

[young crow]

many more chinese

actually

[fading spade]

but it might take a long time to get into irish stores

[barren pewter]

...

make like every canadian ever

just import from the fractured states of yankland

👌

[fading spade]

nah

arent Switch games region locked?

like the physical version

[barren pewter]

probably, in which case, you'd want to get an EU version

[orchid prism]

Nope.

No region locks.

[barren pewter]

oh

[fading spade]

Although, Xbox 360 games werent

so maybe not

[barren pewter]

thanks magical duck man in the sky

[fading spade]

^^ xd

[young crow]

wtf does xbox have to do with this

[fading spade]

Magical duck lurking in the discord chat

[orchid prism]

[fading spade]

Cause thats the only console ive had previously where I bought a game for it outside my region

got a copy of COD 2 and 3 :P for like $5 at gamestop

The old COD games are so fun

[barren pewter]

because you rebels stick together smh

https://tenor.com/view/johnny-english-rowan-atkinson-secret-agent-comedy-spy-workingtitlefilms-gif-14976926

[barren pewter]

agreed

world at war was honestly my favourite

so much better than WWII in every way

[fading spade]

OG black ops was incredible too

[barren pewter]

most definitely

[young crow]

old pubg was so fun

https://youtu.be/gLuWUI6v3iE

[barren pewter]

I spent many of my formative years being told by kids on COD with really high voices that they banged my mom last night

which is odd, when multiple people tell you that on the same day

¯_(ツ)_/¯

kids, they say the dumbest shit sometimes

[young crow]

explains a lot about you

[final mauve]

any genshin impact rollers?

[small comet]

schmenshin schminpact?

[ornate cedar]

I have access to an impact drill, yes?

[final mauve]

Genshin impact drill roll

[wheat kraken]

Welp metro Exodus enhanced can't be played on LTSC so I'm grabbing 21H1 and going to install that. Debloat it to the best of my abilities. Then do the arduous process of reinstalling windorks.

[keen urchin]

I can't be arsed to debloat Windows any more

One, you don't really get a performance benefit any more

Two, you never know what breaks what

(Windows) services have the stupidest dependencies sometimes

[wheat kraken]

personally i just don't want a bunch of bullshit i'll never touch

I don't need every metro app under the sun

[fallow bronze]

Three it get reenabled after some updates

But I do uninstall the crapware games

[wheat kraken]

welp on the new PC. Gotta restart after a few more downloads but after that, should be good to go all in all.

[fading spade]

https://youtu.be/jl0XCslxwB0 using in game footage to create a real looking place

[orchid prism]

Ruh Roh. Finally folded and bought FFXIV.

No more endless free trial.

[fringe salmon]

not done the same I did and maximise free gains? 😛

well, not really maximise tbh, just did put 3 crafting classes to 50 on a weekend

[orchid prism]

I hit the 300k money limit.

[fringe salmon]

did you do the optional raids yet or just MSQ and wanted to continue?

ah

[orchid prism]

Got tired of being limited socially and storage wise.

[fringe salmon]

I just bought repair material for like 100k and was set for a while

[orchid prism]

I'm trudging through the MSW to unlock new classes. Just beat Leviathan.

[fringe salmon]

also eggs

anyone care for a couple hundred eggs?

[orchid prism]

https://tenor.com/view/offer-nice-egg-tryin-time-danny-devito-gif-5352739

Looks like I need to beat another two primal story arches befor unlocking the next round of jobs. Machinist and... Forgot the rest.

Lancer isn't terrible, I'm just tired of having 4? different jump abilitiesz one of them going backwards

Also almost no AOE.

[fringe salmon]

yeah I uh, can't tell you anything because I knew from the start I only wanted to play 2 classes, red and black mage

[orchid prism]

I tried giving BM a go... But I really don't like having casting time with no movement, or the weird balancing act they have.

[fringe salmon]

give red mage a try then once you get to lv50, might be more for you

[orchid prism]

I've been 50 for days xD

51 to be exact.

[fringe salmon]

ah, red mage quest is in the shopping district of ul'dah

[young crow]

how can you possibly fuck this up

in 2021

[orchid prism]

Eh?

[young crow]

1000hz too much for small indie company code

[fringe salmon]

yeah no clue, they must've really messed with the code base

[meager stump]

pretty common for indie games to have that problem

[fringe salmon]

also mansen if you care for the story I HEAVILY recommend you doing the binding coils of bahamut raids, as they unlock pretty major story info, they are lv50 but idk when exactly you can unlock them

[orchid prism]

Trying to avoid group content as much as possible. The MSQ forces enough of that as is. 🤣

[fringe salmon]

you are aware what genre you are playing yes?

I mean they are lv 50 so you could have someone rush you through them as lv80 just so you get to see the cut scenes

[orchid prism]

I play for the story, not grinding dungeons and being dragged into constant "I PULL ENTIRE DUNGEON IN ONE PULL" drudgery.

[fringe salmon]

even more reason to get the story info from those raids then pretty big info you get from it

[orchid prism]

Right - Time to see new jobs. Think I can try Samurai now?

[fringe salmon]

it's a lv50 one yeah

[orchid prism]

Some are 50. Some are 50 and story locked 😄

Like Machinist.

Wish bards weren't archers. They seem fun.

[fringe salmon]

and some jobs are 60 😛

[orchid prism]

slow xp grinding from 50 to 60 go go 😄

[fringe salmon]

eh, MSQ gets you there with no need for extra content to level up

[orchid prism]

Sure hope so. That XP bar is moving very slowly 😄

I was 51 when I saw the Reborn credits. And I'm about halfway to 52.

[fringe salmon]

yeah, the quests that are basically in-between-expansion quests give barely any xp

but the expansion quests are starting at 50 so that's not issue

[orchid prism]

Beat giant seasnake. Now the shrouded bone people arch begins for real it seems.

[fringe salmon]

think that quest was patch 2.2 and next expansion starts after 2.5

[orchid prism]

That sounds about right. Skimmed the questline to see how far I was to unlock Machinist.

[fringe salmon]

yeah still a decent bit to go 😄

[orchid prism]

Oh! you start at 50 as a Samurai.

[fringe salmon]

yeah

[orchid prism]

Guess that saves me some hours of grinding dungeons. But now I gotta learn two hotbars worth of shit blind. Thanks xD

[fringe salmon]

no need to start from lv 1 with classes that have a later unlock

well, by the current pace I might reach 80 when you get to the coils so I could pull you through if you just care for the story we'll see

[orchid prism]

Jesus christ... And here I thought lancer's combos were annoying to hotbar. Samurai just took that up a notch xD

[fringe salmon]

idk what you are talking about got just enough room for the last 3 abilities that come till 80

[orchid prism]

jfc

[ornate cedar]

Hmm... Maybe enabling a hardware cursor might help with that. still doesnt excuse gamedevs from using not putting the ui and lag machines on separate threads/processes to run concurrently and not lag eachother out waiting to get shit done.