pc-specs

[tawny thicket]

massive

[pastel summit]

Is it? I don't see any FPS difference, still capped at 60 just fine with GPU power to spare

[tawny thicket]

is that 2ms higher than K or 2ms overall ?

[pastel summit]

2ms higher, total would be roughly 4.5ms

what's with the skull? Far as I know final resolution now look better and there's no FPS loss, lol

I see no reason to go back to DLSS 4 if 4.5 is this good ngl

[tawny thicket]

thats like a 27% perf loss vs no AA at 60fps starting point (at the same rez)
and 13% vs K (aggain assuming you could render 60fps without an AA method at your current internal render rez)

your fps cap is putting in some work there..

[pastel summit]

hmm, well long as it works

I mean, final gameplay looks better so eh

[tawny thicket]

yeah i just think its pretty crazy that it would take 4.5ms, FSR 4 takes less time than that at 4K..
what rez are you on ?

[pastel summit]

4K, like I said lol

[tawny thicket]

oh
im so blind

[pastel summit]

Currently running a mix of high-epic settings in S2

[tawny thicket]

well a 9060 xt runs FSR 4 better at 4K than a 3080 runs preset m

[pastel summit]

DLSS looks better though so not really a fair comparison, that and 3080 ~= 6800 XT so eh

[tawny thicket]

meh, the main diference is sharpness, and you can get FSR 4 to look as sharp with some RCAS sharpening (and that costs nothing) ofc it will have some artifacting, shouldnt be too bad tho... also i dont really get your "and 3080 ~= 6800 XT so eh" point, cuz the 9060 xt is certainly slower than either of those 2 (atleast 20%)

tho ofc there are other things FSR 4 does worse, just sharpness is the most obvious one, also some people online are complaining that M is oversharpened..

like fine lines arent as stable, and ghost sometimes
thats it tho for where FSR 4 looses VS K AFAIK (except ofc for the sharpness diference i already talked about), it also wins VS K at disoclusion fizzle, M and L fix that issue tho for DLSS

[pastel summit]

Well, I just don't think it's fair to compare a GPU that's effectively 2 gen older versus 9060 with newer hardware is all

and yeah, DLSS 4.5 definitely has more sharpening than 4. I wouldn't call it over-sharpened myself, at least in S2 but it definitely prompted me to knock down that sharpness settings in S2 menu

[plucky quail]

If AMD going to compete against nvidia next gen in upscaling then I bet they going to use full transformer model. Massive performance loss too

Most certainly they will have the ai power with their dedicated ai cores

So it’s really bad? It’s local tho right?

[tawny thicket]

should be fine i think ? the 9070 XT has roughly the same tops as a 5070 TI in fp8, and similar bandwidht to Ada cards

[tawny thicket]

local yeah
i havent a damn clue what im doing tho, note that

on the heaviest image gen model its doing 1.4 iterations/s and it took like 35 seconds for an image (uses all my VRAM too)

the balanced model is 3.2 it/s and took like 8 seconds for an image

the fastest one is 5 it/s and took like 2 seconds for an image

[plucky quail]

I dont think so. From Tests of other people the throughput of the gpus is around 47-90% higher. The papers also say fp8 throughput with fp16 accumulate what is usually much less than the raw fps8 performance.

[plucky quail]

Are there many more settings?

So it’s only slow?

Do you know on what model it’s running on?

[tawny thicket]

by other tests do you mean AI apps and AI workloads ? cuz those arent nearly as optimized for AMD as their in house upscaler would be

[kindred reef]

If someone else here is playing their game with the high preset, I'd recommend you bump the cloud quality to epic. There's a noticable improvement in how they are lit during storms, and the fps loss should be negligible.

[plucky quail]

That and the fact that Nvidia is only showing a slower FP8 performance than AMD. So not the raw FP8 performance.
The FP8 throughput test are also really one sided with Nvidia having much much more performance even with newest Rocm and Linux.

[fallow lake]

Is anyone tried Dlss 4.5 preset M ? I have RTX4060 8gb 75Watt mobile GPU I use dlss 4.5 preset M / in game I usually use FG on and balanced mode but my game is very flickery like using ultra performance anyone got this problem? Is it related to game or my settings or nvidia can anyone help me about it?

[tawny thicket]

what does it look like ? post a clip or screenshot (via an external site or #📸┃screens_and_videos)

[fallow lake]

I handle it the problem is the dlss 4.5 is not designed for 1080p screens and quality or balance mod so I switch back to dlss preset k , use dlss quality sharphess 40% and global illumination is high right now it runs at 80-90 fps in qualtiy and 90-100 in balanced mode so I am using quality and my fps cap is 60 it looks not that bad and runs good

[tawny thicket]

preset m is meant for perf mode in general, should work on 1080p just fine
its just that its cost increases a ton as you go up in modes, like its 4x more expensive at DLAA than K or somethin

[fallow lake]

you can see on screens_and_videos channel for the differance

[tawny thicket]

all i see there is that the game just looks a'ss in general for you...

[fallow lake]

Its laptop 4060 what did you expect

[tawny thicket]

it wouldnt be nearly as noisy if it was UE4 : )

[fallow lake]

I know UE5 is terrible and I think I cannot change it 🙁

[tawny thicket]

the devs just decided to switch from late UE4 (stable, well tested engine) to UE5.1, which is basically a pre alpha engine

[kindred reef]

I look forward to the engine update if gsc considered it an important enough thing to put in their roadmap but im pretty sure they'll completely break the game for a couple of months.

[plucky quail]

Be happy you get upgrades for your mobile

[errant bane]

i havea 9070 xt and im running the game at all medium cuz i want the most performance, i have the grass textures on epic tho so i dont have pop in

[real kraken]

Ok and so ?

[plucky quail]

Did you ask AI on the AMD app how to do that?

[kindred reef]

Before my gpu upgrade I played this day one on my gtx 1650 ALL HIGH BECAUSE IT RAN TERRIBLY EITHER WAY.

[past escarp]

well

[errant bane]

nah should i?

[tawny thicket]

Its a joke

[plucky quail]

Probably. They know it better than we do

[tawny thicket]

| sigh |

[plucky quail]

Somebody at AMD server said that 7000 going to get the AI tab for feature with 16.1.1. I mean they are so Generous

[quiet flame]

Hello everyone, following stability issues with the game since version 1.7 or 1.8 on my configuration (Ryzen 9800X3D + RX 9070 XT), I'm going to try it out on Linux to see if it might be more stable. But I'm not sure which linux distro would be best for Stalker 2? I have the game on GOG, so I plan to use the Heroic launcher.

Thank you in advance if any Stalker 2 players on Linux can advise me.

[tender patrol]

I have 9950X3D + RX9070XT, no issues on KUbuntu

But you should not have any problems with any other major distro.

[nimble nexus]

I was playing on CashyOS last night, native, 1440p, getting 75fps... hitting 100fps+ in places like Cement Factory and Slag Heap with upscaling.

its just running really smoooth, loads like a beast too

still cant make the game better though... I really should learn how to mod this game

[quiet flame]

Thanks for your feedback. Do you use CatchyOS Desktop Edtion or Handheld Edition ?

[nimble nexus]

Desktop, had to reinstall a few times as I kept cocking things up, but overal its pretty sweet, even got OBS and things running like a dream on it

[wintry needle]

Manjaro Linux here, 5600x + 6700xt with 32gb RAM, runs like a dream, I also have the GOG version

[nimble nexus]

Manjaro, what is that a distro of? Arch?

[wintry needle]

Arch yes

[nimble nexus]

Good stuff... I had moved over to Bazzite, but then some suggest CashyOS and gave that a go and boom, dumped bazzite... CashyOS is just soooo much faster

everything is like... ping. Open

[quiet flame]

Thank you guys. As I didn't use Linux from several years (and never for gaming) and don't have a lot of free time, I just installed Bazzite now because it's practically plug and play. I was able to launch Stalker 2 with Heroic launcher without any issues by following a few tutorials, and now I can play right away. At the same time, I'm going to install CachyOS or Manjaro (on another drive) to explore it at my leisure, as I've read that it requires more fine-tuning and manual optimizations.

[plucky quail]

https://youtu.be/yteN21aJEvE?si=6zLe52ETWMDzs1dx

[tropic bobcat]

Could of seen this one coming.

[plucky quail]

Did you also See what we XTX User getting?

[pastel summit]

Jensen be like "You will embrace 8 GB and you will love it"

although this is indeed inevitable anyways. cut the niche cards, only keep the popular models like 5070/80

I'll be pretty pissed though if Nvidia actually follows in the footsteps of Micron

[sage trench]

should not be surprised if they abandon gpu market in a couple of years

[tropic bobcat]

What? Nothing? What else is new.

AMD doesn’t like supporting their own hardware. That’s their entire business. They’re worse than NVIDIA sometimes.

[past escarp]

Seems like every option is just the different way to get fckd

[plucky quail]

We are getting AI build in the adrenaline app like 4 has

Best feature and the thing I really needed

[past escarp]

Ive had 9070xt for like 3 months

And honestly, i never even bothered to try this ai

For nowadays prices graphics cards should be something like teapot with the function of ass

[hollow kettle]

New AsRock mobo series
https://videocardz.com/newz/asrock-introduces-amd-b850-rock-motherboard-series-with-64mb-bios-for-future-ryzen-am5-cpus

[reef zenith]

It's great isn't it. While Stalker 2 still has some performance iffyness the 9070xt just plows through the game xD Crazy

[past escarp]

yep, card is great

[dim yew]

no gpu plows through this game(speaking at 4k resolution)

[reef zenith]

At 4K it def does xP
Still crashes sadly... but it runs good on the 9070xt

[kindred reef]

Im very happy with 9060xt at 1080p (i don't have money for a bigger monitor lol)

[tropic bobcat]

It does with FG enabled, sure. It’s gotten a lot better but it’s still nowhere near where it needs to be performance wise.

[reef zenith]

That's more the game then the card 🤣

[past escarp]

I am puzzled a little bit. Cause on dlaa i have good details, but 50-70fps on 1440p max settings(mid hair detalisation), so to get smooth picture i either have to play fsr on quality or fsr fg, both of which are bad at some thing(fsr fg does have input lag, although very small, but still feels unresponsive. Fsr on quality just has worse detalisation, but gives has like 100fps+)

[celest shale]

im having troubles getting it working on cachyOS. does not go past start game loading screen and crashes with UE5 error. also i have placeholder texts in some places instead of actual texts. Ive tried proton experimental, proton bugfix and proton-cachy

[tender patrol]

Placeholder texts issue is caused by mods. So the crashes could also be because of them.

[azure ore]

Is it normal for xmp profile 1 and 2 to have the exact same values

[wintry needle]

I'd say so yes? If you never adjusted them before then it's probably the factory setting

[azure ore]

Apparently theres a difference

XMP 1 typically offers a stable, board-validated profile optimized for compatibility. This makes it ideal for most users, especially those focused on system stability.

XMP 2 uses the memory module’s default XMP timings, which might offer higher performance but can introduce instability in some systems. If you’re into tweaking and fine-tuning, this profile could be beneficial.

In some BIOS software, you don’t even have the choice to change between the XMP profiles so that will be the end of this conundrum. If you do have the choice, read below to learn how to determine which is the right one for you. But first, here’s how to change the XMP profile in BIOS

[celest shale]

still same issue sadly, the placeholder text is now gone but game still crashes when loading new game

[tropic bobcat]

Hello ChatGPT, how are you?

[azure ore]

Beep boop

[tropic bobcat]

[hollow kettle]

Man I keep getting UE crash report when I try to get fsr 4 working with XeFG 2.1

3.1 fg looks so, SO bad with fsr4 upscaling

Or maybe it is just bc most of my other games support better fg so I got spoiled and now 3.1 looks BAD

[pure ibex]

https://x.com/tomshardware/status/2012510606239412287

Tom's Hardware (@tomshardware)

OpenAI could reportedly run out of cash by mid-2027 — analyst paints grim picture after examining the company's finances https://t.co/XCW69Z6P1T

X · Jan 17, 2026, 1:01 PM

can't wait

[winter hamlet]

Trillions wasted on tech that will be used to spy on and scam people, while all the CEOs responsible will just fail upwards to sink other businesses.

[coarse linden]

Cant wait worlds economy to crash down with it because generating anime tiddies wasnt profitable

[pure ibex]

when we spent billions making a machine that answers question i can find on reddit with a simple google search

[normal charm]

I have a ryzen 7 7700x and 4070 with 32gb ddr5 ram and the game is installed one an m2 nvme ssd. No matter what graphic setting i run I cant get the latency lower than 50-60ms. I have tried every option including resolutions and turning off every post processing effects. Is there any solutions for it?

[plucky quail]

Yeah saw that but I bet that goes bit longer than that with some other funding they going to get.

[pure ibex]

i think funding will dry up sooner then we think

[plucky quail]

For a frame to complete?

[plucky quail]

Maybe some other ai company that rolls the death of ai but I think OpenAI has too much support by major investors. Even Nvidia can’t risk it’s collapse

[pure ibex]

btw the guy who runs openai

is like one of the most sketchy guys in business

he has a dark past of failed businesses

and super shady business

he is basically a fraudster

[plucky quail]

Sounds like the best guy for it

[pure ibex]

the next SBF

[normal charm]

Sorry, I meant my frames are around 50-60 fps but the latency shown on nvidia overlay is around 50-60ms and it makes the whole aiming and movement idk how to describe it perfectly but it makes the controls were very "viscous"

[tawny thicket]

Do you have reflex enabled ?

[azure ore]

It would be nice if this game got native rendering support

[plucky quail]

fg on or off?

[normal charm]

I tried both reflex on and off, no difference

[normal charm]

Tried both no difference

With fg i did get more frames but the latency stayed the same

[plucky quail]

Does it least feel diff?

[nimble nexus]

first run sudo pacman -Syu in terminal and update everything.

Then make sure you have no mods installed

And then leave it on default settings for proton, don't touch anything and it should work fine out of the box.

Sorry for late reply, went away for a funeral over the weekend... Uncle passed away just before Christmas.

[nimble nexus]

Why is your system spec?

[wintry needle]

game runs fine on Manjaro, kernel 6.12, with the Proton 9.0 Beta runner in Lutris

I do not experiment with other runners as long as this one is not broken

I just wish the feckin "setting up profile" would go away on the GOG version 👀

[nimble nexus]

I am using CashyOS, game is running like a dream for me, but I use the steam version of the game.

[wintry needle]

yea in fairness it's a lot better than at release

I have a 5600x with a 6700XT and 32GB RAM, every graphics setting on High except clouds on Epic and no motion blur 🤮 , with FSR 3.1 on Balanced, at random outside location the fps jumps between 129 and 150

[celest shale]

ryzen 9800x3d
nvidia 5080
32 gb ram

i will try downgrading gpu drivers to 580xx soon

have álso disabled igpu

[nimble nexus]

CashyOS has the own drivers for nvidia cards that need to be used

[celest shale]

cachyOS discord recommends downgrading the gpu drivers tho as apparently 590 sucks hard on 5080 and 5090

#862294383470051348 message

but thats the only thing i can think of to try. this is the first game ive had issues with

and its not faulty gpu or anything either as game runs perfectly on windows installation

[nimble nexus]

AAnd it's an nVidia issue... They have fallen off a cliff as a company.... charging more for absolute dog drivers too

As a rule of thumb, AMD runs a whole lot better Linux... Even to the point that a lot of the time, the 9070xt, and other cards out perform a 5080.

[nimble nexus]

Do it, and let me know how you get on.

Currently getting 73fps no upscaling or frame gen in the middle of Cement Factory.... perfectly great for me.

[nimble nexus]

Are you sure you need FG?

[wintry needle]

I thought it was only an upscaler...? 😲

[normal charm]

I tried again with frame gen on and it sadly increased the latency and that "delayed" input/camera feel even more. But i am getting more fps like 70-80 fps compared to 50-60 fps when it was off

[plucky quail]

yeah for 10 FPS only aint worth it.

Do you have anything else on that it shouldnt be on? Maybe Nvidia App?

[celest shale]

lol downgrading to 580xx worked

[nimble nexus]

runs like a dream?

[celest shale]

about to find out

[nimble nexus]

I find that on my system, everything just feels smoother and snappier... Click something and it pings at you... I love it

[wintry needle]

meanwhile in Windows, when you bring up the Start menu for the first time after booting, it sometimes takes like 3 seconds....

[nimble nexus]

Windows... what is this of which you speak 🤣

[wintry needle]

the divil himself, so it is

[celest shale]

so for anyone having same issue with 5080 or 5090 and 590 nvidia drivers then i executed this

sudo pacman -S lib32-nvidia-580xx-utils lib32-opencl-nvidia-580xx libxnvctrl-580xx nvidia-580xx-open-dkms nvidia-580xx-settings nvidia-580xx-utils opencl-nvidia-580xx

[wintry needle]

unfortunately I'm still forced to use it for work

[nimble nexus]

Can you sue your company for abuse?

[wintry needle]

I certainly can... can't see much use to come from it tho 😅

huge microsoft stans, so they are... the only company approved ai that employees are allowed to use is ... copilot 😐

[celest shale]

tbf it runs a little bit better on windows. there is a bit of tearing

[tropic bobcat]

I don’t mind windows.

[nimble nexus]

Window 7 amazing, XP was the greatest, 10 was slowly getting there.... 11 is a privacy invading shyte show, that deliberately makes life shyte for you unless you pay for Microscam eco system...

Oh, and they ruined a whole bunch of VR headsets.,

[tropic bobcat]

I dunno, FartMan…

[nimble nexus]

been using microsoft stuff since Dos 6.2... windows 3.1...

11 is a shyte show of epic proportions... not mention PC are not mobile phones... they just got it all wrong

[tropic bobcat]

You old fuck.

[nimble nexus]

not that old... my dad was a bit of a geek

[tropic bobcat]

OLD.

[nimble nexus]

Cheeky fecker 😛

[wintry needle]

you haven't lived if you didn't try to edit your himem.sys to get some game running 😅

[nimble nexus]

Is hammering ya nadgers a less painful option 😄

[normal charm]

I will check but i dont think so

[celest shale]

okey disabled DLSS and game runs perfectly now

[nimble nexus]

Great stuff. What FPS you getting native?

[celest shale]

averaging around 90-100 on 1440p all epic

[uneven portal]

what you have a 5090???

[celest shale]

5080

[nimble nexus]

That is a nice output... I am hitting 80-90 in the wild

[wintry needle]

Is FSR 3.1 just an upscaler, or fake frames as well?

0h... I know what to check when I get back to the PC

[real kraken]

both

I can use "AFMF 2.1" with amd gpu

[wintry needle]

Is it switchable if I just want the upscaler but not framegen?

[real kraken]

You can enable FSR without AFMF or with it, framgen on or off

[wintry needle]

Ingame? Or in driver or something?

[real kraken]

both

in AMD adrenaline you can enable it

[wintry needle]

Nice, it must work like I now suspect. There's an upscaler selector, and like 3 rows down there's a FSR 3.1 setting that can be enable/disable, I think that's the framegen

[real kraken]

in drivers FSR 3.1 it's the upscaling and "AMD Fluid Motion Frames 2.1" is the framgen

so idk

[wintry needle]

Sorry, forgot to mention I'm on Linux and don't have adrenaline

[real kraken]

yeah that's sad that there isn't adrenaline for Linux, I'm on Fedora

[tawny thicket]

AFMF and FSR 3.1 are NOT related

[real kraken]

I didn't said that, read the entire conversation

[tawny thicket]

in the upscaler selector you can select the upscaler (obv) and the "FSR 3.1" option below that is for the framegen component, you dont need to use FSR 3.1 upscaling to use that..

[wintry needle]

OK grand, it's the framegen I don't want 👍

[tawny thicket]

you said "and AFMF 2.1 is the framegen" theres AFMF 'framegen' and theres FSR 3.1 'FG' the 2 are totally diferent algorithms, you seem to just say 'AFMF 2.1' when talking about FSR FG, which is incorrect

[wintry needle]

I remember it's enabled right now, I want to try how it performs without

[real kraken]

it's doing the same thing

[tawny thicket]

its FG yes, but FSR FG is FAR superiour to AFMF 2.1, totally diferent algorithms

[real kraken]

but I never said that fsr upscaler and the framgen are related

[tawny thicket]

FSR FG uses game data to look decent, AFMF is a disjointed mess with insane artifacting, and purely relies on already completed frames for interpolation and uses no game data whatsoever

[tawny thicket]

thats also not what i said, i said "AFMF 2.1 and FSR 3.1 arent related", FSR 3.1 refers to FG and upscaling as well.

my point is the 2 are diferent algorithms, theres nothing connecting AFMF 2.1 to in game FG (AKA FSR FG)

[real kraken]

yeah but I still never said that there are related

[tawny thicket]

you can have both on at the same time, resulting in messy 4X "MFG"

[wintry needle]

Lads, it's all good, I got the information I was looking for 🔥

[plucky quail]

No AFMF 2.1 over all 😡

[tawny thicket]

https://tenor.com/view/pepeleave-run-away-teboy-gif-24055427

[plucky quail]

But really AFMF got worse. Before it was just a smoother gameplay with UI bugging. But now its broken.

IDK if i do something wrong

[tawny thicket]

for me its just as crap as its always been

[plucky quail]

wasnt that way always

[tawny thicket]

have you set the fast motion response thing to blended ?

[plucky quail]

Yes.... idk

default

[nimble nexus]

No, FSR3.1 is just an upscaler, there is a seperate option for FG. 3.1 is also FSR4 as well, it automatically upgrades I believe.

[wintry needle]

No, FSR3.1 is just an upscaler, there is a seperate option for FG
is this ingame? which one is it? I thought I had found it: it's simply called FSR 3.1 and it's Enable/Disable ??

turned it off and my fps went down by about 40 on average

[reef zenith]

There is Upscaling FSR 3.1 (Which is obviously the upscaler) and a separate option called FSR 3.1 which is the frame generation

Let's not get into how silly naming systems get xD

[wintry needle]

I have the right one then, thank you

[velvet ice]

Holy moly is anyone else getting rly low gpu utilization everywhere? I have a 5090 and it's being 50% utilized

[reef zenith]

FSR 3.1 i believe does auto upgrade to 4? 🤔
Some games do have an actual FSR 3-FSR 4 option (As Deathfart said)

[reef zenith]

You are going to have to elaborate

[velvet ice]

i checked stat unit and the game is taking 30 ms to process a frame and my gpu does it in 9 ms

[wintry needle]

humblebragging much lol 😛
but seriously, mine is over 95% used, it's a 6700XT 😅

[reef zenith]

Mine is maxing out my 9070xt xP Intentionally

[velvet ice]

meaning my gpu is waiting 20ms for the game to finish for it to continue

it's really frustrating :S

[wintry needle]

where can I check this 'stat unit'?

[reef zenith]

You have not given us anything to go on... just ms

[wintry needle]

my CPU util is much lower than the GPU

[reef zenith]

As it should be (Less you are playing BF6 xD)

[velvet ice]

funniesst thing is when I talk to an npc It suddenly stabilises and i get my frames back. I'd give u a screenshot but it doesnt allow me to

[velvet ice]

u need ue5ss and it enables console

https://imgur.com/a/8epp8SH

the left screenshot is standing the right screenshot is talking to an npc

[reef zenith]

You know what is a strange one.... Cyberpunk. RT with FSR4 performance runs better then FSR4 Quality with no RT. 🤔

[velvet ice]

it's like the game is checking for something in the code non stop which is throttling my gpu

and that check gets switched off when talking to npcs lmao

[wintry needle]

or maybe with npc it doesn't need to watch out for your inputs, the render cone is stable, the camera is frozen in place... it has a more predictable -> easier job?

[wintry needle]

I aint playing no multiplayer 🤣 feck that

[velvet ice]

I'll make a support post. I've ran into other people with the issue too. hopefully it gets adressed

[wintry needle]

can't really help besides guesswork, sorry 🙂

[velvet ice]

all good. sometimes u just need a shoulder to cry on 😄

[reef zenith]

Ah it's fine. BF6 runs my 5800X3D at like 80-90% xD But the thing is it runs really good. It just beats the devil out of the cpu

[slow pivot]

Hi lads, just wondering if anyone has heard any recent feedback on how S2 runs on the ROG ally x? I tried S2 out 6 months ago when it was on gamepass but thought that id give it a rest for a few months to see if updates have made improvements for the performance. Also am i better off purchasing off the microsoft/xbox/gamepass stor or steam? Thanks in advance

[wintry needle]

it's a windows machine isn't it? I'd get it on steam

or GOG so you have a DRM free installer 😛

[plucky quail]

What GPU you got and how much vram ?

[reef zenith]

They are rocking a 5090, Vram is def not an issue xD

[plucky quail]

Oh then CPU maybe in villages?

[reef zenith]

That is a possible... Though i would hope someone wouldn't spend all that money on a 5090 to "cheap out" on their cpu xD

[slow pivot]

Yeah windows, has the overall performance been improved much in the last 6 months of updates? I seem to remember being constatly mauled by packs of dogs that were glitching in and out of existence. I might go steam so I can have a cloud save between the ally and main PC, ideal for working away from home

[velvet ice]

nah it's definitely not hardware related. I loaded up earlier saves and got 90-100% gpu util. seems like a memory leak maybe.

[nimble nexus]

That would be the FG one... It's BS coz they tried to hide it...

[tawny thicket]

Prolly just the heavy NPC calculations
What CPU and resolution tho

[plucky quail]

There are. Example one with 4090 and 7600x

[plucky quail]

What cpu tho

[reef zenith]

https://tenor.com/view/waiting-comedy-ryan-reynolds-gross-sick-gif-3496531

[velvet ice]

9800x3d it's not a hardware issue. Loading earlier saves pushes my util back up to 95+. I shared my save files with the support team and hopefully they can help me figure out what's causing it. If my bricked save prevents more people from having it I consider it a good sacrifice

[plucky quail]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rvNnyKRGIw

[hollow kettle]

I swear guys if you have amd on windows use amd cleanup utility each time you install new adrenalin driver.

I have done it the last few times and it feels like it makes a big difference in overall responsiveness of the Adrenalin software imo

Cleanup Utility automatically removes adrenalin, graphics drivers, etc in safe mode while not touching chipset drivers at all

[wheat beacon]

lenovo legion 5 pro
amd 6800h
3070ti
32gb ram

will i be able to run it?

[swift torrent]

it will surely start 😛

[pastel summit]

Should be good for 1080p medium, but above that you likely will have VRAM issues

[past escarp]

nuh uh, i forbid you running stalker

[pastel summit]

bruh

[past escarp]

hurb

[tawny thicket]

hmm

[tawny thicket]

rbhu

[past escarp]

uhrb

[tawny thicket]

hbur

[past escarp]

rubh

[tawny thicket]

brhu

[past escarp]

ubrh

[tawny thicket]

hubr

[past escarp]

ubhr

[tawny thicket]

buhr

hmm

[past escarp]

bhur

[tawny thicket]

rhbu

[past escarp]

ruhb

[tawny thicket]

ubrh

oh come on

[past escarp]

rbhu

[tawny thicket]

oh sh$t
you already wrote that

[past escarp]

wohehehe

[tawny thicket]

i already wrote that tho

[past escarp]

yep, it was further up, didnt notice

anyways im gonna kick some scalie ass

[past escarp]

dead chat xd

[reef zenith]

Actual performance wise the game is running great for me
But the 9070xt has crashing issues with Stalker 2, But they are working on it so 🤷‍♂️

[lethal shore]

I got details popping in and out even after upgrading the driver and such.

[plucky quail]

alive when ever the next update is

[nimble nexus]

Windows?

[reef zenith]

Windows 11, Good old trusty never has an issue windows 11 😅 xD

[nimble nexus]

Move over to Bazzite or CashyOS, runs like a dream and a better experience than windows

[reef zenith]

It's runs fine, plays fine. The crashes are very infrequent but are annoying

[reef zenith]

https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1pxxsub/stalker_2_help_with_crash_error_code_887a0006_all/

If you scroll down you'll see that the 9070xt has an issue 🤔 and GSC are aware

[nimble nexus]

I know, but screw windows off anyway

[reef zenith]

True, eh xD

It does run like super well though ngl, even Restok. Turns out it really was a Vram problem, mostly
Using up 13-14GB running around. My 3080 only had 10GB

[nimble nexus]

380's were the last great nVidia card... Everythign since has been a giant fleece

[reef zenith]

Why you think i went with a 9070XT xD
For the $1000 AUD i paid it was a pretty good deal, think a 5070ti (For the same vram) was $1500-1600 xD

[nimble nexus]

Seeing as you went AMD, you might as well move to Linux, It's just shocking how much better everything runs, you might on a few games get slightly less fps, but the who experience (once set up) is just far more enjoyable.

[reef zenith]

I will die on this hill dammit xD

My pc is pretty well at the peak of what it can be 😅 I'm still using a moba i got my 2700x for back in 2018-19

[nimble nexus]

lol! Microsoft just aint worth it

[reef zenith]

https://tenor.com/view/game-changer-brennan-lee-mulligan-i-will-die-on-any-hill-dropout-gif-26715772

[nimble nexus]

Even more reason too... Far lighter and no bloat running in the background... but if you do insist on using windows 11, use these 3 programs

O&O Shutup
Winenhance
And ChristTitusTechs powershell app

[reef zenith]

That was a SMART purchase, It was the 2700X or the 9900K. Half the cost, 15% less performance (at the time) And i was able to use the same ram and moba years later for the 5800X3D in '23 👌

[nimble nexus]

They will remove all the junk, edge, stop all the telemetry, just gives you the OS back

[nimble nexus]

5800x3d.... wish I had got one of those... looking to get a new MB and CPU, going with the 9800x3D

[reef zenith]

Got it for around $520 i think AUD
Hell of a CPU

[nimble nexus]

one the best chips ever made

[reef zenith]

To go any better yeah i have to go a whole new platform

[nimble nexus]

And that is nto cheap at all

[reef zenith]

No it is not, i think Moba and 9800X3D here are near $1000 on their own. DDR5 ram though is cheap right....right? xD

[nimble nexus]

You need to be able to have 8 kidneys to afford RAM, selling one, just wont cut it anymore 😄

its all going to fall flat on its face, this AI stuff, and it cant happen soon enough

[reef zenith]

@nimble nexus I was telling my brother to spend the extra $100 at the time to get a 9070XT prebuilt over a 5070 (Non ti)
Yeah he didn't spend the extra $100 xD

[thorny remnant]

Ah nice more linux enjoyers i see

[nimble nexus]

Oh damn, you putting in papers to divorce your family?

[nimble nexus]

What distro you rocking?

[thorny remnant]

Mint (with xanmod kernel )

[nimble nexus]

CashyOS me, tried mint, I liked it... Then Bazzite gave me feels, then CashyOS gave me a semi... and been on Cashy since... Although a do dual boot with Bazzite.

But I am using LME6 on some very old stuff I have

like a 10 year+ laptop I have, just for giggles

[pastel summit]

My pet peeve is that they didn't give it at least 12 GB at launch. And have the 3070 use 10 GB, that would've been so much better than 8 GB

only took 2 years to finally have a rare 12 GB 3080 oof.

[nimble nexus]

nVidia always like to scimp on ram

[nimble nexus]

That is the version I got 3080 12Gb LHR

Asus

[pastel summit]

same here, EVGA 3080 FTW3

that extra 2 GB really makes a huge difference in running S2 at 4K

[thorny remnant]

Were is cashyOS on the linux family tree?

[nimble nexus]

Arch Linux

Bazzite is Fedora

[thorny remnant]

Ah

[nimble nexus]

its properly fast

[pastel summit]

Compared to Windows would you say that Linux provide any FPS boost in S2? Or FPS loss? I've heard that Bazzite has some performance issues with RT in general

[thorny remnant]

That bazzite is fedora suprises me every time given fedora is enterprise linux

[mighty barn]

depends on distro I guess

[thorny remnant]

Yea rt is a pain on linux
But its getting better slowly

[nimble nexus]

I think, it runs a little better, maybe not 1 or 2 fps slower, but it just runs better as a whole... It's smoooth...

[pastel summit]

that's great, and it's consistent with reports on how Linux is better at frametimes compared to Windows

S2 uses Lumen which is software RT anyways, so I don't think performance would have been affected as much unlike Cyberpunk

[nimble nexus]

I use RT on CashyOS and dont seem to have a problem

[nimble nexus]

Just waiting for FSR to be support on Linux for Cyberpunk and I will start a new playthrough

[thorny remnant]

Still find it funny how the Windows people with brand new game ready drivers had a ton of issues at launch
Meanwhile my months old linux AMD drivers had no problems

Besides craches

[thorny remnant]

What? Is that not a thing since at least a year ago?
Or are we talking fsr4

[nimble nexus]

FSR4 is on linux, but for Cyberpunk 2077, the CD Project Dead need to update the game to 3.1/4 before it can be used... as the game doesn't support 3.1 on linux

[thorny remnant]

Pretty sure i have used 3.1 with cyberpunk

But like stalker 2 its ass

[nimble nexus]

Not on linux

[tawny thicket]

cyberprank only allows you to use FSR 2.1 and 3.0 (with the worst implementations ever) and 4.0 natively
well on the upscaler side anyway, FG you can use 3.1 but its totall ass, garbage, worst implementation ever

[thorny remnant]

Fsr3 is garbage
Fsr 4 even int8 is amazing

Framegen is even more garbage
And it gets worse wen its used to turn 30fps into 90fps
In particular dlss 4 just feels like a cheat to get bigger numbers

At this point just give the rtx6080 a frame counter that constantly shows 6080fps no matter what

[tawny thicket]

if thats how you wanna look at it

[nimble nexus]

FG is scam, hate it...

[tawny thicket]

the fg hate cope is incredible

[nimble nexus]

The funniest thing about it, it works when you have more than enough frames to not require to use it in the first place.

[thorny remnant]

Exactly but its constantly used to turn garbage framerates into on paper good ones

[thorny remnant]

So is the defense of this shit
Its creating a shit ton of input lag and makes developers lazy(borderlands 4)

Oh yea lets not forget 5070=4090
Becouse bigger fps numbers

[quiet flame]

I play to Stalker 2 on Fedora KDE plasma since few days now because I had a lot of crashes on Windows 11. I play through Heroic Games Launcher (Stalker 2 on GOG) and the game is very smooth. It's amazing. Average frame rate is a bit slower (maybe 5 fps less) but 1% and 0.1% are higher and the game is stable, no more crashes now. I think Windows will go to the garbage 😂

And I also test with Bazzite before to switch on Fedora, and performances were similar

[wild mantle]

Hello! i'm noticing some issues. is anyone else getting small bushes that appear as blue. but when you walk up to it, the blue disappears. is my GPU dying ?

i'm only getting this with Stalker 2, no other game.

[quiet flame]

Do you have made any tweak on your GPU ? Undervolt or else ? Are you playing on Windows or Linux ?

[wild mantle]

windows, no i havent touched my gpu at all. all i did was update my nvidia drivers few days ago. thats it.

[quiet flame]

Did you have these artifacts before update your drivers ? Maybe an issue with the last ones ?

[wild mantle]

nope i dont believe i have :(

[quiet flame]

Sorry, I don't have this kind of issue, but I have an AMD GPU ... Maybe try to roll back to the previous drivers...

[wild mantle]

np, thanks for helping though :) i appriciate it.

[nimble nexus]

I would like to buy you a beer for that comment.

Gullible fools, buying marketing BS, so everyone can have an excuse to be lazy and line the pockets of the money, and all we get in return is shit, buggy broken, games...

[thorny remnant]

The 5070=4090 is funny in particular given everything points towards the rtx 5000 being nothing more than a refrech
Same gpu with bigger die and gddr7

[nimble nexus]

I know, I hate nVidia now... and I only ever owned nVidia until 3080

[winter hamlet]

It was fun getting up on top of the Slag heap to see all the texture quality getting flushed down to Nintendo64 levels on my 3070ti because it would go above 8GB even at 1080p/medium. The 3060 had 12GB, 3090 had 24GB, it would have made so much sense for 3070 and 3080 to have 16 and 20 GB, but that would mean most people would not have to buy a new GPU later lol. Now my new 9070XT eats this game for breakfast with no hitches and does not get a performance penalty on Linux.

[reef zenith]

Yeah it still crashes at the same spot every time, near full pc crash. Near the rookie village ||The cave with the controller|| Soon as it hits it crashes

And i think the cave near the windmill near the starter village

[tropic bobcat]

This is a fairly good point actually that comparison was horseshit and even NVIDIA knew it.

[tropic bobcat]

My drivers are from September of last year still.

[tawny thicket]

corpo marketing is the art of telling as many lies as possible before getting sued

[thorny remnant]

Dont forget the vapor ware ponzi sheme they are running right now

[plucky quail]

Yeah 8BG aint enough anymore. Pretty much anything past 2022

[reef zenith]

Ah but you can use MFG.... that also uses vram 😂

[serene veldt]

Doesn't stalker 2 require raytracing how are you playing the game?

[tawny thicket]

A: no, stalker 2.doesnt use actual RT whatsoever
B: AMD GPUs can do RT its just slower than nvidia

[serene veldt]

Huh I thought it was a requirement and again I’m surprised I thought they genuinely just couldn’t do it

[tawny thicket]

AMD has supported RT since the RX 6000 series which came out in 2020/21
Nvidia first supported it in 2018

(With the 20 series)

Older cards than that can also run RT in Software on shader.cores, but it is super slow

[tawny thicket]

The game uses the Software path of lumen for lighting, which runs exlusively on shader cores and is really just fancy a fancy collection of.rasterized techs
Thus no RT support is required

[wintry needle]

Think about it, the vast vast majority of PC gamers don't have a GPU strong enough to do full fledged RT, and no game publisher is crazy enough to mandate full RT when it would exclude a huge percentage of their target audience

[coarse linden]

Which is why i support having both RT and raster. Ones who can have the eye candy can have it and the potatoes can potato

Or remaster tha game like Metro Exodus did with RT exclusive version.

Still kinda funny how people lost their shit over it

[plucky quail]

Imo there shouldn't be a exclusive. Even the dev time isn't worth it. For that you could invest in a more polished game that most certainly is needed in 2026.
Never seen a exclusive RT game that actually made the game look that much better over RT

[winter hamlet]

The thing I remember most about Metro Exodus RT version is that the lighting was completely broken on the forest area - there was no actual darkness and night time just had a slight blue tint. Yes I did max out the settings and played it on an nvidia card, so it was a game fault.

[tawny thicket]

The enhanced edition or the OG with the RT setting enabled ?

[winter hamlet]

enhanced edition

[nimble nexus]

People for get, the nVidia is 5th gen, AMD is on 4th (90xx)... I think if you compared both 4rd gen's AMD is looking quite good.

[tawny thicket]

Nvidias RT is 4th* gen, AMDs is 3rd gen

[tawny thicket]

1st gen nvidia to 1st gen AMD is comparable tho nvidia wins in heavy stuff (RDNA 2 to turing), 2nd to 2nd (RDOA 3 to ampere) is not, nvidia is much better in everything, 3rd to 3rd is comparable in all except PT (RDNA 4 to ada) same goes for 4th to 3rd gen, cuz nvidia barely improved RT in Lackwell

[coarse linden]

All the sexyness went into neural rendering

Biggest RT stuff they changed compared to Ada is tied to Mega Geometry shenanigans

Apparently Nanite does not like raytracing but Mega Geometry makes it play ball with it better or something along those lines

Lower VRAM use with RT, More detail and potentially more fps when Nanite and Mega Geometry is used. Now the biggest hurdle being none of the game devs cant be arsed to use it lmao

Too bad games dont really experiment much with new features. Well unless they are CD Projekt Red and sponsored by Nvidia to test neat things

[plucky quail]

That they tested and really didn't give much performance

[coarse linden]

As i recall in Alan wake 2?

[plucky quail]

Yes. Was really tied.

I mean they expect more RT performance not from actually making your GPU faster but rather using AI for it

[coarse linden]

Neural shaders in nutshell lol

Tho aw2 is not running UE5

Id wager only game going to use that geometry shenanigans is going to be Witcher 4 and thats only because Nvidia pays them to experiment with it

No other developer gives a 2 shit thus games will stagnate on this default UE5 level blurry bs

[tawny thicket]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3MjSxysft0 :frogsippy:

[vapid parrot]

how many fps i will get from rtx 3070 16ram ryzen 5 5600?

on which graphics settings

[tawny thicket]

Itll be playable, i cant tell you how much fps, but thats not particularly relevant anyway IMO if you can enjoy it

[wintry needle]

What card would a 6700xt be similar to? I'm getting 50-55 at 1440p high, close to 110 with framegen

Same CPU, but 32gb ram
And Linux 👀

[tawny thicket]

Normally 3070/TI. But it has 12GB of VRAM so not aplicable IMO

While the 3070 has a measly 8

[winter hamlet]

You should be getting ~50-70 FPS (depending on area) 1080p/medium with no upscaling or framegen

[tawny thicket]

do you also have a 3070 ?

[winter hamlet]

Had a 3070ti up until recently

[flint fable]

Hopefully the correct area but has anyone got any good tips for getting S2 in Pripyat to run smoother ? The game is okay for the most part but I've just entered Pripyat and it basically runs like ass. I've no slouch of a PC either, 9800X3D / 5090FE 32GB DDR5. Any help would be great, thanks.

[plucky quail]

Playable so 60FPS least but on 1080P all low

[nimble nexus]

Meh, same difference, nVidia's is a generation ahead, so comparing like for like, AMD is not that far off... Their gen 1 & 2 stuff abhorrent though.

[plucky quail]

Or better said 2 years ahead.

[nimble nexus]

Yeah, but the price you pay for nVidia is a joke.

absolute cesspit of a company now...

[tawny thicket]

AMD cant do PT is all..

[swift torrent]

check your hardware O.o pripyat runs smooth on epic on a 5070ti with an old 11700k and 64gb ram on 1440p native and harddrive...or it depends what you mean with smooth..500fps on 4k are not possible ;p

[flint fable]

It feels extremely stuttery. If I lost a previous save that's not in Pripyat, runs perfectly fine. Tried it with and without mods, no difference. Other games I'm on with including CP2077 run butter smooth.

[swift torrent]

do you have a bunch of things opend in background and perhaps your ram is running out slightly?

cos my pc just with discord and browser opend in background would fill up your 32gb thats wuy im asking....or do you have it installed on a slow harddrive? and i dont mean the thing called harddrive itself because i use one too but a very big one for speed and offloading raid1, i mean the specs of it (size, rpm etc.)

its a shame how much ram some apps need nowadays....

[coarse linden]

I mean when comparing to how well other games run atleast compare it to UE5 game

[tawny thicket]

Could try an fps cap at like 60..

[nimble nexus]

That is such a massive hit, it's just not worth it

[tawny thicket]

We dont know how much he's getting in the first place, and it might fix the stutters
As well on a 5090 he could just turn that 60 to 120 or 180/240 even
(Oh wait, wrong reply kek)

[plucky quail]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-InE1Nebnj8

Cost 6% more for at best 3% more Performance.

And you prob find non 50X3Ds for even cheaper than 470€$

[coarse linden]

Well it is basically just better binned 9800X3D

Too damn many people expecting some magical miracles from it

Will probably sudoku itself even faster on assrock mobos lol

[plucky quail]

asrock? you mean Asus

[tacit whale]

is thhere a way to remove flickering and grainy like look from stalker 2? i just downloaded the game and everything on dlss quality is so grainy and flickery

[plucky quail]

Any pic of it?

[tacit whale]

i run it on 5070 7 7700x

yea 1 sec

i cant send here

[plucky quail]

#📸┃screens_and_videos

[tacit whale]

1 sec i turned off nvidia overlay

[plucky quail]

What DLSS version are you using and ask prob the real Nvidia Guys here like @coarse linden they know this shi. If its normal they tell you but for me it looks normal.

[tacit whale]

okay men thank u

[tacit whale]

idk 4/4.5? im on second to latest drivers

[tacit whale]

what is prob?

[plucky quail]

Can you check that?

[tacit whale]

591.74 yes i can

[plucky quail]

Could be also DLSS 3.5

Thanks for confusing this guy

[tawny thicket]

CNN isnt known for being grainy tho
Still im.not sure it is an upscaler issue, could be lumen noise

[tawny thicket]

Fair enough

[plucky quail]

It looks like DLSS4 from my testing i done but you never know

[tacit whale]

soo what should i put it on?

im using recommended preset in nvidia app

[tawny thicket]

I also saw a screenshot from someone where it was ghosting heaven, updating the DLL fixed it for them

[tacit whale]

idk if its maybe my monitor? i have 2k va or ips panel?

[tawny thicket]

I can see the shimmer in the recording as well so no

[tacit whale]

can i dm u?

[tawny thicket]

Theres no need

[plucky quail]

We see the Branches loosing detail and shimmering too. But smear might be the VA

[tawny thicket]

What do.you have sharpness set to in game ?

[tacit whale]

look at videos pls

[tawny thicket]

Try setting preset K or if that doesnt work then set M, tho that will make performance worse

[tacit whale]

eh i can use frame gen ig

[plucky quail]

Are you using Quality?

[tacit whale]

off or quality

i tried both on quality it appears but ig performance suffers

[tawny thicket]

Looking at the vid The shimmering is made worse by in game sharpening but theres also smearing, around the edges like i saw from somewhere else before

[plucky quail]

? Off? you mean DLAA?

[tacit whale]

yess

[tawny thicket]

Tho i think that person was using DLSS swapper, so.it mightve also.forced Auto exposure

[tacit whale]

https://gofile.io/d/CQjw7A here is the video i hope its not that pixelated here

[tawny thicket]

Which might actually be what fixxed the smearing for them

Anyway i Should sleep

[plucky quail]

Yeah looks to me really normal when i played with DLSS.

[tacit whale]

soo k or m preset? im using recommended

[tacit whale]

is it even possible to have crispy textures or am i asking too much

[plucky quail]

Might be that DLSS4.5 is better in that but cant tell

[plucky quail]

You should have crispy textures if you go near

[tacit whale]

i do but i want it from afar too hahah ig its just too much my pc prob cant handle it

[plucky quail]

No thats just the game

I have it too. Its just that they swap the Textures too fast too often for lower end GPUs or basically with 8Gb vram. Else the game wouldnt work for most people

[tacit whale]

ohh okay thank u so much

btw just to be sure its not hardware problem?

[plucky quail]

Uh i guess you could watch some vidoes in 4K how people play on DLSS4. I bet they have the same problem.

[tacit whale]

thanks bro

[coarse linden]

This can also be caused by too much sharpening

But if its the static type flickering like some folk have, I dont have solution for that

[past escarp]

welp it seems my drivers just disappeared all of a sudden. so is this amd issue or windows issue?

[spare coral]

Windows mess with your drivers from time to time

[past escarp]

So its windows that killed my drivers, noice

[coarse linden]

Dont remember seeing windows outright deleting drivers but have seen windows overwriting driver with obsolete version.

Was really pain in my rear with soundblaster soundcard

[nimble nexus]

Keep telling people.... upgrade to linux

[past escarp]

as soon as all games would work without problems

[nimble nexus]

They do work without problems...

[past escarp]

bf6?

[tropic bobcat]

There’s a lot of things that don’t, that’s the issue. Linux is getting there, but it’s not there yet.

[tawny thicket]

why did deathfart leave ? : (

[coarse linden]

Was muted and took it personally?

[tropic bobcat]

What happened?

[coarse linden]

No idea

[tropic bobcat]

You’d have to make a genuine effort to get muted here by a moderator.

Unless it’s you-know-who. If you know you know.

[bronze sundial]

Hey guys, i consider coming back to the game and finally play the complete walkthrough. Are perfomance problems fixed and is the game still empty at that time?

[spare coral]

Performance is way better and they added some stuff but i say you better wait for the engine update
Should be the next update (i hope so) and a big one

[plucky quail]

Performance should be better than day 0 but the game still can feel empty. I would wait for 1.9 or 2.0 depending when the engine update comes. Till then they hopefully have also new missions added to make the map fullish +

[reef zenith]

Actual performace for me is solid as, it's crazy. But my card/this type of card has had crashing issues with the game xP So i've not played it on PC much since getting said new card

[plucky quail]

The 9070XT ?

[reef zenith]

Si

[reef zenith]

https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1pxxsub/stalker_2_help_with_crash_error_code_887a0006_all/ I tried the -300 undervolt but no dice xP

The game will run, but certain spots will crash. So don't see much a reason to play when i'd need to map out which area will crash and won't xD
Usually a whole system freeze or that error code 🤔

[tropic bobcat]

It's the engine.

Unreal Engine 5 is notoriously unstable for any form of overclock or undervolt. It's a garbage tier engine.

[reef zenith]

Thing is i was able to play the entire game 3 times on my 3080 😅 And this was before most of the patches

[tropic bobcat]

Overclocked? 3080's have massive headroom.

3090 Ti = 3080 for context.

Assuming the silicon isnt garbage anyway.

[reef zenith]

Undervolted actually

[tropic bobcat]

Well you are on different architecture now.

[reef zenith]

Never saw any reason to overclock that card... it was basically at the threshold

[tropic bobcat]

9070 XT's are for the most part the fully unlocked chip.

[reef zenith]

True, but i'm running this 9070xt at stock

[tropic bobcat]

Oh.

I misunderstood then. yeah I can see that as an issue, what driver version, curious? 26.1.1?

[reef zenith]

Uhh... the December 9th one

[tropic bobcat]

That does not exist.

25.12.9, there is no such driver.

25.12.1 does exist.

[reef zenith]

Man i'm looking at gpu z

[tropic bobcat]

Oh, you don't have Adrenaline?

[reef zenith]

I do xP

[tropic bobcat]

It tells you your driver version in there.

[plucky quail]

Yes .1 doesnt mean the day it means the revision

[tropic bobcat]

Oh right, I forgot they stopped doing that.

[reef zenith]

Well i can't tell if this the Adrenaline driver software driver or the gpu driver xP
9th of december it came out.... 25.20.42 🤔

[plucky quail]

You on Linux no?

[reef zenith]

Windows 11

[tropic bobcat]

Adrenaline doesn't work on Linux.

[plucky quail]

also true

[tropic bobcat]

one of the only reasons i dont use linux

im assuming 25.12.1 tbh, I'd try reverting to 25.9.1 just to see if anything changes.

[plucky quail]

What you do on the app that is that much needed? Clips?

[tropic bobcat]

I like the metrics page for starters.

[reef zenith]

I'm using the driver that's before the latest one xP Which really was just a stupid AI update

[tropic bobcat]

p nice ai update actually.

[reef zenith]

Well if you care about that stuff xP

[tropic bobcat]

That is why the AI stuff was optional.

[plucky quail]

Meh aint the best tbh. Some games it doesnt even work on

[tropic bobcat]

I've found maybe two it does not work on since using it.

https://i.imgur.com/Y2kLWOx.png

i mostly use it to darken my second screen.

[reef zenith]

I've tried practically everything in this Reddit post. Going to the Death Cave near the Rookie village crashes no matter what (Never did on my 3080)
We talking whole system freeze.
No other games has issues. So i'll just be waiting and hoping it get's fixed soonish :3

It's the death cave and the cave network near the windmill near the starter village. Those 2 crash as i go into them/a couple seconds after.
It seemed to happen as the mutants there attacked 🤔
(It doesn't seem right to keep walking around and hoping x area may or may not crash)

[tender patrol]

Undervolting can only reduce stability.

[reef zenith]

It's running as stock as can be 🤣

[tender patrol]

BTW I have no crashes or freezes at all with my 9070XT on Linux.

[reef zenith]

I'm not changing to Linux 😜🤣🤣

🤔

I used to undervolt my 3080 and it was stable as.

Just not sure why stalker 2 has such a problem 🤔
The game has bugs sure but 🤔🤔

[simple ice]

How well does it run?

I installed Cachyos today and i wanna know what the performance numbers are

[winter hamlet]

In my own experience 9070XT runs Stalker2 identically on Linux (Manjaro in this case) and Win10. I did experience a few crashes like @reef zenith described - in the bunker where Sultan asks you to retrieve a box and the burer hunt from Honta in Win10, but 0 crashes in Linux.

[simple ice]

Alrighty ^^

[tender patrol]

It runs pretty good: https://imgchest.com/p/9rydnrrna4k

[simple ice]

What about 1080p?

[tender patrol]

Will be even faster) But I have never tested because I have 1440p.

[simple ice]

Could you (if you want/have time) run a benchmark in 1080p?

[tender patrol]

Sorry I cannot do it - we have wild power outages now. But 1080p performance at native resolution will be around 1440p with FSR 66%

[reef zenith]

If it can run good at 1440P for them... then 1080P will be even better basically 👌

[simple ice]

Alright, good luck with your outages

[winter hamlet]

Don't have hard numbers, but 1080p ultrawide (2560x1080, native and no framegen) on High preset I'm getting 90-110FPS, depending on the area.

[simple ice]

Awesome

[plucky quail]

Any of ya tried AMD MFG?

[tropic bobcat]

The modded one?

[plucky quail]

si

[tawny thicket]

nope
not a single game i have installed supports it : D

[tropic bobcat]

No, I don’t use a lot of frame generation anyway.

[plucky quail]

You don't have CP77 ?

[tawny thicket]

i do but its an old version, one that doesnt have nvidia's MFG in it

or atleast i dont think it does

[plucky quail]

Do you have a cracked version?

[tawny thicket]

nah, i just dont wanna update cuz of the AMD stutter problem on 2.3+

[plucky quail]

Literally have non

You sure it ain't gone?

[tawny thicket]

I mean i havent checked, dont wanna f around and find out either as, the game is great for me on 2.21

And if it wasnt fixed it would be a hassle to revert back

[tropic bobcat]

Yeah I don’t have that issue either.

[ionic remnant]

Still no unreal engine update ?

[pastel summit]

patience is virtue my dude.

[coarse linden]

I leeroye'd my way to artefact and only died 30 times. Screw virtues

[real kraken]

It will never come, just a remind that the engine update was announced in summer, 2025 in the 2025 roadmap

since 7 month

[coarse linden]

Cut the poor QA guy some slack. Been breaking the game nonstop for 7 months

[wintry needle]

are you the QA guy? 😆

[coarse linden]

I wish. Would love getting paid for breaking the game but alas im just a pleb that breaks the game and never reports anything

I aint running a charity

[real kraken]

[plucky quail]

That will happen when AMD has 90% of the GPU market

[spiral sky]

Hello, dear Stalker community. I have a question for the experts: can I comfortably play Stalker 2 on a PC using a Sony DualSense gamepad? I've tried many different options, but the game either displays the keyboard or the Xbox gamepad icons. Is there any way to fix this?

[ionic remnant]

So never

[tawny thicket]

brhu

[real kraken]

The last time I played S2 is in october, I will not play my 2nd playthrough since the UE5 update is not released

For waiting I stay in stalker anomaly with mods

[plucky quail]

you got it

I think AMD had a good chance to get margin but they really fumbled with RDNA 1,2 and 3 situation. So the only happy guys are 4, for now .
So they still couldnt beat the allegations.(AMD never misses a Opportunity to miss a Opportunity) This time just 6 Months later.

[past escarp]

well technically speaking - its still q4 of 2025

[tropic bobcat]

Fiscal? No it’s not?

[past escarp]

isnt it till the end of march? or is it q1? i am quite lost. i remember one year being confusing(not chinese new year)

[swift torrent]

until end of march is q1 O.o

[simple ice]

Q4 2025 was from oct 1 to dec 31

[real kraken]

The last roadmap was released in end summer 2025

August

[past escarp]

Then developers need a little more time(repeat until true or 1000 yrs have passed)

[plucky quail]

Holy Smokes i just watched a Linux vs Windows on AMD GPU and man are the 1% lows good on Linux. Only times its struggling is on RT games either Forced or with when you toggle RT on.

[past escarp]

linux would be great, if not for issues with games like bf2042

[wintry needle]

The issue is not with linux, it is with the game, or more precisely, the shtty publisher

[coarse linden]

Eh ok if you want singleplayer games. Nightmare for multiplayer games since those anticheats are neutered on linux

[ionic remnant]

what about nvidia

is linux best for both ?is it considerable ?

[wintry needle]

No experience with nv, I use amd on linux, but from what I read: the open source nv drivers are weak, the nv binary blob is fine

It works, at least

[plucky quail]

iirc Nvidia loses the Avg FPS on linux but has also better 1% lows. Shouldnt be terrible to use Nv GPU on linux. Just maybe not the best way.

[plucky quail]

Yeah i hope that begins to change with Steam Box and the bigger number of Linux users.

[coarse linden]

Doubt it will change anything unless anticheats become magically better without kernel access.

Which they wont unless you shill for some "ai solution"

Would be great if that wasnt issue but we live in real world where we cant have nice things because of people

[plucky quail]

Well its mostly down to the devs or Anticheat maker. They always can fight cheaters even without Kernel. Its only down to how much they want to invest in to it.
Ubisoft invest heavy in AI antcheat. R6 going to get a new update for it that checks your mouse recoil control if you are too good in it. They took Massive data of people and their Recoil Control and trained the model.
Comes with its own problem like false positive but they go the road anyway.

Not saying that the box is going to make linux good for those games in a night but help in the ever growing base of users. So that the devs dont just disregard Linux.

[pure ibex]

Apparently western digital is finally taking crown back from seagate

They’re making actual faster hard drive

[past escarp]

like 10k rpm ones?

[pure ibex]

No

Like faster read speed

I do wish 15k rpm hard drives still existed but not a surprise they died off

[pure ibex]

I think like it or not dealing with ai anti cheat is the only path forward

[past escarp]

Just make then 30k rpm

[pure ibex]

hard drives with a 2 month life span

[past escarp]

make it 1 week

and a bonfire in place of hdd as complimentary bonus

[quiet flame]

I play S2 on linux (Fedora distro) since 3 weeks now. I bench on Windows 11 25h2 vs Linux, average FPS are lower on linux (86.5 vs 91.4 in my bench), but 1% and 0.1% are similar on both (81.6 for 1% and 79.8 for 0.1%)

Bench with 9800X3D and RX 9070XT, 1440p FSR4 native, settings mix High and Epic

Bye bye Windows 😂

And most important: I had frequent crashes on Windows but no crash at all on Linux

[tropic bobcat]

I still use windows because Linux doesn’t support my applications, like adrenaline.

[wintry needle]

https://github.com/ilya-zlobintsev/LACT#linux-gpu-control-application
Adrenalin alternative (not tested by me)

[quiet flame]

I use LACT, excellent. I can undervolt and overclock GPU and memory, as can be done with Adrenaline. I didn't use other functions of Adrenaline, so it is enough for me 😉

[wintry needle]

Thanks, appreciate the feedback, I may dl it too, although I'm happy with the stock performance of the 6700xt

[tropic bobcat]

Yeah it just doesn't cut it for me personally.

[plucky quail]

Only reason I stay at win is cuz of school

[coarse linden]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRNVwqFu8ek&t=1s

Ehehehehehe

[wintry needle]

Somewhere, Ea-Nasir is rubbing his palms thinking about the market opportunities

[plucky quail]

So when are we getting a new planet to get more Rare metals and such

[past escarp]

toomora

[reef zenith]

So i seem to have found the problem 🤔 I was running the amd driver 25.20.42 😂 Which does not exist in the official amd versions.
DDU and reinstall... now it seems to be correct and not crashing in the same spots in Stalker 2 🤔 👍

[tawny thicket]

Windows update moment

[reef zenith]

Ye 😂

[reef zenith]

Which is weird because i swear i installed it as part of the amd software... but yeah windows being windows

[plucky quail]

https://youtu.be/5JtF7f5Vtp4?si=VAMTlrp0fcxMhdwc
Finally bigger fish talking about It

[unkempt heath]

why does the game lag so bad when your at a base and how do i fix it? its very bad

[past escarp]

Maybe issues with ur cpi, maybe they broke something again. Both are possible. Try and check vram, cpu and gpu usage

[winter hamlet]

If you're on Steam, turn on the in-game monitoring and see what's getting hammered - GPU, CPU, RAM, etc.

[reef zenith]

Okay nvm still crashes xD 🤷‍♂️ I got no clue

[past escarp]

sidorovich`s curse

[unkempt heath]

GPU is always at 100%

But I have everything on max or high settings

4060 RTX btw

[winter hamlet]

Well there's your problem. It's WAY too much for a 4060.

[unkempt heath]

I wonder why it's using that much then

Same thing kinda happens on life is strange remastered, it use 100% of the gpu

[winter hamlet]

I meant that those settings are way too much

Turn those settings down to low-medium

[unkempt heath]

🙁 low.. Or medium..

[winter hamlet]

Low on native resolution, medium with upscaling should do.

[unkempt heath]

😔 but.. Fancy graphics 😞

[winter hamlet]

There is not that much more eye candy going beyond medium

[unkempt heath]

Is a 4060 just.. Iffy then??? Cuz like I said this happens on most games

Life is strange of all things

And Minecraft with shaders

[winter hamlet]

4060 is a budget card, it's not meant to max out settings.

[unkempt heath]

I wish an upgrade wouldn't be so expensive

It's like 1 k isn't it?

[past escarp]

depends on what you consider an upgrade

for example, gpu upgrade aka buying a new card depends on ur budget, if its not big jump in performance then you probably shouldnt upgrade, or do like i did - sell old gpu(in mu case rx7800xt sapphire nitro+) to a friend or online, it should cover part of expense on upgrade(for me it covered like 60%) so it all depends on ur money

[tawny thicket]

its normal for games to 100% any GPU

[winter hamlet]

Depends on how far you want to upgrade. 5070ti is ~1K now, but a 9070XT can be had for ~700. 5070 too if you want to stick to nvidia and you're OK with 12G of VRAM. Also a 4060 can cover a chunk of that price.

[real kraken]

how bro describe my gpu : https://tenor.com/view/luxury-cars-car-dusty-garage-luxury-cars-in-garage-gif-18377564025520616299

[pastel summit]

low to medium? 4060 should do 1080p DLAA high easily

@unkempt heath your real issue comes from the lack of VRAM, so I would start with turning down texture and hair to High settings for starters

also just my opinion but we need to stop glazing any GPU that isn't high-end 😅 3050/4060 are fairly capable still

[winter hamlet]

Just stating that 4060 is a budget GPU.

The geforce app should have some settings presets to make it easy

[late ferry]

gunsl1ng3r has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[real kraken]

lol

[past escarp]

we have bad prices on gpus, abt 900$ for cheapest 9070xt

and i sold my old card for 500$, so its good deal i guess

[real kraken]

I bought brand new Sapphire 7800XT for 460€

that was just after the release of 9070, so everyone rushed on these, so I pick when the price of RDNA3 goes down

[plucky quail]

It good that its using 100% just depends on how much FPS you get at the end of the day. 70 is a good place to be in.

But i got a bigger question, are your lag or stutters in towns like really low in FPS, around 5-10 FPS?
Another is what CPU u got?

[unkempt heath]

Yes on the first

Will need to check the cpu

[plucky quail]

If its the first Question then you might have a VRAM limit. Since you have 8GB.
Its better if you play on Low.

Are you using Fg also?

[unkempt heath]

Fg?

[plucky quail]

Frame Generation

[unkempt heath]

No I don't think so

Amd ryzen 5 5600x 6 core

[plucky quail]

Yea dont use it. It will give you even more often that 5-10FPS problem

[unkempt heath]

I'm trying to fix 2 different games Minecraft and stalker so probably will need to do this later

[pastel summit]

real question, but what's with the fixation on low texture...

it's not like he's having 4 GB for VRAM lmao, 8 GB should be plenty for high

[plucky quail]

Nuh uh not even the first guy having such issues on 1080P, 8GB is the new 4GB. Blame AMD and Nvidia

[pastel summit]

if Kryzzp can comfortably run S2 at launch on 1080p high then no way our guy cannot with a little adjustment, not low texture of all the things
https://youtu.be/ucZyyO8teV0?t=35

I mean if S2 is really that intense then my 3080 shouldn't be able to run S2 at 4K at all 🤷‍♂️

[plucky quail]

The game is already on low texures 10-20m Lowering a bit wouldnt hurt.
Also the Video is more than a year old with more than 10 Updates. We would need new benchmark with over 1H gameplay and roaming in a town.
This game is just High minimum and low on Max.

[pastel summit]

Doesn't warrant lowering to such a degree when it's not needed at all. And those 10 updates have improved performance, frametime and VRAM usage no? if anything it should be a testament to how well can a 4060 handle this game

[plucky quail]

Its not me having those issues. Ask the people having those issues. I mean there are other ways to try to fix it but thats just too technical for some people.
Rather lowering the Texure is the best way to have 0 issue gameplay

[winter hamlet]

Next gen aint showing up until at least 2028...and yes they will STILL have 8GB options.

[wintry needle]

what nvidia card would be the equivalent to the 6700XT ?

[winter hamlet]

3070

[wintry needle]

hmmmm OK
I used to have the "fps drop in settlements" thing at launch, but it completely disappeared as of today

also paired with a 5600x 6-core, on Linux, GOG version so no Steam overlay or such

[proven patrol]

Does anyone know if Pripyat will be expanded in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2? Maybe some new neighborhoods, a plateau. I'd like GSC to recreate Pripyat 1:1, just like in real life

[real kraken]

probably for DLC or future update yes

[plucky quail]

I dont read that much in to that. It would be still Year from now and if Nvidia had 3-4 Months ago planed to launch Super then they still have must have bought much of the ram for it.
Those are 3GB ones so no way to put it in the ones we have rn.
Ill still expect them to have enough for next year ready maybe its like 30 series but still a launch. Untill Nvidia is saying its not coming in 2027 ill expect it to be in 2027

[coarse linden]

What you mean no way to put in ones we have right now?

Supers were suppose to be literally same cards with 3GB chips instead 2gb ones and new vBIOS. Its trivial thing

[plucky quail]

And if they bought 3GB ones where they going to put that in now?

[coarse linden]

All went into workstations lol

Bigger bucks there. Also forces startups to buy those instead gobble up gamer cards

Which product would you build? Ones with 200% margin or ones with 30% margin?

[plucky quail]

Nvidia GPUs dont get 30% tho its much more around 70 ish %. They could even sell it for higher margin. Same was with the 30 series.
Another Shortage different time.
A whole year falls away. First in ever.
A year where they cant sell Rubin to laptop and Desktop. Sales are also high at the launch of the GPUs, not 3 years after.

People look too much in the chart and thinking the line goes up in same paste as it was till now and confuse Ram price to Vram what mostly only Companys buy.

[coarse linden]

Funny thing.. GDDR6 16GB year ago would have cost about 34 dollars with 1GB chips. About 62 dollars with 2GB chips. Now 16GB with 1 GB chips costs about 140 dollars. 2GB chips is about 228 dollars. Sadly we plebs dont get to see GDDR7 prices but assuming its just 30% more expensive that makes 16GB cost about 300 dollars with 2GB chips. Now add 3GB and its markup and its not really good deal for gamers.

[late ferry]

plebnation has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[coarse linden]

Pff screw you wolf. Vram is as screwed as ram is

[swift torrent]

i had 10GB usage when med-high on my old 3060 12GB ^^ so i doubt that 8gb are sufficint for high. but i see now..1080p..ok tbh i was on 1440p

[swift torrent]

yeah...it seems so.

[pastel summit]

interesting. I also get about the same usage on my 3080 running 4K, with high/epic settings + DLSS and increased render distance from Ultra+

[swift torrent]

thats wild xD But yeah, on epic on the new 5070ti 16GB is have nearly the same. I was wondering too.

a bit more...but not that much.

Problem is always how much the desktop reserves (windows) beside the game..

im running 1440p and 4k..so around 6300*1440 and ~2500

[plucky quail]

Thats the game kinda. One other guy also said here the game uses initially lot of vram but the more you go up the stack you gain less in usage.

[reef zenith]

I'm seeing around 13-14GB used most of the time, 4K near maxed of 16

[plucky quail]

We Use AMD they use 1 maybe 2 GB more

[reef zenith]

Hey it's there to be used xD

[coarse linden]

How dare you! You should have atleast 20GB free vram just standing there

[past escarp]

need to update minimal system requirements to 48Gb VRAM, so nobody would have issues

ue5 games also should add to recommended system requirements line "whatever is nasas best pc"

[plucky quail]

Also i include DLSS if possible but for FG you need least 60 or higher and DLSS shouldnt go under 720P, i think below that it doesnt look good. So we have some direction to limit variation and Player perception of "Quality".

[tawny thicket]

Rubin would have to be mighty impressive for this to be possible

[plucky quail]

Only thing holding back would be Vram. Performance should be enough with DLSS

[late ferry]

plebnation has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

plebnation has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[coarse linden]

...... Fine have it your way

[tropic bobcat]

I’ve had just about ENOUGH of Radeon.

I’m sick and tired of their goddamn lies and listing issues are fixed when they’re not fixed.

[ionic remnant]

I wonder if the windows debloaders help with this

I hope next AI cores can run dlss model L and M without losing fps compared to dlss 4.0

That'd be great, more efficient AI cores, RT cores and overall faster gpus

Eventually we might be able to run anything just the difference would be how much it is upscaled

[tawny thicket]

RR Lite will always have a cost vs just a TAAU model

No matter how good the cores

[swift torrent]

Im still very oldschool in this case cause i grew up like that. No AI, no Upscaling, just raw power, nativ and max Details. But the $$$ effort to do it for 60+FPS is kinda expensive rather then ages ago 🙁

Its not easy to be a enthusiastic gamer these days xD

[ionic remnant]

Well once you realize the magic of dlss

Its really difficult not to like it, it makes the image look better than native

I also grew up on pixelated graphics

[ionic remnant]

I am not sure, cz you have raytracing cores anw in your gpu, eventually they will handle the load without sweating

If ur doing just ttau you will use regular cores hence not use the Raytracing cores which means ur gpu will be slower

[tawny thicket]

Whaa
No ?

[tawny thicket]

The DLSS model doesnt run on RT cores, it runs on Tensor(aka AI) cores but the non ML part of it still runs on shader cores

[ionic remnant]

Yes dlss run on tensor

And raytracing on RT cores

Just saying we want tensor cores to get good enough so we dont lose fps when swapping to latest models

And faster ray tracing cores = less cost for raytracing

Which in itself is quite reasonable

[tawny thicket]

The RR Lite model doesnt use any RT tho

[ionic remnant]

Ah idk i barely use RT

Genuinely dont feel its worth rn
Like the game doesn't look even that much better
Except on cyberpunk and a handful of games

[tawny thicket]

I was playing ratchet and clank with RT and its almost identical to raster

Only thing is reflections on some maps and shadows on some others
But even then its not even a big deal
Atleast RT does something for cyberprank in RnC tho its such a scam

[thorny remnant]

Its because modern native sucks major ass (TAA)

Sometimes I wounder if its just the high detail that kills the detail

Basically if you look at white wall 10m away it does look fine
But now try to read something at that distance and you realize you don't have any details at all

Now imagine trying to cramp that far text into a 1080x1920 grid and it looks Even worse

[tawny thicket]

UE's TAA is just a massive tu'rd period

i could probably run FSR 4 in P and still get better clarity than UE TAA

[thorny remnant]

Yea even fsr4 int8 is much much better than TAA

[tawny thicket]

its like the DLSS 4.5 perf < FSR 4 AA meme but unlike that this is real

well mostly, ofc its not safe from rendering effects also degrading in UE5 but its much closer

[thorny remnant]

I need to get fsr4 to work on satisfactory given there is so much stuff that moves

[tawny thicket]

in satis you need to force proper upscale scaling for int8 to work correctly

[thorny remnant]

Anything less than 100% is a waste of time

[tawny thicket]

you have a diferent issue with it ?!

[thorny remnant]

No I just think everything else kills the quality way to much

[tawny thicket]

int8 is broken like that in that game

[thorny remnant]

Only exception is portal rtx because that runs like dogshit on Linux and AMD rx7000
Even 40fps feels like a gift

[tawny thicket]

devs set diferent scaling for each upscale mode than normal
and int8 cant deal with that at all

[thorny remnant]

I just set scaling to max or native whatever the setting is called

[past escarp]

I believe in ssaa supremacy. Yes it eats a ton of resources, but it is one of the best in terms of visuals and doesnt have artifacts

[tawny thicket]

you need a metric SH"T TON of it tho to get stability in modern games

[thorny remnant]

DLAA is the real shit I have been told

[tawny thicket]

but yeah, in theory SSAA 16X should be perfect AA

[tawny thicket]

its just DLSS but at native

[thorny remnant]

Eh I think you can also go above native

[tawny thicket]

its the sharpest TAA you can get atleast with K

or M
but you might not want it to be that sharp, especially cuz K struggles with dithering

[tawny thicket]

i think that was advertised for DLSS 1 and it might be supported on that but no game offers it with 2+

[past escarp]

Same in old games. In metro 2033 redux got 50-60fps on 7800xt ultra 1440p with ssaa x4

[real kraken]

No, it's because you are increase the screen percentage

I got 144 fps and 40% usage

[plucky quail]

They also use Up lot of space. I mean the GPUs from now would be still faster because you cant compete against All the features

[real kraken]

So you are running 8K lol

But increase screen percentage or SSAA gain nothing for a lot amount of performance

[coarse linden]

1440p x4 SSAA is about 5k resolution

[plucky quail]

I need to find a way to implement Int8 in to Star citizen. TAA of that game looks ass. Too much ghosting and sizzling. BTW only using AA

Is FP8 even supported for Star citizen?

[past escarp]

i ended up playing on x3 or x2 with 120fps+

[real kraken]

xd

[past escarp]

ssaa da best

[tawny thicket]

does it have anticheat ?

if not opti should work

[plucky quail]

Yes but so does BF6 and apparently FSR int8 works on that while having much better anticheat.

RN i am watching over it and see if People actually get banned but if not then why not

[tawny thicket]

holdon
you will have to wait for opti's v0.9 stable build first, cuz star citizen uses vulkan and FSR 4 doesnt support vulkan, but would work with vulkan interop which the opti devs are currently working on

[plucky quail]

I am sure it has also DX12

[tawny thicket]

It has DX 11 iirc
And vulkan runs much better AFAIK

[tawny thicket]

https://github.com/optiscaler/OptiScaler/wiki/FSR4-Compatibility-List
Seems to be featured here
So i doubt youll have issues with AC in it

[plucky quail]

Man do i still love it that they have still no Vulkan support

[coarse linden]

Heh.. Swapping dll in anticheat protected game is very bad idea

[plucky quail]

I am desperate enough now as rdna3 owner. Dont hold me back

[coarse linden]

Desperation leads only to sadness

[plucky quail]

No worry AMD user are always sad

[coarse linden]

[real kraken]

Yes...me too.. I bought my card just after the launch of RDNA 4 in 2025, the price of rx 7000 goes down in France.
And seeing that is already "obselete" while nvidia brings technology for older generation make me sicks

[plucky quail]

Least the Value goes up from now on luckly. Going to do the same like they did in 2024/25 before the GPUs launched with peak prices.

Sell and buy the next gen GPU

[winter hamlet]

I don't get the obsession with upscaling and framegen. I'll take lower-res chunky pixels and lower graphics settings over a blurry ghosting image with bad frametimes and input lag any day.

[past escarp]

no need to optimise games = less money spent on production = more money for whoever at the top

[tawny thicket]

The people that like these technologies dont think of them the same way you do

[plucky quail]

You mean those that dont think

[tawny thicket]

Bruh

[plucky quail]

How much is the ms on the AI FG now vs before? Does it cost much more less cuz i didnt see any benchmarks about that

[tawny thicket]

copestone FG is almost the same cost as 3.1 FG

atleast on RDNA 4
itll be a bigger hit if you run it through emulation on RDOA 3

[plucky quail]

No change in MS latency?

BTW cant understand why AMD still doesnt ship AL2 and FG together

[tawny thicket]

If there is any diference it will all come down to the fact copestone FG is slightly more expensive than 3.1

[coarse linden]

Oh my

"Added the option to attach hardware specs when writing or updating a Steam User Review on a game's store page" In steam beta

And suddenly many 4090/5090 "owners" who say games runs badly on their imaginary pc go poof in reviews

[past escarp]

I got steam survey yesterday, and it didnt see how much vram my gpu had

[wintry needle]

I have steam since 2012, I've never got the steam survey at all

[coarse linden]

I did get survey few days ago

So in next month there will be one more 5070ti on the list and AMD iGPU since apparently it counted it too since i forgot to disable it after bios update lol

Preferably need to do it before windows gets brainfart and tries to install drivers for it

[ionic remnant]

No bloodborne remaster on PC during Sony state of play

[wintry needle]

I mean, in fairness, is there any other game sony can use to coerce people to keep buying their consoles?

the only other game that's on PS and not on PC that I can think of, is horizon forbidden west oh wait I'm even wrong about that, it's on steam

[coarse linden]

NHL series

[plucky quail]

I Got it 2 Times now

[thorny remnant]

yea you were correct
finely got fsr4 to work on cyberpunk sadly unlike stalker 2 its not the ultimate gamechanger given cyberpunk suffers from non rendered textures

[tawny thicket]

"non rendered textures" ? what

[thorny remnant]

Like they are rendered but with horrible res (lods)

Most noticeable are highway signs the fully readable versions first pop in 2 car lengths in front

[plucky quail]

Same with stalker. All just to get under 8GB

[thorny remnant]

#📸┃screens_and_videos message

but i havent noticed it being this bad in stalker 2(but i do have way more than 8gb vram)

@tawny thicket

@plucky quail

[plucky quail]

Yeah CP77 is made for 6GB GPUs like 2060 and such and its not your GPU doing that its just the game.

[thorny remnant]

"its not your GPU doing that its just the game" well good to know

[tawny thicket]

Why no "i have LSFG and i hate it" option

[plucky quail]

Here you have the option

[tawny thicket]

[plucky quail]

Wow 100% hate it

[real kraken]

We want FSR4 for older gen not AI fake frames

[plucky quail]

What??? and i thought everyone likes supporting only the newest Gen with bigger numbers

[real kraken]

Newer gen != more transistor

[thorny remnant]

what is mfg?

[past escarp]

thats sad people stuff, we dont talk abt that here

[reef zenith]

Multi Frame Generation. Using AI to fill in the "in between frames" to add more. Been around for a few years

[thorny remnant]

Yea. its horrible how that turned out

[tawny thicket]

Its not just AI LSD ing those frames tho

[coarse linden]

Actually hilarious... I could get 7800X3D cheaper used then 5800X3D used

Even 7950X3D lol

People are truly desperate to hold on to am4

[plucky quail]

Waiting for AM6 💪 😂

Just another 2 years to go

[tawny thicket]

People are truly desperate to hold on to am4 avoid having to buy new RAM

[coarse linden]

Yeah amazing savings when you pay over 540€ for 5800X3D

[tawny thicket]

and you dont even need to buy a mobo

[coarse linden]

Can get decent mobo for 100 used

[tawny thicket]

half of what 16GB DDR5 RAM costs lmao

[coarse linden]

200 for 7800X3D, 100 for mobo, 300 for used 32gb ddr5 and you can even sell your old crusty 32gb ddr4 for 100

[tawny thicket]

CPU ?

tho ig nvidia is an option

[coarse linden]

I think someone needs the [poll boy 2] in their name

[plucky quail]

Oh yea forgot

to say

[plucky quail]

No i need just Poll boy and get Lightning to Poll boy 2

[tawny thicket]

you really are gunning for it

[plucky quail]

Fake Poll boy right here 👆🏼 👆🏼 👆🏼 👆🏼 👆🏼 👆🏼

[ocean yew]

Depends how much the cpu costs to begin with

If its £80 then no but if its £200 then sure

[plucky quail]

True but usually its same like on intel CPUs either having the F version or not

[ocean yew]

Hm true

[plucky quail]

So really depends on your usual Price range

I wouldnt expect a 80$ CPU having that option since the iGPU option is also not available at that price.

[ocean yew]

Well, I've placed my vote

[worn jay]

90% of ram production is china anyways

[worn jay]

C770 if it releases will be 9070 XT

[worn jay]

Damn danny

[tropic bobcat]

But I’m not Danny.

[plucky quail]

No talking about China made chips. From Chinese Company (CXMT)

[plucky quail]

Talking about CPU. Thats why also the face on Nvidia.

[worn jay]

CPUs will be a improvement 9800x3d + 10% but still lose to zen 6

nvidia is only apu laptop market for now

[plucky quail]

Yes thats why i made a silly face on the nvidia one cuz there are no Nvidia CPUs

[north linden]

Do you guys also feel that Nvidia Frame Gen feels a bit off in Stalker 2? When I turn ON FG i see so much of flicker, skies are flickering between trees etc. And it hurts my eyes basicly. Not to mention that Vsync is not working while using FG

[past escarp]

China number one

[pastel summit]

Any options for waiting reviews? I'm not planning to upgrade at least in the short term

nevermind, it's closed oof

[plucky quail]

https://youtu.be/slWZgehFgQA?si=v48EgP9VDFFGa9MM

[pastel summit]

huh cool, that clickbait title threw me off ngl

[pure ibex]

Mfs will talk about there pc having ai little do they know unless they got a whole portable data center this ai will be less intelligent then a bunch of crows

[hollow kettle]

Gemini is the only AI I want

Little mother trucker always has my back

[past escarp]

I mean like... who cares? Just pay 20$ more for cpu and sever million dollars for data centers, then get a lot of info there and here you go pal, your own ai is good to go

[thorny remnant]

Are you trying to tell me amd framegen is better???

[tawny thicket]

[plucky quail]

20$ to the people that gets it right*
-# you get it in stalker 2 when the multiplayer is here

[plucky quail]

I don't really get the iNPU. It's just too weak. You least need big fat GPU to run ai at good speed

[pure ibex]

What I’m saying not to mention basically no one even does that

They use an online ai

That doesn’t even run locally

Meaning all that ai hardware does fuck all

[plucky quail]

Yeah tho some still gets run locally but just really slow or just massive dumb down.
Like microslop

Top 10 things that will never work

[real kraken]

Just started to play arc raider, damn the game is really well optimized

[plucky quail]

@tawny thicket You know what the cost for RIS2 is?

[tawny thicket]

no, probably 0 cuz its on its own dedicated hardware

[plucky quail]

Its on AI so some it must have else all the other gens could have it too

[tawny thicket]

i doubt it is using AI
it runs on RDNA 4's new display engine which is why it can be applied to desktop, and if its **just ** RIS 1 but on the display engine then it would be pointless to bring it to older gens as well, though i dont think it is (i think it also allows more agressive sharpening but i think the underlying algorithm is the same)

[plucky quail]

Didnt they say its using AI? or is it again just like all the other tech from AMD that got trained on ai to get some code out.

BTW RDNA3 also has that so i wouldnt get why its not able to run on that except on 3 its just really diff to 4 but i cant imagine that.

[ocean yew]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1391168758357299362/1448833823537233993/hitlerpass.gif

Forgot about that

[tawny thicket]

i thought they improved it though in RDNA 4

[tawny thicket]

You mean the app itself excluding the driver ?

[tawny thicket]

100% worse
Driver though has been the same for me

[plucky quail]

No just the APP

I get Mouse lock then its idk crashing i guess. Open it in 2h 3 times. And i already did DDU it with the 26.2.1. driver so not on me.