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I do hope you ARE right! ;) Just downloaded it again, looks like I haven't touched it since 2017! It's all coming back to me now, I remember being initially less than impressed as it brought my Titan X to it's knees; the first game that made me...

Meh, perhaps my memory has jaded alot over the years since playing it, maybe I should give it another shot. I just remember at the time thinking I couldn't possibly get drunk enough to make this good enough.

I think it's more we need game writers to have the freedom to create intellectually challenging themes and storylines with well developed and believable characters. Andromeda sees a bunch of teenagers sent alone to a distant galaxy and they're...

Mass Effect Andromeda was just a mind-numbingly shallow game compared to the first 3, and I had no affection at all to any of the characters, just cringeworthy disgust at how pathetic they all were. I don't really consider it part of the series...

I've had sata cables die over time, so double check yours are all good. Faulty sata cables can cause weird things that don't seem like sata drives failing. I myself have replaced a PSU in the past only to find it was infact, one dodgy sata cable...

Then we need Titanfall 3 and a better Battlefield. :)

I also came here to say this. I've been wanting to do a replay as a completely different character, but wanted to wait for it to fade from memory a bit, However, even after a couple of years many of the details are still pretty vibrant in my...

Disco Elysium! It has a quality that makes it utterly unique and the depth of world building is insane. You never get to explore it physically, but it's an entire fleshed out world with it's own countries, politics, history and cultures. Started...

Interesting. Thanks for the feedback. I guess no matter how "off the wall" an issue is it probably happened before. And might even be a common or known issue. At least I found the issue quickly and fixed it with little trouble.

This is actually a common fault with those. It happened to mine, and to one other that I've seen in person. Mine failed in the middle of the night, and since my email server is behind it and I didn't want that to be offline all night, I had to do...

Yes! Hell yes! I've been disabling it in every Intel CPU I've ever owned as a matter of course. Games are just slower with it on (for cpus with enough native cores for the game in question). Seems 8 threads is a plateu right now for gaming and...

Does anyone else like the idea of getting rid of Hyperthreading and adding more e-cores instead?

F1 24 Track & Driver Updates The big new feature of F1 24 is Ray-Traced Dynamic Diffuse Global Illumination, which improves the lighting, shadows, and reflections during races and cutscenes alike...the 2024 drivers will also look better than...

Interesting, I've not had any crashing lately, but following the advice above, I fired up "The Last of Us: Part 1" and let it do shader comp (haven't played this game since it first came out on PC, lol). Ran fine for a few minutes, all good...

I recently got into the F1 games just a few months back having been watching "Drive to Survive" on Netflix and then wanting some decent F1 game to play to fill that hole. :cool: So I got F1 2022 real cheap from a CDkey site, kinda enjoyed it...

Those backplates tend to have a thin later of clear plastic protective covering, I'd bet that is what it getting burned/discoloured, rather than the metal underneath, I'd be interested to know. And back in my day we had UV cold cathode tubes...

Honestly, I'd rather have a modern-graphics remake of BF 1942. Bad Company 2 was the last good BF game, IMO. I tried to like BF3 but the unlocks and other BS were too much.

Well... I'll make an assumption here: We are of a generation of gamers who were there for the genesis of both the games and the industry. It was exciting for us wasn't it? My god the number of computers and upgrades I did to play the latest game...

To clarify it was the PSU to GPU PCI cables that were bad, the rest of the Cablemods were fine. I tried every HW swap and SW updates/uninstalls with no remedy. I used the cables that came with the PSU and has been trouble free for over a year.

I believe it's an intel CPU hardware issue, easily rectified in software with almost no real-world performance loss, they likely already have the fix. The trouble is when you roll it out, what spin do you give?