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 actually have to use anything other than just max...
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 all worried about is their gender identity etc...
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 to be honest. It's like the free to play tablet...
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.
As for the weird power off/power on first time...
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 playing it again recently, so absorbing if you're...
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 has been for a while, I assume this is inline with...
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, CPU's never went over 92c.
Then it just stopped:
I...
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, was fun, but made me quickly realise in order to...
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 everywhere and UV reactive additives in the...
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?
Just seen this thread:
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/game-ready-drivers/13/540532/geforce-grd-55212-feedback-thread-released-4424/
People generally agree things were ok with nvidia drivers till about October last year, which is EXACTLY what I'm seeing in my event logs. My logs go...
Great, 13900K user here, thought I was unnaffected as I've not really noticed any major crashing, but then, I don't tend to play a alot of very recent games.
But I looked in my event viewer for WHEA errors anyway, and sure enough, the last 3 new games I've installed have apparently thrown WHEA...
Absolutely NO mention of Guild Wars 2 so far in this thread! Shocking! :eek:
A recent Guild Wars 3 rumour was essentially shot down, GW2 still going strong, no need to compete with themselves ;)...
I'm expecting/hoping there'll be alot of OC headroom if AIBs are allowed to really ramp up the TDP from 320w. It seems clear already that limiting the power to the exact same as the 4080 makes it perform almost exactly the same.
The Zotac cards are using the 4090 heatsink, obviously capable of...
We just need to make it till ray tracing is standard and that the workload can't be used for anything other than rendering graphics scenes.
Modern GPUs are unfortunately too multi-purpose these days.
I've found the DL versions perform signifcantly faster, and they also add a bit of sharpening as well. Infact in some cases 2.25x DL can look better than 4x pure. The DL versions also have the advantage of not scaling the UI of old games to being insanely small.
DSR is one of the die hard...
13900K, E cores disabled, HTT disabled, Windows 10. All cores locked to 5.8ghz.
STILL to this day enabling hyper threading degrades gaming performance on a well optimised PC. If you game with lots of background apps running, then yeah sure, enable HTT, but if you truly want the best frame rates...
It's basically dead in terms of bios tweaking, volt modding etc.
CPU companies are now effectively doing what 3rd party sites like Silicon Lottery were doing. It's no longer the case that you can buy a low end CPU and 'luck out' that it could/should have been a higher binned part but got...
The Asus tax is in no way justified these days, hasn't been for years infact. Strix now just means average, and TUF = el cheapo bargain budget shit. MSI are now the new Asus imho.
Nowadays GPU overclocking is basically dead, it's just pure luck on the quality of the gpu silicon that makes any...
100% recyclable packaging!*
Made with cheaper materials
No optical drive
Same great price!
*Too many times have I wanted to buy something only to discover the packaging isn't 100% recycable and so I can't buy it. So glad to see this here.
It always makes me laugh that the general attitude seems to be that these companies are just choosing to price high. Making these cards, the research and development costs ALOT. Making graphics cards isn't like, "Hey last card was great, let's just go make and even faster one with latest node...
I think it's easy to forget that going from 1080p to 4K is not 2 times, but 4 times more demanding in terms of raw pixel count, not to mention all the extra overhead on the memory sub system to push all those pixels. Graphics cards haven't been delivering anywhere near the improvement generation...
Monitor?! What is a "monitor"? What are you monitoring exactly?
No, it's a Visual Display Unit. Your 'Televsion' and mobile phones are also Visual Display Units.
Have you tried disabling Hyperthreading?
Also underclocking your mem or overvolting it?
I would try resetting the bios to stock and start from there, updating the bios if there's a newer one might help further.
This might help: I've just come out of spending the last 3 months trying to diagnose and fix my PC crashing under heavy load. I had isolated every component to no avail.
The culprit? I was running my PC power lead through a wattage meter. Removed that, problem resolved! Can't believe I just...
I can only conclude the cost of modern GPUs is just so damn high these days, for whatever reasons. If nvidia could pump these out dirt cheap, why not sell 'em cheaper?
Low volume expensive parts is not something you would choose to do if you could just as easily do high volume lower prices...
The problem really is just that everyone has cheaped out and combined the 3 8pin connector leads terminal with the 12pin connector. There should be the 3 8pin leads, a terminal block, then a chunky lead, then the final 12pin connector.
So basically nvidia has another 1st gen Fermi on their hands. When the reviews come out we will see how they're only ~20% faster in raster perf/watt and only can only make performance gains with raw power.
And I expect to see 600w AIB variants sooner rather than later, and definitely by the...
Looks like that stupid back fan was added 'last minute'. Notice how it overlaps the X in 'RTX'. Was probably originally meant to have just holes there.
What I was getting it is what new magic sauce is nvidia gonna bring to the table, if any?
"Project Beyond", Beyond what?
DLSS etc. were qualitative upgrades. We're weeks away from launch and I've not seen any mention of new tech, just 'new node, faster more power'.
So what's the 'killer app' gonna be for this gen then? Seems it's gonna be about the most jaded generation yet.
1080 - 4K Gaming!
2080 - Ray Tracing!
3080 - Mining Playable Ray Tracing + 8K!
4080 - ???
o_O
Some good news, it seems nvidia have actually dropped prices on their UK store, by as much as £300. They were previously offering a £280 rebate of the 3090ti only, but now it's an across the board upfront discount:
https://store.nvidia.com/en-gb/geforce/store/?page=1&limit=9&locale=en-gb
I've...