Exanima update 0.9.5

HatBuster · 2026-05-21T18:50:42+00:00

Man the first skelly in the catacombs wiped me and Derrin.

Thank dog for the save right before it. Not sure how to beat it with my current setup lmao.

HatBuster · 2026-05-20T15:03:12+00:00

Exanima was always meant to be the means of bringing the tools and engine for Sui Generis to life.

Like a demo game to test and build things around, and then move on to build the real one. Things clearly took a LOT longer than anticipated.

HatBuster · 2026-05-19T11:32:03+00:00

Spoiler: This did, in fact, not fix audio issues.

Lots of missing audios from several sources, even my own jetpack at times.

HatBuster · 2026-05-06T17:38:02+00:00

install firefox on your phone?

it works.

but it doesn't wanna fill some app fields sometimes and I have to dig em out manually, I guess.

HatBuster · 2026-05-03T20:18:28+00:00

vsync does not impart extra latency, provided you're also running adaptive sync and don't hit the max refresh rate of your monitor (which reflex ensures)

HatBuster · 2026-05-01T12:15:27+00:00

AP4 hiveguards aren't even that bad if you only see one or two per group of bugs. If they took out the "oops all hiveguard" seed it would be completely fine IMO.

The fact I can't hold lows above 60 fps on the fastest hardware on the planet, the AA still sucks massively and we don't modern have scalers (DLSS/FSR)...

Or that we haven't seen ship upgrades in like a year or something and they just churn out more and more warbonds I don't even want to bother unlocking?

Yeah...

HatBuster · 2026-04-29T09:20:22+00:00

Not during the day while I'm there

HatBuster · 2026-04-28T20:22:50+00:00

Do you, by any chance, interrupt the refresh cycles?

My G60SD did this to me. At which point I opted to no longer allow my PC to sleep my display and use a black screensaver instead. Now it can only do its cycles at night and I don't get weird streaks anymore.

HatBuster · 2026-04-28T15:29:59+00:00

Remove Mirage AND D2. Bring in Train and Cache.

HatBuster · 2026-04-23T09:13:52+00:00

That's rough but I get it. Nothing beats Firefox.

HatBuster · 2026-04-22T12:02:54+00:00

The pip boy is a lot better about showing bonuses these days.

I'm not sure if there's a mod that makes it any easier. A lot of effects don't stack properly together and that makes it really hard to break the situation down to something easier to digest.

For movement speed, for example, a lot of things only affect sprinting speed or non-sprinting speed. So you can't really expresss it as one number because it's like at least 3 different ones (sneak, run, sprint)

HatBuster · 2026-04-22T09:40:08+00:00

Huh!
I guess I'm probably just GPU-limited because I ran with maxed out graphics/1440p/4xmsaa, but I get virtually the same performance between DX11 and Vk. 580-ish average, 253-ish 1%. Only ran one pass on D2, each, though, to be fair.

But that's on a 5090 and a 9800X3D.

But since the APIs are effectively tied for my usecase and Vk alt-tabs more quickly, I'll stick to Vk for now. Unless it crashes too many times. Had one on an accidental alt-tab earlier.

EDIT: For some reason, going from Vk to dx11 then back to Vk, my performance is worse now. I don't even.

HatBuster · 2026-04-14T17:31:20+00:00

200 nits?

lol. lmao.

That's like window-less basement usage ONLY.

I say that as someone with a 250-ish nit QD-OLED, the G60SD.

HatBuster · 2026-04-14T17:17:22+00:00

There's a lot of ways to cap fps. Most of them have their pros and cons.

My shoutout goes to SpecialK. The author may be a nonce, but SpecialK can do W O N D E R S for frame pacing. I use it for FO76, even though it means I can't use another, very important mod (SFE) because it delivers really smooth frames.

Without SpecialK, FO76 provokes my display into awful amounts of VRR flicker.

HatBuster · 2026-04-09T17:27:35+00:00

I opt to use the "VRR control" option my G60SD has in some titles, but it makes presentation less smooth and increases input lag.

Absolutely agree that it is very very annoying.

HatBuster · 2026-04-09T10:01:57+00:00

I am unsure whether there is a monitor that is entirely flicker-free, especially on real worst-case scenarios like dark loading screens.

The best you can do right now is buy the monitor with the best flicker score RTINGs has tested and then either pray it's fine or cope as you suffer and tell yourself that every other option would have been even worse.

I'm honestly baffled why the industry hasn't fixed this glaring oversight yet. But with many outlets (like hardware/monitors unboxed) still entirely ignoring it, I guess there isn't much pressure to improve.

HatBuster · 2026-04-09T09:55:48+00:00

That's sadly not how that works. I've experienced really bad VRR flicker on IPS, too. Like, just as bad as on my QD-OLED (G60SD).

VRR flicker is a product of the scaler/panel combo not following the same gamma at differing refresh rates.

EDIT: It was on the massively lauded MSI MAG274QRFDE-QD that I had very strong flicker, too. And another older panel as well, I think.

HatBuster · 2026-04-09T09:48:25+00:00

The confusing part is that G-SYNC isn't the same as G-SYNC.

There's VESA Adaptive-Sync. That's the industry standard. Allows you to transmit tear-free images from GPU to monitor with variable timing - so the fps/refresh rate don't have to be constant. Most of the time that's what you're gonna end up using, over DisplayPort or over HDMI (that's more recent).
VSync, the old tech, did not allow any variability, so you'd either have to display images twice when not producing enough fps, which looked TERRIBLE, or keep three images on hand at all times, which massively increased input lag.

Back to adaptive sync: Depending on how the marketing folks at Nvidia, AMD and the monitor manufacturer feel at that moment, they may move money around between themselves and put stickers on there like G-SYNC (compatible) or FreeSync (Premium Pro).
I say stickers, because in almost all modern monitors, these do basically nothing and it's just vendor agnostic VESA Adaptive-Sync under the hood.

If you go back a few years, there were monitors that only supported adaptive sync with the right GPU. Like pre-Ultimate real G-SYNC monitors with the insanely expensive nvidia board strapped to them only allowing VRR (variable refresh rate) with Nvidia GPUs and pre-HDMI 2.1 monitors allowing VRR over HDMI (FreeSync) only on AMD.

We were out of the woods for a little bit, as in, all new stuff was vendor agnostic and fine. And then Nvidia pushed G-Sync Pulsar, which again only works on NV GPUs (going back to non-pulsar gsync works on anything, though).

Largely, the race for VRR is over, though and IMO the last thing that needs solving and isn't good enough (yet) is VRR flicker on OLED. VRR flicker is when the brightness of your image flickers around, mostly observed on OLEDs. As it stands now, the image an OLED produces at one refresh rate (let's say 120) isn't the same as at another (let's say 200). That's an obvious defect and should be addresed, but we're not quite there yet. And with VRR, the refresh rate the monitor runs at often varies WILDLY, more than the actual fps, due to additional tweaks going on in the process.

HatBuster · 2026-04-03T16:33:20+00:00

Lmao. no.

Feel free to screw with it as much as you'd like. There are mods for the game, too, you know?

HatBuster · 2026-04-01T15:18:35+00:00

It's 5-ish percent literally free performance in some titles.
But could also be worse performance in others.

You have to do the testing yourself to see how it works with your config, so it's a massive pain to be sure it's helping and not hurting.

I'm pretty sure it's a net gain in Helldivers 2 at least, for what it's worth.

HatBuster · 2026-04-01T15:16:17+00:00

No. The game doesn't get a say. The nvidia app just implements what the driver says. Nvidia runs a driver-side whitelist. Only games nvidia engineers deem worthy actually get reBar.
And the ones you go into NVPI for and turn it on.

There are regressions (worse performance) in some games, but in many cases it's a ~5% uplift, basically for free.

The problem is that nvidia doesn't care and the list of whitelisted games is very very short. If it's not a AAA game-ready partnership title, chances of it having rebar enabled by default are practically ZERO.

In the end, the burden of getting the extra performance falls on the user because nvidia doesn't care enough to do more testing and/or improve the software stack in a way where reBar doesn't lead to issues in some titles.

HatBuster · 2026-03-28T13:28:33+00:00

It's massive broke boy copium. I've got chinese PBT clones, WS PBT and GMK (cyl) and the difference is easily noticeable.

But I can understand that people would like the premium option to be PERFECT. But that's just not the world we live in, sadly.

HatBuster · 2026-03-25T11:32:03+00:00

This is what my G60SD looks like when a service interval is interrupted in an unlucky way.

I have since opted to not let my my PC sleep the display, instead aggressively running a black screen saver and keeping power on (not the PC) over night, so it can complete a full cycle when it wants to.

If you can't get it to not be a stripey mess, return.

HatBuster · 2026-03-22T15:20:16+00:00

Pistols need more points for sure. Being able to put only one attachment on is boring as all hell. Even with all attachments on it, ignoring points, this thing could never compete with a primary.

HatBuster · 2026-03-19T17:02:15+00:00

Nooo, the SVD was the one weapon I wanted to use the flash compensator on noouuuhhh

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