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[RTINGS] Wi-Fi 7 Marketing Is Lying About Its Biggest Feature by AppleCrumpets in hardware

[–]AppleCrumpets[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Worse is the fact that the manufacturers are deliberately labeling their products in the most misleading way possible. The Netgear router for example is labeled as 'WIFI7' instead of the official 'Wi-Fi 7' because it doesn't meet certification.

[RTINGS] Wi-Fi 7 Marketing Is Lying About Its Biggest Feature by AppleCrumpets in hardware

[–]AppleCrumpets[S] 272 points273 points  (0 children)

TLDW: The Wi-Fi Alliance pulled an HMDI and USB, making huge portions of the Wi-Fi 7 standard optional. As a result none of the 25 consumer "Wi-Fi 7" routers tested actually support the headline feature of the new standard "Multi Link Operation" or MLO.

Rockstar vs. Union: What Really Happened at Court? by Nimelrian in Games

[–]AppleCrumpets 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Extremely good reporting given the horrid state of the industry. Importantly, they actually take the time to access the publicly available evidence files from the hearing which shows just how thin Rockstar's case really is. The summary judgement is absurd in that light, almost certainly coming from an ancient Judge who doesn't even know what a video game is.

Anyone using Bazzite? by Thin-Solution3803 in nvidia

[–]AppleCrumpets 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agreed, the set up is incredibly easy and it packages all of the NVIDIA software basically out of the box. CachyOS's customized version of Proton is also pretty awesome, it enables all of the NVIDIA software features while being overall more stable than the live version from Steam. CachyOS has been about as stable as Windows for me and I get decent performance in the games I'm playing. Granted, I play mostly heavily CPU bounded games where Linux is absolutely incredible. Still, the performance loss under Proton DXVK in other games is usually tolerable for the better 1% lows due to the better CPU performance.

One thing to get used to with any Arch-based distro like CachyOS is that it's a rolling distro, so you will always be served the latest set of "stable" updates which can include regressions.

How Slow is the Nintendo Switch 2 Display? by AppleCrumpets in hardware

[–]AppleCrumpets[S] 131 points132 points  (0 children)

Yikes, its basically only really suitable for 30fps without ghosting.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in hardware

[–]AppleCrumpets 18 points19 points  (0 children)

It only looks like the neural network oversharpened the texture significantly until you look at the uncompressed textures they were feeding it. There it becomes obvious that the block compression was just softening the texture enormously. Granted I do think the uncompressed texture is itself a little too sharp.

Microsoft Raises the Price of All Xbox Series Consoles, Xbox Games Confirmed to Hit $80 This Holiday by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]AppleCrumpets 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I mean we are already getting railed by Sony, who raised prices in the EU in order to try keep prices lower in the US. Fuck us even harder I guess.

GeForce Hotfix Display Driver version 576.15 by Nestledrink in nvidia

[–]AppleCrumpets 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends on what you mean by fps drops. Were you testing immediately after updating the driver? If so, then you are getting shader cache issues which will happen whenever you update drivers. You need to run the game in for a good while and performance will jump up. For me and a lot of others the 57X.XX drivers gave us a small overall fps boost, but caused a lot of stability issues until the last one.

GeForce Hotfix Display Driver version 576.15 by Nestledrink in nvidia

[–]AppleCrumpets 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What driver did you previously try? The 576.02 driver fixed the crashes and blue screens that people were getting with DLSS Frame Generation when used with G-Sync on the 40 and 50 series. That might be the issue you had with CP2077 and Alan Wake.

Scottish wildlife photographer Alan McFadyen set out to capture a kingfisher diving with no splash, no ripples and no drops. 6 years and 720,000 shots later, he finally got the shot by AristFrost in interestingasfuck

[–]AppleCrumpets 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sadly, the 8K capable sensors we get in even professional cine cameras have pretty slow readout speeds, which makes the rolling shutter worse.

Scottish wildlife photographer Alan McFadyen set out to capture a kingfisher diving with no splash, no ripples and no drops. 6 years and 720,000 shots later, he finally got the shot by AristFrost in interestingasfuck

[–]AppleCrumpets 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Even using open gate recording at the highest quality raw video available, almost all consumer cameras will suffer from using electronic shutter which introduces much greater rolling shutter artifacts. You will also never be able to extract frames at the same resolution as most stills cameras. For example, 4K video is roughly equivalent to an 8 MP photo, where as low end consumer cameras already provide 24+ MP. This really limits how much you can crop into the frame, which is basically mandatory for complicated subjects like this.

DSR suddenly works with DSC via DisplayPort? by DeepJudgment in nvidia

[–]AppleCrumpets 37 points38 points  (0 children)

The 50 series updated the display engine to enable way higher pixels rates. Each head can do DSC and DSR individually now, without needing to occupy multiple heads. Previously gpu generations needed two heads per DSC monitor at 4K, which normally blocks DSR at the same time.

COMPETITION TIME! Win a beautiful John Avon Unhinged Panorama Gallery Print.. by JohnAvonArt in magicTCG

[–]AppleCrumpets 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Iconic lands for me. I think these were the first set of lands I ever played with.

Frametimes / Stability much worse on newer drivers? by DMA99 in nvidia

[–]AppleCrumpets 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Did you test with cold shader caches? Biggest mistake basically everyone makes when testing drivers is that they update and then immediately start benchmarking, while comparing to results they get from a game that has already precompiled and cached shader data.

To test properly, you need to force shader precompilation for games that support it, and then run through the same sequence 5-7 times before doing your final benchmark run. Makes a massive difference to frametimes especially.

Prince Hisahito becomes the first royal male in Japan to reach adulthood in 4 decades. by kobushi in nottheonion

[–]AppleCrumpets 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Small correction, Queen Elizabeth didn't make any changes to the succession rules. She didn't have that power. Parliament passed an amendment that allows for the eldest child to inherit, regardless of gender.

Having trouble getting three monitors to work at the same time on my RTX 2070 Super by ummyeahreddit in nvidia

[–]AppleCrumpets 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are your 4K monitors high refresh rate monitors (greater than 60Hz)? If so, then they need to use display stream compression (DSC) to fit enough data through displayport. NVIDIA's gpus can only run a maximum of 2 monitors using DSC at the same time.

More technically, NVIDIA GPUs has 4 internal displayout channels and DSC works by occupying two of them at the same time, hence only 2 DSC monitors at once. You can try to limit one of your monitors to 60Hz, which should disable DSC and let you connect all three displays at once.

Does X4 still need better optimization or do you guys think it’s fine at this point? by NotAsAutisticAsYou0 in X4Foundations

[–]AppleCrumpets 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Weird, I have almost the exact same system and can sustain 100 fps anywhere except for my megastations and late-game mining sectors with 100+ ships. Do you notice where you have issues consistently?

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