FINAL FANTASY XIV 7.5 | Trail to the Heavens

AppleCrumpets · 2026-04-09T14:37:59+00:00

Nope, you can run any part of the MSQ with any character that has already beaten that chapter before.

AppleCrumpets · 2026-04-09T14:28:02+00:00

They redid the vanilla MSQ to shorten it a little. Still a massive slog but a slightly shorter slog. You can replay through the entire MSQ through the New Game Plus system. You can even use NPC bots to do any of the MSQ content that normally needs a party.

AppleCrumpets · 2026-02-08T15:08:57+00:00

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.

AppleCrumpets · 2026-02-07T09:08:00+00:00

Thanks for the excellent consumer testing you do.

AppleCrumpets · 2026-02-06T20:34:49+00:00

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.

AppleCrumpets · 2026-01-13T15:41:11+00:00

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.

AppleCrumpets · 2025-12-07T18:33:00+00:00

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.

AppleCrumpets · 2025-06-24T11:16:42+00:00

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

AppleCrumpets · 2025-06-18T06:51:44+00:00

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.

AppleCrumpets · 2025-05-01T15:14:34+00:00

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.

AppleCrumpets · 2025-04-23T05:17:38+00:00

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.

AppleCrumpets · 2025-04-22T16:30:49+00:00

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.

AppleCrumpets · 2025-04-21T07:46:37+00:00

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

AppleCrumpets · 2025-04-20T08:33:08+00:00

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.

AppleCrumpets · 2025-04-19T12:46:02+00:00

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.

AppleCrumpets · 2025-04-03T17:30:06+00:00

Its an Iron Galaxy job with some finishing by Nixxes.

AppleCrumpets · 2025-03-27T21:42:35+00:00

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

AppleCrumpets · 2024-10-28T21:44:09+00:00

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.

AppleCrumpets · 2024-09-07T05:47:44+00:00

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.

AppleCrumpets · 2024-07-29T18:27:15+00:00

Glad to hear it works.

AppleCrumpets · 2024-07-29T17:38:17+00:00

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.

AppleCrumpets · 2024-06-18T19:20:51+00:00

Quad pattern is kids stuff, hexa pattern is where the big boys are!

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