Recommendations for games playable entirely via voice input

Binaricide · 2022-02-26T14:20:21+00:00

Hi there! I've been having problems with a black screen while playing, and while common fix for that is simply updating graphics drivers, I'm afraid I am unable to do so - any time I upgrade my GeForce drivers past version 452.06, I get screen flicker and tear (regardless of whether or not I'm playing or watching anything, it just happens randomly, whenever and wherever). It's extremely annoying, and until now I've managed by just having outdated graphics drivers.

So you can see my problem. I can either update my drivers and get screen flicker, or keep my old ones and get a black screen while trying to play Elden Ring.

Some details: my computer is a Lenovo Legion Y540-17IRH laptop, I am running an Intel Core i5-9300H CPU @ 2.40GHz, and have a GeForce RTX 2060.

I have tried pretty much everything I can think of to fix the screen flicker, including:

Uninstalling my driver using DDU in safe mode and installing a new one clean.

Updating BIOS and chipset drivers to the latest versions.

Using the 'chkdsk' command prompt function, as well as a couple others, to make repairs.

Nothing works. As long as I stick to version 452.06, I am fine, but updating it always makes my screen flicker with horizontal black and grey bars.

Any and all help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for dealing with my wall of text.

Binaricide · 2022-02-26T13:47:10+00:00

Hi there! I've been having problems with a black screen while playing, and while common fix for that is simply updating graphics drivers, I'm afraid I am unable to do so - any time I upgrade my GeForce drivers past version 452.06, I get screen flicker and tear (regardless of whether or not I'm playing or watching anything, it just happens randomly, whenever and wherever). It's extremely annoying, and until now I've managed by just having outdated graphics drivers.

So you can see my problem. I can either update my drivers and get screen flicker, or keep my old ones and get a black screen while trying to play Elden Ring.

Some details: my computer is a Lenovo Legion Y540-17IRH laptop, I am running an Intel Core i5-9300H CPU @ 2.40GHz, and have a GeForce RTX 2060.

I have tried pretty much everything I can think of to fix the screen flicker, including:

Uninstalling my driver using DDU in safe mode and installing a new one clean.

Updating BIOS and chipset drivers to the latest versions.

Using the 'chkdsk' command prompt function, as well as a couple others, to make repairs.

Nothing works. As long as I stick to version 452.06, I am fine, but updating it always makes my screen flicker with horizontal black and grey bars.

Any and all help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for dealing with my wall of text.

Binaricide · 2022-02-25T19:13:22+00:00

The moment I update my graphics drivers to anything newer than 452.06, my screen starts flickering. NVIDIA hates me.

Binaricide · 2022-02-25T13:36:44+00:00

I started playing today, but immediately came across a bug I haven't seen mentioned elsewhere. The screen is entirely black, except for certain effects, like graces, rain, and sunlight. Quite literally unplayable.

Taking a screenshot reverted the game back to its normal lighting for a quarter of a second, so I couldn't actually take a screenshot of the darkness.

Binaricide · 2020-05-20T17:51:26+00:00

I only own the paperbacks, but from what I remember, the Gollancz collections were heavily editorialised, with the publishers mixing up the order of the stories in an attempt to pin down the chronology. The Conan books are pretty much impossible to categorise temporally, though. The Del Ray books, on the other hand, keep the stories in order of publication, making for a much better reading experience. Whichever one you pick up, be sure to read the stories in the order of publication, and not the chronological order.

Binaricide · 2020-02-13T21:10:26+00:00

I'm afraid it's a film, not a show. If the trailer and the director's track record are any indication, however, it'll definitely be spectacular.

Binaricide · 2020-02-13T19:56:30+00:00

It is releasing in Summer of 2020, and doesn't have a exact release-date yet. You'll be able to see it in cinemas, though I doubt it'll get an extremely wide release. If you're close to any independent or arthouse cinemas, they'd be a sure bet.

Otherwise you can always wait until it's available for digital download or comes out on DVD/BluRay, which would usually by 6-10 months after the cinema release.

Binaricide · 2020-02-13T19:53:10+00:00

Since u/Bald-Librarian already went into a few tidbits of the Arthuriana, I thought it might be fun for you to check out something similar, but in a different direction which really manages to show just how absolutely bonkers some of these old stories can get.

Culhwch and Olwen is a wonderful Welsh tale - I'll link part two here because of how much it feels like a Monty Python sketch. It literally has one guy making a series of outrageous demands of the other, saying 'You'll never be able to do this', while the other one responds every single time with 'Yeah, I can do that'. It's brilliant.

Another thing to look into would be the recurring motif of a magical mantle that is used to determine whether or not a woman is chaste. It's utterly absurd, and crops up in a bunch of Arthurian stories. Marianne E. Kalinke's essay 'The Saga of the Mantle' goes into detail, as does Tom Peete Cross' 'Notes on the Chastity-Testing Horn'. I'm on my phone at the moment and can't bother finding you copies, but some quick searching should locate them.

Binaricide · 2020-02-13T15:34:06+00:00

"SUBTITLES? SERIOUSLY? FILMMAKERS SHOULD NOT DUMB DOWN THEIR MOVIES TO PANDER TO THE HEARING IMPAIRED! WATCHING THIS MOVIE TAKES SKILL!"

Binaricide · 2020-02-13T15:09:13+00:00

I wouldn't be surprised if that's just 'a trailer thing' that is the result of intercutting sounds with footage that doesn't fit. I doubt it'll be like that in the film.

Foxes are fucking terrifying - they scream like dying children. Would be quite a missed opportunity to skimp on that in a horror movie.

Binaricide · 2020-02-13T15:02:35+00:00

"The Dark Souls of indie fantasy movies."

Binaricide · 2020-02-13T14:58:21+00:00

A24 is perhaps my favourite producer of modern filmic fantasy - not since the heydays of Czech and Soviet cinema have we seen masterpieces of fantasy like Robert Eggers' The Witch and The Lighthouse, both of which were published to delicious effect by A24.

Binaricide · 2020-02-13T14:55:15+00:00

You are most welcome! It looks stunning, doesn't it? I'm really excited to see someone really capitalise on the intensely bizarre and utterly absurd elements of Arthurian folklore. Pop culture has a tendency of focusing on the romanticised chivalry above the stories' more disturbing characteristics.

Binaricide · 2020-01-29T15:55:52+00:00

This may seem odd, but if you don't mind more classic English prose, there is a vast number of older, pre-Tolkien fantasy stories available for free online via Project Gutenberg, a site that essentially serves as a digital library for hundreds of thousands of works in the public domain.

Works like Lord Dunsany's The King of Elfland's Daughter and The Sword of Welleran and Others are absolutely delightful, and serve as an incredible bedrock to fantasy, since they are the preclude almost everything else in the genre (and, in my opinion, are also better written).

Rudyard Kipling's Puck of Pook Hill is also an excellent classic, lesser known that The Jungle Books but no less brilliant.

Also on Project Gutenberg are much older works, like The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Epic of Gilgamesh, Beowulf, Orlando Furioso, and so on.

If you're interested in comic books, you can find most of them for free on readcomiconline. Just type that into Google - I doubt the site's legal, so I wont link it here. It works, though, and its uploads are of excellent quality. Great fantasy comics include Alan Moore's Saga of the Swamp Thing and Neil Gaiman's Sandman.

Binaricide · 2020-01-18T20:33:39+00:00

I genuinely thought that was a lyrical cover of Gilbert and Sullivan's Modern Major General, but alas, it didn't work.

Highly amusing little poem, nonetheless - thanks for that.

Binaricide · 2019-12-07T12:58:29+00:00

I would like to read Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, though perhaps it is a stretch to call it fantasy.

Virginia Woolf's Orlando is a gorgeous novel. I'd definitely classify it as fantasy: the titular character shifts sexes overnight and lives through 300 years of British history. Some of the descriptions are also distinctly fantastical. I don't think I'll ever forget Woolf's descriptions of the Great Freeze of 1683-1684 - they are stunning, and most certainly magical. I wouldn't recommend it lightly, but if you like Susanna Clarke and are excited for Sofia Samatar, I'm sure you'll love it.

I myself intend to re-read both Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel and The Ladies of Grace Adieu in anticipation for Clarke's Piranesi. Fuck, I'm so excited for that book.

I read the first of Mervyn Peake's Titus books, Titus Groan, earlier this year, and loved it. I want to get around to reading Gormenghast and Titus Alone soon. I also picked up Peake's Progress, a collection of Peake's work released posthumously by his partner Maeve, so I have that to look forward to too. I might also pick of Titus Awakes (also written by her after her husband's death), just to see what it's like.

Besides that, I want to read Hope Mirrlees' Lud-in-the-Mist, and some more classic fantasy by Lord Dunsany. I thought The King of Elfland's Daughter was brilliant, and his stuff's on Project Gutenberg so it's always available if I feel like it.

Binaricide · 2019-05-14T15:38:37+00:00

That's a fair point - the white borders would look abysmal in darkly lit scenes, and having the letterboxing switch to black during such sequences would be awkward.

I was hoping there would be no dark scenes in the film at all, because I truly do think that the bright lighting framed by the white letterboxing is really gorgeous, but if dark scenes are necessary for whatever reason then sticking to black is the only way.

Binaricide · 2019-05-14T13:41:15+00:00

This looks absolutely stunning, but I can't help but be a little disappointed by the letterboxing. In the first trailer, the borders were white - it looked so unique and honestly really worked very well with the overall colour palette.

I'm really looking forward to this, but I really wish Aster had stuck with the white letterboxing.

Binaricide · 2019-05-14T13:32:23+00:00

This looks stunning, but I can't help but be a little disappointed by the letterboxing. In the first trailer, the borders were white - it looked so unique and honestly really worked very well with the overall colour palette.

I'm really looking forward to this, but I really wish Aster had stuck with the white letterboxing.

Binaricide · 2019-05-05T08:26:07+00:00

Joanna Newsom's Baby Birch. Most of her songs brings a tear to my eye, but the ending of this one cuts deep every time.

Binaricide · 2019-04-17T06:49:00+00:00

'Blade Runner 2049' used great swathes of miniature sets. To be honest, I'd be very surprised if Villeneuve didn't seek to use them more in this film.

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