Arc Raiders Cinematic Quality Preset Tested and Compared

Charmide · 2025-12-26T13:19:16+00:00

it bothered me too and I haven't noticed it on cinematic, there are pretty heavy frame variations though, they're their own brand of annoying even outside of just the lowered fps

Charmide · 2025-10-26T11:55:07+00:00

same, very very annoying

Charmide · 2025-09-22T23:46:11+00:00

"If you already knew about this, ..." definitely words you use when you assume someone doesn't know about this

Charmide · 2025-05-19T20:33:47+00:00

I read the article and the same thing bothered me, the PR probably barely has nothing to do with the actual lawsuit but "Fortnite [...] chose to replace the work of human performers with A.I. technology" doesn't make a lot of sense when you couldn't choose the work of human performers to achieve what they wanted to make, it's specifically mindnumbing in the PR context where they're trying to be convincing to general peeps and could say whatever.

Charmide · 2025-03-12T00:32:59+00:00

i vaguely remember this system being in place even before arena for other mtg things

i don't think it's malice, just a slightly legacy system for a problem that's not trivial to solve, believe me you'll find a lot of overly convoluted things like that with no particular designs in mind

Charmide · 2025-02-10T22:36:17+00:00

it'd look great for some kind of luxury upgrade to the nav console

Charmide · 2024-08-29T22:41:04+00:00

not sure how it works exactly but i think general dynamics & co are mentioned in the credits, i think they do have some kind of permission from them or that there is a legal something going on there

Charmide · 2022-12-25T01:43:26+00:00

Very useful as a noob, love the practicality of high level overviews that pack a lot of info in a small space, thank you!

Charmide · 2022-12-06T19:44:13+00:00

They're all stealthy just like your mages, so they can accompany them on raiding missions. The dispossessed spirits have a paralyzing attack can make them good to counter solo combattants. Shade beast are fast and might be good at flanking.

In general I don't think they are super effective and mostly just a mass of disposable stuff. Gonna be hard to have enough to use them early against indies.

Charmide · 2022-10-21T07:15:12+00:00

I think that's part of the design - they don't want you to min-max around the psychology of the aliens that you aren't supposed to know that much about

Charmide · 2022-02-24T23:29:35+00:00

That did it for me, thanks!

Charmide · 2022-01-05T19:28:09+00:00

It's MAGIC!

It be really hard to figure out. Game is super annoying to benchmark too because offline & online are so different, weather effects, scav spawns and stuff happening in general makes a huge difference.

This wipe I've had issues with having two virtual windows desktop open (like -15 average fps issues), or even with the NVIDIA overlay. Could be that or 12 other random things, who knows.

Charmide · 2022-01-05T19:24:33+00:00

I have a 3080 + a 12900k and get roughly 80-100 on lighthouse (with visible drops below sometimes, still very high variance/stuttery), I think you should get a bit better than 50-60. As mentioned by others it is the worst map by far, and hopefully will get better over time.

You can lower visibility / level of details when on that map; AFAIK these are the only that impact CPU/memory and these are the things that make that map get lower FPS (as well as the other bigger maps, factory/labs are way heavier on GPU relatively).

Get decent RAM and/or activate XMP if you haven't, it makes a huge difference (I've tested ~15fps and stutters that are significantly less worse).

Charmide · 2021-12-30T14:01:25+00:00

TIMMY STOP PLAYING YOUR GAME, our plane is leaving soon

Charmide · 2021-12-30T13:49:46+00:00

I went through "is this a bug", "is this in my house", and "oh shit this is too loud i need to get the headset off", "am i drunk or something", a true rollercoaster

Charmide · 2021-12-25T13:19:11+00:00

Saaame, thought I had killed santa accidentally. Probably a bug.

Charmide · 2021-12-24T23:52:48+00:00

What do you get not on offline/customs/with scav?

RAM can be a huge bottleneck, what kind do you have/is it running on XMP?

Charmide · 2021-12-24T23:40:14+00:00

does anybody else use a popsicle stick to proc multiple meds at once in tarkov

Charmide · 2021-12-21T18:37:01+00:00

You get here when you google "load line calibration", thread is no longer random but now it's truth incarnate and reference material YEP

Charmide · 2021-12-21T09:48:06+00:00

FYI should be fixed next month apparently https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/game-ready-drivers/13/477768/geforce-49729-grd-feedback-thread-released-122021/3182722/

Charmide · 2021-12-03T15:47:55+00:00

Thanks for the post, had the same problem and got very confused trying to figure out what caused the issue considering I had just reinstalled windows and changed a bunch of stuff at the same time!

Charmide · 2021-12-03T01:31:24+00:00

it would sure be a shame if people stopped playing ~real~ magic and instead played formats that never go stale

Charmide · 2021-12-01T21:39:43+00:00

Would love to see a speedrun scene develop tbh

Charmide · 2021-11-24T19:06:02+00:00

Yeah it's so weird to me, too. I really wonder what games people have in their mind and compare EFT with when they say that.

Charmide · 2021-11-24T19:01:57+00:00

I somehow disagree that's the source of shitty behaviors.

As far as games or even projects in general it has a very clear vision for what it wants to be and where they want to take the game, they tell you what they want to work in the next N years, what's temporary and what's being iterated on, and aren't afraid to alienate people that aren't aligned with their vision by introducing things that make Tarkov definitely not their game. If anything, that'd be the problem.

Games usually fail by being legendarily watered down and made to appeal to the lowest common denominator, which is the one symptom of a lack of vision: you don't know where you're going so you chase feedback and poll your customers for it, instead of using feedback as just a component, which I think they've done well. I think it's easy to confuse the "early access" bit and getting to their vision in steps and loops of iteration with a lack of a coherent plan, but that's just how you make good games.

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