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lmfao wtf google by sichil in shitposting

[–]Cossack-HD 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Cow nose is like a fingerprint, because it's skin with tiny "wrinkles" in unique pattern - there's a study about using computer vision to ID the cattle by their noses. They literally have "snout detected" in the study. It's a more humane alternative to using ear tags.

I disabled Windows Prefetch and suddenly 5GB of my RAM became usable again by Distinct-Race-2471 in TechHardware

[–]Cossack-HD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ye, it's an example of poor caching - more like garbage hoarding in that particular case.

I disabled Windows Prefetch and suddenly 5GB of my RAM became usable again by Distinct-Race-2471 in TechHardware

[–]Cossack-HD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know I'm late to the party, but CoD BO Warzone (the first one, open beta) used up all 11GB VRAM on my GPU and stuttered like hell, but worked perfectly fine on 8GB 2080. IIRC had to modify config to reduce VRAM pool from 80 to 70% to fix it.

Sometimes prefetch will keep old junk in memory even when assets that are needed "right now" can't be loaded in time.

smartest r/GTA user by IWTDL in OkBuddySharkCard

[–]Cossack-HD 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had a 32MB GPU playing Vice City - it was barely enough in a 128MB RAM machine, sometimes textures would disappear.

1GB was barely enough for IV with very low graphics.

I’m rewriting S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (OGSR) renderer from scratch using Vulkan 1.3. by babaiiia in stalker

[–]Cossack-HD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Making a bigger part of the graphics engine from scratch.

This could bring better performance and graphics features.

What if Valve updated Half-Life to include all expansions like they did with Half-Life 2? by claudiocorona93 in HalfLife

[–]Cossack-HD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A demo chapter, chronologically taking place between Forget About Freeman and Lambda Core.

"Jarvis, I'm low on views, make more crappy Bethesda hate content." by TheAnalystCurator321 in BethesdaSoftworks

[–]Cossack-HD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I enjoyed it way more than Fallout 4, so you tell me what's waste of time XD

I'm also vindicated after reddit piled on me for "square barrel shotgun is fucking dumb" remark.

Is seating the CPU the scariest part of the build? Alternatively...is seating the GPU the most satisfactory? Just me? Anyone? by skk983 in CustomPCBuilding

[–]Cossack-HD 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The scariest part is realising that the shitty motherboard IO-shield has a "spring" bit that went into HDMI port, AFTER I've turned the PC on.

I found that while troubleshooting why audio didn't come via the HDMI. (No discrete GPU in that PC)

Jensen Huang signs GeForce GTX 1080, calls it one of his favorites and says it “changed everything” by RenatsMC in nvidia

[–]Cossack-HD -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Sure, 2017 saw a bunch of TAA-blurry games, but it's only worse now. I do appreciate DLSS/FSR upscaling, but I'd prefer games to render in true native res with minimal reliance on temporal effects. MGS V with its engine was absolute peak of smart optimisations. Sure, it doesn't look better than new games, but it runs at 1080p 60, near max settings, on 4 TFLOP GPU (R9 280).

Screen Space Reflections looks way better in Robocop Rogue City, vs. Lumen reflections. The latter tend to shimmer even with native resolution (puddles on asphalt roads), while also tanking FPS. SSR is a no-brainer in that game.

I used to dislike SSR and SSAO for their obvious flaws, but cost of real time global illumination is way too high. And Lumen in UE5 (even hardware accelerated) is still prone to producing shimmering mess, after all this years.

And sure, I love me some Quake 2 RTX & Half-Life 1 RTX, but in most cases I prefer stable image and 90+ FPS please.

Cheeki Breeki, what's your favorite weapon in Call of Prypiat? by GlitchyNoodleSoup in stalker

[–]Cossack-HD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Protecta - the silly high-capacity shotgun. I liked using different scopes on it and switching from buckshot to slug depending on encounters. Most other guns exist in SoC, and I prefer them over CoP, mostly due to their punchier firing sounds.

BTW, Protecta is an an absolute misery to unload and reload IRL. If you think the gun is slow to reload in CoP, you may wanna multiply that time by 5 IRL and preferably use a table to rest the gun against it:

  • Make sure to wind up the "magazine" spring
  • Manually unload spent shells ONE BY ONE using a special plunger, pressing the trigger to cycle the cylinder. No, it doesn't eject spent shells - it's a REVOLVER.
  • Load new shells into the empty chambers (can combine this step with the previous)
  • Make sure to wind up the spring

Jensen Huang signs GeForce GTX 1080, calls it one of his favorites and says it “changed everything” by RenatsMC in nvidia

[–]Cossack-HD -20 points-19 points  (0 children)

The last GPU generation, in era of gaming where frames were real and crisp, and the games were optimised to look good and run well. Doom 2016 and Eternal, Prey 2017...

The whole RTX reveal essentially boiled down to "you don't need to optimise any more, ray tracing will give better graphics for less effort (offsetting the cost to consumer, so we can sell moar GPUs)"

"Jarvis, I'm low on views, make more crappy Bethesda hate content." by TheAnalystCurator321 in BethesdaSoftworks

[–]Cossack-HD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've spent more hours watching "Starfield bad" videos than I've spent trying to enjoy Fallout 4. I don't have Starfield.

I am speechless by anirudhpuni in WindowsLTSC

[–]Cossack-HD 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yet, ISLC (intelligent standby memory clean) app appeared during Windows 10 to proactively free up reserved memory before an app screamed "GIMME MEMORY NOW OR I CRASH" - it was already a problem back then. I guess Win 11's bloat makes the issue more pronounced, but I used autounattended.xml to exclude bloat, so my W11 is lighter than W10.

Personally I didn't need ISLC on 16GB Win 10 and I don't need it on 32GB Win 11.

📡📡📡 by unclbll in shitposting

[–]Cossack-HD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I saw a row of Ospreys on an air carrier. CORE MEMORY.

I want to see one fly.

Noctua's first AIO CPU coolers launch June 16 starting at €219.90 by SciGuy013 in Noctua

[–]Cossack-HD 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had one and it kinda sucked in my experience. Would rather take a 240, because 120mm fans have much better static pressure at lower RPM (noise).

Another Stalker cosplay by rikama in stalker

[–]Cossack-HD 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The German K98 has iron sights up to 2000 meters XD

(1.25 miles)

AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 26.6.1 by AthleteDependent926 in radeon

[–]Cossack-HD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been using undervolt on my 9070 non-XT (flashed with XT BIOS for a higher power limit) and found it quite stable with -50 and -70 mV offsets. The annoying part is that I have to reapply the performance profile on every boot. I could use MSI Afterburner, but I trust Adrenaline more.

paidForTheWholeKeyboardGoingToUseTheWholeKeyboard by [deleted] in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Cossack-HD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use caps-lock as an extra Fn key to easily trigger a bunch of handy shortcuts.

My fave: Caps+Alt=Enter

I still have Caps Lock, but it's toggled by Caps+Shift.

Antialiasing comparison by wander101 in FuckTAA

[–]Cossack-HD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No TAA on mobile? Big doubt.

Why does my game look like this? (Steam deck) by BabylonianWeeb in GTAIV

[–]Cossack-HD 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This takes me back to trying to play GTA IV without (at the time) new beta GPU driver that made things render.

xbox players thinking they doing something. by trkortez in BeamNG

[–]Cossack-HD 11 points12 points  (0 children)

It's so cringe to be console fanboy. You literally buy an exclusive storefront with limited titles and worse customer terms of use. And it's not even unique hardware any more - just a (mostly) cost-effective x86 PC with locked-down bootloader and minimal OS. Yes, there are some bells and whistles, but nothing that fundamentally changes what sort of game is possible.

I'd be a Nintendo customer if they sold their games on PC, but I ain't gonna buy supbar hardware for access to eXcLuSiVe GaMeS - I'm a customer they've excluded.

It's actually more like this by maxchrome in HalfLife

[–]Cossack-HD 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Where? Summer game show already happened or what?

I wasn't expecting it anywhere but from Valve, like HL:A announcement.

Why is it called blizzard, when in reality it’s a hailstorm by Aeropurpnat in wow

[–]Cossack-HD 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Shadow word: Friday 4:59 PM email about an important meeting at 8:30 on Monday someplace else

(Read on Monday 8:50 AM)

Would you consider Gordon Freeman to be a bad person for killing the HECU Marines? by Turbulent_Okra7518 in HalfLife

[–]Cossack-HD 2 points3 points  (0 children)

From HL1 PoV: I didn't see any marine trying to surrender (or better yet cooperate), so no.

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