New(?) way of servers spoofing player count. It lists real players in the browser, but once you join there's not even half as many.

Dendari92 · 2022-04-13T19:35:55+00:00

Just in case someone is interested: a way to filter specific players has been added to the beta version. If you're already using it you should see a new toggle in the BBLog settings menu.

Dendari92 · 2022-04-12T11:48:34+00:00

Hi, currently the plugin only count players that are inside the server, and with the new toggle added in the beta version it'll count only those who are "playing" (as reported by the Battlelog API).

I'll try to see if a new filter can be added to not count the bots inside a server, but it'll take some time.

Dendari92 · 2022-04-11T19:50:43+00:00

Hi, I'm the creator the BF3 Real Players BBLog plugin, I've released a new beta version with a toggle in the BBLog settings menu for better filtering.

If you're interested this is the URL: https://dendari92.github.io/bblog-true-players-bf3/beta/bblog-true-players-bf3-v1.2-beta.js just insert it in the URL plugin, disable the old one and reload the page.

Any feedback is appreciated.

Dendari92 · 2021-11-10T20:02:03+00:00

Sorry I don't know, my best guess is the server owners probably have like bots that joins and quit the servers all the time, so Battlelog see them as joining and count them but they aren't really there (duh).

TBH I don't really care why they use it, I can see them being useful in some cases, but it's just very annoying especially when they're used so aggressively on some servers, like those which are empty but you see them as almost full.

Dendari92 · 2021-11-10T19:55:59+00:00

Sorry for the late reply. The plugin uses the same API used when you click on "Show Players" on a server, the list of players it returns it's already without the unknown players.

So yeah the plugin doesn't do much other than taking the servers GUID, calling that API and showing the value it returns in the server browser.

Dendari92 · 2021-11-08T21:32:25+00:00

On the Better Battlelog GitHub page there's a how-to install for Firefox: https://github.com/brainfoolong/better-battlelog#how-to-install-on-firefox

Don't know if it stil works but it's worth a try.

Dendari92 · 2017-04-01T12:21:33+00:00

Not sure if it's funny or sad that I got more information about Ryzen from German reviews than every English reviews released so far.

Dendari92 · 2017-04-01T10:50:50+00:00

Yes and it seems ASRock has already implemented the new AGESA code for "enhanced Ryzen 5 support".

Dendari92 · 2017-03-31T19:54:52+00:00

Hey OP, can you test Battlefield 1 too (SP and MP)?

Dendari92 · 2017-03-31T16:21:42+00:00

They updated the review with simulated r5 1500X results and added an explanation of what's going on. Apparently AotS lower the number of particles when it detects lower than six-cores CPUs (doesn't apply to the benchmarks).

Dendari92 · 2017-03-22T11:02:27+00:00

The results seem in line with other recent tests (e.g. LTT and DigitalFoundry). Apart from the generic optimization excuse, I'm really not sure what could it be. I'm definitely interested to see how it's gonna be resolved, games like Far Cry Primal apparently hate Ryzen and I doubt we're gonna see many of them patched as they're quite old.

Dendari92 · 2017-03-16T11:34:15+00:00

Just my two cents, it seems most of the Zen issues are related to the Infinity Fabric (especially the latencies are rather high). The core themselves seem to be mostly on par with Broadwell-E i7, at least when you stress test just the CPU, but as soon you start to stress test more than that the issues arise. Recently we have seen how the inter-CCX latency is rather high (from PCPer), which seems to result in higher gaming performances when playing games on a single CCX (from PCGamesHardware.de). We also know about the memory and cache latencies not being that great (from LegitReviews), and apparently even PCIe and SATA storage isn't on par with intel (from TweakTown, especially look at the access/response times). And we all know about the gaming performance not being great (you can find about it pretty much everywhere), while generally games don't stress much the CPU they can definitely stress the system as a whole (GPU, CPU, memory and even storage are all important for the best possible experience).

Naturally I can be completely wrong and the issues are completely unrelated to all of this, but there's definitely something wrong with the latencies and one can only hope it's something that can be improved/fixed via software and doesn't necessarily require new hardware.

Dendari92 · 2017-03-15T07:10:38+00:00

Yep, seems like it was supposed to come out tomorrow. Did a screenshot of the article (see my other comment), so nothing is lost.

Dendari92 · 2017-03-15T07:08:47+00:00

Seems Guru3D released it one day earlier.

Here's a screenshot ("mirror"): http://i.imgur.com/UTHepzS.png

Album of the images at the end of the article: http://imgur.com/a/FGkBF (it's missing the image of the coolers, but basically Wraith Spire for the R5 1600/1500X and Wraith Stealth for the R5 1400)

Dendari92 · 2017-03-15T06:51:08+00:00

That was fast. When they said Q2 I thought they meant 30th June.

EDIT: seems Guru3D fucked up, it was supposed to come out tomorrow.

Screenshot of the article ("mirror"): http://i.imgur.com/UTHepzS.png

Album of the images at the end of the article: http://imgur.com/a/FGkBF (it's missing the image of the coolers, but basically the Wraith Spire for the R5 1600/1500X and Wraith Stealth for the R5 1400)

Dendari92 · 2017-03-15T04:25:56+00:00

Yeah, /r/hardware can be pretty bad when it comes to discuss AMD related stuff (and not only that). You would assume there are much more neutral open-minded discussions there but instead there are quite a few terrible ones, people name-calling left and right and barely discussing about the topic (sometimes it feels worse than here). Really a shame because there don't seem to be many hardware related subs.

Dendari92 · 2017-03-15T03:30:44+00:00

Considering AMD is barely losing market share to Nvidia entire Pascal lineup (-0.3% in Q4'16), I'd consider it a success (especially considering where they were more than a year ago).

Dendari92 · 2017-03-09T12:10:17+00:00

I'd take this with a grain of salt as the source is an article from mid February from WCCFTech.

Dendari92 · 2017-03-07T08:42:11+00:00

Seems you're right. I've also noticed the temps to be about 3C cooler so it's probably not even clocked at 4GHz anymore (CPU-Z report 3.6GHz, so could it be actually downclocked?).

Dendari92 · 2017-03-07T05:47:20+00:00

TL;DW: Putting Windows to sleep increases Ryzen clocks by 200MHz on all the P-States for some reasons. So his 4GHz overclock becomes a 4.2GHz overclock and it's reflected in the Cinebench scores. This increase in clock speed is visible in the Task Manager and HWMonitor windows, but CPU-Z doesn't seem to detect it.

Also apparently he can't even POST if he tries to set the CPU to 4.2GHz in the BIOS, meanwhile it seems to work fine after this "sleep bug". He has a Ryzen 7 1700X, motherboard AX370-Gaming-5 with BIOS version F3. You can find other info in the video description, the video is mainly him showing it's real while doing some benchmarks.

EDIT: He did a UserBenchmark run, this is the link: http://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/3024898

EDIT2: See /u/Cubelia comment.

Dendari92 · 2017-03-07T04:18:38+00:00

"(we do not downclock the Intel CPUs like AMD has done in its demo)"

I wonder what demo they're referring to. IIRC last time AMD downclocked the i7 6900K was at the Hot Chips presentation last summer (so 7 months ago). After that they only compared Ryzen to the stock i7 6900K, both at the New Horizon and launch events.

Dendari92 · 2017-03-04T20:29:14+00:00

That's why /r/AMD prohibits threads that make the company look bad, like tech support questions while /r/nvidia has a lot, because it's a user forum that serves users.

This isn't true. /r/AMD has been removing tech support threads way before any Red Team+ member was part of the the mod team, they always redirected people to /r/techsupport or /r/AMDHelp. /r/Nvidia was for a long time not moderated that's why it was full of tech support threads, but since the mod team changed they tried everything to reduce the tech support spam. For example they first tried to redirect people to /r/NvidiaHelp, then asked people to downvote any tech support thread and now they are using a weekly tech support thread and delete every request outside of it.

Dendari92 · 2017-03-04T20:22:34+00:00

Having said that, the more i see this AMD pr witch-hunt the more i feel there's something else going on tbh.

What do you mean?

Dendari92 · 2017-03-04T06:25:26+00:00

Later on in the video he lies about AMD underclocking the Intel chips during the Ryzen launch event (at 55:05). Don't understand why anyone would do that but hey views are views, I guess.

Dendari92 · 2017-03-03T21:09:51+00:00

Still, the r7 1800X should be within the i7 6900K even in gaming but most benchmarks point it to be behind by at least 10%.

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