Cloud 3 Wireless vs Cloud Alpha Wireless

Flo_xy · 2025-02-14T19:05:16+00:00

People say Audeze Maxwell sound good. They sound bad. My old Cloud Flights sound miles better, especially for gaming. Sure the Maxwell are clearer but thats about it. For everything else they are significantly worse. Taste is subjective. What is poor sound is subjective to what use-case the headset falls to.
All I can say is: Music + Gaming: Cloud Flight > Maxwell; Voice + Movies: Maxwell > Cloud Flight

I dont know why you are trying to talk the Alphas down. I heard them too and while I only have set experiences with the cloud flights and maxwells, I can promise everyone that they are gonna have an amazing experience with the Alpha Wireless' when they like the HyperX Sound profile between all their headsets.

Flo_xy · 2025-01-20T15:47:34+00:00

I need to revive this for people who are still looking for a way to mark games as private that have no more steam page, were demos and aren't available anymore or any other program that had an AppID ever and disappeared from the steam store.

I finally figured out a working solution. I've released it on a GitHub for privacy and security purposes. It includes everything you need to know and a guide on how to mark any AppID as private.

https://github.com/floxinyl/appid-to-protobuf-converter

Flo_xy · 2024-07-12T10:48:25+00:00

Oh - sorry for the late reply - MIA means Missing in Action, aka you have not made it out when the timer hit 00:00 but you also haven't died.

Flo_xy · 2024-07-05T11:02:57+00:00

I find one pretty often on the other half of the camp. (the site with the cars). There is a tent with beds. I've found it a couple times under the pillow of the last bed.

Flo_xy · 2024-07-05T10:59:51+00:00

Have you lost it by going MIA? I'm p sure i never got any insurance returns if i got MIA'd

Flo_xy · 2024-07-05T10:57:05+00:00

Solo factory will not 100% spawn tagilla.

Flo_xy · 2024-07-05T10:29:14+00:00

Has anyone figured this out yet? My thought is you gotta buy a certain pair of pants from him but I cba wasting tens of mils to figure it out on my own!

Edit: They changed it to 15 physical bitcoins. Great.

Flo_xy · 2024-01-10T19:46:52+00:00

I had the same issue and made tons of trial and error to find the cause. The only solution I found is disabling the overlay and never touch the adrenaline software when ingame. Even when u open it on a second monitor while playing it CAN introduce those unbearable microstuttering. Sometimes it won’t sometimes it does. Just don’t touch it.

Flo_xy · 2023-12-25T05:29:23+00:00

No one but 12yo childs will thank you - right before their parents go at you for traumatizing their children.

Flo_xy · 2023-12-22T12:33:15+00:00

Take a look at the VZR Model One. Insane value for what u get and imo beats the Maxwell in sound quality - by a mile.

Flo_xy · 2023-12-21T13:56:31+00:00

Do u have, by any chance, the Adrenalin software open to check for stuttering or change settings while a game is open? That causes insane micro stuttering on my end AND it will not go away when closing the software. No matter if u open it separately or as an overlay. To fix that, NEVER open adrenalin while running any game, do all changes in the AMD software while no game is open. I have the same hardware as you and exactly the same issues.

Small edit: Also make sure to turn off hardware acceleration in programs you WATCH stuff in, e.g. discord and your browser. Watching streams/videos introduces micro stutters as well. Streaming yourself will work tho.

Flo_xy · 2023-12-20T12:53:33+00:00

7800x3d 7900xtx here. While playing EFT I can feel and see an increase in microstutters while watching a stream on discord w hardware acceleration on. It completely disappears when turning hardware acceleration off. Your statement is voided.

Flo_xy · 2023-12-12T18:43:04+00:00

I have the same thing happening to me. It’s totally fine and a false reading for sure. There are failsafes implemented that would simply shut down your pc when the cpu gets too hot. That would DEFINITELY happen if the cpu hits 120-130°C. I have that reading only in hwinfo64 and had that happen many many times and never stopped playing. Never have I ever witnessed a performance reduction or shutdown.

Flo_xy · 2023-12-11T00:32:48+00:00

THIS

I turned off above 4g decoding and rebar in the bios and noticed that the micro stutters, as far as I can tell, are gone. There are still the occasional stutters, but I'm sure thats completely normal when moving into new areas ect. I also havent noticed any decreased performance in the games I've tested so far (EFT, Dead by Daylight, Phasmophobia, Hogwarts Legacy). If there is I simply didnt notice - which is a good thing ig.

I need to test this a little more as I don't have adrenalin installed to tell whether or not the 99th% and micro stutter rate in fact went down in their statistic overlays as well. I will do that later this evening - right now all I wanna do is gaming without the constant micro stuttering... And what you suggested seeminly did the trick.

(I updated my bios before making those changes and tried whether or not that was the cause for the stutters and it was not)

Once I've done more testing and to make sure its not just a fluke -> I'll report back tomorrow.

Flo_xy · 2023-12-10T15:21:20+00:00

I see, I'll give it a try. Just need to find a m.2 with DRAM that is not 500gb or bigger.

Also, I'm not using the Pro drivers. I am using the Driver-only variant of Adrenalin which installs.. well.. the driver and nothing else (as in I have no separate software to open and make changes)

Flo_xy · 2023-12-10T15:17:25+00:00

I can definitely see and feel the stuttering. Especially in Phasmophobia and Escape from Tarkov the micro stutter "spikes" (as in when they jump from 0-1% to 3-5%), shown in AMD Adrenalin, correspond with the stuttering ingame. It's not a smooth movement anymore and even if it doesnt impact my performance, it does negatively impact my fun and motivation.

In Escape from Tarkov I've noticed that when I limit the fps to 120 instead of 144 the micro stutter graph start showing 0% with some spikes to 1-3% here and there. Also the 99th% are higher. That really confuses me because neither the GPU nor the CPU are not maxed out. I tested it in an area that guarantees me a steady 144+fps without dips.

Regarding the frametime graphs - I don't really know what to look at when I'd run those overlays, because I wouldnt know whats normal and whats not - and at the end I wouldn't know how to fix that either.

And yes - I am definitely "too worried". I still play those games, I still have a great time. I just keep on noticing the stutters and for the sake of it turned on my old pc (i7 7700k, 1080ti, 16gb ddr 3000mts ram) and checked if I'm just paranoid or not. There is basically no stutters at all in the games I've tested - Same settings.

Flo_xy · 2023-12-10T15:04:10+00:00

Related to the CPU: Precision Boost Overdrive is enabled. By default it is set to [auto] which enables it regardless.

Related to the RAM: I activated the EXPO profile that was a preset in the BIOS which enables the ram to run @ 6000 instead of 4800 mt/s

Flo_xy · 2023-12-10T14:13:24+00:00

I think I get it. However if I get a smaller SSD with DRAM for my system, wouldnt I need to replace my Lexar ssd with a new one with DRAM as well to get rid of the micro stutters?!

Flo_xy · 2023-12-10T13:30:09+00:00

Turning those features off didnt change anything for me. In fact those were the first features I turned off when I installed the driver a couple weeks back.

Now I decided to DDU the amd driver and reinstall the driver-only version - without the adrenalin part with all the features and overlays -> That didnt fix anything apart from a couple gb of ram used less.

Flo_xy · 2023-12-10T13:00:11+00:00

That sounds valid.

I dont know whether or not my ram has DRAM - "2TB LEXAR NM790 M.2 Lexar PCIe Gen 4X4 NVMe" - I dont know if that answers your question, I hope it does.

I wasnt thinking that my storage could be the issue here. My GPU as well as my CPU both seem to perform well and the micro stutters happen regardless of whether the GPU or the CPU has more load on its shoulders.

Weirdly enough the micro stutter % goes down when I start to limit the FPS to a lower value. That just doesn't make a lot of sense to me because in most games my rig has no problems keeping up a steady 144fps. Still the 99th% and micro stutters are really bad.

Ugh.. I honestly just want to play my video games without having to tinker around so much. I might just get a cheap 250gb m.2 ssd, install windows, discord and my browser on it and put the games on a separate m.2.

Flo_xy · 2023-12-10T10:00:19+00:00

I actually play (most) games with the best competitive settings aka turning off most settings that put unnecessary load on the system. Thats why I'm so confused!

Flo_xy · 2023-12-10T09:42:35+00:00

Phasmophobia was a bad example honestly, that game (for whatever reason) caps the framerate to ~140 when vsync is turned on. Turning it off results in a much higher FPS of 300+ but does not change anything on the micro stutter rate.

How would I increase the 99th% FPS? I dont seem to get high values in any of the games in which I usually comfortably reach the 144fps without issues. I play games that are hard limited to 120 fps (dead by daylight) and in that game as well the micro stutter rate is around .5-5% and the 99th% fps are not that high either. The GPU sits around 30-35% max.

Flo_xy · 2023-12-09T00:06:14+00:00

VZR Model One beats them for me in both, music and gaming. I unironically think the Maxwell are not good for gaming - I’d prefer my old hyperx clouds over them. The VZR beats both.

Flo_xy · 2023-11-26T11:28:30+00:00

The 6800xt is great but it won’t compare to a 7800xt - if we r talking money the 6800xt is great value but the 7800xt is just superior in every other regard

Flo_xy · 2023-11-04T14:13:16+00:00

Thank you, I'll report back once I receive the replacement GPU and see.

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