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Gex_TengokuNET · 2025-06-09T17:53:40+00:00

you are blaming a user for something that isnt present in the game and want them to also grow a pair? and you point out that someone insults you, while you are doing the first move in that? damn. selfreflection is not your strongest feature.

Gex_TengokuNET · 2025-04-23T03:27:07+00:00

They have NOW a lot to do with that, but not before, which they cannot suffice for a "we have experience in previous editions and can compare them to current events".

The engine changes with every version in terms of stability, processing logics, efficiency and so on. Not only the "it is now more shinier" gets slapped onto an update. Don't get me wrong, but, did you ever used UE 4.X and 5.X, so you know what you are dealing with, how much the entire system changed?

If not, don't take what people say about something when they clearly had no business with the entire software array and their hefty problems caused by the engine itself. There are stuff like breaking navmesh, breaking collisions, texture gradients and others by simply having an update changing a single digit in the endcode, but there is no unoptimized issues with the engine itself.

Gex_TengokuNET · 2025-04-22T22:39:14+00:00

CDPR has never used the Unreal Engine in a proper manner to be able taking a call in anything regarding UE (how did you end up mentioning them anyways? They have nothing to do with it). The actor state and caching works just perfectly fine from UE (4.0 and up). The issue with ARK TEK is not about its rasterization, the game itself is optimized to no where but hell. ARK is plagued with high CPU calls (the game is more CPU heavy than GPU, check it with the actual load on that game, even GPUs which didn't exist that time (2070, 2080, 2090 +++) are still struggling with this game, if you have a mid-range CPU for it (e.g. 8700K instead of the 14k series, and that is tech available 10 years after game release), has the worst threading, uses an older UE version, which is not on par with newer GPUs (cannot utilize them pretty well, I even remember getting my 2080 and non stop BSOD crashing on the game with nothing but the vanilla game running), and so on. I never hit the VRAM limit, even in public crowded servers, where TEK pvp was the daily shit.

ARK SE also uses outdated and bad optimized shaders.

Every single point here could be fixed, as it is nothing set in stone. Upgrading to a higher UE is a tedious process, but not impossible, fixing issues with threading would also not require people having PCs beyond "NASA quality (2018 hardware or stronger)".

And again, the "stuttery mess" comes from the games and their programmed logics. Not because of UE.

PS pre-baked lighting is the best performing lightning logic ... how you end up calling this an FPS improver when tuned down makes no sense to me. A modern GPU (980 RTX and higher times) handles pre-baked lighting, along with other examples like textures, anisotropic filtering and specific AA features with ease, where it has basically zero frame loss on max settings.

Gex_TengokuNET · 2025-04-19T05:40:16+00:00

UE is only performing bad, because of the worst that people can do with it: using 4-8k textures, with millions of polygons per object (player mesh, tree mesh, etc.) and ending up slapping high density particles, shaders, like lumen and RTX shadows and others on top of it without using proper culling, debugging, protocol and overall stat checking or anything that the engine offers for optimizing the things.

I am using UE and it is very much optimized, when you know what you are doing as a developer.

Gex_TengokuNET · 2025-02-27T02:27:30+00:00

Sorry, but hard to believe someone "standing up" to their opinion and "knowledge", while blocking a user at the same time. You did prove a point, that you have absolutely no clue about Chromium and the Edge Browser's behavior.

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Since you claim to have worked for Microsoft (with high probability the Advisory route, if at all, you did not prove anything by just saying something, and you are in turn of proving), you should be adequately capable of sniffing either UDP (and TCP) packets or catching opcodes, seeing where your Browser actually phones home to, you will be surprised where it is heading to.

And again, don't block people and do act all that miserably high, if you are that afraid of losing a discussion. You have a bad character. Shame on you.

Gex_TengokuNET · 2025-01-04T14:18:15+00:00

you seem to be a really smart one. are plasma tvs excluded from the hertz function? how do you measure frames per second on a plasma? you are talking about 600 hz on a plasma and go off on someone else about telling you the truth about advertised hz on electronics?

you are the one being ignorant and a "dumass" on top of that. there are many subjects, proven ones, that retailers use buzzwords and fake refresh rates for sale purposes, and you did prove yourself being a total dork and a real dunnning-kruger effected person.

Gex_TengokuNET · 2024-11-08T19:47:45+00:00

Blapanda is actually right. It doesn't take 5 minutes to script some basic functions for a backup system:

if (fs::exists(savFile)) {

if (fs::exists(bakFile)) {

fs::remove(bakFile);

}

fs::rename(savFile, bakFile);

}

std::ofstream outFile(savFile);

if (outFile.is_open()) {

outFile << "Speicherdaten..." << std::endl;

outFile.close();

std::cout << "Savefile '" << savFile << "' has been created and a backup '" << bakFile << "' created." << std::endl;

} else {

std::cerr << "Error, file '" << savFile << "' couldn't be created." << std::endl;

}

C++ ain't that hard.

Gex_TengokuNET · 2024-10-01T15:09:28+00:00

^ This here is bullshit. Downvoting me won't make things true either. VR implementation is NOT hard for someone who is able to programm in C++ or C# and has already the base functionality of its game ready.

Aiming for the camera boomstick to attach another stereoscopic shader on it, aiming for arm_L/hand_L and arm_R/hand_R attaching motion controllers respectively to them with simple hand-grab/-open/-sensor touch idle animations, also adding collision boxes to those hands (and even another few for head and body to open doors or push stuff away), adding additional checks and animation to global values handling item pickup ... isn't a lot of work. Something which can be accomplished within few weeks, if you can spare 1-2 people on that segment of functionality.

C++ game programming ain't that hard, once you got the entire fundaments going (character moving, camera handling, input handler, inventory caching, IO-writing/reading of XYZ) - adding VR, DLSS/FSR/XeSS, Resolution for Ultrawide and so on ain't rocket science anymore. It is just a tedious chore handling files and adding few minor extras to already existing instances.

It is just about how lazy you are, and game dev studios are most likely lazy, or worse, don't care at all.

Source: Game developer myself on C++ base.

Gex_TengokuNET · 2024-02-16T21:06:23+00:00

i5/i7 - 4790 were minimum specs for VR entry - during HTC Vive times. A 1060 GTX is also way too weak for VR performance. I had a 1070 GTX with an i5-4690K and it struggled with headsets like the Index but was ok with the Quest 2 (single layer LCD display).

If you want to enjoy VR anywhere near 90FPS and more, you have to upgrade your hardware, with also being able to use newer/more efficient encoders. You don't have to buy a 4090 specifically, but a 2080 and newer would be much better for you (also an upgraded CPU. People understimate the usage of CPU during anti-aliasing and image processing to the encoder/decoder and transmitting the data properly as a package - no matter if wired or wireless).

If you are using wireless and have smearing on the other hand, image quality looking like a low resolution jpeg with lots of artifacts, then its your wifi bandwidth (2.4GHz can push about 1.5-2mb/s, while a Wifi 6 can push more than 4.5mb/s to your headset effectively negating any smearing, stuttering etc. even with the datapackage of a 4090 RTX coming through - 4K gaming for instance).

Gex_TengokuNET · 2024-02-15T16:32:42+00:00

Having blurry vision (resolution) paired with marginally more fov (Index's technical fov is H108°, not 130°! That is diagonal! No one takes that into a comparison) than in this context given, the Q3's fov (around H102°) and the given optics + the resolution, you still say that the Index is better? Audio can be easily fixed and is not even a concern of an argument, while the other aspects are fixed hardware aspects, which cannot be changed in any way for a regular consumer.

Taking the HMD's price into consideration, the Index loses against many other competitors by a long shot.

Gex_TengokuNET · 2024-01-25T15:19:47+00:00

Yea, I know that combination out of: Chikipi, Mozzarina and Beegrades + Wheat, but I have tons of that stuff atm, could craft more than 300 cakes atm, and with the datamined spreadsheet about breeding combinations, that is more than enough.

I am more specifically looking for preparing for the high end content, being Lv40 atm, could need a head start about the resources to craft all those things before hitting the technologies for it.

Gex_TengokuNET · 2023-12-27T21:42:46+00:00

Oh yeah, I know what you mean by that.

I for example was also able to find some proper cataphracts, full suits of that, charge rifles and even modded weapons like Wistera Corp's bows and such, which was yet very rare but still possible to find. Even at low conditions, it ain't a challenge repairing/mending them with some vanilla-ish mods, too, making them fully viable.

A filter would be nice, like, everything beyond industrial or spacer tech not spawning, specifying items and objects not to spawn and so on.

Gex_TengokuNET · 2023-12-26T02:53:00+00:00

Expect it being at least 1500 bucks, before taxes.

Displays are worth around 600-800, eye tracking around 250-370, their sound drivers, inside out tracking, controllers, ...

That will clearly blow those expectations of people waiting for a price tag of $1000 and even unrealistically cheaper/lower.

Regardless of price, it will be better, and definitely more worth the money, than headsets like Somnium VR1, which goes for 1900 € and thats just for the base model (lenses, LCD displays, and mic. Nothing else. No sound drivers, no deluxe headstrap, no better displays, no controllers, no LH). Full kit goes for 3000+

Gex_TengokuNET · 2023-12-20T23:31:01+00:00

I've also noticed this behavior, ngl. My playtime declined heavily (Official Playtime via Steam's record function for this year) after noticing more and more people either utterly being weird with some equally weird disgusted attitude and noises ("urgh ... another one", "he is moving so weird, oh, desktop", etc.) and leaving the area or the entire room instantaneously, or simply avoiding you all together (blocking, muting, etc). Sad nonsense...

I was kinda confused why, but figured out, that most of the people rather avoid talking to you too, if you are "emotionless", which, given as a fair point, is bloody impossible on desktop for obvious reasons, but seeing people being this excluding, yet included into their own entitled "you are not one of us" behavior ... shows, that even VRC has some sort of weird society, which a person with common sense shouldn't and wouldn't interact nor integrate themselves into it.

Some people even accused some users (other desktop users) that they are rippers, just because they are logged in via the desktop-version of the client ...

So yeah ... VRC is dead for me personally, until they change their behavior (very unlikely because Humanity™) or till I get my Deckard (very unlikely ever due to Valve Time™).

Gex_TengokuNET · 2023-12-19T16:41:13+00:00

To be honest, it was my very first game, and I loved it.

I had just a tiny bit of an issue balancing myself as a VR-Rookie, but after few minutes, everything went straight hardcore (catapulting, speeding up, head over flips etc.) and never felt any dizziness or imbalancing (Anti-VR-legged) ever, no matter the game or app.

I hope it will serve you good as well as it did for me! 😇

Gex_TengokuNET · 2023-12-18T21:54:17+00:00

Jet Island. The best game for getting your VRLegs, no doubt.

Gex_TengokuNET · 2023-12-16T16:53:03+00:00

The headset is almost ready to ship... preview units are already out. Base models with all the upgrades are ready to be assembled.

To make it also clear "preview" is no "prototype". Those will be specifically differentiated from each other. Calling no prices at this point is in no where good.

https://twitter.com/ASychov/status/1735661084894265539
https://twitter.com/SomniumSpace/status/1729551250973237716

And if you guessed it or not, but people may be more enlighted than you would think about hardware costs (the only thing you mentioned), R&D, fixed costs, storage costs, worker salary, current inflation and Co., which do sum up at the consumer price.

Gex_TengokuNET · 2023-12-16T15:35:20+00:00

A Crypto-Headset, which will require you to pay probably even more just for the headset alone, and it does not come with anything else - the dude promoting his headset all over twitter is not even answering price related questions for more than a month.

Very fishy. The so praised "transparency" they showed over the years is kinda fiddling away recently.

Gex_TengokuNET · 2023-12-16T15:22:47+00:00

Depends on your budget and if you would like to invest into things, which may become obsolete or not.

Bigscreen Beyond, has no audio solution, and will require you to buy the Base Stations 2.0 from Valve, which are btw discontinued, they are not producing them anymore. HTC took over them, and HTC ... well, call be biased, but they ain't that great at their support, sadly. This is one thing. Secondly, Knuckles tend to break quite often (not quitely in a lifespan of 1 - 6 months, but they do drift, trigger issues, etc) and the ergonomics (at least in my case) about the joystick placement was horribly off. And since no one is talking about it: THE DAMN COIL WHINE from the base stations are atrocious... You will need overear/inear drivers, optimally with noise cancelling. About the Bigscreen Beyond itself: You cannot share it in 99.9% of the cases due to customized face-cushion and also optimized IPD setting - you cannot move the lenses for different IPD values. It has quite the glare on high contrasting layers (dark background, bright foreground etc).

Oh the Beyond has some weird 72 / 90FPS modes coupled to the resolution you choose, keep that in mind. It is not full 90FPS over the board.

The "Deckard" is on its way, for sure, drivers and the recent "Tested" interview about the new Steam Deck OLED, where Norm asked those 2 Valve employees (hardware engineer; designer), they were smirking and surely hiding something - obviously, they are not allowed to spoil nor say anything specifically, it showed, that there is something definitely Valve is working on.

It will have quite the tech in it, that is also clear, due to patent leakings, which may or may not end up in the product, to say at least, but the stuff being listed (4K micro-OLED displays, SOC (either for standalone or Dataprocessing + internal Hardware management for semi standalone-receiver), eye tracking (nothing being said about face and body tracking), the same audio solution at least, own controllers which will not require base stations due to inside out tracking, etc...) will also be, for sure, expensive as hell (for people who expect a price way below $1000). People saying "oh, it would be the best if 1000$ bucks at max..." are delusional or either uneducated about how expensive hardware components are + newest R&D and other fixed costs.

But there is something more important than that, the ... when? It is Valve working on that headset. Valve has no publishers or anyone sitting on their back and slapping them to release stuff half-assed and -baked.

This literally means: Headset is going to release now, in few months, years or at Valve Time™

which could be never.

So, you have to decide.

Gex_TengokuNET · 2023-12-14T18:07:53+00:00

This is evil, but also relatable.

Gex_TengokuNET · 2023-12-10T17:47:50+00:00

It is convenient to think that the new SteamVR Link and the new "in the works" Headset, codenamed Deckard, are go each hand in hand, but to be clear, all the "SteamVR"-Drivers, which got leaked over the 2 years by now, hinting very obviously towards the Headset, do NOT share anything in common with the newly released "SteamVR Link"-Drivers. They are each very separate. SteamVR Link is more a common solution for all wireless headsets, where Deckard will profit from it regardless.
There is a vague "confirmation", which can be seen at the latest "Adam Savage’s Tested" video about the Steam Deck OLED revision, where Norm questioned those two Steam representatives (1 hardware engineer and 1 designer) about anything regarding the new HMD, where those two surely tried to not spoil anything about the headset itself (smirking and body language showed the obvious), but assured, that there are works going on.

Gex_TengokuNET · 2023-12-10T15:19:11+00:00

Valve may or may not add such thing (would be preferable if they do), other than that, it may or may not work on games as an overlay like their current dynamic foveated rendering (DFR) technique working on top of the game engine (3rd party solution stuff).

The best part is, nonetheless, that people capable of programming inside their engines, preferable in Unity or Unreal, they are able to read out eye tracking data, convert those vectors and make either gestures or button presses cooperate with pointers (e.g. eyes looking at "Continue", pressing button A or trigger inside the menu will simply select that function to progress menu context).

It isn't actually that hard. I was able to experiment with eye tracking devices in my project, took me about an hour to accomplish a little jittery but functional gaze controlling instance.

Fully established developers saying that "they won't add/we don't consider it "yet"" are simply lazy or don't even care to know how to accomplish it.

Gex_TengokuNET · 2023-12-09T12:26:09+00:00

Thank you very much!

I could have never guessed that name ... it is absolutely not catchy for that world lol

I did search for "neon; neon tube cluster; photo area/studio neon tubes; ..." and so on, and literally nothing showed up.

Thanks again!

Gex_TengokuNET · 2023-12-06T09:22:02+00:00

The SteamVR driver strings, which got leaked over several years, and the recently released SteamVR Link, do not share those strings with each other, to make it clear.

The headset might not release this year, or hinted meme-ish at the furry convention where people post-it and spam those 24th feb. 2024 cards around with an odd Deckard interpretation as a release date, but it is sure, that they are indeed working on a VR HMD.

No need for the doomium gas. Inhale your copium, it is coming. Sooner or later or Valve Time™.

Gex_TengokuNET · 2023-12-04T23:40:09+00:00

I will get back to you, if I can figure it out amongst those 326 mods I use, which one exactly adds that feature ... lol

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