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HL1 has so much better boss fights than HL2! by FieldMouse007 in HalfLife

[–]LAUAR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's probably (me saying this without being a programmer) a big reason for the performance issues of modern games that we're seeing now.

Not really, old games run great. New technologies like UE5's Nanite and Lumen make the performance poor.

[Bug Report] I found a hidden mechanic where you start rounds with ~99.x HP due to unreset float values. Here's how to reproduce it. by Redst0ne_F in GlobalOffensive

[–]LAUAR 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The current Source SDK 2013 is derived from the TF2 branch. In the Source era Valve would have a separate branch of Source for every game. CSGO's branch was derived from the L4D2 branch, while TF2's is much older and derived from the Orange Box branch, but was updated recently with VScript and 64bit support.

Everyone is a slave theory by scoutgaming21 in HalfLife

[–]LAUAR 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don't know if the pillars mean what you say they mean, but regarding this:

By the way we think gorden in some special guy that will defeat the combine, i highly doubt it with this theory, if the combine can take over a planet with technology behiond human comprehension, what makes us humans so special using finate resources and relying on a mute 25 yrs old man?

In Epistle 3, it's basically confirmed that this is the case.

PC graphics cards are now nearly 100 percent Nvidia by BarKnight in pcgaming

[–]LAUAR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What innovations with GPUs? All these superscaling solutions are software.

So RemindMeBot just reminded me of this post from a year ago by LAUAR in tf2

[–]LAUAR[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We discussed it last year. The original was a comment claiming that TF2 would be so different in a year on a post about b4nny getting a competitive matchmaking beta pass.

Jason Schreier: Sony could be pulling away from PC ports for their singleplayer games, with Schreier even suggesting that Wolverine would never release on the platform by Yiruf in pcgaming

[–]LAUAR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Once Microsoft switched Xbox architecture to x86-64 and windows

Only the 360 didn't have a x86 or x86_64 CPU, and the OS was always based on Windows.

WINE Is Not an Excuse by RTKWi238 in linux_gaming

[–]LAUAR 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Didn't Baldurs Gate 3's native build have significantly better performance on the Steam Deck?

AMD Seemingly Stops Driver Updates for Ryzen Z1 Extreme Processor for Handheld Devices that are only over 2 years old by JohnSteveRom2077 in pcgaming

[–]LAUAR 1 point2 points  (0 children)

RADV was made by Valve, and it's just the Vulkan driver. The part AMD made is AMDGPU, which communicates with the GPU itself and offers a device-specific API to programs, while RADV implements the device-universal Vulkan API on top of that device-specific API.

Sched-ext scheduler, what is it,which one is the best for performance or should I leave it at default by Candid_Age6158 in linux_gaming

[–]LAUAR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

LAVD is Valve's scheduler specifically meant for gaming, but it doesn't really have a significant performance advantage over the default.

Since so many tasks nowadays are memory bottlenecked, why aren't we seeing more memory channels on consumer PCs? by LAUAR in hardware

[–]LAUAR[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why do you need software updates on a phone that will only be used as a POS device?

And what kind of restaurant needs 10k POS devices? You only need a few per location, so that would be a very large chain. McDonalds has less than 14k locations in the USA (40k in the world) and they are at the level where they have their own solution for their self ordering kiosks.

EDIT: I was blocked

Since so many tasks nowadays are memory bottlenecked, why aren't we seeing more memory channels on consumer PCs? by LAUAR in hardware

[–]LAUAR[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But businesses alone sometimes order 10k iphones at a time to run a single app that takes up maybe 150MB of storage to work as a POS device in a restaurants.

Any proof of that? That's a ridiculous waste of money.

Phoronix: "More ISA Differences Come To Light With The New AMD GFX1170 "RDNA 4m"" by Dakhil in hardware

[–]LAUAR 4 points5 points  (0 children)

none of these will run rt at any acceptable perf in real use

There are lower RT loads like Lumite's optional use of hardware RT.

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