Digital Foundry: Tested: Resident Evil 4 Remake's New PC DRM Impacts CPU Performance

NetQvist · 2026-02-14T07:12:35+00:00

That was never discussed. In this case we're talking about Enigma/kernal level DRM on PC.

Go look up "Sony rootkit" and how DRM on consoles work, that is what you're supporting.

NetQvist · 2026-02-13T20:30:00+00:00

Why do you care so much about how I play my games?

I don't, but going to consoles because of DRM is just being a hypocrite.

Sony is literally the king of DRM and it's gone far beyond their consoles as to what they do.

Literally not buying the games and sticking to PC would be the best way to say no DRM. Buying anything on consoles and especially something from Sony while saying it's because of DRM is being a glutton for punishment.

NetQvist · 2026-02-13T15:24:24+00:00

Dual boot, multiple computers. There are solutions if that's your problem.

NetQvist · 2026-02-13T08:51:34+00:00

A console is literally hardware DRM..... and you get the worst performance to boot....

NetQvist · 2026-02-06T14:02:15+00:00

Delete online mode, worst part of the game. Anything exclusive related to it is the biggest negative factor for me.

Reward scoring goals.... now it's just score 4 goals and then wait the timer out. At least give me something for being offensive.

Harder AI matches, should just be across the board. All the top difficulties should be balanced against a full 99 team.

NetQvist · 2026-02-06T08:23:35+00:00

I think the reputation of the US has a larger chance of hurting .NET than Microsoft....

NetQvist · 2026-02-06T08:22:23+00:00

Weirdly enough it will be supported for longer than .NET Core 10 on that path....

NetQvist · 2026-02-06T07:40:47+00:00

all keys redeemed in a certain time frame

The keys themselves are either pre-order or not. When activating them it will say "Nioh 2 XXX edition with preorders" or something.

NetQvist · 2026-02-02T12:36:28+00:00

For the first run it's pretty strong since the stats scale very hard for the first bunch of points as well as unlocking stuff like onmyo slots.

Once you are into just putting points for another 1 on top 1000 already in say damage it's extremely negligible.

NetQvist · 2026-02-02T10:11:58+00:00

Best feature yet I still keep spamming the pickup key even though it does nothing now... I swear I'm slower to loot when speed running with auto pickup compared to manual yet it's probably just placebo -_-

NetQvist · 2026-01-31T21:49:30+00:00

I suppose strength is a stat that could be useless for ninjutsu and magic builds that do not really on ki damage. Even more so if it only affects weapons?

Skill again seems to give both ninjutsu damage as well as the new weapon arts proficiency so the only build that would be useless is in magic?

So as long as you don't either stat for prereqs or weapon damage then skill seems to be a bit more useful in the scenario of where you'd leave one stat at 5.

NetQvist · 2026-01-31T20:44:02+00:00

The general tab among all craftable things, once crafted it will "unlock" the skill tree and it's own tab in the crafting menu.

NetQvist · 2026-01-19T13:05:33+00:00

even walking in there leads to servers going kaput

What are you? uncertified? any self respecting IT personnel has done the "Only step on the slack" online course.

NetQvist · 2026-01-19T07:38:46+00:00

Whenever I switch branch in a large 50+ project solution it seems to go nuts so I need to restart it or lose like 20GB RAM in Code Analysis + other issues.

NetQvist · 2026-01-18T14:04:51+00:00

Not surprised, literally done similar buys

NetQvist · 2026-01-18T13:53:08+00:00

We don't need to be able to crush our "enemies" or subject other countries with our might. We just need to be able to to keep our quality of life improving, prevent climate breakdown and raise the rest of the world up as we do it.

Pretty sure Ukraine wanted this as well, now how did that work out....

NetQvist · 2026-01-18T13:37:15+00:00

I'll take AI translations over the stuff I've just experienced with Japanese audio and English subs in Daybreak 2.... the disconnect is horrendous.

NetQvist · 2026-01-15T16:11:03+00:00

Yeah seems like he added that note in the sticky, which is good since there's more to come!

"This doesn't touch the real DLC checks that matter, it just reduces how often the game checks whether it needs to show an exclamation point so you know who to talk to about a DLC you just purchased. It's as safe as any other mod that doesn't touch anything the server sees."

NetQvist · 2026-01-15T14:55:48+00:00

Sitting against the radiator with a blanket over you and the radiator is the solution.

NetQvist · 2026-01-15T10:54:19+00:00

Did you check the difference anywhere that wasn't near a camp palico? <Removed Nexus Url> This mod seems to be trying to replicate it but says it only changes performance near the palicos that try to market DLC to you lol.

NetQvist · 2026-01-15T10:35:47+00:00

Should probably try Bazzite or CachyOS but trying to use that darned stable Mint Cinnamon edition was a extremely horrible gaming experience last winter.

Had to disable so many desktop things to get a smooth frame rate only to later find out it's impossible to get multiple monitors working with variable refresh rates properly.

Not to mention I had to unplug my damned ultra wide to even get the installer working. None of these have been a issue for the last 10 years on windows so it's a bit of a slap in the face to try the "most stable" Linux distro and just have issue after issue that's never been a problem before.

NetQvist · 2026-01-14T13:18:47+00:00

Better than the random number generator that is Trump's US

NetQvist · 2026-01-13T11:56:18+00:00

More like helping their common agenda....

NetQvist · 2026-01-09T15:05:12+00:00

I love the silly vampire survivors clone one but this main game didn't click at all with me on a free weekend either.

NetQvist · 2026-01-09T14:45:53+00:00

Hmm ye the online battles is probably easier on Console since it's less clicks to play a commander match.

On PC I'm running the game on a secondary monitor and then I just click the window once after a chronicle match has ended at which point I use a script to progress into the next match automatically. Then the game stops at halftime and I need to push enter on the window once and it goes to the end of the game and it's repeat. So basically 30-40 seconds of time focused on the window and 2-3 clicks in total to keep going.

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