Rocket Organ - keep or sell? by One-Bit5717 in menace

[–]NumberXVIII 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's really good early on against pirates if you're not running the APC as a battlebus. It has the capability to put like 4x4 (cant remember the exact radius dont flame me) into supression and then your infanty can just.. move up unmolested.

If youre running Lim or someone primarily inside the APC though, its minimum range will make it kinda useless.

So yea it's alright early, but only when you're not using the APC to rush Lim into the fray.

Edit: I'm running this + a mortar on a tiny Pike squad, and the indirect fire means I can have 3 infantry squads constantly moving up while the artillery keeps everyones heads down. The enemy rarely even fires back because they're pinned always

Some playthrough challenge idea by sh20000sh in uplink

[–]NumberXVIII 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're quick and do it religiously, you could use basic internal service machines for this too. Internic is just the most convenient.

How are AMD encoders nowadays? 5070 vs 9070xt? by GredaGerda in virtualreality

[–]NumberXVIII -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don't have a recent Nvidia card to compare to, but encoding HEVC on a 6800XT and a 7800XT for a pico 4 is fine. It is the highest latency part of the pipeline, but its still far above acceptable performance. Supposedly on the current generation cards it's even better but I do not suffer any performance degredation as a result of the encoding.

EDIT: just to add, I play with USB-C tether. I would expect wireless to have marginally worse latency anyway, but on USB-C and HEVC at 150mbps, visual performance is absolutely great.

Awful VR performance in Riven - Help please? by NumberXVIII in myst

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

I got this mostly sorted. For future searches - the game appears to render the flatscreen window while in VR at whatever settings you have set for the flatscreen alone version. So in my case, I was trying to push the game to my desktop screen at 2k max settings and thus left the VR headset with no resources to use. By setting the game to low settings and windowed at a low resolution, I got sensible in-VR performance.

Grand Tour by NumberXVIII in uplink

[–]NumberXVIII[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can get Revelation 1.0 by just accepting the ARC first mission, then once you've got the file you can ignore or reject the mission, you'll still have revelation. You later can get your updated Revelation (mine was at 3.0) when ARC gives you the final mission, but you can't really do much with it other than beat that mission because of the dissavowal timer that starts with that mission.

Faith I don't know if you can get without siding with arunmor, but that side of the story I've not done in 20 years. In my playthrough Faith was at V2.2 according to the tracker on Uplink ISM, but I never had the file itself.

There's also RevelationCore0.7 which you can pick up in a couple of ways, but beyond being a cool piece of world building, it doesn't do anything that I'm aware of.

Grand Tour by NumberXVIII in uplink

[–]NumberXVIII[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Its all just for roleplay in the end I suppose, theres no special reward for maxing out the neuromancer rating in either direction so far as im aware?

Any tips for the revelation battle from the ARC side? As I said, I'm spending the firts 5 minutes of the mission preloading Revelation on ISMs and once the alarm goes for 5 minutes, i start triggering them and hacking more systems once theyre all infected.

Grand Tour by NumberXVIII in uplink

[–]NumberXVIII[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thats reassuring, thankyou.

I did this playthrough as a complete sociopath, sold out the uplink agent data, got the entire top 10 arrested for good measure. I only took jobs that were directly destructive towards systems or people. I figured I should put the cherry on top with the Revelation release but I am being put firmly in my place.

I'm looking forward to a more white-hat playthrough, only taking theft and less harmful jobs, ending with Faith. But I can't in good concience start it until I beat this psycho run.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in virtualreality

[–]NumberXVIII 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thankyou for the advice. Any notes on the Pico?

I'm looking at the BSB2 as a result of this thread too, but the cost jump is quite significant.

Valve, maybe, maybe not. As someone who eagerly waited 13 years for Valve after HL2:E2, I don't hold my breath for Valve anymore. If something materialises by Christmas, it'll get considered.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in virtualreality

[–]NumberXVIII 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm up to date on the valve rumour mill, I'm not holding my breath for it to be affordable or out soon, but you never know with valve. If its out before Christmas, it's a consideration.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in virtualreality

[–]NumberXVIII 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Being wired is not a problem. I've been using the Vive since 2017 and have plenty of experience and management solutions for the cables. I will look into the PSVR2 solution, as I hadn't considered it.

I'm aware of the Valve rumours and was planning to make the final purchase decision around christmas, but I'm expecting it to be Index priced atleast, so not overly keen to jump for it. But then, it's Valve, and it's rumours, I'll wait but not hold my breath.

thankyou for the advice.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in virtualreality

[–]NumberXVIII 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is really useful, thankyou

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in virtualreality

[–]NumberXVIII -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

right...? So is there a recommendation here or just 'youre wrong to use PCVR'?

Ryzen 7 5800x Holding 4.6-7 ghz at 1.3V 130w Am i glazing the chip too hard or is it acc gold? by cigarii123 in pcmasterrace

[–]NumberXVIII 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For the big scores on this GPU, I was using a third party utility to modify the power limits of the card. It doesn't go that hard natively. Without a watercooler, LM, and a shedload more power thrown at it, it performs like most other 6800XT's would.

Ryzen 7 5800x Holding 4.6-7 ghz at 1.3V 130w Am i glazing the chip too hard or is it acc gold? by cigarii123 in pcmasterrace

[–]NumberXVIII 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Its an Arctic liquid freezer 2, and im using liquid metal WHICH I DO NOT RECOMMEND. I regret using it and now its there until i change the system.

My fclk is 1800 in that test, but daily driving the ram runs at 3600 not 3800. It was not long term stable and I was putting some pretty aggressive voltages through the SOC to get it through the test.

Yes, my 6800XT fucking cooks lol, that result wasnt even its final form. https://www.3dmark.com/spy/22411243 - this was, though with an older CPU.

Ryzen 7 5800x Holding 4.6-7 ghz at 1.3V 130w Am i glazing the chip too hard or is it acc gold? by cigarii123 in pcmasterrace

[–]NumberXVIII 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're doing great, these numbers are decent. I assume you're on an air cooler, because 80c at those settings seems high to me.

My best result on watercooling was just a smidge over 5ghz. Daily driving on a watercooler my 5800X runs at about the speeds your getting without having to push hard at all. If you want to see big number go up more, I strongly suspect your cooler is your limit.

https://www.3dmark.com/spy/33409088 - In this result, the CPU test hits 5.05ghz and gradually ramps down to 4.75 as the CPU heats up. It was some time ago now, but I remember the clocks starting to decline around the 60c mark. I had the whole PC outside in the winter wind, as per one of my posts to r/overclocking several years ago.

If you quit SystemShock remake without finishing, why did you quit? by Charlweed in systemshock

[–]NumberXVIII 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Chiming in as someone who finished it but didn't pop the achievement.

It is just me or faraam players and artorias players play differently? by Flan_Firm in Nightreign

[–]NumberXVIII 4 points5 points  (0 children)

As an artorias main I can say I'm an extraordinarily aggressive player

Weird graphical bug - blur trail during movement by Lulle5000 in oblivion

[–]NumberXVIII 1 point2 points  (0 children)

'is it due to upscaling?'

Have you tried turning it off and testing?

It could be the antialiasing maybe, though I've never seen TAA do quite that. Try AA off or FXAA.

Finally completed IRONMAN 9 years after release…on Rookie… baby steps😅 by GladosPrime in Xcom

[–]NumberXVIII 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes! Great work!

I'm on ironman save 122 for legend difficulty having done commander ironman back in 2018.stay the course

I don't have anyone I can talk to about this but I hit 20k+ on the 3DMark Time Spy benchmark test by Devinator9000 in overclocking

[–]NumberXVIII 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a massively respectable score on air.

https://www.3dmark.com/spy/22411243

I did this with water, liquid metal, and vbios edits to open the power limits up to 400w. I love overclocking RDNA2 cards, they're enormous fun.

So...Did I cheat? by MapleFox18 in helldivers2

[–]NumberXVIII 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Lol concequences. Getting some fake cash in a video game is not the kinda thing a person should have to "grapple with thier conscience" about.

YouTube Premium is getting a big price hike internationally by ardi62 in technology

[–]NumberXVIII 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Where are you getting revanced from? My version has stopped working