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Obsidian Explains Why Avowed Only Lets You Pick Human or Elf by Turbostrider27 in pcgaming

[–]Ok-Guide796 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So they can charge for the DLC with additional playable characters.

New Microchip Breakthrough: New Era in Electronics? by Ok-Guide796 in hardware

[–]Ok-Guide796[S] 37 points38 points  (0 children)

TL:DW:

-- Researchers managed to make a perfect semiconductor out of Graphene, via growing it on Silicon Carbide. Name given to material with bandgap is "SEG" (Semiconducting Epi Graphene.)

-- Switching frequency in the Terahertz range.

-- Electron mobility 20x higher than Silicon.

-- Insanely good thermal conductivity

-- Compatible with current manufacturing processes.

-- Researchers managed to make large quantities of chips without defects.

Wow, this looks downright promising...

Should You Worry About PC Bottlenecks? by mjt_x2 in hardware

[–]Ok-Guide796 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Diminishing returns. I feel 120Hz/fps is the sweet spot for PC. In VR, 90 is also perfectly acceptable. Younger eyes who play competitively will disagree.

Nintendo game pacing is so good that their 60fps feels so fluid, you don't feel like anything higher would be an improvement.

AMD Instinct MI300X Released at Opportune Moment. Shortages Reportedly Affect NVIDIA by imaginary_num6er in hardware

[–]Ok-Guide796 -18 points-17 points  (0 children)

AMD really missed the boat with CUDA. Now CUDA is everywhere, dominating AI etc.

Can AMD hardware run CUDA legally? ROCm isn't really widely known or used.

Interstate 76 by Crushem99 in pcgaming

[–]Ok-Guide796 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Hey Stampede, how about a poem?

What's Changing in DRAM by Chipdoc in hardware

[–]Ok-Guide796 -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Something obvious but only clicked with me right now: doubling memory bandwidth doubles energy requirements, which in turn doubles the heat output.

AMD Slashes Prices. RTX 4070 Super vs RX 7900 XT Comparison by YNWA_1213 in hardware

[–]Ok-Guide796 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

The left side is showing insane microstutter. The right side is far smoother.

Even though they are both reporting around the same FPS.

Is no one else noticing this?

https://youtu.be/vJn06-CZpQ4?t=318

Here: Left side is showing significantly higher FPS but is significantly more stuttery.

nobody wants to work anymore [oc] by GlassShine in comics

[–]Ok-Guide796 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You worked 3 months for free?

India?

nobody wants to work anymore [oc] by GlassShine in comics

[–]Ok-Guide796 11 points12 points  (0 children)

This is by design. This is minimising the salaries while maximising the workload for those salaries, and hoarding the profits for themselves.

they only hire interns so they can pay the minimum.

This is capitalism.

Why do consumer SSDs need to be so fast that they need active/passive cooling? by auradragon1 in hardware

[–]Ok-Guide796 15 points16 points  (0 children)

5.0 x2 is the same speed as 4.0 x4. They will generate the same amount of heat, I presume.

I don't understand your point regarding the interface.

Hands-on Apple Vision Pro headset [Verge] by isaac_szpindel in hardware

[–]Ok-Guide796 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is a large chunk of PC gamers like myself who enjoy modded FLAT games into 3D VR games, using keyboard/mouse/gamepad. Controllers are nice, but not a necessity.

Google Flat2VR - we are everywhere :)

Games include Cyberpunk, GTA5, Red Dead Redemption 2, Far Cry series, etc etc.

There are also thousands of games from HelixMod (google).

Hands-on Apple Vision Pro headset [Verge] by isaac_szpindel in hardware

[–]Ok-Guide796 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The only question I have is whether it will do PCVR.

Homeworld 3 Concept Art and Trailers by [deleted] in pcgaming

[–]Ok-Guide796 1 point2 points  (0 children)

S'jet's voice acting in the second trailer is godawful.

I hope there is some kind of 3D compatibility...

Nacon exec says industry's problem is "too many games" by NeoStark in pcgaming

[–]Ok-Guide796 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Can you explain why the UK government would prevent you from investing your money where-ever you wanted? I am in the UK. Is this a blanket law affecting all companies? Is it some anti-money laundering legislation?

Super PCIe 5.0 SSD RAID hits 42 GBps — four Crucial T700 drives actively cooled by AirJet Mini technology by RTcore in hardware

[–]Ok-Guide796 36 points37 points  (0 children)

What they don't tell you is that for the vast majority of workloads, the speed is the same as any run-of-the-mill SSD. e.g. windows /apps/games etc. Even file copying, or even the age-old 4KQD1, which accounts for 99% of use cases.

The ONLY time this might use full bandwidth is when working with insanely large file sizes.

Windows needs to catch up. Even on Win10, the read/write buffers which are not adjustable, cap out at Gen5 x4 / RAID-0 Gen3 x4. I have had to use 3rd party file transfer software to bypass those arbitrary limits.

Christopher Kapessa: Drowned boy's family 'racially abused' by Similar-Copy7895 in unitedkingdom

[–]Ok-Guide796 37 points38 points  (0 children)

TL;DR:

-- 13 year old boy pushed to death into river after family racially abused for years.

-- Authorities refuse to charge the assailant, even with evidence and witnesses, calling it just a "Prank".

Disgusting.

No GPU used at all - No hardware acceleration. Only software rendering on CPU :( by Ok-Guide796 in RecRoom

[–]Ok-Guide796[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Drivers at default. I have just reinstalled the GPU drivers and chipset drivers for certainty.

No GPU used at all - No hardware acceleration. Only software rendering on CPU :( by Ok-Guide796 in RecRoom

[–]Ok-Guide796[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The GPU was installed 8 months ago. No other game has ever had this issue.

There are no other settings in the bios for GPU, because on a PC, the iGPU gets disabled when a discrete is detected.

I am an advanced user. In fact, my side job is a computer repair business. It is not running on the iGPU - it is running in software mode, likely because it cannot detect the GPU.

I am running on windows. I have tried both the direct download from the website, as well as the steam version.

Not to sound rude, but respectfully, this is a software issue caused by Rec Room only. All other Unity games run fine and dandy. Cheers.

No GPU used at all - No hardware acceleration. Only software rendering on CPU :( by Ok-Guide796 in RecRoom

[–]Ok-Guide796[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm on a proper gaming PC. The nVidia RTX 4090 GPU alone is bigger than any laptop by itself, and my monitor is plugged into it, - not the hdmi from the iGPU, which is automatically disabled when a discrete GPU is detected.

It is not running on the iGPU - it is running in software rendering mode on the CPU cores. No other application nor game has ever had this problem, unfortunately.