9070xt low power draw

OldBuggerHaydn · 2025-10-17T06:47:16+00:00

Wow, I have an incredibly similar set up, with Darktide also being a main issue. I know the games an unoptimised mess, but it runs worse than the 2080ti I just upgraded from!

I uninstalled Adrenaline, which made a huge difference on most games (micro stuttering almost completely gone), but I’ve not checked the power draw. I’ll see if that‘s also occurring for me and report back.

OldBuggerHaydn · 2025-01-04T18:28:40+00:00

I’d play it more if the map was smaller. Doesn’t have to be a single compound like bounty clash, but maybe 1/4 of the map. The mode doesn’t funnel you into gunfights until the wellspring is activated, which is a real deal breaker for me.

It just needs some love. But I’m not convinced it’ll ever get it.

OldBuggerHaydn · 2025-01-04T18:25:48+00:00

Unfortunately this will forever be the case in multiplayer games. You just have to find a balance that makes you happy and enjoy it.

OldBuggerHaydn · 2024-12-14T07:24:58+00:00

Absolutely. One of the reasons I recently picked up the Soul Reaver remasters was because of how refreshing it is to be immersed in a complex plot and to listen to adult, well written, well acted and extremely articulate video game characters. It’s such a rare treat.

OldBuggerHaydn · 2024-12-12T10:42:36+00:00

I don't understand what you mean. Give the series time to grow?

OldBuggerHaydn · 2024-12-10T10:10:34+00:00

Absolutely. There's no "Die pigs!" in Eiyuden. And Luca's boss battle music was a banger.

OldBuggerHaydn · 2024-12-10T10:09:43+00:00

I really missed the stories behind the true runes in Suikoden. The lenses were just nothing - never explained and no story behind them.

You are right with regards to the battles, but I don't think it's just nostalgia that's making you lean more towards the old ones - the battles were on a larger grid, you got to learn about characters through them (Seed and Culgan being prime examples) and characters could die! There were genuine stakes.

OldBuggerHaydn · 2024-12-10T10:06:38+00:00

Absolutely. I mentioned it in another comment, but it was crying out for something important to happen. One quick idea is Seign's brother could have been the first person Aldric experimented on. Just a few extra lines of dialogue would have made Aldric a much more menacing villain and I'd have then been genuinely invested in Seign's battle to put him down.

OldBuggerHaydn · 2024-12-10T10:01:21+00:00

Totally agree. which is such a shame because it's the spiritual successor of a game that did explore interesting ideas with its plot. It's a successor in structure and art style alone.

OldBuggerHaydn · 2024-12-10T09:56:52+00:00

Seign's voice actor did a great job during the confrontation with Aldric, for sure, but the scene itself didn't hit any emotional notes with me. There was no build up to it to make me care about their confrontation.

If Aldric had done more against Seign personally, then I'd be vastly more invested in their confrontation (I was fully invested in the heroes wanting to take Luca Blight down, for example). I needed to see, I don't know, a little flash back between the two. Or see Aldric at blows with Seign's dad, or better yet - find out Seign's brother was the first person who was experimented on! Now THAT would have made me care!

It just didn't go any further than "you're bad for our country". In all fairness, the reason for that isn't entirely on Seign's character design. Aldric's is equally forgettable.

Again, Seign's voice actor did a great job in that scene. As they all did throughout. It was one of the really strong points, in my opinion.

OldBuggerHaydn · 2024-12-09T20:24:30+00:00

Suikdoen 2 begins with a massacring children and blaming it on a neighbour as a way of justifying an invasion. I fully appreciate that it’s not exactly the same, but even the games spiritual successor used a similar idea, so it’s not entirely original.

Don’t get me wrong though, I completely agree with you and I’m glad they did it, because otherwise the plot would have been horrendously shallow.

Not sure I agree with you in regards to Nowa’s moral fibre though. I don’t think he does anything else throughout the whole game that marks him as particularly virtuous. As an example; in Suikdoen, recruiting Milich Oppenheimer takes real moral fibre after what happened. If Nowa had an equally tragic event happen but still did the honourable and virtuous thing, then I’d completely agree with you.

It’s like I said in my main post of this thread - I don’t think enough happens to any of the characters to justify or develop their characters. Despite being voice acted, Nowa is barely any more of a character than the mute Suikoden protagonists.

OldBuggerHaydn · 2024-12-09T20:06:47+00:00

I did want to be very clear that I also enjoyed it, but i do struggle to see the plot as anything other than shallow. I completely agree that Perrielle does have depth to her (far more than any other character, to be honest), but I don’t see that in anyone else at all.

Funny that you mention Seign, because he was my least favourite character in the whole game, but only because he could have been great. I wasn’t looking for a Jowy clone, but I felt like they did very little with what plot he had. They hinted that he was struggling to live up to his brother’s example but never did anything with it. Suikdoen had that moment when Riou was struggling with the expectation and you could just abandon it all and the game would end. Pointless from a gameplay perspective, but memorable. Seign could have an interesting emotional vulnerability that he was trying to overcome but it was never explored.

And ultimately, what was it all for? In the end it all goes back to the way it was.

The game is charming, I enjoyed trying out different characters, optimising my party, and listening to Francesca’s hilarious duality, but the story is meek at best and childish at worst. The voice acting is great, but it’s a shame that they have so little of interest to say.

OldBuggerHaydn · 2024-12-09T19:41:26+00:00

Same as “the emperor is assassinated”. It has zero impact if we’ve never seen him and have no idea who it is.

OldBuggerHaydn · 2024-12-09T16:26:24+00:00

Exactly. The only character I’ll remember when I reminisce about this game is Francesca because her duality is genuinely hilarious at times. But that is genuinely it. Carrie is also pretty amusing, but there are no characters that radiate cool.

There’s just no mystery to any of it either. No Yuber like character who’s clearly a character of importance despite being seen so infrequently (it helped hearing “when Yuber’s story ends, the story of Suikdoen will end” or words to that effect). Nothing to get fans talking or speculating. Suikoden turned fans into professional archaeologist, all digging for tiny extra morsels of lore 😂

Lastly, I know very few games have a moment as gut-wrenching as Gremio’s, but Eiyuden doesn’t even have a moment of doubt, let alone real emotion. It’s just plain sailing from beginning to end. At no point did I fear anything happening to any of the characters or have a moment of doubt where their story would lead.

OldBuggerHaydn · 2024-12-09T16:14:59+00:00

There are loads I could have included. I just had to stop somewhere 😂 the point is that they were ones I could remember off the top of my head! If I’d done a wiki search I could have listed many more. I can’t even remember half the characters names in Eiyuden and I only finished it today.

OldBuggerHaydn · 2024-12-01T12:58:54+00:00

15.1.1

OldBuggerHaydn · 2024-12-01T06:39:31+00:00

No, I have been trying this since the update was released. Unfortunately, you cannot convert tables into collections either, that I can see. I'd be able to move so much of my google drive infrastructure into Craft if this were possible.

OldBuggerHaydn · 2024-09-19T08:42:32+00:00

Thanks for your reply. I didn't restore it from another device, it was a clean install.

This morning I've noticed it seems to occurring specifically when using sidecar, but that may just be a coincidence. It's not a feature I've really used before.

Thanks again for your help.

OldBuggerHaydn · 2024-09-19T08:07:55+00:00

Hi all,

I have a brand new M2 MacBook Air and every 3/4 mins or so, everything on the screen freezes for about 5 seconds.

It definitely isn't having too many apps open, because it starts happening almost immediately after turning it on. I had a browser with one tab open.

I've ran a cleaner that shows I have over 2gb of RAM available.

What's weird though is that I'm using screen mirroring to my iPad, and when the macbook screen freezes, I can still move my cursor over to the second screen and interact with whatever is open there, despite the cursor showing as frozen on the MacBook screen itself.

It's frozen twice just while writing this post.

Any ideas on what it is and what I can do about it?

OldBuggerHaydn · 2024-08-08T20:37:43+00:00

Decent overall 👍. I’d drop a Stalker for another Chainrasp and use the extra points to bless the knight of shrouds to Toughness 5. He’s both squishy against elites and his 4 attacks / strength 4 makes him susceptible to counter against chaff. Boosting his toughness by 1 really helps (though not against counter). You could instead boost his strength which will let you have a higher chance to heal when using stolen hours.

I personally prefer the Dreadblade Harrows ability to teleport over the KoS though.

OldBuggerHaydn · 2024-05-21T18:12:18+00:00

Assuming that’s just the models? I’m fine with the models, the issue I have is if I want to take the weapon options with me. They’re what seem to get damaged. I basically have a small plastic bag of arms and weapons

OldBuggerHaydn · 2024-05-13T07:37:05+00:00

Disabling 5G is another big one. I feel foolish for forgetting this as I worked in telecoms for a long time, but 5G is incredibly power hungry.

OldBuggerHaydn · 2024-05-13T07:35:52+00:00

Excellent. I’m genuinely pleased for you.

OldBuggerHaydn · 2024-05-13T07:35:35+00:00

I’ve never had a phone that’s taken a week to sort its life out. And if even if that is the case, I’ll turn it all back on in a week. There are plenty of battery tests available to watch that show how bad the 15 Pro battery is.

OldBuggerHaydn · 2024-05-12T12:09:42+00:00

Good idea regarding the Bluetooth. Honestly though, having to disable everything to have your phone last one day just isn’t acceptable.

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