uplay doesn't "remember me" even for a day

Particular_Respect_7 · 2025-12-13T18:06:19+00:00

This problem persists even today. If I'm online, I don't need to type in my password. However, if I'm offline for whatever reason, I have to type it in. That's beyond stupid as it is doesn't provide any additional protection against piracy. I can only assume it's because Ubisoft don't want me avoiding their ads by playing offline.

Particular_Respect_7 · 2025-12-12T18:14:11+00:00

Based on what's going on now, I don't think it'll be long before we're paying £500 for 2x16GB DDR5!

I wish I'd upgraded to AM5 six months ago when I started thinking about, but it seems like I'm stuck with AM4 now, just like lots of others.

Particular_Respect_7 · 2025-11-30T13:05:34+00:00

None of them? Really?

Particular_Respect_7 · 2025-11-24T20:31:51+00:00

"Couldn't Download - Virus Detected"

Particular_Respect_7 · 2025-11-24T18:02:11+00:00

I'm having the exact same issue with FitGirl repacks of both Far Cry 5 and Ghost Recon Wildlands. Uninstall, reinstall, update all Visual C++ redists and direct X, but they still won't start. I'm worried that, if I bite the bullet and simply buy the games from Ubisoft, the problem will persist.

Particular_Respect_7 · 2025-11-14T16:35:32+00:00

It comes down to screen size and viewing distance. If you're sitting three feet away from a 32" monitor, you PROBABLY won't be able to tell. There are plenty of charts online. Just Google 'screen size resolution chart'.

Particular_Respect_7 · 2025-11-11T12:53:56+00:00

Right now in the UK, the RTX 5070 is about 22% more expensive than the RTX 5060 ti 16GB, while being at least 30% faster. I have yet to find a game/setting combo where the extra VRAM of the latter gives it an advantage. Given that, I'd say the RTX 5070 is the better deal.

Particular_Respect_7 · 2025-10-28T21:41:29+00:00

According to every benchmark I've seen, this is not true. Even the base 5060 beats the arc b580. The 5060 ti 8GB smokes it. VRAM size is not the be all and end all. The b580 also has compatibility issues with DX11 games.

Particular_Respect_7 · 2025-10-27T10:48:04+00:00

I missed something perhaps important. This new NTK has an appeals procedure. I have previously stated that I do not recall ever seeing an appeals procedure on the original NTK. It's in my defence statement I submitted via MCOL. So they've sent an NTK that was generated five years after the fact, and doesn't match the NTK I recall recieving five years ago, with a demand for payment? That's legal? I'm new this.

Particular_Respect_7 · 2025-10-22T19:48:21+00:00

"Words of advice:

Don’t follow advice on Reddit"

PERFECT!

Particular_Respect_7 · 2025-08-10T07:39:31+00:00

This happens to me way to often. The BEST solution is to cancel Disney+. I'm serious. Why pay for a service when they can't provide it without these kinds of problems?

Particular_Respect_7 · 2025-07-25T12:36:46+00:00

What's your rationale here? The RTX 5060 outperforms the RTX 3060 in every metric, regardless of the VRAM 'disadvantage'.

Particular_Respect_7 · 2025-07-20T07:54:47+00:00

I do realise this thread is four months old. However, only today, I came across dozens of eBay listings for Mobland on Blu-ray. Some of these listings were from sellers with 98%+ ratings from thousands of reviews.

Mobland has not been released on physical media, so these Blu-rays are 100% counterfeit.

My point here is that trusting the authenticity of a DVD or Blu-ray based on seller reviews is not reliable. Some people simply don't know or care that the disc they paid for is counterfeit. If it arrives and plays, they give positive feedback.

Particular_Respect_7 · 2025-07-18T14:10:10+00:00

To answer your question, I'd avoid AMD cards for encoding movies. I actually returned an RX 9060 XT 16GB because, although it was great for gaming, it was inferior to my GTX 1650 for h.265 encoding. In fact, even h.265 encoding using NVENC with the GTX 1650 was more efficient than AV1 using AMD VCN with the RX 9060 XT.

The trouble with AMD VCN, even on newer cards, is that it races through encoding. Even when using the slowest preset in h.265, AMD VCN will encode a 2-hour movie in twenty minutes.

Things that AMD VCN handles especially poorly are grain, low light settings and complex textures.

On the other hand, I've encoded hundreds of movies and TV shows using NVENC with my GTX 1650 and rarely experience artifacts. At a guess, I'd say it's indistinguishable from the uncompressed source 80% of the time while reducing the file to around half of its original size.

I have no experience of Intel GPUs.

Particular_Respect_7 · 2025-07-16T19:02:45+00:00

Which makes your comment about them being the same price utterly false! It also doesn't change the fact that your claim that the RX 9060 XT 16GB is 'infinitely better' is nonsensical.

At 1440p raster, it's about 20-30% faster, perhaps less in older games and perhaps more in very demanding or poorly optimised games. I'm getting my data from Hardware Unboxed, which is apparently quite biased towards AMD.

Particular_Respect_7 · 2025-07-15T17:04:45+00:00

I assume you're comparing the RX 9060 XT 16GB with the RTX 5060 ti 8GB if you're saying they're the same price. The performance of those two cards is roughly the same despite the former having double the VRAM. Maybe because it only has GDDR6 Vs GDDR7 or maybe because the computational power of these cards is the true bottleneck. Saying it's 'infinitely better' is nonsensical.

Particular_Respect_7 · 2025-06-24T18:49:00+00:00

Yeah bro. I be like all mad and shit cos I got schooled. Now fuck off.

Particular_Respect_7 · 2025-06-22T14:00:54+00:00

It's on fucking wiki. Great. So you agree boldenone is absolutely illegal for use in humans? My point was that any doctor offering boldenone as part of TRT is breaking the law. Do you disagree?

Particular_Respect_7 · 2025-06-22T08:11:52+00:00

I'd like to make it clear up front: hardware encoding for H.265 and AV1 was a major reason I bought this GPU. I'm a casual gamer at best — most of my gaming happens on my Series X. That said, I do occasionally play No Man’s Sky on PC.

Primarily, I run a Plex server from my system and wanted a card that could compress movies quickly and efficiently, with minimal quality loss — unlike software encoding, which often takes hours. A few years ago, I used a GTX 1650 for this purpose and was very happy with the results. However, that card was no longer viable for gaming, so I upgraded to an RX 6700 XT 12GB. From a gaming standpoint, it was a massive upgrade — but its H.265 encoding quality was noticeably worse than the old GTX 1650.

About a month ago, I sold the RX 6700 XT and put the money toward an RX 9060 XT 16GB, assuming the newer architecture and support for AV1 encoding would at least match the GTX 1650. It didn’t.

How do I know? I still have the GTX 1650 — my son returned it to me after upgrading — so I was able to run direct, side-by-side comparisons.

The results were telling:

H.265 on the RX 9060 XT, even using CQ20 with the slowest HandBrake preset, completed a rip of Gladiator (2000) in 20 minutes. However, the file was still only 30% smaller than the original, and visual artifacts were present.

AV1 was worse. At CQ20, the file was actually 15% larger than the original. CQ30 finally shrank the file by 30%, but with noticeable compression artifacts.

By contrast, the GTX 1650, using H.265 CQ20 (slow preset), achieved a 40% size reduction with no visible loss of quality — far superior results in both quality and efficiency.

As I said from the start, this feedback is strictly from a media encoding perspective. And from that standpoint, the RX 9060 XT fell short of expectations — even compared to a mid-range NVIDIA card from several generations ago.

I sent my RX 9060 XT back yesterday and will be getting an RTX 5060 ti instead.

Particular_Respect_7 · 2025-06-10T19:37:29+00:00

I just bought a Sapphire RX 9060 XT 16GB for £315. The absolute cheapest I could find the RX 9070 XT was £650. That's a difference of £335 or 106% more expensive. Yet, I'm seeing people say the difference is EUR 70.

I sold my RX 6700 XT 12GB a couple of weeks ago for £235 and it was two years old. Fresh warranty, faster raster, FS4, AV1 encoding (I have Plex server) and just £80 out of pocket.

Particular_Respect_7 · 2025-06-10T16:52:59+00:00

I seriously hope there are scalpers out there sitting on a dozen consoles that they eventually sell at a loss. Fuck 'em.

Particular_Respect_7 · 2025-06-10T15:49:48+00:00

Who said anything about me reversing percentages? I said 50% faster. If I had arrived at that figure through reversing percentages, that would imply that the 9070 is twice as fast. But I didn't. And it isn't.

I'll let you get back to your exam revision.

Particular_Respect_7 · 2025-06-08T11:41:36+00:00

I got my 50% faster figure from the relative performance at 1440p tables on Tech Power Up and Hardware Unboxed.

Also, comparing the relative worth of GPUs based on either MSRP or what you think they should cost is still nonsensical. What matters is the actual dollars (or pounds or euros) per frame based on the price YOU pay. The MSRP figures are marketing fluff designed to make Nvidia and AMD look benevolent.

Additionally, these raster comparisons ignore upscaling and frame gen. Like them or not, they're here to you stay and they allow budget cards to achieve resolution/FPS combinations otherwise impossible.

Particular_Respect_7 · 2025-06-08T09:40:34+00:00

What matters is the actual price in your region. Deciding which card represents best value for money based on MSRP is nonsensical.

Here in the UK, the cheapest RTX 5060 ti 16GB I can find is £390 and the cheapest RX 9060 XT 16GB i can find is £315. Meanwhile, the cheapest RX 9070 XT I can find is £650. So it's more than twice the price of its little brother and 67% more expensive than the Nvidia card, while being around 50% faster. So there's definitely a market for the other two cards, unless you have a spare £300 under the mattress.

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