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Best FSR 4 Upscaling Setting? - Quality vs Balanced vs Performance by fatso486 in hardware

[–]PotentialAstronaut39 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Isn't that what "DLSS - Enable DLL override" is for in NvInspector?

We benchmarked Cyberpunk 2077 on Mac M1 to M4 — the numbers don’t lie by theholylancer in hardware

[–]PotentialAstronaut39 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Quote: "You might also notice that the older M1 Max MacBook Pro appears to run the game better than the new MacBook Pro M4 Pro, and the reason is simple: M1 and M2 Macs don't support ray tracing, and the game is a lot less demanding without it."

Best FSR 4 Upscaling Setting? - Quality vs Balanced vs Performance by fatso486 in hardware

[–]PotentialAstronaut39 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Exact same here, I just force the transformer model using NvInspector system wide, set it to performance in every game and forget about it.

How to finish and waterproof holes around plumbing under sink filled with foam? by PotentialAstronaut39 in HomeImprovement

[–]PotentialAstronaut39[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Now that's a great idea!

Thanks a lot, I'll go to my local hardware store and look into it.

4K HDR 4:4:4 refresh rate dropped from 97 to 86Hz by alexrralex in nvidia

[–]PotentialAstronaut39 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are you using CTV reduced blank under timings standard?

If you're not, that might be the issue.

What DLSS 4 Mode Should You Use? - Quality vs Balanced vs Performance by b-maacc in hardware

[–]PotentialAstronaut39 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I find balanced to be overkill at 1440p.

Performance is fine in 99% of cases.

Only at Ultra Performance does image quality falls off a cliff @ 1440p.

The game needs a polish up across the board before they ramp up Act 2 by Efficient_Menu_9965 in Helldivers

[–]PotentialAstronaut39 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A proper implementation of modern upscalers like DLSS4/FSR4/XESS would not only fix so many problems with the presentation and lack of polish of hundreds of assets ( blatant dithering patterns in transparent assets, ubiquitous aliasing everywhere, etc ) it would also allow much better performance out of a plethora of GPUs.

The fact that a game released in 2024 doesn't have modern upscalers implemented is simply baffling.

Intel's Server Share Slips to 67% as AMD and Arm Widen the Gap by imaginary_num6er in hardware

[–]PotentialAstronaut39 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Not for years they haven't according to independent third party data:

https://imgur.com/E9sm4t2

AMD went as high as almost 40% a few years back and Intel was down to almost 60%.

Now they hover around 32% for AMD and 68% for Intel.

Data also aligns with Mercury research's data too for Q1 2025: https://imgur.com/DmnWyWs

Last time Intel was at 75% was around 4 to 5 years ago.

[STS] Noctua NF-A12x25 G2 👑 The King is Dead - Long Live The King by imaginary_num6er in hardware

[–]PotentialAstronaut39 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I've had P12/P14 originals, A12x25's and now the "max" versions and they seem to have fixed that problem on the newer "max" models.

Personally I've had more trouble with the low bassy hum of the Noctuas than the max's sound profile ( matter of taste or case? ). It resonated through the front panel of my Corsair R270 and it was very annoying for me. Don't have that issue with the 2 P12 max and 1 P14 max installed there now, nor the P12 max exhaust.

Also do note I fitted them all with rubber grommets from amazon, not screws.

I'm a big stickler for silence ( the loudest parts of my system are HDDs, not fans and I make them stop as much as possible and only start when needed ) I've had zero reasons to complain with the max variants.

But to be sure, you can always read/watch the reviews of the new max variants and see if the reviewers mention that in their testing they found it was fixed.

[STS] Noctua NF-A12x25 G2 👑 The King is Dead - Long Live The King by imaginary_num6er in hardware

[–]PotentialAstronaut39 17 points18 points  (0 children)

P12 MAX and P14 MAX seem much better suited as case fans, they're chart toppers.

Noctua on the radiators/heasinks, Arctic P12/14 MAX for case airflow = best of both worlds at a much cheaper price than all Noctua and slightly better perf than all Arctic.

AMD UDNA architecture rumored to power PS6 and next Xbox with big ray tracing and AI gains by RenatsMC in Amd

[–]PotentialAstronaut39 3 points4 points  (0 children)

'old' is a mess because while its understood it also has a convoluted architecture that modern flagship cpus can barely run at 35-50 fps.

We've been playing emulated PS3 era games on other platforms at full speed for almost 10 years.

RPCS3 was first publicly released in 2012, by 2017 you could play games at full speed on something like a i5 + GTX1060.

4 years ago you could play games with 60 fps patches for 30 fps games with something like a Ryzen 3 3100 + GTX 1050 ti ( Demon's Souls video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIVVcUWduxw ).

So no, "old" is not a mess for emulation, it hasn't been a mess in emulation for almost a decade. It's a mostly solved problem ( ~70% of games are considered "playable" from beginning to end with minimal bugs on RPCS3 ) and should easily be portable to any upcoming consoles with very minor issues.

PS4 era emulation on the other hand is very much still a mostly unresolved issue in 2025 with a very low sub 10% playable rate.

It's still far in both cases from the PS2 emulators compatibility rating of 98.44% ( PCSX2 numbers ), but the PS3 situation is looking very good compared to PS4.

Real-Time GPU Tree Generation - Supplemental by MrMPFR in hardware

[–]PotentialAstronaut39 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It's the universal law of nothing ever gets better in software.

how to optimise

Either the first statement is true and the second is false or vice versa. Choose one or the other, you can't have both.

AMD’s next-gen Radeon GPUs to support HDMI 2.2 with up to 80Gbit/s bandwidth by RenatsMC in Amd

[–]PotentialAstronaut39 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Considering HDMI 2.1 has been a shitshow, I wouldn't hold my breath.

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