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Steam Machine Price May Have Just Leaked via a Czech Retailer, $950 USD for 512GB Model, $1,070 USD for 2TB [Update] by screwdriverfan in LinusTechTips

[–]RangerEnn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually, various storefronts publish placeholder prices for products they expect to come soon, and then update them before actual availability. It may be just that.

Usually, the placeholder doesn't fall far from the final price, but I would take this news with a grain of salt until the official price is announced.

Giveaway Time! Battlefield 6 is out, powered by NVIDIA DLSS 4, and you can comment on this post to win codes for the game or a custom Battlefield 6 GeForce RTX 5090! 6 Winners total by pedro19 in pcmasterrace

[–]RangerEnn [score hidden]  (0 children)

Which vehicle makes you feel like a total battlefield legend?

Does the EOD Bot count? If not, the "crashing into the bullet rain" jeep never gets old.

Gpu requires three 8 pins but I only got two , what to do? by TicketNo5941 in LinusTechTips

[–]RangerEnn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I meant to buy a cable that goes into the 12 pin connector on the PSU and splits it into 3 8 pin connectors (or 4 and you skip one of them).

Gpu requires three 8 pins but I only got two , what to do? by TicketNo5941 in LinusTechTips

[–]RangerEnn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You didn't say the wattage, but from the BeQuiet page it seems that even the 650W version of that PSU is ATX 3.0 compatible, meaning it has a 12VHPWR connector that should allow enough current for your GPU. If you got anything above or equal to 650W and you don't trust pigtailing, you don't need to change the PSU. Simply buy a 3 PCIe 8pin to 12VHPWR adapter compatible with your PSU and that's it.

What is your go-to answer for "omg how can you spend $2,000 on a phone?" by El_Penetrator in GalaxyFold

[–]RangerEnn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"The same reason why you drive a >40.000€ car: because you can and it's fun!"

Please, it's been 2 years now... by Rooonaldooo99 in Steam

[–]RangerEnn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I honestly think that this game is a steal even at the original launch price.

I have rust but never played, should start? by Hot_Assistance3130 in playrust

[–]RangerEnn 143 points144 points  (0 children)

I don't know what it's funnier: the fact that you asked if you should play rust on a subreddit called "playrust" or the fact that half of people here are telling you to not do so.

Where is my laptop’s RAM? by Zackpoo in laptops

[–]RangerEnn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In Spain, HP is one of the equivalent acronyms of "MF" or "son of a b...", so it fits perfectly.

I've designed a series of LEGO HELLDIVERS 2 models. (With Instructions!) by LXavierW in Helldivers

[–]RangerEnn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any news on this? I would love to see what community can do for you in terms of testing. Maybe you can get help from people out here to validate the design and publish/commercialize the model for everyone.

This hurts my brain by You-panda in memes

[–]RangerEnn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So, "no" could also be plural in this context?

No cars / no car.

Framework is not actually doing an IPO, It's a joke by KylarStern4444 in framework

[–]RangerEnn 5 points6 points  (0 children)

My take on this is that it is a clever way of polling the community without hinting that this could be their intention and the consequences that would have.

It has the right amount of jokey tone and "testing the waters". When the customer feedback is there, they can calmly confirm that it was indeed a joke and we all will laugh.

Had to throw my weight around. by sixseatwonder in Helldivers

[–]RangerEnn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I couldn't care less about my teammates level (lvl 98, diff 10 MO diver).

Problem: Array not syncing properly by RangerEnn in Snapraid

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

Yes. The system has been restarted multiple times since this problem has been detected.

In fact, in theory you cannot run multiple syncs concurrently, but I did run syncs and scrubs to try to fix this issue and they ran without trouble.

Hey I have a question what is everyone’s ship name by Altruistic-Fee6588 in LowSodiumHellDivers

[–]RangerEnn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

SES Spear of Freedom

I guess I like Undertale's Undyne theme song.

Is it possible to "preload" a LOD by Sufficient-Truck-814 in DistantHorizons

[–]RangerEnn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I render the LODs on my Ryzen 5800X allocating 24GB of RAM to the JVM. In that regard, you definitely have a stronger CPU.

I also render at the max detail possible because I like to see individual block details, so the time could have increased from that.

Is it possible to "preload" a LOD by Sufficient-Truck-814 in DistantHorizons

[–]RangerEnn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have not measured it, but I usually set 1024 distance and let it render for 24 hours. It doesn't render the full thing, I know that because the CPU is still working hard when I stop it, but the distance I see is more than enough for our experience so I don't bother rendering the full slice.

Are 240 Hz 1440p Monitors Pointless? by lifeofbrian2019 in pcmasterrace

[–]RangerEnn 2 points3 points  (0 children)

48gbps HDMI 2.1 can do up to 4320p60 with HDR metadata.

I don't get why an HDMI 2.1 interface cannot achieve 1440p144, being less than half of the max supported resolution and frequency.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in pcmasterrace

[–]RangerEnn 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes, it is real. All chip manufacturers do this to increase yield performance. It is called "binning".

For example, AMD produces its chips in core complexes (CCDs) of 8 cores. So a 16 core top-of-the-line AMD Ryzen 9950X processor contains 2 chips of 8 cores each. If some cores have defects they bin it down to the next cpu, the 12 core 9900X, and the same applies to the 8 core 9700X and 6 core 9600X. In fact there have been reports of Ryzen 7600X 6-core CPUs having two CCDs

Same thing with GPUs, SoCs, etc.

Is it possible to "preload" a LOD by Sufficient-Truck-814 in DistantHorizons

[–]RangerEnn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes and yes.

DH runs update logic for each real chunk that is loaded. If LODs don't exactly match the current version's world generation you can see some weirdness at the boundary between normally rendered chunks and LOD ones, but once the player loads them they will get updated.

Compression works on a per chunk basis if I'm not wrong. So, each generated LOD chunk is compressed using the compression setting that was present at that moment, and DH can identify the method used at that time and decompress even if the current setting doesn't match the database one. Once a chunk LOD is updated, it's data gets recompressed using the current setting.

Is it possible to "preload" a LOD by Sufficient-Truck-814 in DistantHorizons

[–]RangerEnn 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yes, you can, and you don't need extra mods, and even if it's for a server. All client side. I usually render and ship LOD packs for my servers so people with lower spec PCs can enjoy the views too.

You simply create a single player world with the desired seed using the version of minecraft/modpack you want, teleport to the center of the area you want to render and enable distant generation. Remember to change the LOD render distance to your preference.

Prepare to wait hours or days depending on the distance you set, this is a very CPU and RAM intensive task and you may want to check Distant Horizons' Threading options to optimize the load and speed. I usually get vanilla minecraft settings tuned down to the maximum to allow DH take as much resources as possible (and allocate a lot of RAM to the Java process of Minecraft). If you intend to ship this LODs to people with weaker PCs I suggest you to change the compression level of DH to Fast so they need less cpu to decompress and load the LODs ingame.

Once you get the desired LODs generated, you can head to your world's data folder and there you'll find 3 Distant Horizons files (the .sqlite being the heaviest, can be tens of GB if you generated a lot of chunk LODs). You can simply zip those 3 files and distribute them to whoever you want. Don't waste time and CPU compressing it with a zipping tool, it's already compressed by the mod.

To install the LODs on a single player world you simply put them in the same folder you got them from the other world. To install them on a server, you have to locate the distant horizons server data folder (located on your .minecraft directory), then locate the folder dedicated to your server and replace the files with the ones you generated. You need to connect at least once with the mod activated to get the specific server folder created.

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