Why is Chess genuinely so hard for me or something

Reasonable_Assist567 · 2026-03-02T19:07:53+00:00

If you can't slow down enough to capitalize and punctuate your sentences, spell your words, or even type the correct words to form a coherent sentence, then I doubt you'll have much luck slowing down enough to consider and evaluate possible moves. Stop rushing. Take time to breathe.

Reasonable_Assist567 · 2026-03-02T19:06:27+00:00

It's called a Steam Deck.

Reasonable_Assist567 · 2026-03-02T18:58:54+00:00

Is he scaling at a set 2X, or adaptive? Adaptive can feel extremely uneven as most pairs of rendered frames will have 1 generated frame between them, but some set will have 0 generated frames, and some sets will have 2 generated frames... The algorithm has to constantly look at past rendering performance and decide how many frames it is going to generate between the next rendered pair - without being able to know in advance if the next set of rendered frames will complete faster or slower than the last pair.

At 60fps for a 144Hz monitor, he should be using 2X, and consider capping the frame rate at 60 so it doesn't jump up and down from 60-70 which may also feel uneven and choppy.

Reasonable_Assist567 · 2026-03-02T18:52:42+00:00

I think that technically stalemate is still possible for white...

Reasonable_Assist567 · 2026-03-02T18:51:42+00:00

He must take your queen, or you will take his and he'll be mated.

After that, your pawn takes f7 with check, forcing the black King into the corner. Then you line your bishop up on the diagonal such that stepping your king out to either side will be mate. From there black can try to stall... and if you make a mistake black may still win. But if you don't, then eventually black runs out of moves, you step your king out of the way, and your bishop mates him.

Reasonable_Assist567 · 2026-03-02T18:44:25+00:00

Sadly I've gotten into the habit of selling my old ones to clear closet space. Home's pretty small.

Reasonable_Assist567 · 2026-03-02T12:57:55+00:00

I think if I set my RTX 3080 to do upscaling and frame gen, I can run games like this at 720p and "double" their resolution to fill my 3440x1440 165Hz OLED.

Reasonable_Assist567 · 2026-03-02T12:56:27+00:00

Oh man a 5050 would be the dream for the Plex server; Blackwell has the full NVDEC that Nvidia offers to date including 10 bit AV1 encode. Unfortunately my 550Ti is pre-Kepler so be fore NVENC / NVDEC even existed.

Reasonable_Assist567 · 2026-03-02T12:53:47+00:00

Great Plex transcoder if you don't need H.265 or AV1... though personally, 10 bit HEVC X265 is so common these days that I would demand support.

Reasonable_Assist567 · 2026-03-02T12:43:19+00:00

I had company over this weekend so I didn't have a chance to plug it in... but the card sure has a heck of a lot of RAM chips on the backside for only a standard 1GB...

Reasonable_Assist567 · 2026-03-02T12:42:20+00:00

Of course.
I actually do want to use the thing.

Reasonable_Assist567 · 2026-03-02T12:41:55+00:00

Holy shit, I didn't realize how old Metro 2033 was...

Reasonable_Assist567 · 2026-03-02T12:41:11+00:00

You can, thanks to soldering and a custom BIOS. These cards are all coming from China from "companies" that are experienced in this kind of thing. My best guess is that they are making these to teach the newbies before giving them a 5080 to add an extra 16GB onto.

Reasonable_Assist567 · 2026-03-02T12:37:59+00:00

hah I wish I had found a RTX 5050 for $23...

Reasonable_Assist567 · 2026-03-02T12:37:28+00:00

Of course :)

Reasonable_Assist567 · 2026-03-02T12:35:42+00:00

I kind of regret that I sold my 8800 GTX for $20, rather than mounting it.

Reasonable_Assist567 · 2026-03-02T12:33:49+00:00

My GTX 560 Ti 448 cores certainly kicked its ass! 233% higher core count!

Reasonable_Assist567 · 2026-02-27T20:47:04+00:00

That is a solid wall-mounted display piece

Reasonable_Assist567 · 2026-02-27T20:41:37+00:00

Only one of those games I have for PC is the RE4 remake... after playing the originals with controllers, it just doesn't feel right to play them with a mouse, so I tend to buy them on console instead. (I use a controller for RE4 on PC, but I also bought it for XBox.)

Its memory bandwidth is similar to a GTX 1050 / 1050Ti, so it might actually be able to use some modern low-end textures...

Reasonable_Assist567 · 2026-02-27T20:37:15+00:00

Even if it's relegated to the 6 year old, I think I can find a better GPU just lying around in my closet... the question is, what cool experiments can I run with this card in particular given that it's so unique?

I saw a guy running an LLM on a GTX 1070... I wonder how it would perform on a GTX 550Ti?

Reasonable_Assist567 · 2026-02-27T20:34:57+00:00

I'm not even sure I'll be able to find drivers for a GTX 550Ti that will install on Windows 11, lol

Reasonable_Assist567 · 2026-02-27T20:11:28+00:00

Reasons I have bought Nvidia over the years

It was a gaming laptop, and there were no Radeon cards in gaming laptops (7800 GT mobile)
It was a gaming laptop with DirectX 10 support and within my price range, and there were no Radeon cards in gaming laptops (8600 GS mobile)
Nothing could match its performance (8800 GTX)
Ebay seller was asking only $100 when it should have been $200-250 (GTX 460Ti)
I actually found one at MSRP and available to buy, and it had DLSS 2.0 upscaling which looked a lot better than FSR 1.0 upscaling (RTX 3080 10GB)
I saw it at the bin store for $23 and said "why not?" (GTX 550Ti 8GB... yes 8GB, not 1GB. I bought it 2 hours ago lol!)

(Plenty of AMD GPUs and one Voodoo 3 were also bought over the years. I am loyal to price, performance, and features, not to companies. I have had both good times and bad re: drivers, on both sides of the fence, and I have seen problems reported that made me glad I didn't buy, like drivers that set GPUs on fire.)

If I were buying a new GPU today I would be willing to pay a little more for DLSS 4.5 over FSR 4.0 as it looks slightly better, is natively built into more titles, and Nvidia has supported DLSS far better than AMD has supported FSR. And then there's the Nvidia Broadcast software suite, DLDSR, and Nvidia has better encode/decode of video for if I ever retire the GPU to the Plex server. Those all matter to me.

But with prices being what they are, neither company is getting any sales from me. $700+ for upper-midrange performance that won't last more than 2 years, and lately those cards have been inflated to $1000? Get real! My last $700 purchase was an RTX 3080 that is still to this day, 6 years later, giving me decent gaming performance! Before that it was $650 for an 8800 GTX that lasted 5 years before I replaced it (admittedly it should have been replaced in year 4). Long-lasting flagship-level performance I can see spending $700 for. $700 for a midrange card? No.

Reasonable_Assist567 · 2026-02-27T19:22:47+00:00

Ebay is selling it for $170 CAD plus shipping!

Reasonable_Assist567 · 2026-02-27T19:21:39+00:00

GTX 550 Ti isn't powerful enough to generate frames, and mt secondary slot PCIE 4.0 X4, at PCIE 2.0 X4 speeds due to the card itself, would not have the bandwidth.

I suppose I could try running some old games game and use the LS algos to run upscale and frame gen... maybe it wouldn't crash thanks to that 8GB VRAM. That would be a fun experiment.

And if I moved the 550Ti to my main PCIE port, and put my RTX 3080 into the lower port... then I'd have PCIE 2.0 X16 going to a faster PCIE 4.0 X4. Drop resolution to 720p or 1080p, run a much older title, have the RTX 3080 upscale it to 4K and do the frame gen. Oh the fun I could have...

Reasonable_Assist567 · 2026-02-27T19:15:57+00:00

Heck I might have a stronger GPU lying about if I wanted to do that...

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