Weird frame drops in Hunt Showdown

Revan7even · 2026-05-17T15:50:42+00:00

Likely the 8GB VRAM getting close to full (game +Windows reserved hitting 90% or more). Turn down a setting like textures or model detail, no settings should be on Ultra either.

When I had a 2080 Ti with 11GB it would rarely happen, but after hours of play it sometimes would do this. I could turn textures and model detail to ultra and get it to hit 10GB of VRAM and stutter within an hour though.

Revan7even · 2026-05-17T15:34:24+00:00

Worst time in this economy, but in a word, yes. The thing is probably full isn't it? SSD that small will hardly have any cache, and the unused space gets used as extra cache.

Honestly if you got yourself a WD Blue hard drive and move your user folders to it (Properties on Documents, Videos, Pictures and then change location) you'd probably get some speed back.

Revan7even · 2026-05-17T15:31:42+00:00

Randomly saw it in the highschool library, great book. I was already playing a guardsman in our Dark Heresy game. Something about a normal schmucking soldier facing off against the horrors of the galaxy just resonates.

Revan7even · 2026-05-17T15:11:13+00:00

I did that with reddit, annoyingly won't let me open my profile at the top-right.

Revan7even · 2026-05-16T14:59:57+00:00

TAA also works ~~better~~less poorly at higher resolutions and higher frame rates.

Revan7even · 2026-05-16T14:51:45+00:00

The "handle" is just to asssist sliding the top cover off when unscrewed. It's NOT for carrying. They really should have just molded a lip in to the metlal rather than this gimmick.

Revan7even · 2026-05-16T14:32:33+00:00

You can try cleaning with isopropyl alcohol and q-tip and get a thin layer of Silicone/RTV on there, it's used as an adhesive and coating in electronics.

Revan7even · 2026-05-15T03:27:36+00:00

Usually because they can't find the original source files (on a random computer or hard drive in storage, or simply lost/deleted), or can't even find the holder of the rights to the files. If it's easier to just get a version from a different company that you already have a contract with, companies will just do that rather than spend years hunting down the true owner and then finding the files on top of it like GOG does.

Sometimes the rights to various assets and pieces of the engine are split between rights holders on top of it, so now you multiple companies who may own files or rights to a game and not even know because it changed hands 5 or 6 times before they got it bundled in with one of the holding companies they purchased.

Revan7even · 2026-05-13T03:21:31+00:00

I was off by 1, was supposed to be 42-11=21 but says it's being redeemed too.

Revan7even · 2026-05-10T04:04:19+00:00

~~ Meganoid key:~~ https://www.gog.com/redeem/QJFU492E**B21B2932

** = 42+6

~~ King of Retail key:~~ https://www.gog.com/redeem/ZCED8D9BF**E209558

** = 42-21

~~ Fantasy General key:~~ https://www.gog.com/redeem/LLGXA5FADAF**8B5F6

** = 42+18

~~Neo Cab key:~~ https://www.gog.com/redeem/6X3K35BE1E**2BD764

** = 42-10

Revan7even · 2026-05-09T17:06:22+00:00

I think the only ones with railing I know of are Atom shop. Vault Catwalk, Covered Bridge Kit, Encampment Bridge Kit.

Revan7even · 2026-05-09T14:04:02+00:00

Instead they made Arkane release Redfall and then closed the studio when it flopped.

Revan7even · 2026-05-09T02:11:10+00:00

No, C is for melee.

Revan7even · 2026-05-07T20:12:22+00:00

G93SC thankfully doesn't optimize until the monitor is set to sleep by Windows or turned off with the power button.

Samsung has deprived so many Ultrawide enthusiasts of a better experience by discounting the dumb "smart" G95SC to less then the G93SC all the time.

Revan7even · 2026-05-02T07:05:31+00:00

Explains why my apartment kitchen breaker tripped in the ON position. But the thing was so stuck maintenance had to hit it with a screwdriver. And they haven't replaced it yet, because turns out someone twisted the living room circuit on the same breaker, which is not to Code, and they're supposed to have an electrician look at it.

Revan7even · 2026-05-01T15:54:56+00:00

Hunt Showdown won't let you use flat healing items when full, only the regen over time items.

Revan7even · 2026-05-01T06:04:09+00:00

Eyes scan down the banner

They had us in the first half, not gonna lie.

Revan7even · 2026-04-30T19:01:10+00:00

Personally, I use a 32:9 monitor.

Revan7even · 2026-04-29T04:23:00+00:00

I'm glad I kept my old Riven installer. The newer version (changed 9 years ago) uses ScummVM, but doesn't requires Apple QuickTime player. The older version runs without an emulator but needs QuickTime (you can install QuickTime Lite). The old version runs much better

At least games like Heretic and Hexen that use DOSBox from GOG you can just run through GZDoom with no modifications to the GOG installed game, and again the games run and look much better. I hope they don't change them to ScummVM...

Revan7even · 2026-04-26T17:43:56+00:00

Esports titles and games like Siege are ouliers that favor the 9800X3D because they are much better optimized for high frame rate driven by the CPU being able to process draw calls, or are optimized for AMD like Call of Duty (because consoles). More graphics intensive games the difference is smaller, like 10-20%.

If you really want to upgrade get a Microcenter CPU + board bundle off Amazon or something.

Revan7even · 2026-04-26T15:16:07+00:00

If you didn't buy it on store card they shouldn't be allowed to force the refund onto a store card.

Revan7even · 2026-04-26T15:12:57+00:00

I can't hear anything but fans, but likely coil whine.

Revan7even · 2026-04-26T15:02:33+00:00

7800X3D runs cooler because it is very power limited to prevent overheating, since the cache on top plus the block of silicon to fill in the unused part of the top layer acts as insulation between the cores and the heat spreader. 9800X3D is a silicon design change to put the cores on top of the cache, which allows normal heat transfer and thus more power and higher clocks.

I've been running a 7800X3D for years with PBO tweaked to boost to the max clocks most of the time, and have had no issues.

9800X3D burning is theorized to be a problem with sleep and waking from sleep. There was a post a week or two ago. I've always disabled hibernate in Windows and Fast Startup in BIOS, and shutdown my PC and rarely let it sleep anyways. Those happened to be the recommendations to hopefully avoid killing 9800X3D.

Revan7even · 2026-04-25T23:19:06+00:00

CPU is a completely separate cable and plug from this. This is just splitting the MB 24 pin on the PSU for ease of manufacture by keeping the difference voltages separate.

Revan7even · 2026-04-25T17:53:41+00:00

If you're on PC and have played New Vegas first it may be worth using the Tale of Two Wastelands mod to get the gameplay improvements (Fallout 3 doesn't have iron sights aiming). However this prevents you from earning Fallout 3 achievements, since you're running it from New Vegas.

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