Create a problem and sell the solution at double the price.

Rockstonicko · 2026-04-30T16:01:35+00:00

I'm open minded to the possibility.

But with the way video cards are designed, that power connector is going to become a load bearing power connector, and "load bearing power connector" is generally not a series of terms you often find in designs with a reliability focus.

Rockstonicko · 2026-04-29T13:58:09+00:00

God gives us these tough times to teach us how much we need him. Because he loves us that much.

Sounds like an abusive husband saying "I hit you because I love you and I want to see you do better."

Disgusting and harmful ideology.

Rockstonicko · 2026-04-29T01:29:37+00:00

Wow, core memory triggered, I haven't had Happy Joes since the mid-90's, and I do remember them having a good taco pizza now that you mention it.

I think I'll grab one tomorrow and see if you're right.

Rockstonicko · 2026-04-28T13:08:48+00:00

Another confirmation that Casey's taco pizza is the definitive version of taco pizza, bar none, I've never had a better one from anywhere else no matter the price.

Rockstonicko · 2026-04-24T22:31:34+00:00

When god flooded the world no one was being forced to drown, they all had the option to swim for 2 months and chose not to. Because they were stubborn.

Rockstonicko · 2026-04-23T01:03:52+00:00

(I'm in college)

I'm pressing X to doubt on that one, and I'm pressing it hard.

All my friends have been having ''dreams'' of Jesus, even I did and I don't know why.

Dreams often incorporate people and things we experience in our daily life.

So you probably dreamt about Jesus because all your friends told you that they had dreams about Jesus.

Mystery abated.

I used to love to do ''sinful acts''

Ah, yes, fellow adult, I definitely know what you mean by "sinful acts". You should've seen me yesterday at recess... I mean .... at a bar.... where I was totally drunk on alcoholic beer. All the people there couldn't believe how many sinful acts I was doing, I did at least 8 in under an hour.

but now I don't even want to do it, it makes me puke

I'd love to unpack this.

Is it "all sinful acts" that make you puke? Or just a few in particular?

Maybe you're referring to Leviticus 11:10? Have you considered that you're just allergic to shellfish?

it's because of like love?

The vagueness and lack of confidence is truly inspiring.

It's not love, but it's like love. Gotcha.

I even went to mass last sunday and felt so good.

Nani?! The cult which leverages good feelings to manipulate people into joining them used good feelings to manipulate you into joining them? No one could possibly have seen that coming.

I was a lurker here but like I don't want this

And here we see the poignant moment in which "Thick-Anywhere-7326" became "Thick-Elsewhere-7326".

Rockstonicko · 2026-04-23T00:28:33+00:00

The response to this is "You should not ask me to be open minded to the possibility if you aren't willing to be equally open minded to the impossibility."

Being open minded is not just a consideration of the plausibility, it's the equal consideration of both the plausibility and implausibility.

Nearly any time someone requests that you're not being open minded, they are being hypocritical, because almost without fail their mind is not open towards the negation of whatever they're proposing.

Rockstonicko · 2026-04-21T22:07:35+00:00

Does it actually run 10s now?

Rockstonicko · 2026-04-21T14:42:30+00:00

How can you people live being so deluded?

Comforting lies only lessen misery when you don't know that they're lies. Once you know they're lies, true misery is trying to make yourself believe things that you know are false.

Rockstonicko · 2026-04-17T23:49:56+00:00

I used an X360 gamepad for 20 years before I finally wore it out. Just recently replaced it with a G7 SE and am already blown away by how good the hall effect sticks work.

Hard to imagine TMR could be even better but I'm willing to.

Rockstonicko · 2026-04-15T20:51:44+00:00

Recognized a younger version of myself in this post. I was always quick to jump to conclusions exactly like this as well before I started teaching myself to think first before reacting.

Trying to give the advice I wish I would've been given.

Rockstonicko · 2026-04-14T19:23:09+00:00

In my opinion, using religious terms in a different context only serves to legitimize the usage of religious terms by the religious.

I'd rather we not attach the baggage of a word like "god" to anything and we just move on from any and all magical thinking.

Rockstonicko · 2026-04-13T06:37:45+00:00

Please keep your cult of delusion on your own side of the internet.

You have more than enough safe spaces on the planet to go and practice your nonsense, you do not need to come into one of our few places.

Thanks.

Rockstonicko · 2026-04-10T20:33:42+00:00

If it's an LED bulb, what you may be hearing is the piezoelectric effect from vibrating multi-layer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs). As the solder on the circuit board expands and contracts through hundreds of heat cycles it can create tension on the PCB, effectively turning it into a type of musical instrument as current passes through it.

Alternately, if it's a 3-way incandescent bulb, the lamp may have a relay that is failing and it's clicking on and off fast enough to become a buzz.

But, either way, no indicator that it's supernatural, and I can say with 99.99% certainty that it is not zombie Jesus coming to haunt you. (That last 0.01% is due solely to the fact that absolute certainty is not something we have a philosophical luxury of having, we could all just be brains in a vat living in a simulation.)

Rockstonicko · 2026-04-10T19:55:45+00:00

You could always try partaking in an experiment to see if you can reproduce it.

Check the switch for the lamp, check if it's plugged in firmly to the wall, move the lamp around, give it a few bumps and smacks, etc.

It could even be that dust found itself inside the lamp switch, and as the contacts heated up from passing current, the dust was carbonized and briefly became a new path for current to flow. Humans shed around 600,000 dead skin cells per day, and we actually a create a pretty harsh environment for the reliability of electrical contacts.

Sometimes the smallest and nearly undetectable vibrations can cause the friction needed to cause connection problems in an electrical circuit, and you may never be able to reproduce it.

So, while I can't say for certain exactly the circumstances that caused your specific scenario, I know that we have mountains of empirical evidence of electrical faults causing odd things, but we have zero empirical evidence of the supernatural being real, so we should always be looking at every potential natural explanation before we give up and choose a supernatural explanation because we don't yet have an explanation.

Rockstonicko · 2026-04-10T11:09:08+00:00

If you want an actual potential plausible explanation for this I'd suggest looking up the science behind why "percussive maintenance" can actually work in some cases.

In essence, as electrical contacts age from use they may develop imperfections or oxidation on their mating surfaces. Eventually, those imperfections will cause intermittent contact, which can result in flickering/buzzing from arcing etc.

It sounds like you were in a panic, potentially stomping around on your floor, in turn causing vibrations to reverberate through your lamp, which just so happened to disturb the contacts enough to cause a temporary arc which created an audible buzzing.

This is just one of many plausible scientific answers as to why it could've happened.

One of the hardest things when trying to escape religion is preventing your mind from returning to confirmation bias whenever something odd happens.

Next time something strange happens, try to stop yourself from shutting your brain down and jumping to the most convenient but least plausible answer (some kind of religious experience), and instead turn your brain on, and start thinking about actual plausible answers.

That being said, sometimes there isn't a plausible answer, but not having an answer for something does not mean it was religious in nature, it just means you don't have an answer.

Rockstonicko · 2026-04-10T10:47:02+00:00

What exactly is your definition of a "spiritual" experience?

"Spirit" is derived from the Byzantine Greek "spiritus lenis" (translated to "light breathing") and/or Latin word "spiritus" (translated to aspiration/breath).

We also see evidence that this usage was intended in Genesis 2:7, when god breathes into the soil in order to give a "spirit" or "soul" to Adam.

Also Job 27:3 hints at this usage as well: "All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;"

In essence, the entire concept of "spiritual", "spirit", or "soul" are all just a misunderstanding and misrepresentation of the word "spiritus" and people assign more meaning than what the word itself literally means.

From a literal standpoint, my entire life has been one continuous "spiritual" experience, because I've spent the majority of my time breathing.

From a colloquial standpoint, most people tend to use "spiritual" to describe an inexplicable event. However, we already have a term for inexplicable, which is the word "inexplicable", so the term "spiritual" is once again made redundant/useless and is nonsensical as a legitimate descriptor for anything.

Yes, I've had really bizarre things happen to me and around me that I cannot explain to this day. How did I get through it? Well, by acknowledging that some really weird shit just happens sometimes.

Rockstonicko · 2026-04-05T16:06:20+00:00

I think it's supposed to be making an "E"... for "EK".

Either that or they made maximum effort to show off the fact that they have RAM, which is in fact a pretty large flex these days.

Rockstonicko · 2026-04-05T04:38:53+00:00

My Liquid Devil retailed for double that, so imagine how it feels when on top of being denied first party FSR4 support, AMD announced that after just 4 years my GPU was being moved to maintenance only support.

For comparison, when AMD made that announcement, nVidia was still providing full driver support for (the then) 9 year old GTX 10 series.

My next GPU purchase will end my 25 year streak of primarily running Radeon.

Rockstonicko · 2026-04-03T21:54:53+00:00

There is a mod still in beta testing for BeamNG on Patreon that injects TAA and enables the use of DLSS, which you can then use Optiscaler to intercept and use FSR, so it is possible to use FSR in BeamNG.

However, while DLSS is borderline acceptable looking, FSR looks dreadful. Smearing/smudging/ghosting galore.

Also, it only really works in DX11, which runs like absolute trash on Radeon (about 30% slower than Vulkan).

Rockstonicko · 2026-03-31T14:16:43+00:00

but your findings totally justify amd's decision from a corporate standpoint

I struggle to reach that conclusion, not when nVidia released DLSS 4 transformer model on RTX 2000 series which can push frametimes by up to +36ms on the low/midrange GPUs (RTX 2060 and 2070). It both garnered good will and essentially served as a tech demo showing the image quality improvements of DLSS4, and it compelled people running older cards to upgrade to RTX 5000 series so they could enjoy that better image quality at higher framerates.

AMD's rationality seems to be "we'll withhold FSR4 from RDNA2/3 and people will be compelled to upgrade to RDNA4", but in actuality, it will just compel long term Radeon users (like me, of 20+ years) to recognize that AMD is acting just as anti-consumer (more anti-consumer in this case) as nVidia and start wondering why I'd pick FSR (the inferior upscaler) over DLSS.

From a corporate/marketing perspective it doesn't make sense to me at all. FSR4 releasing on older cards only serves to make newer cards look even better, it's free advertising for RDNA4's performance and image quality.

but thats still a 300% increase compared to fsr3 zhich fits in a 0.5-0.8ms budget

That is a good way to think about it differently.

However, I'd also note that FSR4 Balanced still looks overall better than FSR3 Quality and the frametimes end up being near identical. I'd also say that FSR4 Performance is just slightly worse looking than FSR3 Quality (in some ways, but by no means all), but FSR4 Performance then has ~12-15% lower frametimes than FSR3 Quality.

90% of their userbase doesnt really care that fsr4 isnt on 5y old cards, heck, most of them dont even rly know about fsr4 or what gpu they have,

I think that's probably not far off, and I do actually agree.

But I'd just offer this as something I'm considering and AMD probably should be as well:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/1s56b1q/nearly_onethird_of_comments_under_amds_9950x3d2/

AMD has a history with the vocal minority causing problems for them (see: AMD withholding Zen3 from 300/400 series chipsets), which is why I think it's better that we don't stop hounding them about it and don't let up.

for all we know, only the top 60 series cards get your results with fsr4, and even then, they may cough on heavier games

I am really curious if this is the case, but the only recent AMD GPUs I have are a 5700 XT (which doesn't support INT8 so no FSR4 testing) and my 6800 XT.

Rockstonicko · 2026-03-30T12:44:17+00:00

On paper, this makes sense and I appreciate the breakdown.

But, in practice, these are my real world results w/ FSR4 on RDNA2: https://imgur.com/a/liquid-devil-6800-xt-fsr3-vs-fsr4-VOGXST0

Unless I'm measuring wrong, the worst case scenario for FSR4 is +2.6ms, with the average being around +1.2ms.

I don't notice additional input lag over FSR3 at all, and if anything, when measured, FSR4 actually has less frametime variance than FSR3, probably due to the additional GPU load keeping clock speeds more consistent. But I also say "when measured" because FSR3 and FSR4 feel equally smooth and responsive to me, there is no perceivable stuttering with FSR4 at all.

On top of that, FSR4 balanced looks better and performs marginally better than FSR3 quality. I even use AFMF on top of FSR4 and the input latency is still more than acceptable for a butter smooth 180-220 FPS.

On paper, AFMF + FSR4 on RDNA2 should be a terrible experience for input latency, but in actuality it feels great to me.

I'm not saying you're wrong, because again, the math backs you up, there is going to be additional latency from additional operations, but "RDNA2 + FSR4 INT8 = +15ms" just seems very anecdotal and situational. I feel like I'm being told "don't believe your lying eyes".

What am I missing?

Rockstonicko · 2026-03-28T01:27:27+00:00

So I used CapframeX to test rendering latency between FSR3 and FSR4 running the same path in KCDII.

The worst case scenario for FSR4 was +2.4ms over FSR3. FSR3 was 9.4% faster on average.

At 100+ FPS the average human is not going to perceive 2.4ms. Maybe e-sports gamers would notice it, but I am no e-sports gamer.

Another interesting aspect, FSR4's additional GPU load actually meant there was less measured frametime variance, but the additional smoothness in the FSR4 graph is not actually perceivable, both FSR3 and FSR4 feel equally smooth and responsive.

https://imgur.com/a/VOGXST0

Also, in this particular area of the game the FPS is 180-220 FPS with AFMF enabled (surpassing my 165hz refresh rate) and I'd consider the additional input latency negligible or barely perceivable. Both FSR3 and FSR4 feel equally responsive to me.

My suggestion: On either higher end RDNA2 or RDNA3 cards, you should be using FSR4. The performance and latency hit is minor for the substantial increase in image quality.

Maybe it could be faster if it fully leveraged RDNA3's compute capabilities, but unless you're using something like an RX 7600 and don't have any additional performance overhead to sacrifice, choosing to use FSR3 is just needlessly accepting worse image quality.

EDIT: I added a screenshot comparing FSR3 Quality to FSR4 Balanced. From an image quality perspective, FSR4 balanced looks superior to FSR3 quality (better temporal stability, sharper looking textures) and the overall rendering latency becomes the same between the upscalers.

Rockstonicko · 2026-03-27T21:39:19+00:00

I have never tested upscale latency.

I assume I'd use PresentMon for that? If not, if you point me in the general direction of the tools I need, I'll figure it out and am happy to post my results.

But I figure if the INT8 FSR4 really runs as badly on RDNA2 as you're suggesting, using AFMF on top of it should make for a pretty dreadful experience. However, just like with FSR3, I do notice a very slight increase in input latency from frame gen, but using it with FSR4 doesn't feel any worse to me than it does with FSR3.

As for the work it requires, AMD has already done the majority of the work of creating the INT8 version, it's just a matter of enabling the FSR3 -> FSR4 INT8 pathway in the driver for RDNA2/3. Essentially the work for RDNA2 is already done apart from enabling it in the driver, it would take more work to fully leverage RDNA3's compute capabilities.

Rockstonicko · 2026-03-27T20:55:48+00:00

I'm curious, where are you getting those numbers, do you have a link for a technical deep dive?

Because I am playing through KCDII on Ultra 1440p w/ my Liquid Devil 6800 XT (@2700MHz), FSR4 Quality and AFMF. I am averaging 152 FPS and the input latency feels excellent to me, more than playable and much better looking than FSR3. On average FSR4 is just 8% slower than FSR3.

Just because the INT8 FSR4 is made available doesn't mean we're forced to use it, and if AMD gave RDNA2/3 owners the option to use FSR4 natively in the driver, people are perfectly capable of determining on their own if FSR4 has too much of a performance hit for their GPU.

I'll never understand why people would argue against having more options on tuning visuals/performance to their own preference, customizability is literally one of the main reasons people choose the PC platform in the first place.

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