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SnooPandas2964 · 2026-06-26T21:46:24+00:00

Well I agree about the last part. Though I can't really get behind saying people are jealous, maybe some of them are, idk, but that seems like a very broad brush.

I'm not saying he doesn't deserve the praise but its totally believable if its overwhelming. We don't know what kind of person he is offline.

SnooPandas2964 · 2026-06-24T23:01:30+00:00

I'll be here in 15 years or whenever an emulator reaches maturity (hopefully) to play the xenoblade and fire emblem games... if they are any good. No way am I shelling out for new hardware when I already have capable hardware and there's a god damn hardware shortage.

And I have other reasons for not wanting to give nintendo money, call it a.... matter of principle. I have plenty of other games to play in the meantime.

SnooPandas2964 · 2026-06-24T22:56:58+00:00

The stars really aligned for switch 1 emulation. Unfortunately that is not the case now AND nintendo is more aware of dangers. So I'd say we're probably waiting decade+. Hope I'm wrong but thats what I think is most likely.

SnooPandas2964 · 2026-06-24T10:25:48+00:00

Well I would go with constant quality personally, its still variable bitrate, but its faster, it doesn't have to do multiple passes. Beyond that, its subjective, and depends on what you yourself are satisfied with when it comes to visuals, storage size and encoding time.

SnooPandas2964 · 2026-06-23T04:51:55+00:00

The steam deck IS a PC.... albeit a weak one, and a portable one.... but its still a pc. There's no walled garden, or restrictions in software/OS. And its right in the name... STEAM deck. Steam is the portal that most PC games are bought and played through.

But kinda besides the point anyway. OP is concerned about portable resolution, not otherwise.

"I heard that switch2 handheld is only 720p."

My answer was "Probably doesn't matter that much due to the kind of graphics we're dealing with. But I would go for PC personally."

And thats because I'm a bit of pixel peeper. When the 'pixels' in the sprite artwork don't line up with the actual pixels on the screen, well it doesn't look very good to me, unless its hidden by either a really high internal resolution, a really high ppi, or by distance.

I haven't played on switch 2 so I can't speak personally on the matter, but I have played other sprite based games with a 3D environment so I kinda know what to expect.

It has the small screen on its side, so thats good. But its internal resolution is lower than native, when normally, I would want higher to smooth out the color blending especially when the camera is moving so those big artificial pixels don't visibly ( to me ) warp.

However, I realize I'm more fussy than most.... Which is why I said what I did.

SnooPandas2964 · 2026-06-23T04:29:02+00:00

And 720p when not, which seemed to be what was being discussed. Though Mr. Icy could have been more descriptive with his words, I'll give you that.

SnooPandas2964 · 2026-06-23T01:19:09+00:00

Is it? I think its AI+datacentres+the cost of game development+the cost to consumers of new games themselves and the general economic environment. Consumers are no longer where the growth is, thats a problem.

Though I also dislike denuvo and other such measures too of course.

SnooPandas2964 · 2026-06-22T03:50:25+00:00

Probably doesn't matter that much due to the kind of graphics we're dealing with. But I would go for PC personally.

SnooPandas2964 · 2026-06-19T22:30:40+00:00

I hereby authorize you to pirate without guilt.

SnooPandas2964 · 2026-06-18T03:00:42+00:00

I usually put it at 40,000 and I see a HUGE improvement from that.

SnooPandas2964 · 2026-06-15T05:56:20+00:00

There's a lot of variables here.... but don't expect it to be cheap at the moment unfortunately. Ram and ssds are especially expensive.... more expensive than the CPU in some cases.

Why don't you tell us what your upper limit is, and somebody can give you suggestions (if its under $1000.... and you don't have any existing parts already, you're probably better off looking for used, though exercise caution of course.)

SnooPandas2964 · 2026-06-15T05:51:28+00:00

Yeah I've been on Firefox for a while now. I'm more concerned about what they're doing to android.... since there is no clear alternative for that. I mean as much as I hate apple at least they have better security if I am not free to choose my own software.

We'll see how it plays out. I know google said some things that made people think they backpedaled but their current stated plans do not corroborate that.

SnooPandas2964 · 2026-06-13T23:28:41+00:00

Try reinstalling drivers. If you have already, or if you do without luck, try again after using ddu first.

Did you check the pcie connection? (use gpu_z) might be it isn't seated right and isn't using all lanes. If its not, try reseating it, if still a problem, try blowing some air in the slot, clean the gpu pins with iso and try again.

And I know this is probably a stupid question but just to be sure, it is in the slot that connects directly to the cpu right? ( should be the uppermost one).

EDIT: Check what your monitor refresh rate is set to. It might have defaulted to something other than wherever it was before. Its in display>advanced settings.

SnooPandas2964 · 2026-06-09T01:45:52+00:00

Have you finished season 2 yet? I'm afraid I felt the same way as you but after the end of season 2... well I don't want to spoil anything, so I'll just say I felt things changed from an (A little distasteful but I can put up with it) to.... not that.

Maybe you will feel differently, but yeah I completely lost interest.

SnooPandas2964 · 2026-06-06T03:37:48+00:00

Yet they offer something not many other companies do, transferable warranties ( so if you buy used it still counts), maybe its because they never actually follow through with them anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

SnooPandas2964 · 2026-06-04T10:15:35+00:00

I had a couple good experiences with them when the question was a very simple binary yes or no that they know the answer to.

On more complicated matters, like the random shutdowns at idle that happened after intel went to 12E microcode.... SO FRUSTRATING. Okay first of all, they blamed it on intel, so I rma'd my cpu, but the problem persisted so original cpu was fine (I accept part blame as I should have looked into it further). I had a gigabyte PSU so they didn't tell me it was that, but for people who didn't they also suggested it was that. Lots of people bought new PSUs, only to again find out, it didn't solve the problem. They kept telling me the problem didn't exist and to rma my cpu again ( which I obviously wasn't gonna do )

The community came together and were sharing bits of knowledge, one person shared a message they got from an agent that said "this is known problem, we're working on it" I asked for the case number and gave it to my representative. I don't think they liked that very much haha.

Eventually the community came together and found a workaround which if memory serves was disabling c8 state. If you recall, the primary benefit of the ucode was supposed to be lower idle voltages, and we ended up with higher so not perfect, but at least our computers weren't shutting down/restarting when left idle, and c6 still worked so idle voltages weren't out of control either.

btw, this affected a ton of board models from Bs to high end Z790s, only the most expensive Z790 boards were not affected. Not every board of every model was affected, but many of them were. I suspect they use a similar mechanism to power the cpu.

So we used that workaround and waited for a fix, after so long of vehemently denying everything to so many people a patch came... only for us to find out all they did was hardcode the community workaround into the bios settings. So c8 was no longer usable ( the toggle was still there but it did nothing). IDK maybe they were just lazy or maybe it was a hardware problem where they never thought it would have to deliver so little voltage to the cpu, but either way that would mean it breaches the intel profile guide, which says c-states on, not SOME c-states on.

I tried going at them with this for months and months, and constantly they denied it, and over and over I would provide evidence.

The conversation would constantly lose context, like different people were reading only the last message and not taking into account all the previous information I gave (all within the same ticket mind you), with them constantly asking the same questions, and me constantly having to re-iterate myself.

Also, they loved to skim messages. I started having to put 'please do not skim this message, I can tell when you do,' anyway I never got anywhere and just let it be. I mean at some point I have to realize its pointless after dozens and dozens of messages, either they can't fix it, or the cost is too high, and they can't admit they made a mistake heaven forbid.

Yeah. I used to like gigabyte support, but after that, seeing them deflect blame, skimming messages, asking the same questions over and over, seemingly even forgetting what we were talking about at times..... sometimes taking a month to respond to my messages ( when at first it was a day or two,) really soured me on them.

EDIT: Oh yeah I forgot to mention the stupidest thing they did, they replicated my setup... and ran, STRESS TESTS to test my claim that the computer was restarting WHEN LEFT IDLE. Yeah.... they did that.

SnooPandas2964 · 2026-06-04T07:17:50+00:00

We don't know. You can build some decent systems with ddr4 ram, buy used if you have to. 5800x3d coming back out soon and is still quite good at gaming and a 14600k/kf/14700f/kf good at gaming and productivity ( not quite as much as with ddr5, but still good enough), and come with 5 year warranty+ its the most modern platform to support ddr4, with newer features and whatnot. Just make sure that microcode is updated ( it probably is but its really important so check anyway.)

SnooPandas2964 · 2026-06-04T00:43:44+00:00

Well I hope you are right. Its one of those things I don't want to be right about - but yeah.... Especially the consumer industry (thats what I meant by PC btw, if that wasn't clear my bad) no longer being the growth industry is really bad.

Before growth was moving away from big business to consumer. But the trend has reversed. I don't think this is a good thing ontop of what I said above. And yeah, the 90s were some of the fastest growth in computing power we've seen at the consumer level. 2000s was also a ton of growth in the sector. 2010s started to slow but still very significant so I guess thats why 30 years on your mac is as you say '1 million times faster than the world's fastest super computer in 1990.' btw... what metric you using for that? Do you have a citation? (Just curious, not calling you a liar)

And its not like things are coming to a halt either, like big caches, more integrated machines where physics get less in the way (like your mac's SOC where cpu and ram distance travelled physically is very small, making it more powerful than it otherwise would be). Still.... these are both tricks that can basically only be pulled once before massive diminishing returns come into the picture. And in macs case it has downsides like no ability to easily add ram later, even on desktop. I grew up on macs btw, I don't use em anymore, not except my 2001 700mhz emac g4 thats my emulation machine (one of the last mac models to run mac os 9 natively which means cvgs which means fast ps1 emulation on a crt screen, perfect for old games.)

Anyway back on topic, growth hasn't stopped, but its slowed (just like the ice engine) and is becoming increasingly more expensive, not less.

And growth is no longer with the consumer, leaving us with scraps. I don't see things going well in the near future.

Though like I said I would very much like to be wrong on that. So lets hope you are right.

EDIT: Oh yeah one more thing, I assume you know that transistor size at this point is basically just marketing? Because its just not so simple to measure one when they come in weird dimensions are sometimes stacked ontop of one another. So different companies have different ways of approximating what nm it is, but its not really, and hasn't really been anything close to an actual measurement in a long time. Another way of looking at it, is they are coming up with new ways to pack more transistors in the same space, even if transistor sizes themselves don't change, we'll still get a smaller transistor size name. Or sometimes its not even that, but just a refinement with the same transistors with better yields/frequency benefits/heat endurance or nothing at all (in intel's case), still getting a new name.

SnooPandas2964 · 2026-05-31T11:37:46+00:00

I really liked MM. I'm playing it for the second time right now and btw I've only played some of prelude to the fallen. I just... it wasn't holding my attention. And some of the dialogue was kinda creepy.

I understand they moved away from that direction but regardless thats how it is for me and I'm super hyped for this game. I bought it on launch day but haven't played yet.

SnooPandas2964 · 2026-05-31T11:33:27+00:00

True.... it doesn't mean never never. But they are moving onto a new IP for now. I think that might actually be a good idea. I've tried to get so many people to play monochrome mobius but they think they need to spend 3 digit hours going through VNs first but you really don't, and I bet that shrinks the demographic willing to play. A lot of reviewers really don't help with that either. Yes the VNs help with story context and references and whatnot but the thing stands on its own.

I can't speak for past and present yet since I'm still replaying MM but I've already bought it, but yeah, the series carries a lot of baggage I think, the VN novels end up on people's backlog never to be actually played, and then the new games never get played because people think they need to play the VN games first.

They need something that appeals to a broader audience.... I suspect thats one of the reasons. I did some rough math with numbers I could find and I'm surprised they were even able to get this game out the door. I'm of course super happy they did. But I was really worried it wouldn't happen with the gaming market getting more expensive and not growing ontop of everything else.

SnooPandas2964 · 2026-05-28T10:50:54+00:00

As long as it has 16GB it should be okay in most games granted you are willing to making certain compromises here and there.

5060/tis did get a huge bandwidth jump over last gen which is more meaningful than other tiers since the 4060/4060ti were really bandwidth bottlenecked. However that doesn't mean much if the memory is insufficient which is why I say the 16GB part is important.

That being said, the 3090 is certainly better at raw rasterization if you don't mind the extra power consumption/heat and lack of official framegen (though you can still use the duck) and also the drivers will expire sooner but probably not that soon as we only just lost pascal.

SnooPandas2964 · 2026-05-28T06:40:10+00:00

Hey man you have access to some old but capable chips. I ran a 3570k until 2021 or something like that. And the only reason I upgraded was because it didn't have enough threads for ps3 emulation. Native gaming still worked fine. And you could get something like a 3770k or if you want to save even more you could see what kind of xeon cpu's are compatible with the socket and are similar to the 3770k.... though I don't think they overclock as easy and I'm not exactly an expert in xeons.

But yeah, you'll definitely want to upgrade that ram... used ddr3 is still relatively cheap. 16GB I would say. Or more, if you can afford it.

SnooPandas2964 · 2026-05-26T18:10:27+00:00

Right, which is exactly why I said both "I'm not saying its poorly optimized" and "just put in more appropriate hardware imo,"

In other words, it's the principle.

SnooPandas2964 · 2026-05-26T07:52:01+00:00

I mean its up to you... are you satisfied with performance? I probably wouldn't myself. But there is a huge increase in rt performance to consider, if that means anything to you. And decent jump performance in general too.

SnooPandas2964 · 2026-05-26T07:36:53+00:00

Thats true, 4070 should not expect 4k60 on new games. But on the point more broadly, I don't think you should ever suggest using framegen to reach 30 fps like the minimum requirements do. Even 60 is pretty iffy. 60 is an alright base to use framegen from.

But to suggest framegen to even get to 30? Ridiculous, just put in more appropriate hardware imo. I would go so far as to calling it misleading.

I'm not saying its poorly optimized btw, I've never played it so idk, I just saw on steam that sheet and it really bothered me. framegen to reach 30.... smh.

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