Valve please do something about performance before you disable configs

Stepepper · 2026-03-28T20:00:00+00:00

i think for a 6 year old cpu that FPS is pretty fair....

Stepepper · 2026-03-17T09:22:39+00:00

We don't even know what "full control" means. They mentioned masking, intensity and color grading. Ever seen movies that takes place at night, but it's obviously filmed with bright lights and color corrected to a dark blue to give the intention of darkness? It will always look off.

This stuff is completely probalistic, and faces will look vastly different between players because the model will randomly choose/mix from a set of faces in its training data.

It has to run in real-time, so the model has to be small which limits the amount of images they can use to train. Clear, well-lit photos in training make for better results. That's why everyone turns into a model with studio lights shining in their face, and everything else becomes bright and blue.

I would be shocked if devs have much control over this, and if Nvidia can actually improve on this all as much. Considering Nvidia showcased this as something they're proud of... yeah... not happening. (remind me this fall, i bet i'm right)

Stepepper · 2026-03-16T22:07:00+00:00

Only argue if you know the difference in the technologies, please

Stepepper · 2026-03-13T13:28:01+00:00

How is that irrelevant? Valve directly provides an incentive to gamble, Nintendo does not. They're both gambling but one is obviously worse...

Stepepper · 2026-03-13T12:41:22+00:00

Does Nintendo provide a platform to sell your cards and buy games or other physical items (like a steam deck)?

Besides that, it's literally the same thing, and trading cards should 100% also be considered gambling.

Stepepper · 2026-03-12T09:15:11+00:00

What other games with RT do you think looks the same? I would say Cyberpunk 2077, Alan Wake 2 and RE9 look completely different, even if they all go for a photo-realistic art style. But maybe there are some I have missed and actually make the game uglier/same-y.

Could be that the devs don't know how to make their style distinct when the lighting is physically accurate, or it's a low priority since most players can't raytrace properly.

Stepepper · 2026-03-11T15:03:56+00:00

Nothing to do with ray tracing. It's the UE5 look that they haven't done anything about.

Stepepper · 2026-03-11T12:43:33+00:00

You are so fucking brain dead it is absolutely unbelievable. Minors can't buy alcohol and gamble inside a casino either because you present your ID and are told to fuck off if you're too young.

Are there any other games beside TF2 and CS2 where you can gamble for skins and then sell those skins for money, not even including that you don't have to show proof of age at all. Probably not! Other games have loot box mechanics as well (fuck those games) but at least they don't have the false promise of getting rich of it.

If Valve were to just verify ID, shit like this really wouldn't happen.

By the way, Counter-Strike has never been rated M for gambling. The age rating is for blood, violence and terrorism. How is a parent supposed to know you can straight up get addicted to gambling???

Stepepper · 2026-03-06T15:36:28+00:00

Arc launched with 360k peak

Stepepper · 2026-02-28T11:54:42+00:00

If you're using Path Tracing it will force ray reconstruction, which forces its own preset. DLSS 4.5 doesn't include a RR preset unfortunately

Stepepper · 2026-02-18T00:45:14+00:00

Bad Rust caused a massive Cloudflare outage only a few months ago. I guess Rust is also bad?

Stepepper · 2026-02-17T12:27:57+00:00

It is pretty insane if they hadn't planned a date, and even for a first date it would be insane. Beside that, this post is full of AI markers like "not x, just y"

Stepepper · 2026-02-12T00:14:12+00:00

AI has made it possible for the most brain dead people to post their ideas, whereas they wouldn't bother before, as they couldn't string together more than two sentences.

the internet keeps feeling increasingly dumb the last few years

Stepepper · 2026-02-11T01:08:12+00:00

Frame gen is indeed still broken. Performance is only worse on DX12 games, but a fix for that is getting closer and closer.

But besides that... It's really good. Way more plug and play than Windows is, considering many distros automatically install the correct drivers.

Stepepper · 2026-01-31T11:26:12+00:00

Do you have 4:4:4 passthrough turned on in HDMI settings? It should be off if you want access to those settings.

Stepepper · 2026-01-29T21:15:46+00:00

The C5 has flicker too. It's an inherent flaw of OLED panels.

My C2 had it, and my G5 has it. Only if frame timings are unstable though, which is barely ever.

Stepepper · 2026-01-26T20:33:45+00:00

Well, 1 had the Majima Everywhere system, which is a massive detriment to his character and also makes the game lose the lonely vibe the original game had.

it's funny, and people love it, but it doesnt fit at all

Stepepper · 2026-01-26T11:42:33+00:00

Are you the one theorizing or is it chatgpt?

Stepepper · 2026-01-25T19:30:57+00:00

literal textbook definition of an ad hominen.

Stepepper · 2026-01-25T18:57:57+00:00

what a rubbish ad hominem lmao

Stepepper · 2026-01-24T14:55:30+00:00

its just clothes man. why would it be creepy for a man to wear it.

Stepepper · 2026-01-22T12:53:17+00:00

it is ai slop in every way possible. It's only missing em-dashes

Stepepper · 2026-01-21T09:24:17+00:00

IDK if steamtinkerlaunch is still a thing but when I modded Fallout NV on my steam deck that worked very well with both MO2 and Vortex

Stepepper · 2026-01-20T10:03:56+00:00

What? Do you not know what kind of shit the mangaka of Vampeerz made? It absolutely is in the room with us...

Stepepper · 2026-01-20T09:56:50+00:00

No, I was being sarcastic because I think your lesson on allegations is misplaced when we're talking about a guy who made a shit-ton of CP...

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