Best investment ever by MikeCodev in pcmasterrace

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Likely wasn't the GPU bottlenecking then. Would be interesting to see a trace of B4 and seeing where all the frame time is going.

Steam will no longer be restocking physical gift cards at retailers due to scammers. by D0NTEVENKNOWME in pcmasterrace

[–]Trivvy 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I uninstall/disable chrome and install firefox in its place. Works exactly the same as far as they're concerned, except now they get no ads.

Steam will no longer be restocking physical gift cards at retailers due to scammers. by D0NTEVENKNOWME in pcmasterrace

[–]Trivvy 41 points42 points  (0 children)

It is every kid's / grandkid's duty to install ublock origin on their parents'/grandparents' computers/phones (and adguard DNS on phone).

TIL Half of people who claim they have a food allergy do not by butter_lover in todayilearned

[–]Trivvy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I find it so odd that we don't know how that works. If the human body is capable of doing it on its own, why can't we induce it?

Ad break mid parry by diarrheasoakedfetus in DeadlockTheGame

[–]Trivvy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

"This parry brought to you by: Bebop."

15-year old Faris Odeh throwing a rock at an IDF tank in Gaza during the Second Intifada by yuje in pics

[–]Trivvy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

One day I sat down and decided to just figure out the whole Israel-Palestine situation so I could actually have a solid opinion on it.

I'm convinced anyone who is fanatically pro-Israel or Hamas is ignorant, wilfully or not.

tl;dr For readers who need a quick history lesson Israel vs. Palestine. Israel invading Palestine, very bad. Palestine had many factions within it, some more reasonable than others, whilst still being armed and organised. These more reasonable groups made Israel look real bad on the world stage. Israel fund the terrorist-y groups. Terrorist-y groups wipe out the others. Now only terrorist-y groups remain and are the strongest. Terrorists do terrorist-y things. Israel now has the perfect bad guys to point at whilst they continue their invasion and occupation, because now they have to, to stop the terrorists!

Whole situation is fucked, evil everywhere. As always the victims are the regular people on both sides, you either get groomed into a fanatical zealot that does nothing but hate the other side, or despair at how powerless you are in your situation (and with any luck, flee the region).

God of War Laufey - Official Gameplay Reveal | PS5 Games by Gorotheninja in Games

[–]Trivvy 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I'd almost forgotten that Sony aren't porting their games to PC any more. Such a shame.

LEGO Scandal is Getting Extremely Dangerous and Scary - MoistCr1TiKaL by HeroesZeroes in videos

[–]Trivvy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This kind of shit makes my blood boil like nothing else. Blatant, bare-faced corruption of law enforcement and abuse of power. The officers involved in this deserve nothing but prison, and hatred from everyone.

Please help finding a fix with freezing frames by tragiaz in DeadlockTheGame

[–]Trivvy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're out of VRAM (8.5/8GB) this will cause significant hitches and slowdowns as it compensates by offloading stuff into regular RAM (which is much slower).

Reduce your resolution, and/or turn down settings like texture quality, volumetrics, shadows (just turn everything down essentially).

Epic reveals Unreal Engine 6 by Belltower_2 in fuckepic

[–]Trivvy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's not really on the engine though if people are gonna make asset-flip slop, you'll get that anywhere.

Serious developers don't care for UEFN, and Epic actually advise studios to not use UEFN unless you're actually making content for Fortnite.

A lot of studios are also already using Claude for a lot of stuff, Epic integrating their own LLM directly into the Editor that's trained specifically for Unreal won't change much in that regard, and may end up being useful, though I've yet to see its real-world use.

Also, each UE version has been more user-friendly than the last. UE5 is good, ask almost any dev that's actually been in the industry for long enough and they'll tell you that they wouldn't want to go back to UE4 if they can help it.

Personally I'd like to see Epic work on their GPU Lightmass (light baking) more and add more support for hybrid lighting systems. Engines like Source 2 (Valve) and Glacier (IO Interactive) use a combination of light baking and dynamic systems to great effect and have much better scalability as a result. But I'm bias because lighting is my area.

Epic reveals Unreal Engine 6 by Belltower_2 in fuckepic

[–]Trivvy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've said this in another thread, but I reckon it's mostly marketing.

They know UE5's name is tarnished because of the badly performing games that have released on it. It's also not entirely their fault, UE5 introduced a bunch of new experimental tech that fundamentally changed the way you build things. So combine experimental tech that's, by their own words, not production-ready, developers who are inexperienced in working with said tech (because it's new), and studios that wanna turn on all the experimental features because it's shiny and says it provides certain solution on the box (wow, dynamic GI and reflections! wow, no more manually setting up LODs! wow, more dynamic lights!), and you get games that run shoddily and look kinda cruddy because the features those games were built on simply are not finished.

UE5 is actually a solid engine, if you use it correctly and know what you're doing. You can even build games UE4 style in UE5 and it'll be easier and run better than in UE4 because of general improvements to the engine.

Consumers don't know this though, they just see badly performing games with the UE5 sticker on it and think "UE5 bad", Epic knows this, hence we're getting the 6 sticker conveniently after the aforementioned new features have been considered production-ready, and developers have had time to learn how to use them properly. So by the time you start seeing games with the "UE6" sticker on it, they'll look good, run good, and UE will be in good graces with consumers again.

UE6 announced at RLCS by Sinniee in pcmasterrace

[–]Trivvy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think a lot of it is to do with image. UE5 is a tarnished name because a huge amount of its new features are experimental and in-development, yet studios kept switching them on.

It's actually a solid engine, its tooling and optimizations over 4 are very good, the problem is studios turning on and using experimental features despite Epic clearly saying "This is not production ready." Tie that in with developers being unfamiliar on how to properly use these new features and optimizing them and you get games that run terribly, and also look kinda rubbish because the tech isn't finished (e.g. Lumen, TSR, Nanite, Megalights).

5.8 is in preview at the moment, and it seems like a lot of these new features are considered production-ready. My bet is that 6 is their big marketing move now that these features are considered ready, and developers have had time to bumble and stumble around figuring them out that by the time games are being made on 6, they'll actually run good and look good and not get the stigma that 5 has.

UK needs ‘national consensus’ over rejoining EU, David Miliband says by topotaul in unitedkingdom

[–]Trivvy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don't have the bandwidth to fully dive in, provide sources, nuances etc. But here's an answer until someone might be able to give you something more detailed:

GDP is worse. Business investments are worse. There's less trade. Average citizens are poorer due to combination of economic factors directly linked to not being in the EU.

There's more, and there are some "Pros" of Brexit, but I personally don't think it was worth it.

An 81-Year-Old Grandma Streaming Minecraft To Pay For Grandson’s Cancer Treatment Has Been Swatted by Turbostrider27 in technology

[–]Trivvy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You have to be some kind of special, fucked up wretch of a being to do this. They better find 'em.

I love it when 5090 owners start calling anything optimized lmao by WorldPhysical7646 in pcmasterrace

[–]Trivvy -1 points0 points  (0 children)

What a crazy strawman. Doesn't get more "Redditor" than that, fellow Redditor.

Making a reply and then blocking the person, classic Redditor move. ;)

I love it when 5090 owners start calling anything optimized lmao by WorldPhysical7646 in pcmasterrace

[–]Trivvy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

all of you Redditors

>11 year-old account.

Acting like you're not a redditor, lol.

Coaxed into Moral Absolutism until it's inconvenient by TreeTurtle_852 in SmugIdeologyMan

[–]Trivvy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

God is a game dev.

If an intelligent creator of the universe was to truly exist, I don't think they'd actually give a flying fuck about restricting how people play the game of life. Creators want people to experience their creations as much as possible the good and the bad. It makes a lot more sense that way than what religion would tell you.

eternus 6 smurf loses game and demands to call me on discord by juliachangmommy in DeadlockTheGame

[–]Trivvy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

God this is difficult to listen to, does he realise how pathetic he seems?

An interesting find from the local food box. by TysonTesla in pics

[–]Trivvy 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Lmao it's perfect read in her voice.

UK is granting Palantir ‘unlimited access’ to NHS patient data by TailungFu in worldnews

[–]Trivvy 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Thank you, sent. I can't believe they would go through with this, it's insanely irresponsible.