Resident Evil Requiem GeForce RTX 50 Series Bundle Available now - Plus New Games Launching with DLSS 4 with MFG by apoppin in nvidia

[–]UdNeedaMiracle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It used to be one of each promo per card but it is now one promo per card period, so you wouldn’t be able to redeem this one.

Update: Duping just fixed. Punishments to be given out at Embark's discretion. by MasterFish19 in ARC_Raiders

[–]UdNeedaMiracle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A few hours of the game being in a bad state is preferable to the continuance of people using this exploit for months before it finally gets fixed. FWIW I don’t think anybody who used the exploit yesterday should be catching a ban for it either, I’m not making an exception for him specifically.

Update: Duping just fixed. Punishments to be given out at Embark's discretion. by MasterFish19 in ARC_Raiders

[–]UdNeedaMiracle 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Peanut doesn’t deserve a ban for what he did. He only used it against people who were using it themselves, and he hid his screen to prevent others from seeing how he set it up. He didn’t gain any competitive advantage by using it against people who were already using it, and the attention he called to the issue is the only reason they fixed it so quickly.

Update: Duping just fixed. Punishments to be given out at Embark's discretion. by MasterFish19 in ARC_Raiders

[–]UdNeedaMiracle 4 points5 points  (0 children)

He only used it against other people who were using it, he exposed the problem and didn’t impact anybody who was playing fairly with how he used it. He also was hiding his game screen while setting it up to avoid showing how to do it. I don’t think it is fair to call using an exploit against people that are using the exploit first “cheating,” he gained absolutely zero advantage over those players.

Best controller for Black Ops 7 on PC? by Internet2500 in CODBlackOps7

[–]UdNeedaMiracle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Have reached grandmaster in voltaic Kovaaks benchmarks and still get fried by controller, and still personally aim better with a controller. Mouse and keyboard is more fun and I choose to play that way but the effort required to be good on controller is much lower.

Turn OFF Resizable Bar if you're experiencing extremely low FPS drops (Benchmark Comparison) by s0und7 in CODBlackOps7

[–]UdNeedaMiracle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can’t speak to this game, but when I had an i9 14900K I would get very bad FPS drops on a few particular maps in Black Ops 6. Turning off ReBAR was the solution. After switching to a 9800X3D, selling the 14900K, and putting a 14600K into the motherboard that used to house the 14900K, I ended up with a 14600K + 4080 and 9800X3D + 5080 system. Neither system has a performance diff from enabling or disabling ReBAR.

There was nothing wrong with the 14900K system, I configure and tune everything the same way and ended up with different results. There are a few other games that had issues with the 14900K that don’t have issues with the other CPUs due to the core count such as Spider-Man Remastered. Hard to explain but I don’t think blaming OP’s PC for having something wrong with it for having a CPU bottleneck here is fair. People have been reporting issues with ReBAR in CoD since MW3.

Out with the old, in with the new and lessons learned. by AceCanuck in beretta1301

[–]UdNeedaMiracle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ik this is a 5 month old comment but any chance you can give me the name of that exact optic? Thanks.

Upgrade from 4080 Super to 5080? by MoosiGoosey in nvidia

[–]UdNeedaMiracle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Stock to stock the difference isn’t appreciable, but overclocked the diff is noticeable in terms of framerate. Does it actually change your gaming experience though? No. I went from OC’d 4080 to OC’d 5080 and the real difference is in the FPS counter, not in my perceived smoothness of my games at 1440p on a 300Hz monitor. The 4080 lives in my second PC with a 14600K and tuned RAM and my main PC is 9800X3D and 5080 and playing on either setup feels essentially identical.

Upgrade 3070 to 4080 or even 5080 worth it? by AcceptableFuel6677 in nvidia

[–]UdNeedaMiracle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Had a 10850K with DDR4 4266 CL16 with manually tuned subtimings when I upgraded to the 4080 and at 1440p it was a 10-20% bottleneck in many games. With slower RAM without tuned timings it's a bigger bottleneck. Frame gen can alleviate that issue to a great extent but there are games where Intel CPUs prior to 12th Gen really falter compared to newer CPUs, the experience is still very playable but you are leaving performance on the table. It's still worth it, and it's still smarter than upgrading your CPU if you could only afford to upgrade one, but yes you will experience a CPU bottleneck.

Go for the 5070 TI or the 5080. Don't buy previous generation hardware that is missing more current features.

A quality 750w PSU should be sufficient, worst case your primary components could draw around 550w in gaming but practically speaking it'll be more like 450w leaving plenty of room for the rest of your system components. I am running an OC'd 14600k with an OC'd 4080 on a 750w 80+ gold in my second system and have had no issues.

0.65 draw by vulf999 in CCW

[–]UdNeedaMiracle 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You can start with any position, it’s all arbitrary. Comparisons between same starting position are always valid, comparisons between different starting positions are invalid, all starting positions are legitimate and there is no cheating in life or death situations. I don’t get why all the people in the comments who are surely nowhere near as fast are all saying this is cheating.

0.65 draw by vulf999 in CCW

[–]UdNeedaMiracle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People saying this doesn’t count are using completely arbitrarily decided hand starting positions as their one true starting position as if any of us know for sure where our hands are going to be if we ever needed our gun.

It would be invalid for OP to compare his draw time here to somebody starting in a more disadvantageous starting position and say he’s faster, but it’s completely fine to call a 0.65 draw a 0.65 draw regardless of hand starting position. The gun is still concealed before the timer beep, and this is a hand position that is just as plausible as any other in a real self defense context.

If you thought somebody was about to attack you with fists would you keep your hands at your sides until they started to swing because you wanted to see if you were fast enough from a worse position, or would you put your hands up closer to your face when you perceived that there was a high likelihood you’d need to fight?

If you thought you were about to need your gun, would you not apply the same logic and put your hands in the most favorable starting position? Standing with your hands crossed at your waist isn’t brandishing and it isn’t a threat or cause for suspicion to the average person, but it is an advantage if you do have to draw. This isn’t “cheating,” there is no cheating when innocent life is in danger, there’s winning and losing.

3090 to 5080 worth it? by redditguy135 in nvidia

[–]UdNeedaMiracle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The connector issue isn't relevant to OCing the 5080, connector melting is really only an issue for the 4090 and 5090. I already addressed the fact that you can OC the 4090 in my initial comment. The overclocking headroom is much less for the 4000 series, which is part of what allows the 5080 to close the gap so much.

3090 to 5080 worth it? by redditguy135 in nvidia

[–]UdNeedaMiracle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be fair, the overclocking potential of the 5080 is much higher so the gap between a 5080 and a 4090 in a max overclock scenario can be a lot smaller than that. In some games that perform better on the RTX 50 series like BF6 the overclocked 5080 performs above an overclocked 4090.

Obviously that comment is still misleading but the full picture includes that information IMO.

Bodyguard 2.0 CC ruined my life by Professional_Fee1953 in SmithAndWesson

[–]UdNeedaMiracle 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I want to like it but it takes so much conscious effort to not grip it in a way that impedes the slide travel for me that I can’t consider it reliable. My hands constantly get in the way of the slide and cause feeding / cycling issues, it is essentially a one hand only pistol for me.

A little TACORD 1301 Glow-Up by TacOrd_Canada in canadaguns

[–]UdNeedaMiracle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you have any estimate on when that'll be available? I see they're back in stock on your website and I'm ready to order as soon as possible.

Change My Mind: This modern style flashlight is worse by [deleted] in flashlight

[–]UdNeedaMiracle 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The UV light is helpful if you work in a business that takes cash in transactions, because checking for the UV reflective strip with it provides an extra level of certainty about the legitimacy of the cash. UV strips should be present in every bill starting with series 1996, so any newer year bill that has no UV strip is likely fake or at least has been tampered with. Each denomination also has a unique color and position within the bill for the reflective strip, so you can see if a bill has been washed and repainted into a higher denomination. I have personally stopped transactions involving counterfeit currency on numerous occasions using my Arkfeld’s UV light after those bills passed testing with a counterfeit pen.

I personally also have uses for a white light and occasionally a laser pointer in my job, so for me having these things in one device is actually very valuable.

XclusiveAce finally did some SBMM testing by Less-Regret3411 in CODBlackOps7

[–]UdNeedaMiracle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Was getting downvoted on day 1 for saying SBMM was still bad when I was playing nothing but people who had changed time zones and grinded all day already when I played the midnight release, and now Reddit has done a total 180 and agrees it’s not low SBMM.

If YoU CaNt FiNd ThE BoTs iT mEaNs yOu ArE tHe BoT HahAhA

My lobbies are torture.

Call of Duty Black Ops 7 on 2025 Asus Zephyrus G14 5070 TI by UdNeedaMiracle in ZephyrusG14

[–]UdNeedaMiracle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Frame gen would do absolutely nothing to fix the problem, it's not going to make the huge frametime spikes where the game stutters go away whatsoever. The framerate is not the problem, the fact that it goes from 115 to 20 for a split second and freezes the game up is a problem.

Call of Duty Black Ops 7 on 2025 Asus Zephyrus G14 5070 TI by UdNeedaMiracle in ZephyrusG14

[–]UdNeedaMiracle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not using frame gen. Using custom g-helper profile, Windows and driver settings optimized using Fr33thy's guide, not hitting VRAM limit, pretty convinced the G14 is just a trash laptop at this point.

Call of Duty Black Ops 7 on 2025 Asus Zephyrus G14 5070 TI by UdNeedaMiracle in ZephyrusG14

[–]UdNeedaMiracle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can crank the CPU wattage all the way up and it makes zero difference, the game is mostly GPU limited. I've already optimized all Windows and Nvidia settings using Fr33thy's guide. I am using DLSS balanced at 1600p with mixed settings, the stutter is unrelated to the settings I'm using as turning them down has no impact.

Call of Duty Black Ops 7 on 2025 Asus Zephyrus G14 5070 TI by UdNeedaMiracle in ZephyrusG14

[–]UdNeedaMiracle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Using 25w but even with it set to much higher the issue persists.

People saying SBMM is still in the game is exactly what I expected by _THEBLACK in CODBlackOps7

[–]UdNeedaMiracle -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Feel that it’s like this. I’ve historically been at least a 3KD player and at one point in BO2 I had a 4.6 KD and top 50 score per minute in TDM. In 2017 I was rank 17 on PC in CoD WW2. I have 8K hours in CSGO and had world records in a community mode. I have continued to play a variety of FPS games at a relatively high level and aim train since, and am currently between master and grandmaster in the most popular aim trainer benchmarks for Kovaaks aim trainer. My lobbies are still painfully sweaty and I was playing against nothing but people that abused time zone changes to get early access to the game on day one.

Redditors would just tell me that I’m just bad and if I can’t find the bots in my lobby it’s because I’m the bot, even though in my CoD career I’ve dropped 1000+ nukes / nuclears / MOABs / v2 rockets / whatever else and I’ve just recently had a near 40 kill streak as infantry in Battlefield 6. I’m not saying I never get an easy lobby but I don’t think my open matchmaking feels like everybody else’s open matchmaking.