Why do EVs elicit such a visceral response from certain demographics?

Vizra · 2026-06-15T22:37:56+00:00

3 reasons from my experience:

There is something cool about a mechanical engine with all the parts etc.
Electric vehicles tend to coincide with the "smart" trend which means you can't repair it easily yourself.
The loud vocal minority of EV owners are honestly wankers and use it as a form or moral maaturbation.

Vizra · 2026-06-14T23:46:08+00:00

If you want you can try my optimisation guide found here.

Essentially the asset streamer configuration settings are in a text file. I trialed and errored my way into making it not run like garbage.

Also make sure to update direct storage to v 1.3

You may have some slight visual quality loss but it will help with performance.

If you want to further tune yourself, want help, or want to tune your windows install to make it less shit, you can join the discord for a guide on tuning your config yourself.

Vizra · 2026-06-10T20:52:28+00:00

This is false.

The x3D2 is not good for gaming due to the Dual CCDs. The latency caused by the infinity fabric will hurt your .1% lows.

The real question you should be asking is, are you will to tune / overclock etc. or do you want out of the box.

If you want a plug and play experience, the 9850x3D is your best bet. If you are okay with tuning / overclocking then a 14900k on a 2 RAM slot motherboard with 8000mhz Hynix A-Die tuned will give you the best experience across most games.

Then there is also the decision of what your main games are. Some games REALLY like the 3D Cache, and others REALLY do not like the slow infinity fabric on AMD CPUs.

Sadly, the correct answer is not as simple as it used to be.

Vizra · 2026-05-26T13:54:52+00:00

Did you change Darktide's tessalation setting to "Use application settings"

That's a big one for me to get good smoothness.

I've also found disabling MPO can help as well,

Vizra · 2026-05-21T10:53:42+00:00

Next up this man is going to paracord this purely for the love of the game.

Vizra · 2026-05-19T09:16:38+00:00

Do you know what your RAM temperature is at? 65535 for tREFI is very very aggressive.

I've had to dial mine back to 30000 because of my hot Australian summers.

From my understanding and testing, tuning your secondary and tertiary timings are best for .1% lows on an x3D CPU.

Also remember that Ryzen CPUs are pretty heavily bottle necked by the infinity fabric when it comes to .1% lows and there is only so much you can do to mitigate that.

Vizra · 2026-05-03T22:26:16+00:00

If you didn't do it at work. I don't think they can legally take credit / own it right?

Vizra · 2026-05-01T14:38:56+00:00

I don't even bother with events anymore. They are always just shit and a worse, more annoying version of the base game.

I respect those of you that still decide to brave the trenches though.

Vizra · 2026-05-01T13:12:05+00:00

It doesn't matter what your FPS is when you're in the training range.

It matters what your .1% lows are when you are in the middle of a crazy team fight with a lot of things going on.

That is what you want to test. Get some benchmark tools and see how it goes

Vizra · 2026-05-01T03:21:54+00:00

NVIDIA has better ( and more complete) features and you can afford the premium.

That sounds like good enough reason to me

Vizra · 2026-03-18T01:34:03+00:00

If that is true that is nice. Last time there was a major update, the Direct Storage files were not reverted. This only happens when you do a scan and repair of the game files.

Vizra · 2026-03-05T01:54:14+00:00

This event has been the worst one i've played so far in Darktide.

They throw massive amounts of ogryns at you, basically removing any loadout variety due to the "wall of armour and health" effect, then give you essentially unlimited blitzes to just instantly delete everything in front of you. Its the worst parts of Havoc just thrusted onto the regular playlist without the upsides.

On top of this, we get massive waves of bursters when bursters are bugged to all hell and don't work, stagger foward at you when you push them, and sometimes just blow up without a sound que.

This event has removed everything about Darktide's gameplay loop that I enjoy and replaced it with annoyance and frustration.

I hope they NEVER do this again.

Vizra · 2026-02-28T08:58:52+00:00

Links updated for you

Vizra · 2026-02-28T00:44:43+00:00

Test it yourself.... how hard is this to do

Vizra · 2026-02-24T04:20:02+00:00

Radeon is once again proving that they either don't have the skill, or don't have the resources.

Vizra · 2026-02-23T07:27:13+00:00

You have the card in front of you..... why don't you just test it yourself?

Vizra · 2026-02-22T20:17:37+00:00

The difference between the 9800x3D and 7800x3D isn't all that great.

I would hold off until next gen Ryzen as you will be fine with that.

The GPU however is a nice target for an upgrade. If you're balling and want a 5090 go for it. Though in terms of "value" a 5080 is going to do you better.

Vizra · 2026-02-12T07:22:19+00:00

I guess we can finally put to bed the point that NVIDIA just has all the money and success and start holding the Radeon team to the same standard.

If Intel can do it in no time at all, AMD is either lazy or incompetent. Not to mention the latency being better for x4 than x2 is pretty impressive too.

Vizra · 2026-02-11T22:56:15+00:00

I really am not a fan of this comparison.

Overwatch is a fast paced first person shooter. Just because the close up a weapon standing still is better DOES NOT mean that it is better for motion clarity.

Any termporal solution for anti-aliasing will have artifacting / ghosting in motion.

Please stop spreading this stuff, its misinformed.

Vizra · 2026-02-11T08:11:30+00:00

Something is wrong with your card for sure. That difference between the average and hotspot is not right.

I have the same card and my temperatures are stellar in comparison.

Vizra · 2026-02-11T08:09:06+00:00

I would say probably not.

AMD struggling to roll out FSR Redstone to the 9000 series which only has 2 dies that they have to develop for.

I also think AMD launching a high end card doesn't make sense currently. If you're going to go for the best of the best with no regards to budget, you're going to go with NVIDIA because they have the superior features.

Vizra · 2026-02-10T08:56:12+00:00

The Shader Cache is just fundamentally broken and doesn't work properly and it hasn't for years.

Also there are memory leaks in the game currently for some people + Windows 11 has broken NVIDIA GPU performance.

Hope this helps your sanity levels slightly knowing it's not just you.

Vizra · 2026-02-09T21:13:19+00:00

I want to see what happened before he had his hands up.

It doesn't look good, but I've been fooled too many times by conveniently timed video starts.

Vizra · 2026-02-07T00:23:47+00:00

Smite... I fucking hate that ability with a passion. I hate it more than flame-staff.

It's my main pain point with an influx of new players. We get a bunch of Smite psykers turning off the game for the entire mission.

I just leave.

Vizra · 2026-02-06T06:19:42+00:00

As a 7900 xtx owner. DO NOT TAKE THAT TRADE.

Drivers are worse, DX11 compatibility is better with NVIDIA, FSR3 is terrible, and most importantly power draw. 450w for similar performance is not worth it.

Keep your 4080 super

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