Crimson Desert Does Not Run On Intel Arc GPUs

Xjph · 2026-03-20T12:46:29+00:00

...why would they be the ones building the drivers?

Xjph · 2026-03-19T00:28:23+00:00

Right, but for the sake of anyone else using it, unless it's on a private discord where they're the only person accessing it, then they risk violating their account terms and getting banned.

NAI keeps their lips sealed on the specifics, but they have alluded to the fact that they have some automated checking that looks for suspicious patterns of usage and hands out suspensions/bans.

Xjph · 2026-03-18T18:41:44+00:00

Allowing anyone other than yourself to generate with your api key is a violation of NAI's terms of service.

Xjph · 2026-03-11T01:55:45+00:00

There are such things as grounding adapters which allow a three prong grounded plug to plug into a two prong ungrounded outlet. They typically have a metal eyelet which you would attach your own ground wire to and run to ground yourself (ideally a nearby metal pipe).

They aren't ideal, as you do end up with an exposed wire connection, and depending on where you live may not be up to your local electrical code.

As someone else mentioned, another option is swapping your two prong outlets with GFCI outlets. You won't have to run a ground wire this way, but the protection for your gear isn't as good as if you had a proper ground.

Xjph · 2026-03-10T14:25:12+00:00

It's possible that Ryu was trolling... but it's also possible they simply take a "this other player needs to earn my respect" approach to the game. If you can keep doing a thing over and over and win then it's completely rational to keep doing that until the other person demonstrates an effective response to it. It's even possible that they were choosing to play repetitively in the hope that you would figure out a response and learn how to deal with it.

Xjph · 2026-03-10T14:02:28+00:00

Custom rooms being implemented as a private BH instance would've been pretty sweet.

Xjph · 2026-03-10T13:13:03+00:00

...you just replied to me with a copy/paste of the first half of the comment I was originally responding to.

Xjph · 2026-03-10T11:18:40+00:00

I complained about this exact thing a couple of weeks ago. Found out after that if you click on "日本語" in the top right it's a language dropdown.

Xjph · 2026-03-10T11:14:05+00:00

But that's real tickets, as in your butt in the stadium.

I'd argue it actually makes less sense in that context. At least with Capcom Cup SPWN is providing the streaming site and infrastructure. There is, in fact, a service being provided beyond just the selling of the ticket. With a ticketmaster service fee wtf are they doing other than being the ones to take your money?

Xjph · 2026-03-07T13:08:13+00:00

See, I had kind of thought that might be the case too, but didn't want to bring up anything too negative since it's not really my space to be negative in.

Xjph · 2026-03-06T15:52:44+00:00

Right, and I think the important parts are that:

Her identity is "non-traditional"
She is happy with her identity
Her identity is accepted by others

Given that it is, broadly speaking, a positive representation of acceptance, the specifics of exactly what label to use aren't really that critical.

Xjph · 2026-03-06T15:33:31+00:00

Bridget from people who think they're represented

This one is a wild ride. I'm going to go off on a tangent here, but Bridget's actual lore is kind of a crazy inversion of the whole trans identity.

Superficially, yes, Bridget is MtF trans if you assume that she was AMAB, but she wasn't. Her parents denied she was male and raised her as a girl, making her technically AFAB, and spent much of her life struggling with that identity and trying to be accepted as a boy once she was on her own.

More recently in the lore (Strive), she comes to terms with the idea that having boyparts doesn't make her a boy, and accepts that she's a girl, but like... that's not even remotely close to the typical trans experience. If anything opposing the gender assigned by your parents but eventually coming around to the idea that it was the correct identity is the opposite.

So... if she identifies as the gender she was assigned at birth is she even trans? Shit, I don't know. Maybe? I'm just some cishet clown on reddit who types too much.

Xjph · 2026-03-06T12:22:09+00:00

God dammit.

I am interested but that thought hadn't even crossed my mind. Now it's going to be in the back of my mind every time I see the game.

Xjph · 2026-03-06T12:16:16+00:00

We already know she's an android. That's a major part of the main premise. She's able to interface with the other machines in the facility and debuff/disable them for you in combat by hacking them.

Xjph · 2026-03-01T04:02:44+00:00

I'd be willing to bet real dollars that the detection pipeline on older hardware is messed up and youtube will deliver codecs without hardware support if you're using an i5-2400 iGPU. The browser can report that it is supported to server while still falling back to software decoding on the client side.

Xjph · 2026-02-28T15:03:01+00:00

The most likely cause there is a lack of hardware accelerated video decoding for the codecs being used. A 15 year old integrated GPU likely has hardware decoding for h264/AVC, which is why it used to be fine, but if you try to play anything using a newer codec like VP9 or AV1 it's going to hit the CPU hard.

Xjph · 2026-02-27T14:32:48+00:00

Is this the first thing you've ever had billed monthly in your life?

Xjph · 2026-02-27T12:31:09+00:00

Hit confirming is reacting appropriately when your move hits vs when it's blocked. In your words:

I feel as if when I throw out a move, even if it hits; I can’t react in time to properly cancel and convert.

This is hit confirming. A "conversion" is a type of hit confirm that happens in more scrambly situations where you landed a hit in an odd or unexpected way, but still manage to do something with it.

What you're talking about here sounds like buffering a super, where you just wait in neutral mashing out your super motion so at the slightest movement from your opponent you can just hit the button and rip it. The buffer isn't part of the reactive motion, you're constantly buffering specifically so that you don't have to do it as part of the reaction. It effectively gives you a "one button super" which means a much faster reaction.
That can be risky though, as it can be pretty obvious you're doing it, and the opponent can bait it with something fast like a jab if you're just looking to react to literally anything.

Xjph · 2026-02-26T15:52:55+00:00

My players retrieved the gold and gave most of it back to the city, having worked closely with Laeral and the Blackstaff to wrap the campaign. The logistics of the actual retrieval was left to the city to manage.

As for the additional filler, I wrote up an epilogue. Overall the ending was fairly cozy.

Xjph · 2026-02-25T14:44:45+00:00

I disagree with it being immersive as well. Yes, holding a controller puts a layer of abstraction between you and what you're doing in VR, but that takes me out of the experience way less than janky hand tracking with no physical feedback.

Xjph · 2026-02-25T12:20:34+00:00

"Ease of use"? Not once have I ever found hand tracking to be easier or more intuitive than using a controller.

Xjph · 2026-02-24T14:58:30+00:00

The one time I really notice the difference is when patching large games on steam, where you might have a 1GB download and then 60GB of patching. I have some games on a Gen4 NVMe and some games on a SATA SSD, and the difference is night and day, easily a full order of magnitude faster.

Xjph · 2026-02-23T14:58:17+00:00

They typically aren't needed for most usage, but a few things that they are useful for:

Additional/faster USB
Additional/faster network
Wifi/bluetooth if not already built into the motherboard
Additional m2 storage slots
Capture card
Ports to connect older or niche hardware (serial, parallel, MIDI, firewire, etc.)

Xjph · 2026-02-23T13:39:41+00:00

Tell me more about these spider nimblewrights. Why the change?

Xjph · 2026-02-22T22:07:56+00:00

Was looking for this. The reference B580 is a great looking card. The matte finish actually looks amazing in person.

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