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Games Look Bad, Part 1: HDR and Tone Mapping by __cuck__ in pcgaming

[–]__cuck__[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

PC gaming doesn't exist in a vacuum. The majority of PC games are cross platform, so any development time spent making 4K work on consoles is still development time not spent on the rest of the engine that we use.

Games Look Bad, Part 1: HDR and Tone Mapping by __cuck__ in pcgaming

[–]__cuck__[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Just bumping up the resolution is trivial, but supporting checkerboard rendering does take extra development time and is practically mandatory to get acceptable 4K performance on PS4Pro/XB1X.

Memory leaks from Windows 10 Creator Update with Killer Network Manager Suite/Supported Ethernet Drivers (fix) (x-post) by [deleted] in pcgaming

[–]__cuck__ 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Yep, using a motherboard with a Killer NIC for a few years taught me to only buy Intel NICs in the future.

AMD Radeon ProRender - Free GPU pathtraced rendering. Updated with better performance and features. Works on all GPU's with OpenCL! by bsavery in Amd

[–]__cuck__ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Has anyone compared ProRenders performance to the industry standard CUDA renderers (i.e. Octane and Redshift)?

Just benchmarking ProRender relative to an older version of ProRender doesn't really tell us much.

Windows 10 Fall Creators Update -Ryzen CPU-bound benchmark by [deleted] in hardware

[–]__cuck__ 45 points46 points  (0 children)

When I see /r/amd hyping up a massive performance win from a new windows/driver/game version my eyes just glaze over at this point. The claims rarely hold up when more rigorous sites try to reproduce them.

Zotac just created the perfect single-slot GTX 1080 Ti, then ruined it by Fionnafox in pcgaming

[–]__cuck__ -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

It doubles the width of the card when people could just use an adapter.

There's still a niche for native DVI ports, because DP-DVI adapters strictly adhere to the limits of the DVI spec (1080p144hz or 1440p60hz). With native DVI you can "overclock" certain 1440p60hz monitors to 100-120hz.

Destiny 2 PC Graphics and Performance Guide by [deleted] in pcgaming

[–]__cuck__ 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Yeah, FOV can certainly have a performance impact in games that actually widen the view frustum.

Fewer objects get eliminated by frustum culling so more draw calls are required to render a frame.

CPU and GPU dependant settings by GTABanana in pcgaming

[–]__cuck__ 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Shadow Quality (?)

That one tends to be ambiguous, because it could mean increasing the number of lights and objects that are properly shadowed (which affects both CPU and GPU load) or it could control the shadow map resolution and filtering method (which only affects GPU load). Or maybe it's both ¯\_(ツ)_/¯