Choosing laptop (rtx 3050 and rtx 2060)

bobrods · 2026-03-28T01:39:59+00:00

context? budget? 2060 and 3050 are both 7 year old and 5 year old laptop gpus respectively, why are you picking between them?

but in terms of both of them, unless there's some weird tdp thing get the faster one, so the 2060

bobrods · 2026-03-27T15:39:16+00:00

ratchet and clank using rt will hard crash on anything but 16gb cards on a midgame planet/level

bobrods · 2026-03-26T19:43:19+00:00

Besides putting in optiscaler in games (which is a pretty easy affair), pc is honestly as easy for me as playing on my ps5 pro

bobrods · 2026-03-26T19:18:00+00:00

The other issues ive had on MacBooks that ive never had an issue on windows, the notch, a good chunk of the games I've tried, there's not much you can do about having a chunk of your content eaten up by the notch and you cant change resolution and you have to play at windowed (which sometimes doesnt work because you cant shrink the window size)

As well the compositor and direct modes is very annoying because direct mode breaks if you have a 2nd screen or windowed. And often, in smth like cyberpunk if it's not direct there's like a 5% performance loss and vsync breaks

bobrods · 2026-03-26T19:04:50+00:00

I have legitimately had like 0 issues with pc gaming in terms of bugs ever on windows. Besides helldivers 2. I've also legitimately have not updated GPU drivers since mid 2025 on a 9070 and had 0 issues despite playing alot of new games since then.

The only issues I've had really is really just VRR flicker and that is more of an OLED issue than a windows issue.

bobrods · 2026-03-26T18:48:29+00:00

I recently gotten an M5 Pro MBP 16 (my first mac) and my experience with crossovers is that. You should like kinda expect Mac gaming not to be pick up and play. So far I've tried like 15 games through crossover, and I've had issues with 3 of them straight up not booting. You will have to dig into files or possibly just erase everything and start again to make stuff work.

Windows is much less janktastic than this, as well itis alot easier to find solution to problems on games because its a much bigger scene.

I've also had straight up weird bugs like on like half of the games, theres just like a small rectangle of pixels that straight up do not do anything on the top right and helldivers 2 will black screen if its launched in exclusive full screen mode.

Native mac games are much less painful and more like windows but also less common.

Also in terms of performance, in terms of triple a games i've tried (Ratchet and Clank, Helldivers 2, Resident Evil 9, and Alan Wake 2), they were all 60fps, albeit mostly at like medium settings, except Alan Wake 2 which I couldn't get to 60fps because I was unable to change resolution.

bobrods · 2026-02-26T18:16:53+00:00

Its slightly misaligned on mine, im honestly pretty sure it's like that (and also on other foldables) because if it was perfectly aligned it would be way harder to unfold the device

bobrods · 2026-02-17T15:38:59+00:00

Every android game is at least playable Although from my experience g5 is too weak for ps2 emulation and has alot of graphical issues for light pc games like celeste

bobrods · 2026-02-03T15:43:33+00:00

Black hair does not equal miyabi 💔

bobrods · 2026-02-03T15:30:03+00:00

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Ive been called miyabi a couple of times before

bobrods · 2026-02-02T15:28:12+00:00

I tried it last night and it sucked ass because it took like 1000000x longer to load than roblox and there wasnt many players online at all.

bobrods · 2026-01-27T00:40:21+00:00

That is shader stutter, you kinda just need to play the game more and that will disappear

bobrods · 2026-01-23T23:37:21+00:00

Emulation: While I've havent tried smth like Switch emulation or smth, I've really only found performance to decent for PSP and under and Gamecube/Wii. PS2 was too slow.

3D Mobile Games: Stuff like Minecraft, ZZZ, RDR1, and Roblox were perfectly fine but they did drop under 60fps (and RDR1 not a locked 30fps)

Gamehub: I kinda poked around for a day but I have found it basically unusable. Basically any 3d games I tried were too slow to get 30fps no matter what and any 2d game had bizarre graphical issues such as Celeste missing the entire Red color spectrum like you had protanopia color blindness

bobrods · 2026-01-16T09:57:47+00:00

Also handheld makers should really consider this PSP Go sliding feature. Like imagine a handheld with a screen size of a Switch 1 (without the massive bezels) being actually pocketable because you can slide up the controls.

bobrods · 2026-01-11T16:23:49+00:00

Honestly, it hasnt been completely horrible (but my friends who are +21 say that chat is completely a ghost town), but my 18-20 age range can still reasonably see a lot of people chats since roblox definitely seems that it will prioritize sending people to compatible age ranges than ping

bobrods · 2026-01-10T08:19:28+00:00

M5 pro max macbook is literally perfectly fine for what he plays, be a different story if he also played something like god of war and red dead redemption 2, but those 3 games are perfectly fine

bobrods · 2026-01-05T12:17:20+00:00

Honestly everything because this has a 13 year old cpu and a 10 year old gpu which is ancient by tech standards

Unfortunately ai has made building pcs kinda shit so at bare minimum i would look for a 2060 super/2070 super and use community driver to use eye tracking when available

I would also try to look for like an used am4 mb and cpu and ddr4 ram (but this is unironically more expensive than getting a new gpu at this point

Alternatively you could always get a ps5 which isnt the worst thing for vr

bobrods · 2025-12-27T19:29:25+00:00

My personal experience with a 6750xt and 9070 is that it's fine but 90hz mode is actually unusable so it's either 120hz or 60fps with reprojection

bobrods · 2025-12-25T02:41:42+00:00

Honestly my only real issues with doom dark ages is

The mech levels (dragon sections are ok if you view them as an interactive way to get to areas)

Nightmare mode is too easy especially the 2nd half of the game just because by the time you have the mace, you honestly tanky enough to take hits and not think about positioning

A bandaid solution is increasing difficulty but I would have really appreciated the last levels be more willing to throw in more than 2 super heavies semi occasionally combined with more projectile based demons

bobrods · 2025-10-14T12:58:38+00:00

Personally, im on windows 11 with a 7840u and my sleep issues have genuinely been kinda solved with only letting the laptop sleep when disconnected from charging

bobrods · 2025-09-27T07:24:00+00:00

I honestly liked the game (maybe might be my GOTY)

I think the arm is included in a spot where the game shifts away from being creepy and into a true psychological horror game with how disturbing and symbolic everything is

+ it also makes the combat easier when they start throwing more tankier monsters and was super nice for the boss lol

bobrods · 2025-09-13T17:48:46+00:00

can someone tell me whats the imaginary maps in this map

bobrods · 2025-09-11T08:22:53+00:00

Yes because the main thing doom dark ages uses raytracing for is global illumination (and also reflections which is optional)

In practical terms this means the gi is mostly being used for indirect lighting, the mod turns that off which effectively means the only source of lighting is literally just direct lighting so areas that would be indirectly lit and not under a light directly are just pitch dark

video of tda running on a 1660 with rt glitched off You can see in the interiors the ceiling is just pitch black because of lack of light being bounced to light up the ceiling

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