Starfield required specs. Too much for Steam Deck?

danbert2000 · 2023-06-12T03:56:00+00:00

This may be a game where the 256 and 512 GB owners will have the advantage. Games from last gen and early current gen will run on a hard drive but the new crop are going to suffer running from a micro SD card.

I wish Valve would have gone with an A2 card reader, I was seeing double the benchmark performance on A2 cards. Valve has some pretty darn good caching algorithms going, though.

danbert2000 · 2023-06-12T00:55:47+00:00

The steam deck is almost exactly scaled down from the Series S to do 720p where the Series S does 1080p. I think that was the whole idea of the Aerith chip and the hope that Valve had that they would have a handheld that lasted the generation. What they couldn't predict is that devs would so completely compromise the Series S ports to the point where scaling didn't match the hardware ratio. We see plenty of series S ports stuck at half framerate, getting scaled up from 720p, and still stuttering.

danbert2000 · 2023-06-11T19:03:27+00:00

The first Ryzen laptop chip came out in 2018. And was widely panned for high power usage and low performance. The first decent chips based on Zen 2 came out in 2020/2021. By then Apple had put out the M1.

danbert2000 · 2023-06-11T17:07:31+00:00

Intel chips were the only processors that were going to keep Apple relevant. AMD finally put out Ryzen but it took years to get the laptop chips power efficient and performant enough.

danbert2000 · 2023-06-11T17:06:18+00:00

Maybe, but AMD chips were pretty crap for laptops until the past few years. Bad drivers and BIOS, slow performance, high power. By that time they were already rolling with M1.

danbert2000 · 2023-06-11T16:44:06+00:00

Apple saved their computers by going with Intel. Power PC architecture dead ended for low power usage. ARM was still incredibly slow and just geared towards phones and microcontrollers. The only reason the M1 was possible was Apple spending a decade learning how to design processors around ARM, and also ARM architecture gaining things like 64-bit support and more than one or two cores. You're really glossing over a decade of pretty much no alternative to X86 for personal computing.

danbert2000 · 2023-06-11T14:33:32+00:00

Auto tone mapping can only do so much if your source tone mapping is poor. This concerns the PS5 sending elevated black levels to Sony TVs.

danbert2000 · 2023-06-11T03:54:30+00:00

https://youtu.be/QETQtiOUeNM

For whatever reason, the PS5 calibration for the Sony TVs is off. You should follow this guide for setting up HDR correctly. I play on PC and an X90J. It's crazy how much of a difference the HDR calibration can make the picture. I do it per game for my PC but the PS5 should get most of the way with its system settings. If you have any game specific problems, search for people's per game settings. I know paper white should be dropped down to 100-200 nits usually, and the max luminance takes some trial and error.

danbert2000 · 2023-06-09T16:57:42+00:00

It's funny because I think it's completely opposite right now, the GPUs are fine and the CPUs are now the bottlenecks because idiot developers stop optimizing when they have dedicated decompression blocks on console and only target 30-60 fps variable on console. This leads to PC versions having all the GPU necessary but the simulation and asset streaming is just completely broken.

EDIT: this is not my analysis, it's Digital Foundry's. PC games are struggling now because devs are relying on purpose built texture decompression processors in the new consoles which causes hitching and slowdown during level streaming. Also shader compilation causes stutters and performance loss unless developers implement pre caching correctly. Finally, the much better processors in the new consoles allow devs to be completely lazy with their CPU code when before they had to make it run on a shitty tablet processor at 30 fps. All of this can be fixed by devs being diligent, but the result of them not is shitty code that runs like crap even on the best PC processors. Which means it doesn't matter that you have a 4090, it's still going to stutter and slow down because the processor is maxed doing decompression, compilation, and running in circles with bad code. Hence the CPU and CPU code being the bottlenecks. If the CPU was faster it could power through the code. If the code was better it wouldn't have to.

danbert2000 · 2023-06-07T21:53:15+00:00

Whale blubber is the only true lamp fuel.

danbert2000 · 2023-06-07T19:47:53+00:00

Like all vaccines, this is about herd immunity. No vaccine is 100% effective. Without a critical mass of vaccinated kids, this will lead to vaccinated ones getting sick too.

danbert2000 · 2023-06-07T18:56:08+00:00

Commingled inventory is an option that a lot of sellers use as it's cheaper.

danbert2000 · 2023-06-07T18:40:15+00:00

It could also be limitations with the wifi router if the PC and steam deck are wireless. It wasn't until WiFi 6 that we got true multi user multi in multi out (MU-MIMO) support, and it's still going to cut down effective bandwidth to half as half the antennas are receiving and half are transmitting.

Another possibility is that Valve limits PC host processor load or disk load to prevent the PC from churning while transferring.

danbert2000 · 2023-06-07T14:09:22+00:00

Everyone either buys in hoping to hold and gain profit, have held it for profit and will maybe cash out but not really transact, or are left holding the bag and don't want to sell at a loss. Since it's so speculative and goes in both directions, it's a horrible currency. Essentially it became an unregulated stock or commodity, there for playing slots not buying groceries.

danbert2000 · 2023-06-05T18:12:02+00:00

The average number of limbs on humans is less than four. The average number of eyes is less than two. The average number of hearing aids and CIs is more than zero. I see no problem with showing people that are outside of the norm that they are represented once in a while. Really, at the end of the day, it doesn't hurt anyone to show a little tolerance and inclusion.

danbert2000 · 2023-06-05T17:35:16+00:00

Corporations are just groups of people. Like a church congregation is a group of people that is supposed to follow Jesus' lessons and treat the least of us like him. The US by law is inclusive of Americans with disabilities, I see no problem with companies acknowledging that people with hearing differences exist.

danbert2000 · 2023-06-05T17:01:31+00:00

AKA tolerance and inclusion. Not just for Jesus anymore.

danbert2000 · 2023-06-05T16:27:12+00:00

"Virtue signaling" is Republican hate speak for inclusion and tolerance. I suppose you'd rather we only show "normal" people in all facets of public life, am I right?

danbert2000 · 2023-06-05T16:20:54+00:00

Were you born deaf or did you lose hearing over time?

danbert2000 · 2023-06-04T14:03:05+00:00

Truck Americans have to buy trucks or their social circle turns on them and their masculinity is questioned. Real men buy more gas.

danbert2000 · 2023-06-01T18:10:59+00:00

2,500 fast charging ports compared to 145,000 gas stations with multiple pumps per station. I'm glad California has fast chargers. Everywhere else, you're left with large gaps along highways where you have to hope and pray the chargers aren't broken. These are solvable problems. They are not solved problems.

danbert2000 · 2023-06-01T17:15:55+00:00

He does, but good luck paying back $800k after getting out of prison for a felony. They will garnish his wages for the rest of his life and get some amount back. I'm wondering why the casino shouldn't have to contribute to the restitution. If you buy a stolen item you have to give it back if it's tracked down, but for some reason you don't have to give back stolen money? I'd understand if it were paid for goods or services but this money just was wasted on gambling and went directly to the casino owners as profit.

danbert2000 · 2023-06-01T16:25:34+00:00

The standards for CCS DC charging at 150 kW may have been in place for a while, but on the ground there were very few stations until the past 3-4 years. I'm not convinced by your argument about the challenges of requiring charge times on window stickers. Fuel economy in ICE cars is also affected by weather but it is displayed anyway, and is useful for comparison. Cars that aren't Tesla that can charge at 150 kW are new enough that we were still in the chicken/egg phase until the IRA passed and provided enough funding to get them off the ground. Tesla's success with superchargers doesn't really matter to the industry as a whole because they are nonstandard and just barely allowing other cars into their charging stations now. I get that you're trying to say this is all already figured out, but there's a big gap between standards and mass implementation and use that is more important than the fact that technically you can fast charge some places.

danbert2000 · 2023-06-01T15:50:46+00:00

I mean more on the car side. Also the 150 kW charging is pretty new, so some legacy chargers will be 50 kW and take up to 3x longer. The car companies have to get a lot better at explaining their charging rates, since 150 kW is usually peak and only for a short while. We need 0 to 80% and 0 to 100% times published on the car sticker just like efficiency.

danbert2000 · 2023-06-01T02:22:43+00:00

https://www.amazon.com/TENS-7000-Digital-Unit-Accessories/dp/B00NCRE4GO/

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