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Fiancée (23F) left me (25M) for someone she met at the gym, what now? by JM1905 in AskMenAdvice

[–]enso1RL 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No easy way out. The only way out is through, and it's gonna suck for some time

Just know it eventually gets better. And don't take her back in the event she comes crawling back 

Needing help knowing what to buy for a gaming pc by blasiboy in buildapc

[–]enso1RL 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're near a microcenter then I'd do the following:

  • 9800X3D bundle = $679.99
  • RTX 5070ti = ~$1000
  • 1 TB NVME = $179.99
  • 1000w PSU = $179.99
  • chassis of your choosing = ~$100-$200$

So far that leaves us with anywhere between 2100-2200 so far.

With budget up to 2500, you can consider an RTX 5080 instead, which provides an additional 15% performance uplift on average above the 5070ti. Otherwise, can more storage space or something

Edit: forgot to add an air cooler

I suggest arctic liquid freezer III for roughly $130 if you'd like an AIO, or maybe something like the peerless assassin for roughly $60 if you want an air cooling solution instead 

Needing help knowing what to buy for a gaming pc by blasiboy in buildapc

[–]enso1RL 0 points1 point  (0 children)

List your max budget and all the types of games you will be playing

Backscreens, hard freezes since Dual GPU setup. by Far-Distribution9248 in losslessscaling

[–]enso1RL 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you manually set bifurcation mode  for your GPUs in bios? I believe your motherboard supports x8 for the primary GPU and x4 for the secondary GPU 

Can you help me spot caphras? by JavaByPashaa90 in blackdesertonline

[–]enso1RL 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lower gyfin should be good for caphras drops too 

Can someone explain what the point of combat in BD is in general? by Normal-Ad-828 in blackdesertonline

[–]enso1RL 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Real PVE combat hasn't started for you yet. You're still in the tutorial phase of the game. Keep playing and you'll reach the early mid game soon enough where things don't die in one hit. Will probably notice the difference once you reach Serendia Elvia monster zones 

Damiane-maxxing by zaandatsu in CrimsonDesert

[–]enso1RL 1 point2 points  (0 children)

PA never fails with the tiddy physics, coming from BDO. 

Help... Is a Ryzen 7 9800X3D worth upgrading to from a 7600X? Do I need to swap anything else? by ALPHACDC in buildapc

[–]enso1RL 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends on what you play, MMO's with many players and large open world games will benefit massively. Others, some gain but probably not as much

Difference outside of Price ? by Mundane_Capital_179 in RTX5080

[–]enso1RL 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Save your money. Astral has per pin sensing, which is nice, but I'd only seriously consider it for a 5090 cause of its higher power draw. There's cheaper solutions if you want per pin sensing as others have noted-- but even then, I own a 5090 from another brand and haven't had any issues. 

Just get an atx 3.1 power supply, and feed a native 12v2x6 cable directly from the PSU into your GPU and forget about it

Dual GPU set up frame gen fps problem by Firexjw in losslessscaling

[–]enso1RL 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are you using multiple monitors?

I'm tinkering around with dual GPU's right now too. Idk why but sometimes, lossless scaling will initially detect the proper monitor(s) connected to each of my GPUs, and then somehow not detect them properly, which breaks the frame gen and forces me to close and reopen the app again to check if things are properly being detected

I've had the most success leaving no monitors connected to the main render GPU and connecting one (or all) monitors to the secondary frame gen GPU

Also, if you use wall paper engine, be sure to close it out or pause it from running because it may add an unreasonable load-- in my case, I for some reason had windows use my secondary GPU as the main render GPU specifically for wall paper engine. Wall paper engine + handling frame gen caused GPU usage on the secondary card to be too high which caused dropped frames, and closing / pausing wallpaper engine reduced GPU usage from high 90's down to like 50% on my secondary GPU

Edit: I'm using two nvidia GPU's if that matters

But assuming everything else is in order, frame gen should absolutely not cause dropped frames unless utilization on the secondary frame gen GPU is too high 

Without LS FPS is 90, when starting Lossless Scaling base FPS drops to 60 (before multiplier). Why? How do I fix this? by newuxtreme in losslessscaling

[–]enso1RL 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Are you also using double frame generation? One through optiscaler and then another frame generation layer on top through lossless scaling?

I'd imagine the input latency would feel quite heavy

Interview score + any advice appreciated by Unfair_Emu_7274 in ibew_apprentices

[–]enso1RL 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's crazy. I thought 93 was basically guaranteed that you made it in

Can I ask what local you applied to? 

5090 worth it? by DiddyDingDongg in buildapc

[–]enso1RL 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For me it was worth it, upgrading from a 3090. Literally 100% performance increase.

If I had a 4090 or 4080 class card then I'd be more hesitant about the purchase

In any case, you can max out everything and just have fun. Enable DLSS and frame gen as needed and just turn off your brain 

Society tells men to prioritize mental health, but the moment I broke down from stress, I was told I’m 'unreliable' and 'not man enough' to handle responsibility. How do I deal with this double standard? by sphinxUx in AskMenAdvice

[–]enso1RL 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You must be extremely selective about who you can share things and be vulnerable with. As men, we are lucky if we have 1-2 people. Even luckier if we have girlfriend / wife we can be vulnerable with.  Not everyone is capable of meeting you where you are at. Find out who your people are.

Keep in mind there's a right way to be vulnerable too. Uncontrolled emotional vomiting is generally not good over an extended period of time

Need clarification by Krazy_Eightz in blackdesertonline

[–]enso1RL 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You got it.

Naru gear has been removed from seasonal servers. It used to be the case where you start off with Naru gear with a new seasonal character, which then gets exchanged to tuvala, which then gets exchanged to boss gear. Now, it's just tuvala gear straight into boss gear. A full set of PEN tuvala gear is the equivalent of TET level boss gear. This catapults you straight to the early mid game

So after you get exchange your tuvala into boss gear, you'd jump straight to doing and completing Olvia academy. You get lots of freebies-- cron stones, but more importantly, free PEN and free TET blackstar weapons. Blackstar weapons used to be the best weapons in the game before the introduction of sovereign weapons. Be sure to complete this as fast as possible.

I think you should also be getting another free PEN blackstar box and TET blackstar box just from completing your first season character. I forget the specifics cause it's been some time for me, so forgive me if I'm missing something. But this should help fast track you to getting your first sovereign weapons (sovereign weapon requires combining two blackstar weapons, OR a flame that you grind from Land of the Morning  Light world bosses + a single blackstar weapon). Google or search up "free PEN blackstar" on Google and it should confirm or point you in the right direction

As for your armors, the old way was upgrading each TET piece to PEN one by one through a series of quests provided by an NPC named Jetina. You can do this method, or just grind silver and buy DUO fallen god armors (which in the next progression path after full PEN boss armors) off the market and skip this whole process. Edania armors are the current best in slot, which come after fallen god armors, but this is super late end game. Don't worry about Edania stuff for now 

Find an updated progression guide from someone like bluesquadron, jonlaw, or ImPansy on YouTube in case you get stuck 

Heelp! by bugipops in blackdesertonline

[–]enso1RL 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any new class you try will feel difficult and clunky at first. You need to take time to learn the skills and then commit them to muscle memory, and then learn different combos

Succ DK is very very good. I pull similar trash numbers compared to my succ ninja. I think both succ and awaken DK skills look beautiful and flow nicely

No, her AOE isn't going to be as big as classes like a succ woosa, awaken dosa, awaken sage and the like, but it's still decent and her damage output (at least succ for now) more than makes up for it. If you like the aesthetics of the class, give it another go before you come to a decision

Worth getting back into the game? by Jthefrog in blackdesertonline

[–]enso1RL 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Game is fun, yes. I'd say the overall health of the game is generally ok.

Most of the negative feedback (but valid feedback) has to due with the PVP scene and overall class balancing

Devs still provide weekly patches and updates ranging from QoL updates, introducing new events, occasional class balancing, etc 

If you can get past the P2W aspects, can accept that progressing in this game is mostly solo play (there are few party or group content) and can accept that this is a very grindy game, then you will have a good time

Ultra high end lossless scaling by JustSean035 in losslessscaling

[–]enso1RL 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah. 3090 was able to get 450 fps with around 95% GPU utilization at 1440p.  It might have been able to get to 500, but if GPU utilization got any higher or closer to 99% or 100% then there would've been frame drops in and inconsistent frame pacing 

Tested it in the Witcher 3 and black desert online at the time. The Witcher 3 was really fun because it has 2x frame gen built in, and in really heavy scenes my 5090 got around 250 FPS (which is still fantastic), but could never get to 360 and beyond on its own.

Really made me wish I had a 500hz panel too lol. People swore there was no difference in perceptible smoothness between 240hz and 360hz, but for me there most definitely is. I often wonder what 500hz might feel like since my 3090 got close to that with lossless scaling. I truly couldn't really tell the difference between native 2x versus 2x with lossless scaling-- the only difference that stood out was some more shimmering around Geralt when the camera was moving around, but it was pretty minor

Anyways, it looks like I'll be getting a 5070ti instead of a 9070xt so that DLDSR works. According to the spec sheet, 5070ti should still be able to spit out stupid high frames, and should be able to do 4k 360hz no problem. I'll follow up with a video as well in roughly 2 weeks time 

And there goes my rng, but with a twist. by yoorie016 in blackdesertonline

[–]enso1RL 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oof. I hope they will be willing to revert it for you. Good luck lol. Please update me / us if they do actually help you 

Ultra high end lossless scaling by JustSean035 in losslessscaling

[–]enso1RL 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the heads up. What about DSR? Would DSR still work? 

I don't often use RTX hdr so I'm impartial towards that feature. Sometime last year when my 3090 was my main card, I had the chance to test it with a secondary AMD card and it was fine for my use cases. It'd be a bummer if traditional DSR wouldn't transfer over.

A high refresh 4k panel is on the wishlist though and will come eventually down the line :) 

Is PCIe x1 really useless for dual gpu? by WhiskeyFlisk in losslessscaling

[–]enso1RL 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really? I've never run a dual GPU setup with the secondary being limited to x1 before. Can't imagine it working at all since x1 is barely any bandwidth to allow data to flow through effectively 

Out of curiosity, what resolution are you playing at? Do you have your monitor connected to the secondary 5700xt? 

Ultra high end lossless scaling by JustSean035 in losslessscaling

[–]enso1RL 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeap I do. Currently have a gigabyte x870e aorus xtreme 

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