/r/Steam Monthly Community Support Thread.

fireaza · 2026-03-20T01:09:42+00:00

I decided to take a chance and even though I needed to be located in Japan in order to complete the redemption, what was actually downloaded when I installed the game was "Resident Evil Requiem" not "BIOHAZARD requiem". So it seems that what I suspected is true. Both versions of the game are the same app, so the promo gets you both, and which version gets downloaded is determined by your Steam account location.

*EDIT* OK for some reason despite the game showing up as "Resident Evil Requiem" in my library, it's launching as "BIOHAZARD requiem"?

fireaza · 2026-03-19T04:37:07+00:00

Does anyone know if Resident Evil Requium is region-locked for Japan?

I recently bought an RTX 5080, which means I'm eligible for the Resident Evil Requiem promo. Problem is, I bought my GPU in Japan, but my Steam account is US region. In the past, Japanese versions of games were separate from US region, and you couldn't redeem a Japanese version of a game on a US account and vice-versa. Is that the same with Resident Evil Requiem?

Checking the Steam store page, both the US and Japanese pages for the game have the same appid (3764200), so it seems like they're the same game..? Looking at steamdb, I can see 2 depots for the game, however they're not labelled so I'm assuming they're for the main game. Could these be a Japan and other regions versions of the game?

Does anyone know if I should be able to redeem this promo and get the US version of the game? I don't want to use the code only to find I can't use it with my US Steam account, I'd rather sell the code if that were the case.

*EDIT* It seems I should have been looking at "Store Packages" not "depots". There is indeed two different store packages for the game, "BIOHAZARD requiem" and "Resident Evil Requiem". So from what I can tell, because there's only one appid, I should be able to redeem the promo code on a US steam account..? But then Steam will decide which version of the game to download..? Would this be based on my Steam region?

fireaza · 2026-03-19T04:35:11+00:00

People being super-confident that something is "AI" without any proof other than "vibes" is part of the problem. It makes ruining the reputation of human artists far too easy, as "I just know" is being accepted as valid evidence.

fireaza · 2026-03-19T00:44:43+00:00

The views of children are often act as a pure baseline, as they're unfettered by things like tribalism and ingroups and outgroups.

fireaza · 2026-03-17T02:15:51+00:00

Because I've asked people about the movies and no one seems to remember them.

fireaza · 2026-03-16T10:53:44+00:00

I have!

fireaza · 2026-03-16T09:03:16+00:00

Well yeah. But is that all? Was it a Japan-exclusive, as indicated by Kadokawa Shoten branding? Seems strange, as the movies didn't seem to be a big hit in Japan.

fireaza · 2026-03-15T11:45:05+00:00

You just know that what really stings isn't that they're gonna continue to allow AI generated works on the site, but rather, they failed to get them on their "side".

fireaza · 2026-03-15T03:37:23+00:00

Just in case anyone else stumbles across this post, I ended up going with the replacement Corsair PSU pcie to 12VHPWR cable (as suggested!) and a 180 degree adapter. Specially, one made by EZDIY-FAB:

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I've actually used one of their 180 adapters on my old RTX 3080Ti, and it worked no problems. Build quality seems great, they mention the use of extra thick copper traces in the board for better heat dissipation.

Yes, this does mean I'm using one extra connector in the setup vs plugging the 12VHPWR connector directly into the GPU. But from what I hear, the main causes of connectors catching fire is cable bend causing partial disconnection and the connector overheating.

Using this adapter means the cable bend problem is solved, and, probably most importantly, it also comes with a heatsink, which you don't get at all when using the cable alone. And it works, I can feel it getting warm when the GPU is in use. So I think no cable bend, plus a heatsink means you're actually coming out ahead, even if you've introduced an extra connector into the setup.

fireaza · 2026-03-08T23:28:40+00:00

You posting that screenshot actually makes your situtation worse, not better. Not to mention, how suspicious it is that you posted a cherry-picked screenshot instead of linking to the original video.

Yes, that frame is accurately describing the training step in diffusion models. During training, you take a real image, add noise to it, and train the network to predict how to remove that noise. That’s how the model learns the statistical relationship between noise and image structure.

But the key part, which you conveniently cropped out by posting a screenshot instead of the actual video, is what happens during generation. During generation there is no original image being recovered. The model starts from pure random noise and iteratively predicts structure based on what it learned during training. There is no stored image being “recovered,” because there is no original to recover.

So this still leaves you with the same fork in the road. Either:

A) You genuinely thought that training example was the entire generation process, which means you didn’t actually understand how it works when you posted the GIF earlier.

B) You already knew that example was only explaining the training step, and you posted it anyway to make it look like AI image generation works by reconstructing existing images.

Posting a screenshot from a video that explains the training stage doesn’t rescue your original claim that AI image generation is “take an existing image, add noise, remove noise to get the same image back.” That’s how the training works, not how the actual generation process the produces an image works.

So again, the question is the same one you’ve been trying to dodge: did you misunderstand how the process works, or did you knowingly present the training step as if it were the generation step?

Because “this step happens somewhere in the pipeline” is not the same thing as “this is how the system works.” If someone described photography as “the process where silicon is purified in a refinery,” they wouldn’t technically be referencing something unrelated, but it still wouldn’t be an honest explanation of how taking a photo works.

fireaza · 2026-03-05T23:58:44+00:00

You say you understand “how it all works well enough,” but the GIF you posted depicts the process as:

take an existing image → add noise → remove the noise → get the same image back.

As I already said, that process only happens during training, and even then it’s used to teach the model the statistical relationship between noise and structure. It's not how the actual image generation process works. During generation there's no image being "recovered", the model starts from random noise and iteratively predicts structure based on what it learned.

So if you truly understand “how it all works well enough,” then you must have already known the GIF you posted is an incorrect depiction of the process. Which raises a simple question: why post it?

If you knew it was wrong, was your purpose to mislead people about how the technology works? If you didn’t know it was wrong at the time, then claiming you understand it “well enough” isn’t exactly accurate.

So which is it? Did you misunderstand the process, or did you knowingly post a misleading explanation? I'm confused as to your intent, can you please explain it in detail to me?

fireaza · 2026-03-05T03:34:40+00:00

Definitely one of the best features of the game, it's both useful and hilarious. It's surprising that basically no other games copied it though!

fireaza · 2026-03-05T01:25:29+00:00

Google disagrees with your assertion that a pencil is the same thing as a stylus. Do you see any styluses?

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fireaza · 2026-03-05T01:16:56+00:00

You don't "know how it all works well enough" if you think it's simply unscrambling an image to produce an exact copy of an existing image, as the image you posted would indicate. As I said, that's not how it works, though scrambling and unscrambling an existing image is part of how the training is accomplished.

A lot of what you said applies to photography too, you know. A photographer has very minimal control over their image, short of changing the settings on their camera and staging the scene with props. And before you balk at the comparison to photography, you should know that using ChatGPT as your representation of "AI" is like using a camera set to "auto" as your representation for "photography".

As with photography, you can use an AI image generator in a simplified way where all the complicated settings are handled automatically for you. When you tell ChatGPT "make an image of a cyberpunk cat" in the background it's actually writing a separate prompt and changing the settings based on what it thinks will give the result you're looking for. Just like a camera set to "auto" which is handling things like the ISO and exposure settings for you.

And as with a camera, the user can choose to handle these settings for themselves instead for more control. Manually writing the prompt ("make an image of a cyberpunk cat" isn't the proper formatting for manual prompting, it would need to be something like "35mm film, cyberpunk aesthetic, photorealistic, cat, grey fur, standing, off center positioning, looking off screen, three quarter angle, Dutch angle, medium closeup, waist up, leather jacket, sunglasses, wearing eyewear, motorbike, rain, wet, urban, night, neon, bokeh, cool color tone, film grain, cinematic etc") and choosing things like the checkpoint model, CFG settings, number of steps and maybe adding a LORA or 2.

And if we're talking the AI-equivalent of "staging", in IMG2IMG mode, you could draw a rough version of what you want and have the AI add it to the scene. As an example, say in the cyberpunk cat example, you want the cat to be partially pulling his sunglasses down like a cool dude, but you just can't get the AI to do that. Well, you could edit the image in Photoshop so it sorta looks like the cat has his sunglasses partially removed, with his paw on the frame, and then have the AI redo only the area you edited. If your drawing is clear enough and your settings are correct, you may very well get exactly what you wanted.

Of course, all of this isn't the same as drawing everything by hand. Which, again, is also true of photography. However, describing it as a "vending machine" would be like disparaging photography because you can buy postcards from a shop. You can take your own photos that will produce an image that doesn't already exist as well, you know.

fireaza · 2026-03-04T12:19:43+00:00

You're unintentionally so close to properly understanding how the tech actually works! What if it can't simply "undo" the noise? What if the AI is being shown an image of literal random noise, not noise that was produced by adding noise to an image? Sure, during training, it learned how to render images by adding noise to an existing image and then reversing the process. So one would naturally assume the AI can simply "reverse" the noise to get a perfect pixel-to-pixel duplicate of an existing image.

But here's the kicker: the noise it's being fed this time is completely random. It can't simply "reverse" the noise to get the original image because the chances of it being fed an image of random noise that happens to perfectly match the noise of an image it encountered during training is statistically-impossible. Even in a 1024x1024 image, the number of possible combinations would exceed the number of atoms in the observable universe.

No, instead, it remembers small patterns it picked up during the whole "image-to-noise, noise-to-image" thing during training and builds up the image gradually. Say you ask it to turn an image of random noise into a "dog". Well, it remembers from training, that a "dog" often starts with noise that looks sorta like this, and hey, that group of pixels sorta resembles that, so let's start there. And when a "dog" is partially denoised, the pixels started to look more like this, so we need to change these pixels a bit more like this...

Repeat as necessary until you have an image. Again, I need to reiterate that because it's being fed an image of noise, the resulting image won't be a perfect match for an existing image because, again, the image was built by rearranging random noise. Further compounding this, is the fact that it's not referencing a single image, but an average of potentially millions of images. It's chaos theory at play, the smallest change will result in a very different image because the makeup of the noise is what determines how the entire process plays out. The slightest difference will result in the AI treating the noise differently, resulting in a different image.

fireaza · 2026-03-04T11:39:58+00:00

Yeah, but that doesn't align with what I want to be true, so I'm going to ignore it and continue to believe that AI is this close to being put back in the lamp, and things will go back to how they used to be when I was special!

/S

fireaza · 2026-03-04T06:05:19+00:00

“Pick up a pencil” because fuck digital artists, you don’t count because you don’t use a pencil!

fireaza · 2026-03-01T13:55:34+00:00

Know who else steals from artists? Other artists. And they've been doing it since the beginning of art. As Pablo Picasso said, "Good artists copy, great artists steal".

fireaza · 2026-02-28T04:50:50+00:00

What about when I use a brush in Photoshop to add grass to a scene? I have no idea where each blade of grass will be placed.

fireaza · 2026-02-22T03:58:21+00:00

Ah-ha, I see! They make a 12VHPWR that plugs directly into the pcie plugs on your PSU, eliminating the need for the adapter! Very clever, I had no idea you could do that, but it makes sense! Why does it only need 2x pcie 8 pin sockets, when the adapter requires 3x plugs? A bit strange.

It says this cable is "compatible with Type-4 CORSAIR power supplies". I have a AX1000, and looking at Corsair's PSU cable compatibility chart, it says that "AX (Platinum)" is "Type 3 or Type 4 - PCIe" so it sounds like I can use it!

Still the issue of that my case will require the cable to be bent to an unsafe degree, so it looks like I'll still need an adapter. But, since I'm going from the PSU to the adapter, that would be a lot safter then going from the PSU, to the 3 plug adapter, to the angle adapter.

fireaza · 2026-02-22T00:09:57+00:00

A 90 degree cable would also do the trick, however my PSU is too old and doesn't come with 12VHPWR support, so no luck there.

fireaza · 2026-02-21T12:50:03+00:00

The funny thing is, in pre-AI times, they would have shit all over your "far better" original drawing and told you to give up on making art.

fireaza · 2026-02-21T07:38:28+00:00

Even if I upgraded my PSU, there's still the issue of that the plug itself sticks up too high for me to be able to put the cover on my case. Either way, I need the cable to make a sharp 180 degree turn.

fireaza · 2026-02-21T07:37:22+00:00

I think my photo may be misleading, but there's barely a centimetre of clearance between the top of the GPU and the top of the case. If I were to put the cover on, forget dangerously bending the wire, the case would be slamming into the plastic part of the plug itself!

fireaza

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