Recent content by HockeyJon

It doesn’t mean we need to give up Steam at all. I buy games on Steam that STILL require another launcher to open up when I click to play it, which is wholly unnecessary, as would be the creation of an additional account to play a game I’ve already bought on Steam.

Can we just go back to not having a account and launcher for every single piece of software? I'm sick and tired of having accounts and launchers all over the place. Can't I just install something and use it like a normal person?

Intel needs to develop competitive GPUs as a matter of survival at this point, so I would say the chance that Battlemage and Celestial are cancelled is basically zero. A delay is believable, but not a cancellation.

Unfortunately there isn't much in terms of choice for most people. Linux doesn't run everything most people need to run and requires more computer literacy. I'm running Windows 11 myself. If it were up to me, I'd still be on 7, but the support is gone. In any case, shout out to Lakados for...

Gamers want AMD to lower their prices so Nvidia lowers theirs, and then they buy Nvidia. AMD knows this and will likely just continue with their "10% less than Nvidia" pricing strategy.

People are switching because they have to, no necessarily because they want to. I’d wager you’d still have a solid number of people who will tell you they’d still be on 7 if it still received security and vulnerability updates.

I'm actually still using the one I bought back in 2002 believe it or not. Got my money's worth out of that purchase.

Remember back in the day when we used antivirus programs to hunt down and eliminate spyware that were tracking our every move and sending data back to the mothership, completely invading our privacy? And then Microsoft saw that spyware and decided to turn it into an operating system?

But are they actually selling the Claw, or is it sitting on store shelves collecting dust? In GN’s review, Steve says he was the only one at the store in Taiwan that asked for one, and the clerk questioned why he wanted to buy it. The kind of customer for the Claw will tend to be computer...

It’s interesting that, just a short time ago, you have EVGA, arguably Nvidia’s best partner in terms of the product they made and no doubt selling well, walk away from a relationship with Nvidia that essentially defined their identity as a company, citing that Nvidia was increasingly difficult...

Underperforming sales of AMD GPUs, not underperforming AMD GPUs. MSI doesn’t care how the GPU performs, they care how it sells. Which brings me to your second point, because the Claw is an absolute piece of crap that isn’t selling well, and the only reason why I can think MSI went with Intel...

Bonus points if they subcontracted it to Volkswagen.

100% it’s the CPU. It looks like Intel has a significant advantage over AMD Ryzen in this software. My 7900XTX paired with my 5800x3D only managed 71409, which is far lower compared to people in this thread running Intel CPUs but slower GPUs.

+1 on this. If they're abandoning it, why not just put it out as freeware at that point and let the fans enjoy it? My buddy and I still bust out StarCraft from time to time like we did back at high school LAN parties for a few laughs, and if you don't already own it, you can get the base game...

AMD is adopting a “Nvidia price -10%” pricing model these days. Not exactly a smashing deal in most cases compared to what you could get in previous generations, especially because they have to discount because they’re behind in frame generation, frame smoothing, and RT processing. The 3080...