I know someone who has seemingly been bitten by those crashes.
Worse is it seems to degrade the processor over time and they get worse and worse. Eventually it's basically unusable under any kind of load.
I think they're on their 3rd processor...
Honestly, this seems like a positive and IMO the "Intel Baseline Profile" should be the default. No non-XOC mobo (Intel or AMD) should ship with unlimited (or effectively unlimited) PL being the default setting.
The situation with Intel mobos the...
There's probably some cheesing going on (older 3DM versions were very easy to cheese higher results out of) but AFAIK it's mostly the hardware. Recent GPUs have atrocious DX8 performance and DX9 perf is not so great anymore either. I just checked...
The way the graphics pipeline has evolved since 8.1 I don't think modern graphic cards even know what to do with a lot of those functions and calls anymore. They have to be translated into something the hardware can understand, and that...
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.
that brought back some memories... can't believe it's been over 2 decades...
anyway, my workstation, play the occasional game... RX480 8GB, 64GB DDR4 and a pair of Xeon 2637v4 cpus on a supermicro board
RDNA 4 prediction:
At the same clock, RDNA 4 CU is 12% faster in raster and 25% faster in ray tracing compared to RDNA 3
Navi 44 ($300?) should be ~= 4060 ti 8gb
Navi 48 ($550?) should be double that ~= 4070 ti / 4070 ti super...
If I had to guess (and this really is just a guess) I'd suspect it's completely to do with the archaic process it's built on.
Remember during covid when nobody could get electronics, car manufacturers got hit hard. Couldn't get engine...
But then you also have to remember that Microsoft lost a lawsuit when somebody who had a local account, enabled BitLocker, lost their key and locked themselves out of the system destroying all their data.
Which a Microsoft account, or Google...
"GPU" was technically first used by Sony in the original PlayStation, though it was a loose definition at the time. It still relied on a CPU coprocessor to rasterize the image.
The Voodoo cards still leaned on the CPU for the rasterization...
A buddy of mine just bought one, inbound this week - he's coming from a 2070 super. Had no intention of spending more than $550. Should be a solid upgrade for those on a 2xxx series.
+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...
If the game has day 1 DLC and other stuff that costs $200, then you know it isn't a good game. Ubisoft is trying to promote their Ubisoft+ where you can rent the game for $18 per month, because by contrast it seems a lot cheaper than $200...
And that seals that...
https://www.ign.com/articles/star-wars-outlaws-jabba-the-hutt-mission-locked-behind-season-pass
It's not cosmetics but gameplay content that is locked behind the season passes. Fat ass NOPE!
I don't expect companies to keep online games up indefinitely, offer downloads indefinitely, and I don't expect companies to allow you to play on their servers for free.
But I think companies could do better at either 1 ) Giving players the...