Recent content by Sycraft

I think we will in the long run. We are in the middle of a bubble right now, companies are borrowing insane amounts of money, a large number of the new GPUs haven't even been installed, they are just sitting in warehouses, this is not sustainable. It will chill out and when it does, the consumer...

Could be new stuff but understand that these things are massive and take a long time to build. It is a bit like an airplane: You order it way in advance of when you need it. They don't have these sitting on shelves, each one is custom built for a customer. Also the pipeline is longer than you'd...

Usually only newer games. Like with DLSS upscaling, you see newer titles that implement Preset K (first gen transformer model) or Preset M (second gen transformer) as what they use if you turn it on and don't do an override. However older games usually don't update to use them, so you need to do...

Also the thing that makes the Adobe products worth it is not that nothing else does what they do. You can find replacements to them, often very well coded replacements that have been around a long time. Other than inertia/first mover privilege there are a few things that keep people on Adobe...

It may never happen. What they are trying to do is hard. I'm quite sure they are working on it but there is obviously some sticking points. Hopefully they figure those out, but maybe not. Always the risk with new tech: Sometimes the thing you think was easy isn't, or is even impossible. I'm...

Unfortunately I feel like a 24GB 5080 will do nothing but feed the AI craze for now. You don't really need more than 16GB of VRAM for games. I mean sure, there are edge cases with modding where it can be useful but really it isn't a thing where with a 16GB card you are normally saying "Man, I...

The prices on everything these days (except CPUs and those are apparently going up to) are just completely retarded and sadly we are just going to have to ride out the AI bubble for any hope of it fixing itself. So long as Sam Altman is buying memory that doesn't exist yet with money he doesn't...

For people like you then ya, the present sucks and the future is likely to suck in that the speed of progress is going to slow down, there's really nothing to be done about that.

I mean... bored maybe if the only part of it they like is getting new hardware. But if what you like is gaming, then a hardware freeze doesn't hurt that. That's the reality of console gaming throughout most of its history: A console gets released with a set spec, there is no way to expand that...

On a 12GB card that's 4070 level of performance? Nah you have to turn things down. Path tracing is really a non-starter. I maybe could try it with ultra-performance upscaling but otherwise, it is a no-go. Also depending on the game 12GB gets limiting, textures and such and have to be turned...

Ya I both love and hate the halo tier. I love it because it is more performance and I like that. SLI was never my thing and support has only gotten worse before it died, so this is how you get higher performance. However I hate it because somehow people make it the standard in their minds and...

I am also a graphics whore, hence the 5090 here. I love it... but I appreciate that I don't NEED it to enjoy things. I can even enjoy games on the Nintendo Switch. Not how I'd rather play, to be sure, but I can play on one and have fun. If that was all I had, I'd still be a gamer. I want higher...

Everyone is going to be all in on AI until either the bubble pops or things start sorting out and the winners and losers emerge. Then the companies that can't make tons on it will come back for other revenue streams.

It Witcher 3 more of a controller game or a mouse n keyboard game? I may (finally) get around to trying it :)

Gamers seem to think optimization is a magic tree you shake. It costs nothing, has no tradeoffs, and takes no time, you just shake the optimization tree and FPS and good graphics fall out. Shake it enough, and why you can have photorealistic graphics on a 486 probably! The only reason devs don't...