Everspace plays more like Freelancer than Wing Commander or X-Wing... it's a wholly arcade shooter. The mission structure is similar to FTL, where your objective is to try to get through as many randomly generated sectors as you can, picking up loot as you go. It's a roguelike and after every...
It's pretty decent; I'm having a lot of fun with it. It's an arcade rogue-lite, more in the vein of FTL than a traditional space sim. The controls are essentially mouse and keyboard only, you do have the option of using a gamepad, but you'll have a worse time playing this way. I didn't bother...
This card is great, but make sure it has the thermal mod to prevent it from overheating itself to death. If you don't get an updated one, you can request EVGA to mod it for you via an RMA or request the thermal pad kit yourself: http://www.evga.com/thermalmod/
I found out my problem... The dumbasses at Square Enix made MSAA at 2x by default, and even if you drop graphics settings to low, MSAA setting isn't affected. Now I'm running fine.
It's completely unplayable on a 770. With everything turned to low, ~25fps was about the most stable framerate I could get at 2560x1080, and even then geometry was disappearing. I would see clutter floating throughout the environment, because the tables weren't rendering.
Sometimes setting games to run in Windowed mode fixes resolution issues. Otherwise, I've needed to change my desktop's resolution to 1080x1920 before starting up the steam link, but even then it's a crapshoot.
I've had my Steam Link and Steam Controller since day 1, and can give an informed opinion if anyone's interested...
The Steam Link is phenomenal. Pair it with a Dual Shock 4 and you essentially have a super-powered PS4. Unfortunately, wi-fi performance is pretty bad, so make sure you have a...
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I've had really good success with Corsair SSDs; a few months ago, I needed to RMA a mouse with Corsair and I had zero issues with the RMA process. It sounds like a single person had a bad experience and is actively trying to poison Corsair for the rest of us.
The absolute worst monitor I ever owned was a Samsung. Just because they're making the panel doesn't mean they know how to design a functional DisplayPort interface.
120 and 144Hz is amazing, but only if you have the hardware to be able to drive games at that framerate. The best benefit I notice with my 120Hz display is the mouse cursor, it's very noticable when you have a secondary display that is 60Hz and you move the cursor between the two, it's almost...
Dark Souls is not hard, it's fair. When you die in Dark Souls, you know exactly why you died. Either you're in an area you shouldn't be in yet, didn't upgrade your gear, or weren't paying attention to what was happening around you.
I have a Haswell 4670k CPU which has Intel HD integrated graphics. I also have an nVidia GTX770 in this same system. This is on Windows 8.1.
I have the integrated graphics enabled in the BIOS, and both the Intel HD Graphics 4600 and GTX 770 show up in Device Manger without any issue.
I can...
I have a PC in my office that is connected to a DVI monitor and headphones. I use the audio from the Motherboard (Gigabyte G1.Sniper M5) for the headphones and speakers in the room.
I also have an HDMI cable run to a television in the bedroom. On this display, audio comes from the video card...