If I remember right the Rage Fury MAXX had really bad frame pacing issues due to it using alternate frame rendering instead of scan line interleaving like 3dfx...
I hope they include the option to turn on texture filtering, unlike with System Shock. Know there's a mod for the latter, but it doesn't work for your weapon/hand model still... If you're going to go the lo-fi retro look, go all the way. Point sampled texture maps don't do the rest of the...
Or with all the problems surrounding the original Phenom launch...
Just like with FX; too little, too late. 65nm was too ambitious for a monolithic die for Barcelona, and the lack of L3 cache didn't help (I think it had 2MB), either. It was hot, slow, and late. Faildozer on the other hand...
I didn't have enough caffeine before posting that. Whoopsie! :p
Moving on... I wonder if they'll eventually do a dual v-cache part on mainstream desktop? I know AMD messed around with such a part internally for AM4, but for some reason decided against releasing one...
While my Ryzen 9 5900X is still going strong, saying I'm not tempted by the performance improvements of even the current 7000 series would be a lie. A few things I do/play would benefit from the clock and IPC increase. I might have to jump to a 9900X or 9900X3D if the numbers are that much...
The X1800 XT or R520 was launched in October 2005 after the X8x0 line to compete against the feature set of the GeForce 6 series. It for a very short time was ATi's highest end offering until the X1900 XTX/R580 and later the X1950 XTX came out with 3x the pixel shaders: 48 instead of 16. So...
Fuck hp with a rusty spork. First it was software... Now it's peripherals. Next it'll be hardware. You won't own your nVIDIA GPU or Intel CPU, you will merely lease it.
Wait... I thought Crossfire (and SLi by association) was dead and buried for the consumer side due to DX12, lazy devs, and "relatively few" users of multi-GPU? I haven't heard of anything beyond a 7900 XTX in the pipeline to my knowledge. I agree that nVIDIA held back to the point of...
See, accounting for inflation those are prices I could get behind. "Reasonable" (never thought I'd be saying that about Turing pricing, but here we are) as per the first gen RTX cards. $2,000 at the top is way too much, agreed. We've paying now for GeForce cards what businesses used to for...
Oh trust me, I haven't lost sight of this. My enthusiasm for RDNA3 hit the floor when they said the cards were going to be $900 and $1,000 for the XT and XTX respectively. So, in essence: fuck no AMD isn't the Robin Hood of GPUs. They are just as guilty, because if RDNA 3 was an RT monster as...
One more chiming in to say +1 for a 3080 vanilla. I paid $550 shipped + tax for mine second hand last fall and I have no real regrets gaming at 1440p. Aside from a couple cases where you have to turn RT or texture/shadow detail down a notch this card still chews through games.
$350-400 seems...
It's what I did. I may not have liked anything new about Windows since 2012 and 8, but it is what it is. Until my game library supports Linux natively in it's entirety, I'm not switching (e.g. ever, since that's not happening...). At least for my main machine.
It amuses me to no end that RDNA4 hasn't even been revealed to the public by AMD yet and we're already talking about it's successor. Still, it's fun to talk about so I'm not knocking it.
With XBox Game Pass Ultimate? Yes. With standard PC Game Pass? No. You're limited to a 10 hour for-the-lifetime-of-your-account playtime per game unless you cough up more. It really makes me angry considering how many EA titles clutter up the selection.
Just making sure you're aware the reaction this might get amongst the members (y)
The problem with flame suits is that they're oh-so-itchy... :ROFLMAO:
inb4 the flammenwerfing
EDIT: Not that I knock those that are into these kinds of dating sim + genre games, but I doubt your seed will find much purchase here...
This. In my year and a half or so of having Game pass I've found the XBox app to be mostly easy to use and on par with Steam speed-wise as well. It's better than at launch, for sure.
Double shame on the parents though for fixing that kid's PC. That's only reinforcing bad behavior; this isn't the place to have that discussion, though.
Well said. The fact that I just recently upgraded (and have someone willing to trade their 3080 Ti FE for my card (for just the purchase price difference and shipping on my end) will make it easy to hold out this generation. If I were to ever have an Ada Lovelace card in my system or...
For the money I had the option of the 5800X3D, but the 5900X was on sale for roughly $40 cheaper... I have no regrets opting for the 5900X. I do a bit of video encoding and re-encoding in addition to gaming, so having the extra eight threads is handy.