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    Recommended M.2 heatsinks?

    Has anyone tried the Arctic provided ones? https://support.arctic.de/lf3-m2modif - apparently my mobo is partially incompatible with the intended Liquid Freezer III for one build, but Arctic will send you a low profile heatsink for M.2 to replace the big bulky one on your mobo. I...
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    New Arctic Freezer III 360mm, 280mm & 240mm Benches.

    Really glad to see Arctic is again hitting it out of the park on both price and performance for an AIO. Its even better that they have some great ancillary features like the 1700 socket mounting plate that in many cases you'd need to buy an aftermarket from Thermalright or Thermalgrizzly to...
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    AVX-512 CPUs are being used for cryptomining

    I don't know anything about it, it may well just be the latest pump and dump asset that "oh hey you can mine with a CPU, FAST!". So much of crypto seems to work that way, or people are trying to make it work that way to their benefit. Chia, burstcoin and others had a short term in which...
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    AVX-512 CPUs are being used for cryptomining

    XMR is perhaps one of the only coins that I think actually keeps the original cryptocurrency ethos and is useful as a currency. it A) has both privacy features built into the core of how it is used unlike many other blockchain assets B) will vary the algo to prevent ASIC mining and other...
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    Google Blocking RCS on rooted Droids

    Exactly, this is the problem that the "base" standard is a mess an the add-ons for useful functionality seem to be developed by Google and handed out in a proprietary manner (ie I remember reading they granted whatever built in Samsung messenger application e2e encryption support, but denied...
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    Google Blocking RCS on rooted Droids

    Its bad enough the last few years where some apps would fail to function or there would be other issues thanks to even unlocking your bootloader or rooting, but this is preposterous. Don't get me wrong, I understand that the check should note to the user that their bootloader has been...
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    Sweet Baby Inc Steam Tracker

    Okay, no worries. Try telling me that rather than assuming I'm doing something else. I admit its very information dense and the fact it was in reply to a post above that I quoted within probably made things seem more confusing than if I just wrote from the start, but given that some...
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    Sweet Baby Inc Steam Tracker

    This reply says way more about you, then about me. So, you won't read it , yet you assume I'm trying to shut down conversation and have already crafted an entire narrative in your mind what I must be trying to do without, by your own admission, reading it? You're doing that to someone...
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    Sweet Baby Inc Steam Tracker

    Its odd to frame a call for accurate assessment of the problem in order to make accurate, impactful criticism as either some sort of surreptitious defense or ignorance. This seems to be unsupported conspiratorial reading built on half-truths or just entirely woven out of one's political...
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    HDMI Forum to AMD: No, you can’t make an open source HDMI 2.1 driver

    So there's essentially a built in active converter DP 2.0 > HDMI 2.1 built into the card? Does it support full bandwidth and feature set that a native HDMI 2.1 ( for instance, 4K 120hz HDR 10 bit color at 4:4:4 FreeSync/VRR etc) would or are there some limits because of the conversion...
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    Sweet Baby Inc Steam Tracker

    This has been a sticking point for well over a decade now. yes, it would be great if game publishers could learn this Basically, capitalism doesn't allow a AAA public traded company to do this because stability does not provide return to investors on quarterly reports; there must always be...
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    Sweet Baby Inc Steam Tracker

    Check what I wrote - its more about corporate level PR insurance it seems.; given that even if someone creates a a strong black female playable character, the publisher is worried that someone on social media will say that they made her a caricature or insufficiently X or too Y and go into...
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    Sweet Baby Inc Steam Tracker

    Don't you think that's either simplistic to the point of inaccuracy to outright wrong in some circumstances? Wouldn't it be better to point out where you think it happens and provide cohesive evidence, rather than just a sweeping assertion like this that may undermine your argument? A reply...
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    HDMI Forum to AMD: No, you can’t make an open source HDMI 2.1 driver

    This is a repugnant situation. Consider that many monitors, including the recent often-used-as-monitors LG CX/C1/C2/C3 OLED displays only have HDMI inputs, and that HDMI 2.1 is necessary in order to have the full feature set like 4K 120hz HDR 10-bit 4:4:4 VRR/Gsync/FreeSync, this is...
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    Sweet Baby Inc Steam Tracker

    .....I don't know how long this can accurately keep to a narrowness of topic that won't better be handled on Soapbox/GenMay for political reasons, but there's a huge and I mean huge amount of misinformation in some discussions of anything having to do with supposed "wokeness" or "ESG / DEI"...
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    Switch emulator Yuzu is in Nintendo's crosshair

    They have only provided directions of how to use open source (from its own repository, not hosted by Yuzu) applications in order to extract them from your own Switch. I'm not aware of an "freeshop" connection to Yuzu , especially with their vehement antipiracy stance in chat and elsehere. As...
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    Switch emulator Yuzu is in Nintendo's crosshair

    I was going to post this in News, because this is a big case that, if Nintendo is not fully defeated, has significant negative repercussions in terms of precedent. To put it succinctly from what we've seen thus far, it does not appear that Nintendo has a strong case but nothing is...
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    Final Fantasy VII Remake

    Well the "FFIII 3D Remake" and" FFIV 3D Remake" were remakes with turn based combat that also considerably expanded the game's depth,but they were awhile ago. I highly recommend them as solid options for playing FFIII and especially FFIV on PC. However it seems that the remakes and...
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    Final Fantasy VII Remake

    Regrettably, Nexus (and GameBanana) have been taking increasingly ideologically moderated actions that are at odds with any good faith interpretation of posted rules. Sometimes they outright say "We don't like it, therefore its gone" while allowing a similar mod that makes the very same change...
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    Dying Light 2

    Well, I don't know the particulars on the first game either but it seems a little closer (perhaps putting aside certain publishing/marketing elements paid for by WB) to the A/AA scale of titles such as those published by Focus Interactive; not bad games by any stretch, - often with a budget...
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    Dying Light 2

    I've had it in my Steam library for a very long time, but its been on my backlog. I'm glad techland is supporting the game well, similar to how they did with the original adding lots of new content apparently much of it free. Some of the comments have shown that some of their updates have...
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    ZLUDA Allows CUDA Binaries to Run on AMD GPUs

    This is great news - I've always been against Nvidia's love affair with any proprietary standard they can create, buy, or lock down legally. We've already seen the benefits with things like FSR3 allowing frame generation to be used even on Nvidia 3000 series cards which they did not...
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    HELLDIVERS II

    As above I had this problem even with a 3090 when I started near release using Oct 2023 era drivers. Updating my drivers to the latest late Jan2024, I got continuous black-screen-on-load crashes...until one of the patches came in for the game. After that I could log in and have no...
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    HELLDIVERS II

    i just don't see this guy's arguments for the monetization as being accurate. I don't think he's being dishonest but maybe doesn't understand the mechanics of how its implemented? The accusations for P2W seem inaccurate and so do the hypothetical idea that "oh other player have a huge...
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    HELLDIVERS II

    I'm one of the biggest critics on the forum when it comes to game monetization and at least from what I've seen thus far, Helldivers 2 is at least potentially a decent balance of funding vs player value and respect for their time/wallet. It will ultimately depend on how things progress and...
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    HELLDIVERS II

    I guess we'll see. Seems a real waste. For what its worth, it seems they've fixed some of the technical issues. There was a significant sized patch yesterday and it overhauled many of the issues - for me, no more crash/black screen on load, even the performance is much better being able to...
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    HELLDIVERS II

    There seem to be a lot of technical problems. First of all let me say the nProtect GameGuard anticheat was a horrid idea and I can only hope they get rid of it for at minimum a better client-side anticheat (VAC, or even EAC) as it has numerous problems in its history and currently in...
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    AMD Confirms Zen 5 will Get Ryzen 8000 Series Branding, "Navi 3.5" Graphics in 2024Z

    Ah, mayhap I overlooked that. I thought that the hypothetical "7950XTX" referenced to compete more heavily with the 4090 would be part of RDNA3.5, using said improvements to eke out more performance. The issue has been known for several generations now, since the 5800X3D. Either by...
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    AMD Confirms Zen 5 will Get Ryzen 8000 Series Branding, "Navi 3.5" Graphics in 2024Z

    As far as Zen5, I'm curious what improvement it will bring but isn't it a bit of an issue with 8000 branding considering that won't some Zen4 chips also have it, notably the new APUs with the AI "accelerator" onboard ? Would have been better to swap to 9000.. Also if they're going to wait...
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    Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy released for Steam

    Hm. Looking over what's pictured there aren't many that really change the context except the "no offense" one; I'd have to look at the comparison of the Japanese in the Trilogy version. I'm wondering how much was changed for "sensitivity" reasons (in both JP and ENG, or just ENG ) vs it...
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    Indiana Jones videogame teased by Bethesda

    Cautiously optimistic if we get a first person Tomb Raider meets Dark Forces / Jedi Knight / Wolfenstein in the Indy universe. Glad its coming out for PC on Steam right from the start, in any case. It seems like they've at least taken into consideration puzzle solving, combat with fists...
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    Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy released for Steam

    From what I've read, there's no actual change in the content (neither in Japanese original nor Western distributed versions) but rather its just how the rating was assessed previously vs this time around. Without giving any spoilers, the hypothetical justification for the original M rating...
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    What Mouse and Keyboard Are You Using Right Now?

    GMK is almost all ABS, double shot, but not always shine through. Their price is pretty much because they're very good at that, and they're also willing to take orders for group buys provided you can wait long enough in the future. Finding double shot, shine through, PBT is very difficult...
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    What Mouse and Keyboard Are You Using Right Now?

    The developers' HQ is in Spain, so they may or may not have been up on the meme reference at the time of their first campaign, though one of their reps for a time used "Dygma Balls" as a chat username so safe to say they know all they can do is lean into it at this point, at lest...
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    Star Citizen - media blowout, Chris Robert's new game

    Wait....the F8C is available openly? Or is this only for those who managed to get one of the Golden Tickets back during the event in Nov but didn't actually buy one? Or from how its worded, there are Golden Tickets dropping again now for the duration of the event? I wonder if they're...
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    Ubisoft Wants You To Be Comfortable Not Owning Your Games

    While the concern is noteworthy, the situation with subscription services of generally corporate-tier creative/business software is totally different than what we're discussing with something like gaming. There are other issue with gaming worth discussing, but what you're speaking of...
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    Ubisoft Wants You To Be Comfortable Not Owning Your Games

    Let me step in here for a minute to provide some context. Ironically, Ubi's subscription service seems to be one of the best of those I've seen (or perhaps, the least shitty), at least to date. THe features as I understand it are... Includes all current and past Ubi published/first...
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    7950X3D - AM5 frame (Thermalright / ThermalGrizzly), offset mounting, delidding and other ancillary upgrades?

    Thanks. I Hear those Optimus Signature AM5 blocks are amazing - pretty much the block I'd choose so far for a custom water situation, even without delidding. As far as Ice Giant, I just looked that up and its....some sort of hybrid design? Not an AIO, but has some sort of media inside for...
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    7950X3D - AM5 frame (Thermalright / ThermalGrizzly), offset mounting, delidding and other ancillary upgrades?

    Hello all. It seems like there are some upgrades to the AM5 platform that may make the cooling and overall performance of a higher-end CPU better. I'd appreciate if anyone would care to weigh in on the use of any of these and in some cases, which particular variant is worthwhile...
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    AMD Ryzen 8000G Processors Launched for the AI PC Era + 5 series updates

    How unfortunate. I mean, especially with the new whiz-bang AI widget, integrated GPU that is supposed to be decent at least on the high end, and the like that they'd include the full capability of PCI-E 5.0 lanes if for no other reason than it makes for more bandwidth when used for...
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