Oh, we got other forum out there? No wonder nobody's posting here!

It's fine. I'm already have my hands full with my Discord channels, without spending more time in them, add in more new forum participations, I wont even have any free time to play my games and monitoring my cryptos. My current time segregation between these activities is just..... nice/naise/naisu*chefkiss*

This post has been edited by KomradMikhail: Apr 26 2022, 02:49 PM

With eGPU it's a 20% loss of performance versus desktop. Imagine that. Once Zen4 drops end of this year, I'm either moving my 3080Ti into a new Zen4 build with the 3080Ti currently in my eGPU, or jump to Lovelace/RDNA3.

You are correct on that PCIE lane limitation. The effect of less PCI lane is less apparent once you game at higher quality settings and higher resolution, and since I game at 4K, just nice. it's more problematic if you game at lower resolution lower settings, chasing higher framerates.

Imagine that. Even with 20% loss I can still get 4K120. By 4K120, I mean gaming at 4K with frame rates between 60-120fps. Anything in between, VRR smoothes it out.

Holy shit, I nearly snorted out Coke out my nose when I read this.

You're endangering my ability to drink and breathe properly la oi!

P/s: Coke as in the drink Coke ya, not the white powder.

I dont hunt for frame rates. I set settings (High/ultra) I'm happy with then if the framerate falls between the figure I want (60-120), I'm happy.

It helps that I dont do competitive gaming, most if not all my games are what console gamers call "cinematic". . So, if it falls below 60fps, VRR is there to smoothen it out. It will still feel sluggish control-wise, but you forgot, I hardcore Soulsborne player, our kind are used to sluggish controls due to low framerate.

This post has been edited by KomradMikhail: Apr 26 2022, 03:31 PM

TNB knocking on your door. Not to mention the general public turning ou into the boogeyman, accusing you stealing power from your neighbors power grid.

That white spot, white pepper la. pretend sneeze See?

Too late to mine BTC now, too high difficulty versus profitability/power cost ratio. Mine altcoin(not shitcoin ya) and then convert. I'm done with that, got what I needed.
To be mini-smol-miniscule-ElonMusk.

Enough to buy KFC here with missing coleslaw and mashed potato?

In other games-related news,

Digital Store GOG Among First To Offer Menstrual Leave To Employees

What's the first thing that comes to your mind when you read the headline. straight face No, not a typo. Yes, that's what it meant to say.

This post has been edited by KomradMikhail: Apr 26 2022, 04:50 PM

May the Farce be with you. Farce spelt correctly ya.

Not even Nintendo's squeaky clean family image can escape them from their behind scene ugly truth of how they treat their workers.

Or is this just another case of woke-ism in America?

If true,........kids, your Marios and Zeldas and Kirby games are made on the backs of ugly practices of blood, sweat and tears without proper compensation. When capitalism is king, and selling your Switch cartridge games at USD60 not enough, you squeeze it from the workforce. They cant justify hiking up the game price to USD70 for a portable-quality game, unlike their Sony and Microsoft counterparts. Or can they?

Who cares? Not my problem, as long as I get my games in time right? Because it's a privilege to work for Nintendo. /s

Crunch,crunch,crunch!

This post has been edited by KomradMikhail: Apr 26 2022, 06:11 PM

Not sure if true, but........



200 days from April 25th 2022.......... guess the date.

If true, Starfield may be the only title that can compete for the title GOTY 2022 from Elden Ring for me.

First party title for MS anyway, so we are all covered with our GPU. If good, another title to add to my Steam library.

This post has been edited by KomradMikhail: Apr 26 2022, 06:51 PM

On that day I REALLY become astronaut!

Starfield turn me into astronaut, not by playing on your Z13, Asus.

Back to the jazz bar enjoying smooth drink, after the short jaunt in the ah beng discotheque. As per @greyshadow .

After fiddling ( or re-fiddling in my case) with HDR setup on PS5 yesterday after its "hasty" VRR update, I appreciate the XSX's ease of setup even more now.

TV support Dolby Vision?
XSX auto-enable it system wide.
Done.

90% covers the need for gaming in HDR unless you need to see how HDR10 looks on games like Flight Simulator, which has "slightly"(arguably) better HDR look, which is subjective anyway.

Old already, I prefer XSX's ease of setup, versus Sony's caveman "15 notches down, 3 notches up" method.

XSX's VRR allows lower than 48-120 window, I believe down right to 20-120 for my LG C1. A more encompassing option versus Sony's 48-120 half-hearted attempt. Games will have a harder time reaching 120 compared to dropping to 40 and below(especially when you enable RT), so Sony's 48-120 VRR window is much narrower, more like forcing their game devs die2 must run in that narrow window or lose VRR. More like frame-capping?

"Better than nothing" for more than a year after launch? Not necessarily better since the window is so narrow, game devs have to spend longer time optimizing to get their games running in that narrow VRR window. Beggars cant be chooser? Take it or leave it?

This post has been edited by KomradMikhail: Apr 27 2022, 10:02 AM

Why ah Sega? Nobody buying your bullshit Sonic Origin "remaster" ah? Your customers you treat like your personal piggy bank, have wisen up and smell your bullshit from a mile away.

Your nostalgia perfume can’t mask the overpowering smell of bullshit.



This post has been edited by KomradMikhail: Apr 27 2022, 03:25 PM

If this is the mentality, by reiterating every time for a "new generation", then the original version remain raped into endless "remaster" recycle machine.

Leave the original as is, in its ugly scan lines and pixelated mess glory. Reiterate by making new sequels of the original game instead. That way you keep the sanctity and purity of the original intact, and you introduce the new generation" to the generation-appropriate visuals and contemporary gameplay mechanics.

This "remaster" is just a quick cash grab, satisfying neither the purists nor does it gives the era-correct look at how it looked when it came out. Purists who grew up playing the original version in its pixelated looks. Nostalgia doesnt come from adding new flashy anime intro, it comes from remembering playing the game at how it looked when you were a kid. The crappy thing about this is, Sega actively pushing "new generation" towards these flashy "remastered" Soni Origins versus the classic unmolested original version, by delisting ways and options to buy them on online stores, and leaving only Sonic Origins as the option to play these original classics. It's the same mentality used by movies and TV reboots, ignore the original exists, just look at this news flashy reboot version instead. Have we not learned from The Last Jedi & Rise of Skywalker movies, and how The Mandalorian show trying desperately to fix the mess that those two caused damage to the brand name of Star Wars?

If you're kid who is exasperated by how Sonic looked in its original pixelated 16-bit form, and you needed flashy, fast-cut anime intro to catch his interest, then the problem isn't with the games, it's with how the current generation is brought up like a cat: dangle a colorful ball of string infront of it, then it'll come pouncing.

I grin widely when I see a kid first picked up a NES controller to play Mario on a 14" CRT TV at a game gathering once. The kid wasn't bothered or fazed by how "ugly" or outdated the graphics were, he just wanted to jump on Goombas and collect mushrooms.

Or in the case of Sonic, collect rings.

His parents brought him up correctly.

Leave the original version as it is. Make new sequels in the spirit of these timeless classics. That way, you breathe life to the series to get the purists to check out the new sequels, and you get the millenials and kids these days to play the "flashy" new sequels and get them interested enough to look up how the originals played like. Win-win.

You dont bastardize the old classic by adding new anime intro, hoping the impatient kids of today will hopefully give the game a try. Lose-lose.

This post has been edited by KomradMikhail: Apr 28 2022, 12:27 PM

Fuck off! Really? it's available both original and remastered? no wonder Sega eager to quick cash grab.

Still doesnt excuse this complicated mess of a "preorder table/chart":

Controversial Sonic Origins DLC/pre-order scheme mocked by Devolver Digital

More of a disatisfaction of modern practice of corporations than a whine, but you're entitled to your opinion. As do I . I'm probably showing my age now if I say this....."Kids these days". "Get off my lawn" and all that jazz.

Carry on.

This post has been edited by KomradMikhail: Apr 28 2022, 02:16 PM

Is anybody even still excited about Halo Infinite at this stage?



After how disastrous/slow/messy Season 1 was?

Not that it matters to me though. I'm in it for the single player campaign only.

This post has been edited by KomradMikhail: Apr 28 2022, 05:18 PM

Remaster of a remaster of a remaster? If only terrible attempts of these remasters works like reuploading Youtube videos of a Youtube video: quality degrades after every upload pummels it through Youtube's crappy video compression.

Make something original please, Sega. It's a shame to treat these classics as a crutch to be used as a quick squeeze of a cash cow's teats. They are better than that.

Anybody interested in this? 4X RTS game, a rare, dying breed of a game.



It's available on PC now as Steam Early Access game. Which I made it a point to myself, NEVER buy any games in Early Access stage. Too many times have games in early access morphed into something totally different when it turned full-fledge game. Usually something for the worse, compared to early access version.

Only reason I remembered the game is when my Z13 prompted for an Nvidia driver update with drivers specifically supporting this game. Otherwise, fade into obscurity......like the sands of Arrakis. Then again, it'll give the Z13 and Asus pen a good workout.

This post has been edited by KomradMikhail: Apr 28 2022, 05:49 PM

I guess YongYea agrees with this oldfag here too. Unless, YongYea is considered "whining" too?



Dunno lah, I dont have any skin in the game, didnt spend a single sen on a "remaster". For others whose thinking of getting their skins in the game thinking of purchasing it, have a listen to Yong here, what you're buying into, what you're getting, and what's not included in the "remaster". I'm just not a fan of paying more to get less, remastered or not, particularly when your only option is artificially restricted by Sega to get is only the "remastered" version now, after Sega delisted all the older classics on other online stores.

Join Us Sunday, June 12 for the Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase.



Please, more info and news for Starfield, Bethesda.

One months, 14 days to go.

This post has been edited by KomradMikhail: Apr 28 2022, 09:16 PM

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202...il?srnd=premium

It's not a sure thing yet, folks.

A new challenger appears! A legal challenge from FTC chairman herself, Lina Khan. Under the all-too familiar clause called "antitrust". Microsoft got through it before, maybe experience here helps them?

Dreams of Activision Blizzard IPs flourishing in our GamePass Ultimate subs still hangs in the air.

This post has been edited by KomradMikhail: Apr 28 2022, 10:09 PM