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Speaking of battery life: Snapdragon X Series chips cost only half as much as Intel Raptor Lake’s, with up to 98% longer battery life There are of course a ton of question marks around how well this Snapdragon launch will go, emulation performance key among them. But Intel/AMD are going to be...

I'm wondering if this is a case where the engine upgrade to an existing project without modified assets/settings is significantly amplifying the boiling errors here. I just can't imagine that's going to be representative of new UE5 games going forward, it's so egregiously obvious and completely...

Read this and thought this was about a TLOU2 PC announcement, heyyy yooooooo

Alex talks about that near the end of the video.

Nice improvements...except for you know, everything else. Looks like #stutterstruggle will be a popular PC gaming hashtag for the next few years at least, jfc. I'm sure it's up there with some of the most heavy shader games on the market, if not at the top. Which is why it's the perfect...

Created a little playlist: The #Stutterstruggle is Real I'll probably have a bunch in there eventually, but largely at this point it's going to focus on more niche titles. I'll try and keep it updated with notes on any patches that may improve things.

So that just means it's broken for millions of other cards released in the past 6 years. Bugs manifesting on some hardware and not others can still be considered a bug, and releasing an update for an old game is the perfect opportunity to quelch it. Maybe it's more on Nvidia side, who knows -...

Yes, those are mostly indoors and the opening area which are less taxing than further out into the wasteland. On Ultra, I can halve my framerate - or more - depending on which direction I'm looking if I'm in the forest. Bear in mind this may be a PC specific performance regression with Ultra...

Bear in mind DF could basically hold a biweekly update on this if they wanted to - they don't cover all the indie/AA EU4 games that suffer from this too. Sandland is another title (albeit not really AA) that has no shader precompilation with the expected results. That's Alone in the Dark, Indika...

On the subject of smaller/more focused games vs laborious AAA grind/monetizationfests I generally agree, I'm liking more what I see from smaller studios these days. However, on the topic of optimization, it can really be a double-edged sword at times. Smaller, more agile teams will not always...

If FSR3 is harder to integrate than DLSS3, really odd that DLSS3 still isn't in TLOU.

That's every Steam thread. "Works great on my machine" (after 3 playthroughs).

This is assuming 'most' gamers even experiencing what many of us are complaining about, as the consoles suffer from some of these issues far less - especially such as shader stuttering, which is basically nonexistent - I mean cripes, if shader stuttering didn't exist on the PC I may not even...

Don't have much to disagree with your post (albeit I think "git gud" may be a little bit of an oversimplification of those who are frustrated perhaps). On this though point in particular though: Sure, the complexity of materials and thus shader length has significantly increased - but even in...

True, I'm sure there are plenty of games we wouldn't have seen without the emergence of engines like UE4 and purchasable off the shelf materials outlets. I've purchased and enjoyed a lot of games that were made by smaller and emerging studios that ultimately had solid production values that...