Recent content by homerdog

This game has a very well done online feature for a purely single player game. It's completely optional and only serves to enhance the experience, and the game will work just fine once the servers are turned off. So far my only complaint is that I didn't try this series years ago. Love the...

Having never played any Persona games I decided to do a month of Gamepass to try it. I'm about 17 hours in and I have to say this is a fantastic game. Will definitely pick up Persona 5 once I've finished it.

It'd be a waste of time for artists to implement cinematic lighting techniques using optional features like RT that most users can't (for performance/compatibility reasons) or won't (for performance reasons) enable. Maybe the next console gen will change things. Once features like path tracing...

I can easily tell the difference between 60Hz and 144Hz just moving the mouse around the desktop. Even my mother who is >60yo and doesn't know how to use a computer can tell. My cat who liked to track my cursor around could probably tell but she never admitted it. In games it depends on how...

That's great. I went from a GTX970 to a 4070 and it was just insane how much faster the 4070 is. Even with pretty weak gen on gen price/perf gains, if you wait a few gens to upgrade you can still get that huge and satisfying leap.

Was the marketshare always this tilted to NVIDIA? I knew they were much bigger but this is absurd. The top 15 are all NVIDIA. There are no AMD dGPUs until the RX580 which is around the level of the RTX4090. WTF.

If the system costs $100B, adding a small nuclear plower plant would only increase the cost by like 1%. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/04/westinghouse-announces-a-small-nuclear-reactor.html#:~:text=Smaller%20nuclear%20reactors%20are%20less,to%20stand%20up%20an%20AP1000.

I recall at some point seeing some research on how much of a performance uplift is necessary for the average gamer to notice that it's better. I think the figure they came up with is 30% but I can't remember where I saw it and I can't figure out how to google it. Anyone know what I'm talking about?

Damn it wasn't out of stock when I posted it. TBH I didn't realize it was such a good deal. This refurb 2070 Super (essentially a 2080) is only $20 more. https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16814137528T?Item=N82E16814137528T&SoldByNewegg=1 I say essentially a 2080 because it's like 8% slower which...

You can get a refurb 2070 on Newegg for $180 with free shipping. It says sold and shipped by Newegg. Has a 90 day warranty. https://www.newegg.com/zotac-geforce-rtx-2070-zt-t20700b-10p/p/N82E16814500442T?Item=N82E16814500442T&SoldByNewegg=1

2070 and RX6600 perform very close to each other so I think the 2070 is a good buy at the same price. 2070 gets you DLSS which definitely looks better than FSR at the resolutions you'd be using on a card like that

I agree completely on this. But I'm still gonna wait until they fix it. There's no reason for me to play it now when I know it will be better if I wait a bit. It will also be cheaper too but I'd pay $70 if it weren't so fucked up. My threshold for performance is basically 60fps. I don't feel...

I suspect the PC version would be fine too if you were to lock it at 30fps, but I don't want to play it like that. The way NPCs pop in right in front of you is also not something I'm interested in. Or the crashing. I saw a streamer attempt to play it and it wouldn't work at all no matter what...

No way in hell I'd pay $70 for this trash. Aside from abysmal performance many are seemingly unable to play it at all because of crashing. Game looks interesting though so I'll pick it up if they fix it.

I've been playing a lot of JRPGs and there is usually a bunch of easily missable stuff in those games. I like to play through it with no guide and then when I come to a "point of no return" I'll pull up the guide and make sure I'm not missing anything important. Most of the guides I've used have...