Recent content by pcchen

It's now announced that Prime Video will be streaming Godzilla Minus One in Japan. Still no news about its availability in other countries.

Factorio's developers said that after Christmas in 2022 they have sold 3.5 million copies. I think that's quite good for a game of this kind. I can't find concrete numbers for Escape from Tarkov, but judging from its popularity I think it's safe to assume at least a few million copies sold. The...

The Google vs Oracle suit kind of established that using an API counts as fair use. So I think it's fair to make something completely compatible with CUDA, unless if there are some patents involved. One thing is that you'll need to make everything, including the toolings (e.g. the compiler and...

This is just an unrealistic expectation. The PC at the time of PS2 (around 2000) typically have around 128MB ~ 256MB SDRAM. So it's actually PS2 had too little main memory compared to PC. Similarly, PCs around the time of PS3 (2006 ~ 2007) typically has 2GB ~ 4GB RAM. The consoles were just...

I guess it's just not cheap enough to offset the downsides. It's not that AMD is too greedy or something, of course, because it's really not cheap to manufacture these things. A product is not just about the hardware, it's the entire package. AMD is getting close with things like FSR3.1, but I...

I'm pretty sure if Microsoft bothered to put something in the blacklist they likely already notified the software vendor about this, and it's up to the software vendor to sort this out. But sometimes it's understandable a software vendor might not be able to fix the problem quickly (the software...

Well, the worst thing can happen is maybe NVIDIA will go back to Samsung for consumer GPU. They did that for Ampere GPUs. They could do that again.

My understanding is it's simply because they could interfere with the updated state. For example, an application could, after update, cause the system unable to boot, or some important component not working. It's much easier for Microsoft to not installing Windows Update on machines with these...

If your software do not use some low level optimizations it can be just like that, but if you have, or some of the 3rd party libraries you use have, they may need to be updated (or if they have fallback mode, but of course it'll be slower). Also you'll need to do QA on both platforms. This one...

It's not even in theaters here. There were some speculations about some streaming service might have a worldwide exclusive deal, though it's still weird that it takes a limited release like this (except Japan) this long to be on a streaming service, especially if it's an exclusive deal.

I'm not sure about this, but two power profiles were mentioned (80W and 23W), which sounds more like total SoC power than total device power. The performance numbers released last year seems to suggest that it's similar to a full M3 Pro, which has the same core counts (12 cores). Even 80W SoC...

I wouldn't say the services provided by Steam is not "much value." To me it's actually a lot of value, because otherwise many indie games wouldn't be able to sell to a world wide audience. This alone is worth the 30% IMHO. As for other competitors, I'm not saying they shouldn't do marketing...

If you have NVIDIA App installed, alt-R shows the FPS counter and alt-Z shows a config overlay which allows you to set up filters and other things. You can also config what it shows in the FPS counter. If it does not show, check if the "Overlay" function in NVIDIA App is enabled (it should be on...

Isn't that the same as, say, DirectX? Actually, I'd argue that it's worse with DirectX, because once you developed with DirectX it can be difficult to migrate to another API, unless you only use some game engines. What I don't understand with your argument is that, compared to many other...