What are you playing now? [2018-2021]

[homerdog]

I brought a suspected defective RTX2080 Super home to test since we didn't have a PC big enough at the office. Let's just say it works fine :sly::smile2::smile:

OMFG coming from a GTX970 this is straight up amazing.

But I'm a little bit CPU limited on the 3770K

 

[homerdog]

I can confirm that if you're gaming at 75Hz the CPU doesn't really matter, this thing runs great. I reckon my CPU is the equivalent of a low end Ryzen 3 (4c8t).

 

[digitalwanderer]

I realized I'd never played Quantum Break so gave it a try, just about busted a gut laughing at the first episode when the guy jumped in to the 350Z. I had that exact same car in the same color and it just put a huge grin on my face for some stupid reason.

Fun game, better than I thought an interactive thingy would be.

 

[pjbliverpool]

I can confirm that if you're gaming at 75Hz the CPU doesn't really matter, this thing runs great. I reckon my CPU is the equivalent of a low end Ryzen 3 (4c8t).

I guess as long as it has 8 threads at least. I upgraded last year from my 2500k because I was seeing sub 30fps dips in one or two games.

I imagine next gen will raise the CPU bar hugely.

 

[Davros]

Just finished Doom Eternal absolutely hated the parkour I want to slap whoever thought lets cross Doom with Mirror's Edge. I had to cheat to make some of the jumps.
just bought Doom 2016 it looks like it has no stupid jumping puzzles.

 

[Kyyla]

I had to refund Doom Eternal because I just didn't enjoy it. Way too many cooldowns to manage and almost a constant DOT damage, like playing a damned MOBA. Doing a rerun of the 2016 DOOM which is way superior.

 

[AlNom]

Lucky you. I waited too long to refund. >_>

 

[Davros]

constant DOT damage

Dot Damage?

 

[pjbliverpool]

I had to refund Doom Eternal because I just didn't enjoy it. Way too many cooldowns to manage and almost a constant DOT damage, like playing a damned MOBA. Doing a rerun of the 2016 DOOM which is way superior.

That's worrying. I'm planning to get Doom Eternal on the basis that I really enjoyed Doom 2016.

 

[BRiT]

Dot Damage?

Damage over Time, like poison or radiation or fire or electricity or corrosive.

 

[Davros]

Ahh.

 

[homerdog]

I guess as long as it has 8 threads at least. I upgraded last year from my 2500k because I was seeing sub 30fps dips in one or two games.

I imagine next gen will raise the CPU bar hugely.

I expect a new build will be required for next gen. It is amazing though, if you bought a i7 2600 or 3770 so many years ago you can still run most anything at decent settings with 60+ fps. Reminds me of the 8800GT in terms of longevity, I guess it just matters where a part is released in terms of the console life cycles.

 

[Davros]

I was disappointed how little ipc had improved over the last 8 or so years

 

[homerdog]

I was disappointed how little ipc had improved over the last 8 or so years

Yes it doesn't seem like that much compared to the previous decade and I think a fair amount of it is up to memory bandwidth. I bet I could significantly raise my performance in some games by getting DDR3-2400.

 

[Davros]

Dont know if it's the same in the u.s but ddr3-2400 is hard to find in stock

 

[pjbliverpool]

I was disappointed how little ipc had improved over the last 8 or so years

Intel's Rocketlake launching later this year is rumoured to have a big IPC increase as it's the first major architecture change since Sandybridge. So we may be looking at a Nehalem to Sandybridge level jump. It will also bring it on par with AMD in terms of PCIE4 and 20 available PCIe lanes from the CPU.

 

[Kyyla]

Lucky you. I waited too long to refund. >_>

Well actually I played over 3 hours but I was so bitterly disappointed that I applied for a refund anyway. I wrote to Valve that I have been a good customer so far and Valve accepted it!

 

[Davros]

What exactly was disappointing you about it

 

[Kyyla]

What exactly was disappointing you about it

What I wrote above. It was a cooldown manager with multiple upgrade paths and very specific weapons you had to use for each enemy. More of a puzzle game/moba than fps.

 

[Davros]

Frontlines Fuel Of War
I think this is a hidden gem of a single player game (the multiplayer was supposed to be good but it's dead now) £9.99 on steam