Recent content by Elf_Boy

Very interesting. Maybe the difference in the driver/hardware we are rendering with? The 7900xtx is supposed to be a beast with pure rastor, right? Once I get my new router tomorrow (if on time) I'll test on my Corsair a1600 (6800hs + 6800m w/12gb vram). My Asus laptop, with its shared memory...

Full lumen - maxed out doesnt seem to change anything in how the game feels - dropped in a HDR mod too. IMO for a single player RPG any FPS over 30 is good and over 60 is great - so long as no stutters, tears, or other distractions which I am not seeing. Even with the 'feel' being the same it...

Been playing Oblivion (@4k native), not so deep in as yet, no sign of troubles, stutters or problems - though, I do have a decent toy to play it on. Only thing not fully maxed in settings is the RT - think I will check that out now though. See what it does to my FPS. What adrenaline has to say:

I did not take this as an insult. Merely as an untruth. I assume we should agree that we do not agree.

Avowed, BG3, Elden Ring, Forspoken, Hogwarts Legacy, New World, POE 1/2, Starfield, Cyberpunk. Mind, I don't have impressive times played for every single one, I do own them all in Steam and have had them up and running. I rarely use upscaling. Only when I have no choice. With RT off my GPU...

Us 4k-gamers are taking it in the Donkey on this arent we? Having 16gb+ is not so optional. Should I buy one of those 1440p ultrawide? I still dont think 8gb would be, well, good. I see higher GPU pricing with even higher GPU scalping in the future. May not be the best at RT, just the...

All very interesting. I will be interested in seeing performance numbers for gaming, under Steam OS and Win 11.

Wellllllllllll......... I have had more than one person (including my sister) call me frantic about the new virus they have, which constantly is doing pop-ups galore in the bottom right of their screen.

My question, asked entirely out of self interest, does this fps loss affect AMD/Intel GPU's too or was it just NV?

Xp was the first one I felt was 'real' not quite as crash prone as 95/98/me - I remember having to reinstall 98 4 times in one day because of .dll conflicts. Vista/7 were each incrementally more solid and less crash prone. 8 looked goofy, like a phone OS, but worked just fine. IMO 10 was...

ME didnt have the time to hit it's stride, IMhO Vista, again IMhO, the OS/giu etc were fine. It was just a pissant poor product launch. MS did get much resistance from developers, including big companies, to making new drivers. The sound blaster I had at the time never got a new driver. Had to...

Power efficiency does seem a good place for Intel to focus. Outside of server farms no one seems to consider cost of use - or perhaps I am just a penny pincher?

And I own (owned if I cant find the box/license I suppose) most of those versions. Starting with 3.1.

If only AMD were to pull a "Ryzen" in the GPU space? By which I mean come up with a new idea or design that just blows away the competition. I'd like to see Intel get out a higher end card too.

I suspect AMD ran into a specific wall with the 9k series. Again, just a guess or if you prefer intuition, I think they did build high end prototypes and the die/chip (what's the right word) was just plain needing too much power to run at competitive speeds. If not that some other technical...