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I've been lucky to live near a Microcenter, but I have to admit, I rarely buy any major components there. It's mostly where I go when I am in the middle of a build and need a cable or other adapter I didn't anticipate. When they put in a water cooling section it was amazing. It really helped...

Heh, I tried buying Stalker again on GoG, but that is just refusing to work. I just get a spinning "please wait" notification after I authenticate with paypal. I suspect something is being blocked by my pihole. At first I thought it was paypal domains as I spotted the following in my block...

So, I totally forgot it was Black Friday today, and accidentally went to MicroCenter to get an adapter. That was a mistake. That said, on a positive note, they actually had 9800x3d's in stock when I was there. I briefly considered picking one up for later, but decided against it. I'm not...

Probably. But I also presume they will be way more mature at launch than last gen. Some of the driver maturity and lessons learned will be inherited by this one.

Wait, didn't Intel just announce that they weren't releasing discrete GPU's anymore?

One could convincingly argue that in the Internet age, where everything is always connected, it is a very bad idea to use any software that is not actively maintained, so such software should be considered EOL and unusable unless you are air gapped.

Fair, but it is an "old" design. Ubisoft should get their **** together and update their releases over time to be compatible with the latest OS Revisions. They are starting to sound like Bethesda for crying out loud. That said, there are literally millions of different software programs...

I wasn't even thinking about hardware platforms, just PC stores. But I mean, yeah, technically, consoles are all running PC hardware now (though Sony does not use Microsofts API's I don't think, so the games are different)

Indeed. Put all games on all stores. Let the best store win on its own merits, not because it is holding some popular titles hostage.

Thank god. I hate launchers inside launchers. Only time I remember encountering it was when I launched Civilization, and I always found it annoying.

By the way, is it normal for this game to compile shaders every time you load it? Or maybe that was just because I upgraded my drivers in between?

As far as scalpers go, they just need to be put down. It has gone form being a bunch of **** heads looking to profit from a shortage, to even ****tier **** heads creating their own shortages where there were none, by buying up and hoarding anything and everything desirable, unless someone pays...

I mean, DUH. Nvidia still remembers the massive inventory of 10-series GPU's they couldn't get rid of after the mini-downturn in crypto that year when they launched the 20 series. If memory serves they wound up delaying the 20-series launch trying to sell some of them down, keeping low end...

Got to have ALL the hertz!!!

I think there is some slight benefit to using more cores on the PC than on consoles, that is relatively easily achieved (because DX 12 does it for you) and that is the aforementioned "draw call" issue. Consoles have a much "closer to hardware" API, as a given model of console has the same...

I always figured they would just contract it out to a game house that would develop it in Unreal engine.

I don't mind this trend. It should help a lot with cable management. I just hope it becomes an open and uniform standard used by everyone. Would be annoying if we get a mess of different implementations with connectors in different places.

Interesting. Is the expectation now that Microsoft will take responsibility for any old and ****ty software you may have installed on your PC and halt any compatibility breaking update? That seems like kind of a tall order.

So I did it. Citing the issues I have had thus far, and the underwhelming performance, (which are real, and not just made up to get a Steam refund) I requested a refund on Steam. I'll probably re-buy it on GoG when I buy it. Best of both worlds I figure. I'll show up in their revenue stats...

I'm with you, but at the same time, using CPU cores and actually benefiting from their work are two different things. Nothing in this game stands out to me as being so significantly different from anything that came before it to justify this kind of CPU utilization, which leads me to believe we...