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So, to be fair I only played through the prologue to test performance, but the prologue is quite playable IMHO. I think some of these "unplayable" comments are overblown. The game is in a WAY better state than Cyberpunk was at launch in 2020. (but that maybe doesn't say much)

Maybe it is the concept of avoiding ever using Windows at all that is going to become non-negotiable?

The amusing part is that the only performance comparisons they give us are the GTX 1060, and GTX 1660 Super. Am I really supposed to be impressed by a brand new GPU in late 2024 being compared to mid to low level Nvidia GPU's from 5-10 years ago? Though at $249, maybe that is all we can...

Pretty much guarantees I will never buy one, lol. I remember hearing about this back in February. Apparently the motivation is not to get the Vizio TV/electronics business but rather to get the streaming service. Walmart wants to be a notable player in the streaming world before the industry...

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.