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It was a good game, used it a lot for benchmarking when it came out, will use the new one as well when its released.

This happened with the 4090 also, rumored TDP was off the charts, then it actually launched at a lower TDP. The thing to understand about rumors, prior to an official launch, things are still in flux, rumors can give false expectations, that's just one out of many reasons I don't like rumors...

Introduction Let’s take a look back at 2024, and take note of some of the best, or exciting, releases and launches of PC hardware components. We’ll focus on the main system components here, and not all of these we have reviewed, but we can still acknowledge exciting launches that happened this...

Neural rendered compression of material textures - but IIRC it still requires dev support.

12GB on the rumored 5070 is an absolute joke in 2025.

It's one specific setting that is on by default, causing the issue, you can easily disable it, which regains the performance loss.

I'm very excited for it to give some competition in this price range. Maybe it'll light a fire under AMD and NVIDIA belly, maybe not though, we'll see :P

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Wonder why just GeForce GPUs, did they do something specific to RTX GPUs? If it's DX Ray Tracing it should also benefit AMD right? Odd

I'm impressed, considering they were planning to do no more updates. Found this in the log: " Optimized threading system to improve performance by up to 33% on Intel Arrow Lake based CPUs."

It's more accurate to say, Ray Tracing as compared to Path Tracing, there are quality levels of RT in this game, the highest "full" mode, is Path Tracing.

I'll be re-testing all of Arrow Lake soon, for an upcoming review, I'm trying to get ahold of this microcode, as a Beta BIOS, or at least find out when it's available for the motherboards I have. My goal would be to benchmark with it, hopefully that will work out.

I'm still waiting to play it lol, I'll get to it eventually, I'm enjoying Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition right now.

This is just so dang informative, so I'm sharing it, I watched the entire thing, learned a lot.

I don't get the reasoning for people thinking that just because a game launches, they are obligated to purchase it immediately or play it immediately. You can always practice a self-imposed delay, and just not buy the game for several weeks, or months. Or, you can buy it, and wait to play it...

I guess Arc is not "canceled" after all. /snicker

Wouldn't say that completely, the move from High to Ultra settings in the requirements is about a 50% performance jump recommendation in GPU performance according to the requirements table. I think the GPU will be very GPU-bound at Ultra settings, but yes, the game does also seem to be...

As an aside, I really like NZXT hardware. I think they make great components and cases. They also have a really great aesthetic, and design language as well, that I like.

No, no software is perfect, at some point you have to make a decision to release the thing and accept the bugs it has, and hope you can fix some of them later. If you held it indefinitely, until it is all fixed, it would never be released. Deadlines do have to be met. This even happens with...

Except it isn't new, many games based on UE5, like Avatar, utilize Ray Tracing by default, and you can't turn it off, it's native to the game. Granted, it runs in a software mode, on cards that don't support hardware ray tracing, but the fact is, this is not a new concept. In addition, it is...