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  1. Elf_Boy

    The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered Tops a List of Worst-Optimized Games of 2025, with the Majority Being Unreal Engine 5 Based

    AI is an interesting knife. A useful tool when used wisely and correctly with oversight and control and something that'll put your eye out if your not careful with it. At least that is my impression.
  2. Elf_Boy

    Strap Yourselves In and Prepare a Restore Image Because Windows 11 26H2 Has Arrived

    Mostly gaming and browsing often at the same time. With MMO's big RPG's and the like the extra ram is basically a huge disk cache - so teleporting around the world in WOW or whatever game goes a bit smoother. I was pretty happy with my 7900xtx till it failed, budget is much more constrained...
  3. Elf_Boy

    Strap Yourselves In and Prepare a Restore Image Because Windows 11 26H2 Has Arrived

    Purchased years ago when I had a decent income and well before the rampocolypse.
  4. Elf_Boy

    Strap Yourselves In and Prepare a Restore Image Because Windows 11 26H2 Has Arrived

    Oh are we getting out our thing and comparing? Hope I dont make you feel inadequate. :}
  5. Elf_Boy

    Strap Yourselves In and Prepare a Restore Image Because Windows 11 26H2 Has Arrived

    I set my system to reboot and update - came back to find it hung at a black screen with an adrenalin crash. Had to power off/on and then re-enable my gpu/9070 xt in device manager and reboot again.
  6. Elf_Boy

    The July Steam Survey Is In: 16GB GPUs Have Officially Overtaken 8GB for the First Time

    Ya I have a tendency to set things to ULTRA (Max) as well. And for some reason just dont like upscaling - I prefer everything native. For what I play/do 60 fps is good and anything more is nifty. Still I miss the 24gb my 7900xtx had. The 16gb downgrade being balanced by improved Ray Trace is...
  7. Elf_Boy

    The July Steam Survey Is In: 16GB GPUs Have Officially Overtaken 8GB for the First Time

    Out of context I am not sure it matters - till resolution comes into play. I have been wondering if 16gb is enough for 4k - so far it seems so. Not that I have been pushing my system much. AARPG's (POE 1-2/GD/TQ 1-2) tend to be more CPU bottlenecked than GPU. Hmmmm Copilot seems to think:
  8. Elf_Boy

    Electronic Arts Launches Its In-Game EA Advertising Service, Offering Prominent Brand Placement

    Back in the day [back in the decade?] when City of Heroes was still on the official NCSoft servers they experimented with this. After all Paragon City is a 'modern' type mega-city like New York with actual in game billboards advertising Crey and other in game products and companies. I thought...
  9. Elf_Boy

    Sapphire 7900xtx Failed - Likely Vram

    Have a history of driver timeouts now I guess I know why. For Context: --------------------------------------- Finally with a freeze followed by a reboot and Asus post code 97 - GPU Failure to initialize. If I try over and over it will occasionally post, however there is very obvious video...
  10. Elf_Boy

    AMD Expands Its Ryzen PRO Lineup with the Addition of Six New Processors, Including Another 16-Core X3D Model

    More choice is usually good - till it leads to the 'Paradox of Choice,' or 'Decision Paralysis.' It's starting to get like the toothpaste aisle at Target/Walmart. Unless you have an attachment to a brand or the lowest price too much in options. Or perhaps not, I dont know, just speculation...
  11. Elf_Boy

    Early Game Testing of Intel Arc Pro B720 Workstation AI GPU Shows Comparable Performance to NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti

    Sadly, price aside, the message I am getting is Intel was making good progress in improving their GPU's. With 16/24gb of vram the price would go down some. Within the next generation or three I think they could have climbed up to the near top tier space. Maybe not the Big Green money sucking...
  12. Elf_Boy

    AMD Releases EXPO 1.2, Paving the Way For CUDIMM and Faster DDR5 on Zen 6

    So nothing much for getting my DDR5 to it's rated speed.
  13. Elf_Boy

    Intel Has Seemingly Bowed Out of the Consumer Discrete Graphics Market, for Now

    Disappointing - no doubt the rampocalypse is playing its part.
  14. Elf_Boy

    NVIDIA Is Now Rumored to Expand its 9 GB Memory Configuration Strategy With RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti GPUs

    I guess it depends how well the texture compression is going to function - I dont doubt it works, but is it fast enough type stuff. It is better to have 12gb I think than 8/9. I was reading NV is stating 80% compression. So functionally almost doubling the frame buffer? I suspect not everything...
  15. Elf_Boy

    NVIDIA Is Now Rumored to Expand its 9 GB Memory Configuration Strategy With RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti GPUs

    I guess, bottom line, if it works it works - more a 1080/1440 thing?
  16. Elf_Boy

    NVIDIA Is Now Rumored to Expand its 9 GB Memory Configuration Strategy With RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti GPUs

    One more gb of vram makes big difference? Even with compression - how good is it? How fast?
  17. Elf_Boy

    Geekbench Flags Intel iBOT Results as Potentially Invalid, Investigation Finds Vectorized Instructions Behind 30% Gains

    Does this tool permanently alter the code of your installed apps? How does that work with later patching and the like?
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