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What kind of antivirus do you have installed? I had a problem with F-Secure, and I think others use the same engine, which caused the game not to start. I had to deactivate Deep Guard (or rather, setting it to a lower security setting) to be able to play. [edit] Also, your graphics card does not meet the minimum specs, even though it does offer DX 9 and Shader Model 3. This could be an issue as well.

Ah, the joys of the high end Have fun, Keyrock My next addition to my current build is... I'll change my keyboard to a Roccat Ryos Tenkeyless, not because I think it looks good (which I don't), but because it's the only mechanical keyboard available in my country which fitting my whishlist: MX Brown, tenkeyless, either no letters on keys or Swiss layout... The NH-D15 brings its own fans, so you could use your fan to help cool the case

GoG naturally, got to love the old fashioned concept of owning what you buy To me, Steam is only an option when the game is not legally available elsewhere.

And here I thought Bokishi might get the Titan X - getting wiser with the years? Only in your opinion.

First part played easy if somewhat confusing at times, sounded good, and looked all too childish for my tastes. It was a fun game to play, and I look forward to the second part Another important part was the whole kickstarter experience surrounding it, most notably the documentary. It is very well made and shows a lot of the inner workings of a game dev company. Probably not a representative one, but still a good look into the development, and knowing more about how and by whom it was created did somehow enhance my enjoyment of Broken Age Pt. 1

My pic showed the character "Nomad" from an 80s horror film called Hardware. Pretty good, atmospherically another link to try: https://fandangogroovers.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/nomad.jpg The portraits in the CoM_Solaufein's collection you refer to were not from one post apocalyptic show, but from several different movies like Mad Max and The Book of Eli However, having now finally started the game, I did not even use custom portraits I'm enjoying it immensely so far. Good setting and writing, good challenge, good gameplay - all in all a very good first impression Before starting the game I read all the novels so far, including all the short stories from The End Is Nigh. There are some quite original ones in there, and they're well written too (in fact, I will actually purchase The End Is Here and The End Has Come when they become available). Which I cannot say for all the actual Wasteland 2 novels: While they do show the setting and different factions within it quite nicely, they fall so flat in comparison, because they are bound to the game. Mindless killing, puzzles etc. It's really a strong contrast to the more professional writing in The End Is Nigh, where there is some real character perspective on the events around them and their own thoughts and actions.

Glad to be of service, and also that the posting was not understood as rude Because, reading it now, it sounded quite impolite, as if ordering you what to do - it was actually meant as a step-by-step guide on how to get an overview over different German hardware shops. I have to hone my language skills again...

For Germany, compare prices with gh.de. The shops showing up after a search are ranked by its customers, and the categories are quite detailed. The ranking system goes from 1 (best) to 6 (worst), following the german school grades. Do you speak German? Otherwise, insert the categories into dict.leo.org for a translation or use google translate. On the price overview, you'll see the overall grade: clicking on the ratings, you'll see very detailled grades:

From my own experience, I recommend you read a few pages or even a book in the - at first - harder to read font. The brain adapts quite quickly and from then on, you'll have no problem reading that

The surrounding lore in the form of the Almanac and the Guidebook are exceptional! I just finished reading the pictures attached to the original posting with much delight Looking forward to the game and its world even more now. Great job on these items! Regarding the physical copy - I really don't mind a later shipment, as it will save Obsidian some cost, which is why I voted for the second option. I do not mind getting two parcels however, so I don't begrudge the majority vote. There is one thing I object to in the original post, and that is how DRM seems to be perceived as a problem solver on the developers' side, in that it prevents an unfinished game from leaking early. While in truth, the backer beta already represents the game in an unfinished state, and yes, it is available "for demo purposes" despite Steam. I was secretly hoping that only publishers would promote DRM, however it seems that devs themselves have been washed into thinking in their terms (even if the promotion in the original post only happens unconsciously!).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REZCm0MoqBk&index=1&list=PLM0l5BnyAVbHzLdnlLfylPEHqAdypc3bf mmmh yeah... also, gotta love a keyboard player wearing a Joy Division t-shirt.

Oh, nice finde! I thought I looked at the manual and only found PCIe 16x without version indicator. I was aware that the 760G provides that, but assumed that maybe Asus added some PLX chip or something to get more lanes at a lower revision...

Oh ok, didn't see your edit! You could get the very cheapest R9 290, GTX 770 or GTX 680 for 250€ (according to geizhals.de) As I've said above, I'd try the nVidias to avoid potential compatibility problems with PCI-Express. If it does not work, you can still send it back (as far as I remember, you can do that in Germany without giving reason during the first time after purchase).

I think they're not communicative enough currently. While the "StarCitizen" video provided some more insight, including a surprisingly down to earth Garriott, I'm not sure they'll make it if they continue in the current style.

How much would you have to pay for the 770? If you'd go for the 970, at least you'd be buying it after its actual specs (as discovered by inquisitive users instead of reviewers none the less) have been confirmed little by litte...

Suitable portrait for my dark skinned Ocean Folk character would be nice - there are about three portraits that fit Savannah (1 male, possibly usable only for monk or mage...) or Ocean Folk (1 male pirate, 1 female in armour).

As Humanoid noted, theoretically it should work. A few AMD-based graphics card have been known to cause issues in PCI-Express 1.0 slots, but as my available PCs are lacking both nVidia cards of the 7 series, and a PCI-Express 1.0 slot, I cannot say from own experience whether the intended combination of PCI-Express 1.0 + GTX 770 is problematic as well. Regarding the performance potentially being held back by the CPU: That may be so - however, it is possible to increase the Image Quality settings until your graphics card becomes the bottleneck again So say you get 40 fps in game X with lowest details, but it is CPU bound - you can then continue to increase you graphics settings while you still get 40 fps. As soon as the fps start to drop, you're GPU bound again in the tested game and scene. With DSR, you can downsample higher resolutions than the monitor supports - a pretty easy way to use up the additional GPU horsepower

Underclocking an 980 and its memory could give you a 970, if the GPU would actually be designed as it was marketed in the first place. But it is not. Just as PCGH picked an example where it does matter, Guru3D picked an example where it does not... And the point, to me, in this whole posting history on that subject was: to show that this allegation is wrong: that there'd be no test that can show the difference between actual vs. initially communicated specs. This is my last posting on the matter because basically, I do not care further than that:

a) The RAM allocation on the 980 is quite probably reported correctly, so it should be used as a reference point on how much RAM the 970 would use (same architecture, same settings, same scene, same driver, game most probably unaware of internal differences between 970 and 980 due to its age) if its memory allocation would work the same way. Thus it's reasonable to assume that the memory use of the 970 is between 3.5 and 4GB in this case. b) My assumptions from a) do not apply for the 290X, so the first point in section b) is irrelevant (different architecture, different driver, game very likely aware of architectural differences between 290X and 9xx). Regarding other benches showing the 970 with normal frametimes: the linked benchmarks have been explicitly selected to show the problems under the given constraint of using exactly between 3.5 and 4GB and exhibiting noticably different behaviour between a 980 and a 970 that are clocked to have identical processing power. That is not normally the case in other benchmarks. This whole discussion is about "no benchmarks for the problem", yet you seem to refuse to see that this is a benchmark specifically designed for the GPU to exhibit its problemetic behaviour. c) Yes, which is the point of the discussion - where and how does a 970 behave differently than a 980 at the same settings. d) I did not uphold that argument that a switching between the 512MB and the 3.5GB pool could even increase stuttering after your PCPer link. The argument is that if that small part of the memory is used as well, then the card is prone to exhibit stuttering. Yes, Watch Dogs is not a prime example of a fluid gaming experience on many cards and many settings - but for the same settings for cards with the same theoretical horsepower of the same architecture with the same driver it could be expected to behave identically. Which it does not.

Thanks for the clarification from the Update to the PCPer article, sounds reasonable. Yes it has, I posted links to game benchmark results showing an occurence of such problems. Disregarding the taunt "anyone who knows a little about this", you basically confirm what I wrote 28GB/s / 4 would mean 7 GB/s. Could be correct for PCIe 2.0, or an 8x PCIe 3.0 slot, or a lane constrained CPU with more than one PCIe-slot occupied. So all right, in many cases he would correct. Agreed. The card performs well, it just has some points where its compromises show. What's not OK about the situation, in my opinion, is the false advertising regarding the GPU's specs - I don't believe nVidia never looked at any reviews for the 970 containing wrong spec sheets or schematics. [edit] To my knowledge, this is not the case. The OS is not really aware of the GPU memory, let alone how it's organized. It is up to programmers to implement memory access in an efficient manner.

Build Thread 1.0 Hm, as far as I've gathered, if the GPU is accessing the 512MB in question, it has to do so exclusively. So it *will* impact performance significantly at this specifc conditions, because not only is the bandwidth impaired for these 512MB, but also will the memory controller have to switch modes between accessing parts of the other 3.5 GB and these 512MB. But it is hard to construct settings where this pool is accessed exclusively: People testing for this issue specifically will have to create conditions where the memory allocation is *not* handled by the driver that would try its best to keep the usage below 3.5 or above 4GB to ask the issue, and where the memory allocated is strictly between 3.5 and 4GB, with the upper part being accessed most... In normal usage, a user will probably just feel a little more stutter when some of the impaired memory blocks are accessed every now and then or if the driver swaps data to/from main memory to avoid the weak 512MB. But if the "sour spot" is achieved, something like that can result: GTX 980 underclocked to match the GTX 970 in compute, texture and pixel fillrate ([edit]it's unclear to me whether this equality in theoretical horse power is achieved taking into account nVidias original claims regarding the 970's ROP specs or the newly revised actual specs): http://www.pcgameshardware.de/screenshots/original/2015/01/Geforce_GTX_970_Memory_Subsystem_Benchmark_Watch_Dogs_4x_8x_MSAApng-pcgh.png Frametimes and RAM usage (usage as reported by tools at least known not to really be able to cope with the GTX 970's unique setup) http://www.pcgameshardware.de/screenshots/original/2015/01/Frametimes_FHD_GTX_970-pcgh.png vs. said underclocked GTX 980 http://www.pcgameshardware.de/screenshots/original/2015/01/Frametimes_FHD_GTX_980-pcgh.png (if deep links fail, please manually copy / paste the links into the address bar) As for the possibilities to avoid the situation: game engines almost certainly will not account for one GPU's particular and very specific weaknesses, unless nVidia pays the developers for the extra effort and layer of abstraction they'd have to insert for that. The same is true for an OS, especially if developed prior to the common knowledge of this issue - which is every OS that is available now or appearing soon. So if anywhere, I'd expect this to be handled at driver level. [edit] And regarding the claim of that engineer that 28GB/s is four times faster than main memory bandwidth: if he was not talking about access times or anything like that, I'd be ashamed if I were him Even a very common case of, let's say, a dual channel pair of 1600 DDR 3 (aka. PC3-12800, which shows the MB/s for one channel) offers bandwidth similar to that (at least between CPU and RAM, while the bandwidth available between GPU and system RAM is capped by a PCI-e 3 x16 at a theoretical maximum of about 16GB/s) [edit 2] To clarify: I still think the 970 offers quite competitive performance and even better efficiency for its price. It's just the misleading PR (down to actually false technical specs) surrounding it that I'm trying to debunk here.

Here's to them once again, somehow playing wonderfully poppy post rock before its invention... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSg2OIFum3o

Sounds more like "around" than "about" to me...

Yeah, that issue makes the whole "4GB RAM" somewhat misleading. Obviously the RAM is physically there, but it could just as well not be. A (pair of?) 980 is out of the question then?

Never thought I'd write anything to such a thread, but holy crap that youtube video about archery skill... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk Btw, I'm aware of that: But as there is no "General Bow thread", this one seemed the most appropriate one to post that link.