Azdeus

I'll vouch for that

2014; Gamergate. 2024; Goonergate.

But gas stoves are legal. Damn, thats more irony than said wood burning stove XD But you've got your priorities straight, that's for damn sure

*Laughs in wood burning stove*

I think they also would've done better with the 6000 series if they actually had something to say when nvidia released the 30-series. AMD was dead silent just up until release and didn't give people a reason to hold out once nvidia dropped.

I've had ATi/AMD between my TNT2 and the 3080, a X800, HD5850, HD7970, R9 Fury and Vega 64. Yes, it's true, you can see it in the very chart. They had several high points and great cards, not to mention great prices, but they never managed to get their market share back because of nvidias marketing and bull****tery (Remember tesselation and Crysis? That was fun...), they even lost marketshare to the Fermi rehash. And they certainly weren't technologically behind, they were first on dx11 as I recall. It's no wonder that they stopped competing and just tried to go for the budget market after years of having no payoff from pouring money into flagship products. That you still call AMD's cards second tier is telling, especially when you consider that the last 6000 series were quite competative in rasterization. The first time nvidia actually took a leap was with real time RT, upscaling and frame gen are great ways to make their cards look even better than they actually are, if you want bleary, smudgy and artifacting graphics that is.

Because no matter what ATi/AMD did, people bought nvidias cards instead, leading to a massively ****ed up market. When AMD finally had cought up on performance, they didn't care about trying to price things right, because they probably rightly assumed that that would possibly lead to nvidia lowering prices, which would lead to people again buying nvidias stuff. So why not price high? And add in bitcoin and now AI bull**** and there's a nice bed that we've made for ourselves.

I would've been interested if it wasn't for them switching to Unreal engine, Stalker 2 was all UE I could handle, **** that ****. **** TAA.

I pay 200€ a year for my 98 Volvo, and 0€ for my 92 one. I do pay a 5€ licence registration fee per year though. For what it's worth, it'd probably be 4-5 times higher if you were living here.

My gog galaxy says I'm only 100 hours into Stalker 2, but that is most definetly a lie, I suspect that the crash I had a few days ago messed up the galaxy logging, I've spent atleast 12 hours a day in the zone on average, so about 150 hours in. Still haven't gone to finish the game or do much of the main story line, I've just been exploring every nook and cranny, parkouring my way into places I really shouldn't be. If GSC Gameworld continues this frenzy of dropped patches, we will be at stalker 2 2.0 in just a few months

--- Went to strength training rehab today and did one hour of leg training after being generally sedentary for over a year. FML.

Might be wrong of me to write image, I meant games mostly here. I have tried all the settings in the control panel and everything ends in stretching. Heh, I kept using my 21" crt for far too many years, even after most devs completely ditched that aspect ratio and had letterboxing everywhere Possibly general stability issues or just layout? Maybe it was old ATi Catalyst?

It's funny, I went from using AMD's stuff for decades to using nvidias tools and I find them all to be absolute garbage. I could get my AMD card to display 4:3 resolution images on my widescreens nema problema, but I still can't get nvidias tools to properly size say 1080p onto my ultrawide, it just stretches it out to the entire picture no matter what I do.

I wouldn't mind getting something from AMD this time, but considering they said they aren't going to compete with the high end, I have my doubts I'd want what they offer. They'll probably do something stupid again such as match nvidias prices so there will be even less reason to buy their stuff. Had AMD actually released any solid info about the 6000 series before nvidia released the 30-series I'd have gotten one of them instead, if they'd been smarter about pricing, but all there was was rumours and an "early bird" offer of buying an asus 3080 OC edition for 7000sek and it was a bad idea to turn down that offer. It served me well the past 4 years, but now that everything is using DLSS in their 60 fps requirements I feel I need something more potent. I hate DLSS artifacts...

Hey, if Brandon Herrera gets picked for the ATF, you just might be able to

Well, atleast you've got nice weather and shrimps on the barbie?

Went to rehab today, dear mother of god I'm weak. I've got gym twice a week for a month now and several exercises to do at home. Also, got my sisters Aygo running after it's been sitting for 1.5 years, she'd left the handbrake on, and the chumps she first asked to take the car on a trailer to the mechanics didn't know what the **** they were doing and just tried to pull it loose. I got it rolling in about 15 minutes, then I got the seized generator rolling again and it chugged along for atleast 15 minutes without issues. Driving it to the bodywork shop tomorrow to fix the rust. Also, dear god I want a new GPU. **** nVidia for being cheapskates with VRAM, 10Gb ffs... Anyone that has 2-3k$ to send my way for a 5090 when they release? XD

Finally got rid of the walker orthrosis boot and got the ok for walking without it. I'm probably going to have to remove the screws in about a years time though because they are screwed into the bone just right where the tendon is, and I can already hear/feel the clicking as I do certain movements Tomorrow I'm going to try and drive my car, which will be a trial

I recall something similar, so you can't be far off there. I've been fairly lucky so far, and have only experienced the same thing a couple of times yet, but atleast they throw alot of resources out there for you to recover with. I've got about 40 deaths so far, and 90% of those have been from environmental deaths trying to wiggle into or onto places I shouldn't be. Gunfights usually lead to me being overloaded with meds, vodka and sausages, what I struggle with are those goddamn packs of mutants. Not anymore granted since I've modded the game already, but those shotguns with buckshot felt very anemic. I don't know how much I can fault them there in that they use UE5, but I noticed that too. What really irks me is that their recommendations for hardware apparently was calculated with upscaling, and the upscaling artifacts definetly aren't helping me one bit. The latency feels really off at some times, and with framegen it gets worse, plus you get ghosting. And then there's the eye adaptation bull****. But the HDR looks amazing! Yeah, using the Ukrainian VO's was quickly apparent to be the better option for me aswell, but that is the true STALKER experience I had a much better experience with CP2077 at launch than I am with stalker 2, but I am having fun with it still, but I definetly wish it was better. That said, it didn't take me many hours to start using mods to fix some of the more annoying stuff like Skyrim day/night cycles and damage scaling. I've got so many hours into all the different stalker games at this point, with and without mods and standalones, that it has all blurred into one big mess, so I can easilly believe reddit being the toxic ****hole that it normally is whatwith how humans really don't like having their memories questioned. There is a nightvision mod out, sort of, but yeah there is no night vision in the game, which is monumentally dissapointing. I'm in the same boat as you generally, but I don't have the same attachment to the Stalker series as I had towards Fallout, so I can call it the Fallout 3 of the series.

They sort of did, atleast from what I remember reading on the gamma server, i.e. easy everyone including you does 75% damage, and then scales up with difficulty to 100%.

So after having to restart galaxy 34+a few times, I got to play for about 2 hours. I really dislike how UE it looks, had an out of video memory crash, but otherwise I didn't notice any glaring bugs, some clipping and weird cloth physics, though could be that dude had the badonkadonk of a neolithic fertility godess. The facial animations are true to Shadow of Chernobyl, spot on there. Had my usual trouble with mouse sensitivity settings and I made the mistake of turning off all the yellow paint before I made the choice of game difficulty, so they got turned back on. I restarted twice because of this, but turns out all I had to do was go into the menu in game and turn that off

I used to love alot of the commercials we had here, they were high quality then, and they didn't advertize booze, crypto, gambling or other scams which made it a bit more tolerable.

Getting through GOG Galaxy's the main hurdle, keeps disconnecting me every few minutes.

Getting through GOG Galaxy's the main hurdle, keeps disconnecting me every few minutes.