Gorgon

The algorithm knows you best

After a very rocky start the last of us 1 is now running 60 fps on 4k ultra settings. Iooks absolutely gorgeous. I fired up Cyberpunk just to see what it looked like on ultra, and.. it's pretty meh. I mean sure there's boatloads of textures and view distance, I could even run it with ray tracing, but it still just looks good, not great. Bought new ram and stuck it in the other dual channel, meaning no xmp profile. Cheapest fix I could do quickly. I can't get framerates over 120 in any game consistently regardless of settings, because I now have both a ram speed and CPU bottleneck, but I an acceptable tradeoff that you will be making regardless. If I bought all new board ram and processor, it wouldn't necessarily impact 4k ultra that much. I can get to 95 % GPU utilization, which doesn't really warrant an immediate upgrade on a 4k display. I'm actually underclocking several game profiles to make the card less power hungry. When I do upgrade, I'm definitely getting faster ram. the difference between the Radeon metrics saying 9 gbs of ram speed and 17 was like night and day. It couldn't stream assets fast enough and was stumbling on having to swap a lot with the SSD.

So, I got an upgrade and a downgrade rolled into one. I installed my shiny new XTX 7900 and I couldn't post. A day of troubleshooting later and I suspect a bad ram stick, but, worse, possibly also a bad ram slot. As if it had shorted somehow or damaged both. I have no idea what I did, other than move some cabling around. It was probably gonna go at some point nomatter what. I can post with 32 gb single channel. So I guess I'll find out what impact on experience it actually has. The game set everything to ultra by default and has been rebuilding shaders for half an hour. I'm at 18% Yay. EDIT The effect of single channel ram appears to be to put a cap on framerates. The difference between 4k ultra settings and dlls performance med/high settings comes to around 10 fps. Indicating a severe bottleneck. I guess I'm getting a board and some new ram.

Today is 1 April. I don't know if the channel is good or not, I don't watch it a lot.

Before I got it on steam I tried TLOU on the Playstation Plus PC client, it's their streaming service, It ran pretty well. Unfortunately you can't buy a game and stream it to your PC, it's just a random assortment that changes every so often. Some input lag, but not very noticable. Although I suppose the point is to steam frames, not GPU assets, so they can keep requirements very low. If you have a playstation 5 i believe you can stream your whole library to your Ipad, or ****ty laptop when you are out and about as long as you have good internet.

So I just ordered a 24 GB RX7900 XTX. Significant discount over other available RTX4080 cards, which is pretty much what it equates to, except way more VRAM and way worse RT performance. I dunno, it just kinda happened. I was resigned to not spending boatloads of money on PC parts, but to be honest I had started noticing the VRAM problem in other games as well.

Yup, it's definitely deliberate ****ery. a 10 or 12 gb version of the rtx 3070 would have been too useful for too long.

Drumroll... It's looks gorgeous, but just barely managed that. I'm using 600 mb more Vram than I 'have' Or rather than what the game recommends. It actually matters that I'm on a fresh install of windows. The in game VRam counter says I have 300-400 to spare, Just shy of the 8.2 total available. That was the difference between medium and textures and low. GPU usage chugging away at 99%. Framerate is in the 60-70s, which is good, because dropdowns will be expected in more busy areas. I just barely reached the good experience with this PC port on an RTX 3070ti, with nothing to spare. DLSS made it possible

I'm giving the last of us part 1 on PC exactly 25 mins, and then probably requesting a refund. I did however google my exact setup and it looked quite fine at 1440 p dlss quality despite all the current ****storming.

I wonder if there's been anything done to the last of us 1 remake on PC. It's out next week. Would be cool if it looked as good as the sequel, but it's probably just a money grab on the strength of the TV series.

I ordered a cheapo wireless clip on mike. I don't think I have room on my desk for a bulky better quality one. If I don't like it I can still use it for my phone. Only 6 hrs on a full battery though, that's gonna annoy me at some point.

I suppose i'll go USB, not quite as good and I'm running out of connectors.

argh.. rabbit hole. Apparently the standard for professional audio recording is still IOS (hello 1990s ?) and they use tttrs conectors (4 bands) , your basic PC motherboard has a trs connectors (3 bands) and they don't bother telling you that the mike you bought won't work on a PC without a splitter or a DAC. I wanted to get wired for price and better connectivity.

ohh yeah, it occurs to me that i could just look into one of those TV mikes you clip on yout collar

So I'm obsessing about The Hunt showdown. It's a big stakes shooter a la Tarkov. My current bluetooth headphones ,WH-1000XM3, that I've had forever are just great and I've nearly worn off the ear pads, but they don't play well with VIOP and voce quality is kida crap. A bit part of the hunt is sneaking around in bushes while using directional audio to locate your enemy. So, I'm going to need a proper "gaming" headphone + mike combo This is a tough segment, it's hard to recognize quality and value over branding. Any suggestions ?

RGB nightmares

The guys i sit next to at work both had fancy letterhead letters from HR waiting for them. I've been dreading what comes next all day. .. It was contract renewals, it's fine, everybody's fine. I don't have to pretend to be interested to get to know new people.

the disks were floppy, the plastic housing weren't

My finest creation https://creator.nightcafe.studio/creation/ZXBwMxSAia3OY73D0V99

Don't think Bethesda wants to give it up though.

A distress beacon from a vessel called Prometheus. It's clever. We are doing Aliens but it's a costume drama. If you remeber the original Aliens also had a lot of class struggle.

only the one line though