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This is a super controversial decision. Reloading always worked this way in CS as opposed to other, more realistic games. To me this might be a fun way to stir the stale gameplay but people like their "forever games" to stay the same, well... Forever.

As of the long forgotten Danger Zone - to be honest I didn't like this attempt to introduce battle royale into CS. It would be much more interesting if it offered much bigger maps than the one(s) it shipped with. After all, the BR genre is much more about managing map space than gunplay.

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Do you think they re-released CS:GO because they expected people would be quite pissed off with those changes to CS2? 🤣

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To me, this feels like yet another case of certain people manufacturing drama.

We're not talking about a developer blindly using AI to generate code they don't understand and then pushing it out to users unchecked. This is a developer who knows what he is doing, uses AI as a tool to speed things up, and reviews the output. In that context, AI isn't replacing skill, it's supporting it.

As for the broader impact of AI on us as computer enthusiasts: yes, it's significant, and not all of it is positive. Hardware shortages and rising prices are definitely frustrating. But this isn't new. We've seen the same pattern before, whether it was laptops, crypto mining, or data centers driving up demand and prices. Every major tech wave creates temporary disruption before the industry adapts.

If someone's truly concerned about environmental impact or rising costs, there are straightforward ways to respond: stop wasting energy by playing PC games on demanding hardware, buy a energy efficient notebook second hand, and only use it for what you absolutely need.

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I enjoyed Clonizer.

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Here are some ideas from me on this issue:

Decentralisation - A country can't block an OS or App Store if it is properly decentralised. No one is legally responsible for such OS, because no single country is controlling it. (This goes in hand with anonymising the developers who maintain it.)

Geo-positional license terms - Any state or country which regulates age attestation laws gets hit with a 'you can't use this software legally in this place' license agreement. No need to put in age-attestation controls if people in a specific location aren't permitted to use the software.

Lobbying in the reverse direction - It is generally known that Meta is responsible for lobbying these new age laws in US States, such as California. The people (you and me) need to contact their local politicians and argue against these laws. We need to have a massive onslaught of messages going to politicians making them very aware that this is major overreach and the public won't put up with it.

Software Ownership License Terms - Adjust the licensing terms within the software that make it that the installer of the software becomes the Owner / Responsible Party for age regulation of the software (and make no changes to the software itself). It becomes the responsibility of the 'owner' (user) of the software to follow the letter of the law (adding in age attestation verification APIs). This basically criminalises all users, and makes it very hard to attack the OS itself.

I'm sure there are other ways to proceed. One way forward is to go back to putting the onus on social media platforms to identify child users. After all, Meta is responsible for "passing the buck" onto OSes and App Stores by lobbying politicians so that they can avoid big fines.

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Quoting: benstor214[apparently the GeForce3 was the first video card released with a programmable pixel shader. Though programmable shaders in general were already a thing for years before that.

Yeah, they implemented such idea in the GPUs first, but they didn't invent it.

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If there's one thing 495 hours of playing Noita has taught me, it's that combining spells to solve puzzles always brings horrible death utter hilarity! 😆

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I think of it as Mar-a-Lago face for video games.

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Quoting: WMan22That fixed the softlock bug, however music is still playing where it shouldn't so far. I can't even hear the doc's voice over the loud music, and there should be no music in the tutorial section.

Oh, that's a pity! Guess I will give the PS2 version a try with PCSX2 instead.

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They've also added artwork automatically being added to the Steam entry of the game.

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Quoting: sanInteresting! Thus far I’ve been using GPU-X for this purpose.

Thanks for this, @san, but don't you mean CPU-X?

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I have Zero Trust left. Worst of all the Bethesda games, just taking resources away from TES 6 at this point. The only thing that has the slightest interest for me is being able to upgrade whatever weapon you find again and again to your level, that is very needed just like we could do with Geralts silver sword in Witcher 3. Also the quantuum esssence or whatever it's called being able to upgrade space dragon shouts has potential but well see. Game play, npcs, hell the story are just so bad i really could care less.

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Interesting! Thus far I’ve been using [GPU-X](https://thetumultuousunicornofdarkness.github.io/CPU-X/) for this purpose.

For those who care, GPU-T appears to be a vibe coded project..

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It's like if Factorio, Shapez, and Screeps had a baby.

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I'm on Manjaro since about 7 years i think. It did break one or two times after an update, but it also worked back after a few lines found on internet. Other than that, it does what i want : i work, play (native or Proton/WINE), media, without really thinking about the OS itself.

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Quoting: JarmerWhich is just so misogynistic.

I haven't seen this mentioned nearly enough, it's enforcing instagram and tiktok filter beauty standards. It gave Grace lip injections. There are so many layers as to why this is awful. I miss the pre-AI world.

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Sounds like more Slopfield from Microslop-owned Bethesda (who recently proudly featured themselves on Nvidia DLSS5 slop showcase).

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Scored that one already 🤙

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Quoting: Shmerl

NVIDIA invented the programmable shader

That sounds like bs. Nvidia didn't invent that.

I had to look it up myself as I didn’t know, but apparently the GeForce3 was the first video card released with a programmable pixel shader. Though programmable shaders in general were already a thing for years before that.

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"Binary Optimization Tool", so [APO v2](https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000095419/processors.html)?

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: EWGSo, besides exposure, does this do anything to help Godot?

Well, Mega Crit are a big donor to Godot too ;) https://fund.godotengine.org/

This was what I was wanting to read! TY! 👾

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Quoting: GustyGhostIf this takes off, you just know the mentality of mesh animators and modelers will transform into "I don't need to worry about that awkward proportion / refine that unconvincing motion, it's just going to get covered over with an AI post-processing pass anyway."

This is most people doesn't understand yet, the "we will allow developers/artists to have control and make adjusts" is just a fallacy.

Developers doesn't optimize after DLSS/XESS/FSR

Developers doesn't optimize X2 after FrameGen

Developers are leaving raster fallback behind after Ray Tracing

What do you think they will do after Dall-ESS5??

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Quoting: ExplosiveDiarrheaBethesda please just let it die and concentrate on TESVI: if you try really hard (and fire Pagliarulo) there is a chance it won't suck...

The huge majority of the team pivoted towards TES6 at least a year ago if not two years ago. The few hard working devs still in place on Starfield are not going to have an impact on TES6 development by leaving Starfield, or if so, incredibly marginal.

There's already 5 TES (not counting spinoff / MMO) and 5 Fallout games (not counting spinoff / MMO), let the Sci-Fi crowd enjoy it for a bit, it's the only one from Bethesda, might never be a 2, and there's no real equivalent, NMS (which could be the closest match) is missing some important stuff that is in Starfield (and vice versa) such as the refined fight combat, more realistic graphics instead of that cartoonish look, no companions to interact within your ship and have quests, stuff like that. Starfield is scratching an itch NMS can't, and vice versa, NMS does the same for what Starfield cannot scratch for me.

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"years of technical debt" but it's on version 0.3?

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Quoting: kit89If they had taken high fidelity renderings of the characters provided by the artist (doesn't need to be photoreal), and showed it running on a 4060 where the low definition character was replaced with the high definition version, then I think that would have been impressive.

Instead we saw exaggerated features, that didn't align with the original character, that required 2 5090s.

ai cores on nvidia GPUs take so much space, that if they were removed and replaced with rendering cores, there might not be any need of upscaling in the first place. Why do you think nvidia went for that ridiculous design? the answer is simple: scaling production. it is cheaper for nvidia to produce the same gpus for both datacenters and individual consumers, and ordinary gamers are paying the price for it since 2019. dlss 4.5 with transformer model for sure is a good upscaling method, but it largely doesn't have anything to do with ai cores, except pixel filtering to mitigate ghosting, that's all that ai cores do in the chain of denoise technique.

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Starfield was a decent game, but I quickly bored of its lame story, boring side quests, and sci-fi setting. I probably won't revisit it, I just want the new Elder Scrolls game already.

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Oh wow, I can't wait to see the CVEs start rolling in!

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That actually sounds like DLSS 1.0 where the model was trained on each game. If they let developers train the model on their own ground-truth, I wouldn't really have a problem with this, but who knows how much computational power that would require.

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If they had taken high fidelity renderings of the characters provided by the artist (doesn't need to be photoreal), and showed it running on a 4060 where the low definition character was replaced with the high definition version, then I think that would have been impressive.

Instead we saw exaggerated features, that didn't align with the original character, that required 2 5090s.

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