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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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"Sloptracing" is my new favorite word to describe all this.

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DOA.

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Quoting: alka.setzerNvidia explicitly said that they were running two 5090, one for rendering the other for DLSS 5 processing so that they could maintain fluid fps on the demos. They also said they had DLSS 5 running in a single card on the lab (didn't said which, could be a rtx 6090). DLSS 5 is supposed to come out on Q4.

That still doesn't really answer it. As I said before, the performance issue could be the result of changes that are needed conflicting with other aspects of the pipeline. DLSS runs on the tensor cores, so running it on a second card means the tensor cores on the primary card are doing nothing, unless they're actually running the upscaling/frame gen split off from this stuff because of conflicts/bugs.
If they've only just gotten it working on a single card in lab settings (the 60 series isn't coming until the end of 2027 at the earliest, so it's not that) to me that would indicate something besides raw computational cost or they'd never be able to get it out by Q4 for anything except a 5090.
My guess is there are either bugs that cause it to interfere with upscaling or they just haven't been able to get the newer model to fit in the cache of the tensor cores.

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The "RTX on" meme has fully turned against them

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Quoting: whizse

Quoting: WMan22The bad news is: Everything regarding cutscenes continuing is broken, like everything renders correctly (except the HUD) but the dialogue doesn't continue and menu music plays where it shouldn't. Don't know if this is an issue with the game or an issue with proton, but either way MDK 2 HD is still unplayable.

Have you tried with native xact as per the ProtonDB entry?
https://www.protondb.com/app/213350#_LemMKqpLj

That 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.

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Starfield is one of my favorite games, so I'm excited, but with Death Stranding 2 imminent, I won't get back to Starfield for a while.

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Quoting: mr-victory

Quoting: eggroleThere is a youtube channel I recently discovered while looking into this. Threat Interactive. I can't vouch for everything he says as a lot of it is above my paygrade, but his conclusions on how modern devs are totally slacking off and relying on the bait-and-switch of framegen seems spot on.

Threat Interactive have their problems of their own :(
https://old.reddit.com/r/youtubedrama/comments/1qdpa3n/threat_interactive_filed_an_illegal_dmca_to_a_guy/

Threat Interactive's Kevin Jimenez is young and strongly emotioned, they are way too caught up in it to admit they did GamersNexus dirty saying they were NVIDIA's lapdog.. I honestly think GamersNexus should talk directly to this guy in a calm way and get him down off his guard tower.

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Starfield is the game that taught me Bethesda is dead. I don't think I'll be exploring any of their games again.

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