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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.

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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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I loved this game for the side quests, maybe because I'm a literary person who loves a good story. I didn't go in expecting great space combat or anything like that, and maybe that's why I wasn't as disappointed as some people.

It'll be nice to have some new toys if it truly adds a sandbox-type element to space travel. As of now, Everspace 2 is still my favorite freelancer space combat/trading game.

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Bethesda 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...

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Quoting: LaephisImagine if Bethesda cared about improving their game as much as Hello Games does with No Man's Sky. We'd have a steady stream of free updates that actually make things fun to play.

Bethesda's passion for their games ended long ago. Now it's just about how much cash they can rake in. The kind of support that No Man's Sky received would not be profitable enough.

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Remember fellow pirat er, gamers, tools like this hold increasing value in an age of games being selectively withdrawn from PC.

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No AI mention? Wow! Almost unbelievable!

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If 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."

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Since years ago I'd taken to querying GPU information through the likes of lspci, glxinfo, s-tui and other tools. Though software like GPU-T certainly help to ease the break-in period for folks finding their way from Windows.

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hi
If you had OpenTTD in your GOG or Steam library, then there is no chance you can still play OpenTTD GOG or Steam version you

Edit
"Transport Tycoon Deluxe is required to add OpenTTD to your library."
can still add OpenTTD to your GOG library

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It's a computer game. I don't need photorealism. What I need is strong game design, in-depth but intuitive gameplay and engaging storylines. AAA has not delivered this for years, focusing too much on graphics instead.

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Quoting: EhvisThe one thing I'm wondering. Nvidia stated that they used two 5090s for the demos, one for the game and one for the dlss processing. They also stated that it will be releasing this autumn. How is that going two work? Did they really pay off a bunch of studios for demo games so that those 7 people in the world that have a spare 5090 can use it?

We don't know why it was running on the other card, it's not necessarily for performance reasons, it's possible that the cards need a firmware update that currently borks other things and this was the only workaround they had on hand. We've seen in previous conferences that they rush announcements out with little warning to the teams working on them.

Nvidia 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.

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Imagine if Bethesda cared about improving their game as much as Hello Games does with No Man's Sky. We'd have a steady stream of free updates that actually make things fun to play.

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Quoting: EhvisThe one thing I'm wondering. Nvidia stated that they used two 5090s for the demos, one for the game and one for the dlss processing. They also stated that it will be releasing this autumn. How is that going two work? Did they really pay off a bunch of studios for demo games so that those 7 people in the world that have a spare 5090 can use it?

We don't know why it was running on the other card, it's not necessarily for performance reasons, it's possible that the cards need a firmware update that currently borks other things and this was the only workaround they had on hand. We've seen in previous conferences that they rush announcements out with little warning to the teams working on them.

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It's available as a simple AppImage to download and run.

👍

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Right. The shit that ruined dating apps, default settings of phone selfie cams and the self-perception of millions of young people now should also ruin my video games?

I don't think so.

Unless it's Morrowind with DLSS 5.0, of course.

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Quoting: scaineRemember the wine-pun era? This is worse. 😅

Don't make me bring them back...

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I remember, Starfield came out during a time I didn't keep up with video games and video game news at all. I literally heard of that game for the first time on the same day it was released - in my Steam launcher. Saw that big shiny in-launcher ad, thought "oh, a Bethesda game", downloaded it and absolutely loved it for some 50-60 hours.

Then I looked into the internet about Starfield for the first time and was surprised just how much hate it had garnered. I am pretty sure, had I tried the game with a negative mindset (or with high expectations from someone who waited for it for years), I would have enjoyed it far less or not at all. And I hate that part of me that can be influenced by the opinion of others.

Either way, despite its shortcomings, I will definitely give this update a try. If they somehow fixed the immersion factor of traveling, this would be a huge step into the right direction. The other one would be having more diverse procedural generation, so I could finally have my Daggerfall in space.

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The one thing I'm wondering. Nvidia stated that they used two 5090s for the demos, one for the game and one for the dlss processing. They also stated that it will be releasing this autumn. How is that going two work? Did they really pay off a bunch of studios for demo games so that those 7 people in the world that have a spare 5090 can use it?

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I really liked starfield. It was buggy, and it had a lot of dumb design choices. The main story was terrible until the last two missions, but the side quests and things were all interesting. I am still not sure which path was the right one with the crimson fleet.
As with anything bethesda a few thousand mods made it pretty good.
So I am sort of excited to see where this goes.

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Quoting: scaineI enjoyed my time in Starfield, but not sure I could stomach going back to it, at least not so soon. For me, it was all about the spaceship designer, and even that was often immensely frustrating because parts were so spread through the various systems.

same! I made liberal use of the cheat console to fix these idiotic QOL things though. I just made it so that every ship vendor has every part. Aint nobody got time to figure out who has what and fly all over creation trying to find that one part.

I never found the outposts useful at all so I never even used one LOL. I'm not even sure what they were supposed to be used for? There's been so many updates since I played I bet it's totally different now.

I'm with scaine though, I don't think I'll be going back to it. It was fun, but very forgettable and just kinda meh. And I'm their #1 core demographic: scifi loving rpg playing hyperfan.

Spoiler, click me

It also rubbed me SO the wrong way that the starborn ship and post "ending" stuff was SOOOOO BAD. totally completely utterly USELESS. They didn't even finish the ship, like at all! You get it, and your crew is just standing around awkwardly in an empty space staring off into nothing. What? I had not looked up any spoilers, so I had spent the entire game REALLY looking forward to getting a freakin sweet starborn ship and gear, and etc... then I get it and it's just TERRIBLE. Immediately uninstalled the game then.

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Starfield got boring so quickly, but I struggled through to the end. Took way too long, 52 hours.
I couldn't imagine torturing myself with this game again.

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ROFL That title, however the game looks really cool! I've been meaning to play Ring of Pain, and since they are the same people behind Winnie's Hole. Might as well become familiar with their dark whimsy before eventually buying Winnie's Hole.

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as others have said, it 100% looks fake pornified. Which is just so misogynistic.

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