Quoting: Lofty

Quoting: TheRiddickThese new AMD cards are NOT good upgrades for people using the 6700/6800 cards.
AMD has even made sure people understand these are for the 5000 series or below for upgrade. I see these as being almost like a 6700/6800 refresh, or a 1.5 upgrade in some sense since they are just barely faster and just more efficient cards.

But are they more efficient if they are barely faster than the 6 series ? I mean my 6700xt is 12gb 192bit just like the 7770xt, But the difference is that the 6700xt is 186w TDP and the 7700xt is 245w TDP, which is a sizeable increase if you live in a expensive energy climate or a hot climate to boot. Some people have argued you can undervolt a 7700xt to maybe 200W to make it more reasonable, but by that same Token i have my 6700xt undervolted and i barely see 145w for total draw. i can actually game without overly concerning myself over heat or energy costs. Given i game at 1440p@60 most of the time the entire system sits between 145-165w in typical gaming scenarios.

That said i agree with the fact that they might be a good replacement for the 5 series. Id personally try to find a cheap 6700xt/6800 series on a deal and undervolt it, should last a good few years.

I’ve got a 5700xt and most games run very well at 1440. Ray Tracing would be nice, but I think I will wait until the 8000 series for a proper upgrade, and hopefully better contained TPDs

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Yeah, no, thanks.

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Really looking forward to this one. I have mentioned this before, and don't want to sound boring, but the first one worked marvellously great for me. It wasn't a perfect game, but I also loved the story, the setting, combat, etc. Seeing they're expanding on this and improving what people didn't like, hopefully will get the game, and the studio, back into people's radars.

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I'd prefer to see Dark Forces with a new 3D Engine, but the remaster looks cool as well.

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5 years already? We gamed so much with Proton that it feels the time just flew by xD

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I ended up getting it to take advantage of the discount xD. The discount was also the same with or without the keyboard, so didn't get it as to not paying so much now, hoping they will eventually sell it separately.

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This really tickles my fancy... but I need a better excuse to purchase it. Maybe I should shell my T480s?

How easy would it be to install other distros on it? The available selection is not really up my alley :/

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Quoting: dpanterTo celebrate, the Siduction crew dropped another fine release.
Just look at that wallpaper, it's Debian all the way down!

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I'm tempted to install Siduction on my laptop if only for that wallpaper :O

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I have fedora on my gaming machine and laptop, but my servers are Debian :) Happy birthday!

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Quoting: ArehandoroLast night I tried the game on the Deck, connected to the TV, and until FSR 2.2 comes out I will still play on my desktop. There was a weird granular effect that made the experience rather annoying. It was also quite late and having to adapt to the controller was not a fun thing to do.

I've noticed that on my desktop, where things randomly become sort of grainy, like a bit of old style film... I actually kind of liked the effect, so kept playing haha.

When reading that the best way to play it on AMD is to use Vulkan, and one would think that's the case for Linux especially... but still it has big graphical issues with Vulkan... kind of sad. Still an annoyingly fun game. Still need to figure out where the Enlarge / Reduce spell is for my Duergar...

Interesting! I did not see that issue on desktop. The original Mass Effect had that grainy effect, and was lovely. The effect on the Deck was magnified by 10 at least xD

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