Endgame XM2we here and it's awesome, lightweight and the battery lasts ages. No need to install companion apps but there is a utility that doesn't t run in the BG, useful for setting the DI range etc.
Best of all, it's not an expensive mouse....
Bit of a rabbit hole since my last post, now have a dedicated headphones amp, and bought the HiFiMAN Sundara, then returned them and got the Ananda Nano and oh man, the soundstage and imaging of this is a dream. That and the low bass extension of planars of this size, and I don't mean that...
Reinstall windows? Good joke.
The traversal hitching is now completely gone as of the latest patch and nvidia driver update which triggered a new full shader recompilation on launch of the game.
Normal is harder than most games on hard, so no, very hard is going to give even gaming vets a challenge from what I've seen. Even playing on easy you are likely to die a few times when met with a horde of different classed machines lol.
Frame hitching is evident more and more later in the game as you progress past 20% I've found. Before this is was basically hitch-free.
Here's what I mean, it's traversal stutter basically as you can repeat it simply back tracking the same area where the hitches happen...
1 hour of gameplay at the start at 5160x2160 flicking between DLAA and DLSS Quality:
https://youtu.be/_rdeh23BDFE
But I think I prefer 3440x1440 DLAA/DLSS as the base framerate is obviously higher so panning camera motion is smoother:
https://youtu.be/cXr9mmcYWz0
Not unheard of. QUite a few modern games look better with DLSS than native due to how DLSS works (specifically the output stage where image reconstruction is done and the detail sharpening). Cyberpunk is the same for example.
Yup whatever Nixxes has done, they've closed the gap between these modes and quality settings that every other game seems to have and it's great to see.
I used Nvidia ICAT to compare each upscaler too:
https://youtu.be/0qMwcyVd-C0
Regarding DLSS etc^^
Here were my findings, DLAA vs DLSS (3440x1440 & 5160x2160):
https://imgsli.com/MjQ5MzEz
(do not compare the 3440 res ones with 5160 res as I have not rescaled the 5160 so when you zoom in with both side by side, the 3440 will look more pixellated as it's actually zooming...
Yeah Naughty Dog had to take over and fix what Iron Galaxy messed up I remember now. That knocked them back a bit for sure
HZFW is my GoTY so far for PC releases. I've played 7.5 hours straight now. It quite possibly also is the most optimised AAA PC release this side of the last 5-10 years.