Recent content by Sycraft

I mean, it wouldn't surprise me if they do. nVidia has been beating the "AI" drum since before the marketing buzzword became "AI". They've been working on and pushing machine learning for a long time now. Well these days, it is paying off in spades so no surprise they'd continue on that path.

And to be fair, I think that's a legit way to do games. I can appreciate a game that is really big and open, but kinda shallow and a "make your own fun exploring and gathering" situation, just like I can appreciate a game that is a very tight, curated, focused, experience. We just don't have...

Doesn't have to be as powerful as nVidia to still be a nice step forward. The thing is, the better the RT AMD has, the more games that'll implement RT. Right now RT is pretty much a PC-only, nVidia-only feature. Ya you CAN use it on other stuff, but performance is often not good enough. Makes...

True, but they make it difficult, it pushes it pretty hard... kinda like Windows these days. You don't have to use a MS account, I don't, they just make it a PITA not to. I don't love it, I'm not trying to defend it as a good thing, but I don't see why it is a dealbreaker when it really isn't on...

Nah man, there were LOTS of people (well, angry Internet nerds) who were upset. I saw more than a few posts here of "I'm never switching off 7, 10 sucks, MS sucks, your face sucks!" kind of thing. Has happened with every version of Windows I've ever seen. Nerds rage that the new one sucks, they...

Not a ton. I can give you a big list if you like but most of it is pretty minor. For users here, the biggest thing is better HDR support and general graphics pipeline improvements. If you game, particularly in HDR, Windows 11 is better. However in general it is a very minor update. A lot of OSes...

Few will bother. Setting up a dual boot system isn't hard, but it is a lot harder than just updating your OS. Despite what the nerd rage here may tell you, the reason people are on 10 is because it works fine and they don't bother to upgrade, not because 11 is bad. You aren't going to see many...

It's always what happens with Windows. Most people are real apathetic about upgrades so it doesn't happen until it is forced or happens naturally through attrition. Funny thing is, same shit happens with Linux a lot too. You don't tend to see it in reporting since it usually all gets folded in...

It's literally just using optical flow data to say "objects moved from here to there in these two frames so stuff should be... here-ish for an intermediate frame." It can actually, potentially, increase latency a bit as it needs to have a "previous frame" and "next frame" before it can display...

It works pretty well, particularly at higher frame rates. It isn't perfect, but you really don't notice things looking off too much. Again the higher the source FPS the less you'll notice. However it does have two big downsides: 1) The game doesn't "feel" fast. This is more an issue at low...

Also ML may be less of a bitch with the multi-chip problems because it is less time sensitive. There are lots of things that scale not just to multiple chiplets or chips but multiple nodes real well. The problem with realtime graphics is that "realtime" bit. Want 120fps? Ok, that's 8.3ms, max...

I mean, it shouldn't be a huge surprise given the issues with multiple GPUs. Sure that is going to be slower in some respects since you are connecting over an external bus which is going to be hard to make as fast as something on the same package (or even board)... BUT it is still the same...

It can be pretty impressive for special effects. In Jedi Survivor when you get flash-banged it'll do as bright a full screen white as it can and it is really impactful. That said, it isn't that big a deal. No it really wouldn't because you have to remember test patches are that bright with...

Ya. While 120fps is something I can get in quite a few games, it is usually pretty closed to maxed on the GPU so, even CPU limits aside, there would just be no going to 240fps. Plenty won't even hold that these days with all the shinies turned up. Like Hogwarts Legacy it dipped down around 60fps...

I like high framerate, but I just can't see cranking down the detail enough to get 240Hz, even if I had a monitor that could handle it. I like shinies too much.