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That's what I'm thinking. Red Engine was a huge shit show in the early days of this game.

If a game doesn't grab me in an hour or so I'm out. Waiting 10 or 15 hours for a game to get good is bullshit. Why not? I have almost 600 hours in it.

You'd have to wrap the drive in the magnetic LED strip and even then it might be fine. The magnets in most things you would put near your PC such as magnetic screwdrivers or LED strips, etc. just aren't typically powerful enough to negatively impact a mechanical hard drive.

It's also better than saying ten, nine-hundred, kay, S or some stupid shit like that.

We've had three generations of Intel releases on the same socket and motherboards. For Intel that's not bad. Despite all the whining about socket longevity, it comes at a cost. The UEFI and microcode situation on AMD boards is often a total shitshow leading to problems you simply don't have on...

Dedicating each faction arc to a single NG+ run is going to only be about 4-6 hours of time. They aren't that involved and this game allows you to join every faction at once. The only one that makes you choose at some point is the Crimson Fleet. Even then you don't have to if you don't progress...

He's probably got a cracked copy and he's running it on a potato. Crowd density, etc. set to minimum, etc.

Honestly its just a ship and some armor. I personally don't use the ship as its hideous. The rest is literally just dialog. Dialog that's optional in some situations. It's not like its common to all the quests either. I get where you are coming from but he's probably got outposts, ships, etc...

To be fair....until you get a variant universe all you get is a slight change in dialog. Even then, variant universes really only change the lodge and whatever that explorer group is called.

Some engines have more documentation and better support than others. For example, CDProjekt Red would have had an easier time with Unreal Engine than it would trying to make their engine do things it was never really designed to do, or develop/update the engine concurrently with the game itself.

Well, the lack of Kevin Conroy can't be helped. For me, the fact that its VR only is the deal breaker.

I've seen this sort of thing before. Rare, but not unheard of.

I've got 700 hours in this game, including several playthroughs of the launch version and I've never seen that. The game's not perfect, but its in pretty good order these days.

Just about everything will discolor PVC and PETG type tubing given enough time. That's not an issue specific to this fluid.

I've used this fluid over a decade in an Exos 2.5 unit. I also was given one of Kyle's which is even older. I've had both and run both for many years. In fact, both are still in use today. I've used this fluid in them and I've never had problems with it.

3DMark stopped using an actual game engine over a decade ago. Since then, it's been entirely synthetic and theoretical. The old Radeon 2900XT used to out perform the 8800GTX in 3DMark but in actual games the former got beaten down hard. 3DMark performance doesn't even necessarily benefit from...

I've worked in shops repairing PC's back in the day and I hated it when some smoker would bring their systems in. Even under the best scenarios, you'd have a thin sticky coating on everything and the computer would stink. More extreme cases it will cause a build up that damages fans and it acts...

If it was available on PC, I would. I do not have a PS5.

Corsair could probably snag some of their engineers. Corsair's blocks aren't as good as the EK's are. EK's problems have never been about design, but rather QC and their prices are excessively high compared to most other options. That said, I have a lot of EK stuff and I've never had problems...

I agree with you. I think we are over the hump on the DEI stuff and alphabet Mafia pandering in entertainment. Unfortunately, we will probably still see vestiges of the woke garbage for several more years.

I got so burned out on WWII games when that's literally all that came out for a couple years there.

This is complete bullshit as well. Every actual female gamer I know wants an attractive protagonist even if its female. This is regardless of them being straight or bisexual or whatever. We don't usually get numbers on what people do in games, but BioWare actually released information on the...

Most benchmarks from most sites at the time indicated that the X1950XTX was slower than the GeForce cards of the day. However, the [H]ard|OCP article on the X1950XTX indicated that in real world gaming performance, the X1950XTX provided a better gaming experience. I remember this well as I had...

The DEI agenda and Alphabet Mafia crap is well known at this point. That's not to say it successfully infiltrates everything, but its pretty obvious when it does. You have companies like Black Rock, Sweet Baby Inc, BGG etc. driving that sort of nonsense. Plus, in this day and age with social...

Probably a undetonated Hell Bomb.

What people need to understand about the 9700 Pro and later 9800 Pro/XT models is that they were the result of ATi's acquisition of a company called ArtX that developed the technology that would make those GPU's what they were. ATi did not develop that on their own. ATi has never been able to...

As I recall they weren't really all that competitive until the end of their run with the GeForce FX 5950Ultra. Prior to that, the 9800Pro/XT etc. had a decisive lead over them in most cases. It wasn't as if you got bad performance with the high end GeForce FX cards. The biggest issues were that...

I don't typically care either. I don't exactly hunt down CPU's that don't have it. But the inclusion or exclusion of it makes no difference to me when purchasing CPU's for personal use. I couldn't care less if its there or not as it will always go unused in my case.

It's not worth me buying CPU's with integrated GPU's just for that.

I have a desk drawer full of GPU's.

If I ever built boxes that wouldn't be used primarily for gaming, I might consider an iGPU as being a value add. Or, if I did any real encoding. I don't do either of those things these days. My machines are all used for gaming at least part of the time and discreet GPU's are all I use.

Simply put, iGPU is virtually worthless to me. I always use a discreet GPU and have a few of them on hand at any given time. I don't even need them as "backups."

The problem with this thinking is that you end up spending hundreds of dollars on a new GPU and it essentially doesn't impact your power bill in an appreciable way. It would probably take years for the "investment" to pay off in terms of energy savings. GPU efficiency on desktop systems is...

It's definitely worth more than $10. As for the issues, I had very few of them through my two playthroughs beyond the initial stuttering. That was initially fixed by turning off my e-cores and then after a patch, I was able to re-enable them.

I just use Defender and stay off sketchy sites.

Not only that, but aluminum is very soft compared to steel and scratches pretty easily. Customer machines that were made of aluminum back in the day were always scratched to shit.

Easily. It has nothing to do with the games beyond them being demanding enough to cause the GPU to draw a ton of power super quick. Many PSU's can't handle that near instant ramp up and their overcurrent protection kicks in shutting the unit down.

I've never cared for the whole standing desk thing, but honestly I probably should get one that allows me to do that. I'm simply on computers far more than is remotely healthy. I work out and what not but I don't really do enough walking or cardio.

Agreed. The differences between the K and KS models has never been "worth it" from any type of value perspective. This is Intel essentially doing what Silicon Lottery used to do by binning chips for the buyers. You would pay a premium for a CPU that was tested and verified to reach XYZ clock speeds.