These devs are awesome. New update introduced a boss challenge mode as well as new outfits, all completely free. And they finally freed the booba with a couple of new outfits that undo the censorship of the previous outfits.
New outfits (potentially NSFW):
Has anyone started a new Elden Ring run in prep for the DLC? I started a new game. Don't plan on finishing it but it's a good opportunity to get used to the controls again.
I'm still blown away by the complexity of Stormveil Castle. The sheer amount of paths, verticality, and the...
Are they though? I remember a golden age of games with no microtransactions, no season passes, no loot boxes, no cash grabs of any kind. And the games were actually complete and bug free on release. On top of that, games included the tools used to build them. With Half-Life you got the Hammer...
I'm about 8 hours in. Very addicting so far. I'm getting major Nier Automata vibes, especially the music.
Game is very polished except maybe the platforming. I've died quite a few times to some clunky platforming.
Combat is great. Might be a tad easy for some. I somehow managed to beat the...
I have the B650E Taichi Lite: https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/B650E%20Taichi%20Lite/Specification.asp#Download
Thunderbolt controller is from June 2023
I don't know if I care enough to install a newer driver from a 3rd party site. I don't even use Thunderbolt.
Solved! It was the thunderbolt driver. Uninstalling it fixed the issue.
Huge shout out to this gigachad who discovered the solution: https://steamcommunity.com/app/381210/discussions/0/3952532649323378129/
Man... I'd be screwed if I hadn't found that post.
But like... That wouldn't show up anywhere else? I've been using this PC since Christmas. Surely a memory fault would've crashed my other games by now? Especially more graphically intense games like Cyberpunk and Alan Wake 2.
I also just tried another EAC game (Fall Guys) and that one works fine.
Update: It appears to be EAC causing my system to crash. I disabled EAC and it's no longer crashing!
However... That's not really a good long term solution if I want to play multiplayer.
I found this thread describing the same issue...
I'm trying Elden Ring out on my new PC and it's crashing my whole entire system. Game runs fine for a few minutes and then the frame rate drops to 3 (literally 3), audio becomes choppy, my whole system is lagging like crazy, then my computer reboots. Happens even if I'm just sitting on the title...
Demo is quite nice. It's way harder than I thought. I thought it would be a Nier-like but it's very much a Sekiro-like with a focus on parrying. It also has the trademark attack delays where the enemies wind up, pause for x amount of time, then unleash their attack. So it's all about memorizing...
Found the culprit. Somehow my Windows power settings got updated to turn my display off after 15 minutes. Not sure how. It was previously set to never.
My C1 has been powering itself down after sitting idle for a while. It must be from a recent update because it never did this before. What I like to do is use the "screen off" setting when I walk away to prevent burn in. This leaves the display powered on but the pixels off. I figure it's better...
You need to edit the input and set it to PC mode. Look up how to do it for your model.
Some general direction here: https://www.reddit.com/r/OLED/comments/j38q67/how_to_enable_pc_mode_on_lg_cx/
I don't know... Here's a few examples in my 1 hour of play:
- Pedestrians randomly freak out, start screaming, and running for their lives despite nothing happening
- First firefight I get in one of the pedestrians just stands there, stares into space, and every 10 seconds yells out "she's...
First time playing since release... It's still janky AF. I reach a traffic jam and accidentally bump into an AI car. Well that set off a ridiculous chain of events where the AI car decided to floor it and drive around in circles, colliding with nearly every car on the road. Eventually cars...
Be Quiet! Pure Power 12 M 850W
It happened twice in the span of 2 days which is what prompted me to make the thread.
It's a bit slow to post in general. Like maybe 10 seconds before I get a video signal for a normal boot. I just hope these 1 minute outliers are a rarity. Otherwise I can try...
Hi all. I built a new system recently and noticed that it sometimes takes a full minute to post during a cold boot. During this time, I have no video signal and the "GEFORCE RTX" LED on my video card is off. After a minute, the LED finally turns on and it posts.
It's intermittent. Sometimes it...
What about it isn't a huge leap? The passthrough quality is light years ahead of the Quest 2. Though I suppose that isn't saying much. I could douse my eyes in battery acid and get a better image than Quest 2's passthrough.
Frame gen is making the lower quarter of the screen tear for me. Is there any way to avoid that? Gsync is on, vsync is on in NVCP, vsync is off in game. Frame rate is capped at 117 in NVCP (display caps out at 120 hz).
But sometimes cheap also lasts too. Case in point. My 10+ year old Staples Hyken. $140 chair btw.
Not a single thing wrong with it aside from some cracking on the rubber arm rests.
No back problems to report but I'm probably jinxing myself by saying this.
Every single year I look at this chair and consider buying but the responsible adult in me prevents me from doing so. I just can't get over that price, even at 25% off. It's pretty much equivalent to buying a Gucci product and I don't think I could ever forgive myself for that.
Thanks chameleoneel! I ended up paying with zip on newegg which brought the price down to $319.
I also found out that Best Buy doesn't price match in the Black Friday / Cyber Monday time period, so even if Microcenter did drop to $300 between now and Monday, I wouldn't be able to get a price...
From what I read, that discount doesn't apply if the item already has a promo attached (Avatar)
https://www.reddit.com/r/Newegg/comments/1816v9f/how_does_the_zip_discount_code_work_11_off/
Welp, it's officially black friday and the price didn't drop. Whomp.
What do we think? Pull the trigger at $350 or hope that cyber monday is the day that it drops?
My concern is that the price goes back up after today.
There's a comparison of the Peerless Assassin SE vs. non-SE here:
https://pcanalytics.com/product/coolers/compare/thermalright/peerless-assassin-120-se/thermalright/peerless-assassin-120/
I don't know how accurate this website is. But the SE seems to be a tad bit better despite being smaller.
It's getting very tempting... Must resist buying until Friday at least (or maybe cyber Monday).
Is the Best Buy price match a sure thing? Even if you don't have a Microcenter nearby?
Seems like most retailers are down to $369 now. Newegg even cheaper at $359. Your move Microcenter. You're supposed to be cheaper than other retailers.
It's the age old question of "should I wait or should I upgrade". There's always going to be something new on the horizon. In this case the 5090 is probably at least a year away. Even when it does release, what are the odds of getting one with all the scalpers scooping them up as usual?
I'm...
Something like this. Notice how the straight lines get a little bendy when nearing the left edge of the lens. They also get pulled closer together. As if the lens is a bit convex (or concave?) at the extreme left.
As compared to my first headset which didn't warp the lines at all:
For which issue? The warping at the edge of the lens? All I need to do is look near the left-most edge of the lens and see that it's bending light enough to warp the image. Whereas my first headset doesn't do that at all. Image stays uniform / unwarped all the way to the edge.