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Now that your back into windows, after you update your bios you should run some stability tests. I like to run prime95 or CPUz stress and furmark at the same time.

So, it looks like the Etsy part of this whole experiment is over, at least for now, seeing as I just got banned on Etsy. Yesterday I spent some time trying to improve my Etsy listings and after looking at other listings that seem to be getting traction, I figured I needed to add some text that was basically a "why buy from me" statement. Seeing other listing doing this, I tried to do the same thing and I mentioned in my listings that I used to work as a manager at Digital Storm. Less than 24 hours later, I got banned with no warning and no reason given for the ban. Etsy deals with a lot of IP theft and I get that they are very cut throat about it when the product being sold is infringing on IP, but the mere mention of a previous work experience seemed like fair game for Etsy to me buy I guess I was wrong. I did think to myself, perhaps mentioning another company even as work experience might be problematic, but I figured if it was I would get some kind of notice instead of a total ban. After looking into this, it seems Etsy has gained a ton of seller in the last year or so, probably due to so many people looking for extra ways to make money from home ever since the pandemic. They're over saturated with sellers and are very happy to get rid of them. In total I sold 3 PCs on Etsy and got another 12 fake orders from people using bad payment methods and trying to get me to ship before payment failed to clear, which I of course never fell for. So while this is pretty annoying, Etsy wasn't working as well as I'd hoped anyway, which isn't too surprising as gaming PCs are really not the kind of thing that does well on Etsy anyway. I just renewed my business license, and I plan to try to become a seller on Newegg and Amazon if possible as soon as my license comes in the mail, so maybe I will still find an avenue for this eventually. For now, this is basically on hold. If anyone is interested in one of the three PCs I still have, let me know. Just going to be selling them at cost for now and try again if and when I get signed up for Newegg and Amazon. I've got a 5700X/3060 12GB, a 5700X 3070, and an AMD 7700 3070Ti currently available. The highest tier one would be like $900 at cost, plus shipping. I know probably no one here is interested, but just figured I'd mention it.

No surprise really. Sort of surprised they didn't do this sooner. Will be really interesting to see what comes from this.

You should try removing the battery despite the button on the back.

You need to do more troubleshooting on your own to narrow it down more before we can help you. Rule out as many parts as you can (try one ram stick at a time, unplug all drives except boot drive, etc).

I figured it out. Somehow my ship was like 100 points over weight. What lvl are you guys? I'm at 41.

You can give Sarah some different clothes FYI, so she doesn't have to look like a mom at a biker bar forever.

Thanks! I just used the AMD control panel stuff to record.

Encountered a bug where everytime I go to space, I can't do anything. My cockpit doesn't show, just the hud and skybox. Guess I just can't play anymore if I want to do anything in space .

Just a thread to let people know about this Steam group. I created it just so EHW members can link up to game more easily via Steam if they want to. Steam Community :: Group :: ExtremeHW.net STEAMCOMMUNITY.COM I am the admin of the group because I created it, but if any other staff members from here want me to add as admin, let me know. I will never do anything with this group to annoy anyone with notifications, it will basically be inert. No announcements or anything like that.

Took me a while to get this one settled. First case was too big and had some other issues. Swapped it out for a smaller case. Hoping this one sells easier on Etsy since it's white and most of the users on Etsy are women.

I don't think that's really a factor here. HDR in general does make this sort of thing a little more viable, but the point is that the lighting needs to be bad in order for this kinda of camera footage effects to look realistic. Not that the lighting effects are bad, but the oversaturated bright skies and the low visibility dark areas are a big part of the trick.

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What I mean is it's easy to implement effects that basically just make the camera blurrier and make the lighting over-saturated + a fish eye lens resulting in segments that look more "realistic", hard to make these type of effects actually look good in a game consistently. The last Homefront game made by Crytek made an attempt at doing some of this kind of stuff, mostly the over-saturation. One of the issues with doing this in games is that lighting levels are very different outdoor vs indoor, and in real life it's not the camera but our eyes that adjust to compensate for that. What they did in Homefront was try to emulate the way our eyes adjust for brightness by having the camera adjust the brightness level drastically whenever the player went through a door that went from indoors to outdoors or vice versa. The effect was perhaps a little more realistic, but very annoying in gameplay. Other games often do something similar, but not to the extent that Homefront tried it. Even when done much better like in the case of Unrecorded, it raises a lot of gameplay issues. While it looks cool at first, I think most people would quickly get annoyed by playing a game that only looks realistic because the camera basically makes everything look less visible. In the first video in OP, there are a lot of lighting issues. The interior walls of the building are basically black, which isn't realistic as far as what real life would look like and is only realistic in terms of how a video would look from a crappy camera. The tires on the truck outdoors are also extremely dark. If a game looked like this on its own without the intended camera effects, people would think it was bugged. It's basically The Blair Witch Project effect.

Clip above was just testing to see how doing a timelapse would work. Added some more clips, made a longer version.

Messing with video editing and recording, made this:

Pretty great explanation. I think Dice was the first to use photogrammetry in games. IMO I'd say it's as big of a revelation for gaming as path tracing stands to be, if not more so. One thing I think these camera effects show is that lighting in games is tricky. It's sort of simple to crush the lighting effect to make everything look like it was captured on a crappy phone to make it seem more realistic, but making it looks real and clearly visible at the same time is hard.

@bonami2 Check out this video of Wildlands using similar camera effect from the Unrecorded demo. While the videos you links are mostly just over-saturated, this serves as a good example of how distorting the camera can make games look more realistic. @Slaughtahouse you might find this interesting as well.

Probably a combination of UE5 lacking optimization, waiting for hardware to catch up, and any serious UE5 projects being long term. Based on what's out there so far, it seems like UE5 has a long way to go before it will be good enough to really shine on current gen consoles.

There is only one game on PC right now that uses UE5 and its main features (Lumen and Nanite), Immortals or Aveon. Visually, it's very meh. Other than that, there's nothing but an endless number of demos.

These videos really aren't about path tracing, they're about camera effects. It's the camera shaking, the first-person animations, and the very overblown/oversaturated lighting. It's similar to the Unrecorded demo, which uses heavy camera effects to make the game look more realistic. Still impressive lighting on it's own from UE5, but if you take basically any good-looking 3D environment and apply these kinds of effects, you will get similar results. If you applied these kind of camera effects and first-person animations to The Last of Us for example, I bet it would look similarly convincing and that game uses baked lighting.

What I noticed about this slide is the games that are running better on AMD tend to be games that are better at taking advantage of high thread count CPUs vs games that prefer higher IPC. Still, nice to see intel keeping the pressure on, even if it's not a big jump from 13th gen. Hopefully for Intel's sake, AMD doesn't turn around and release an X3D chip with higher clock speeds in the near future.

The source article is about how people suspect Microsoft is deleting negative reviews for the game on the Xbox Store/app. True or not, I think the larger issue for Xbox is that this is yet another first party game they have released in a completely failed state. Xbox is deleting negative Forza Motorsport reviews claim players (msn.com) I'm not a big fan of Forza, but I tried this one. What this article doesn't mention is that the vast majority of the negative reviews are not talking about gameplay, they're talking about crashes. The game crashes constantly. In my experience, it crashed after almost every race. I even tried messing with some settings to see if it made any difference, and nothing helped. As of now, the PC version has a 1.8 out of 5 on the Xbox app PC version. As for the reviews, I think what might actually be happening is Microsoft is separating the PC reviews from the console reviews since the game is in a much better state on Xbox consoles. It's both surprising and not surprising at this point. Surprising that Microsoft has had so many issues with releasing their own titles without major issues, but not surprising because it has become a trend. It's not like they're some indie studio... One can only imagine how they have managed to have such a bad track record lately. I think Ubisoft probably has a better track record by now.

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