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I'm not sure. It affects more than just Ryzen 9000 though, so I'd assume the fix will make it's way to win10 as well eventually.

I try to avoid posting videos as the only source for news, but I haven't seen this info anywhere else yet.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/scientists-think-they-have-found-the-source-of-the-most-promising-alien-signal-ever-seen/ar-AA1pbU8s?ocid=BingNewsVerp A little background, the hydrogen line is a frequency that astronomers expect aliens to broadcast on if they were reaching out. Sort of like prime numbers, it's something they thought would be a sign of intelligence. I'd assume they no longer think of the hydrogen line in the same way knowing this can happen naturally. Its rare for anything to happen suddenly in space, but hydrogen is the most abundant element so it's not far fetched at all that a hydrogen cloud could be heated up quickly in rare events, and thus send out a hydrogen line type signal.

Mozilla supports full extensions on mobile. And so does edge canary, with a little effort.

There are already a lot of mods that remove loading screens. I know there one that removes the loading between space travel, and one that makes elevators work without a loading screen as well. Still, returning to Starfield even for the DLC doesn't interest me much. I doubt I'll return to the game anytime soon. Maybe if another big update plus some really significant mods come out I'll reconsider, but once you beat the main quest and most of the big side quests, there's just nothing meaningful to do.

I think Microsoft is feeling a bit upside down in their investment goals with all their acquisitions, and trying to balance their books on an individual IP basis. Since the Indian Jones game probably comes with a heafty IP licensing bill, they want it to be multi-platform. It's not a game that is going to help build the Xbox brand so much, as it's just an average licensed movie IP game. I agree that a few months of Xbox exclusivity seems meaningless at this point, but it at least allows them to appear to be putting their own platform first. I'm sure a lot of this boils down to just competing forces within Microsoft's executive's expectations, and them trying to find a balance between having their cake and eating it too. This Indian Jones game feels like a console market game more than a PC one. It looks like Uncharted, but worse, and with the Indian Jones IP on top. Games like this that cater more to console audiences are probably the ones Microsoft will be doing this with in general. Games like Stalker 2, probably not. I would be surprised in Stalker 2 ended up on PS5.

I agree with all of your criticism of Microsoft's strategy lately. It was a huge mistake IMO to release the Series S all together. Making a lower res 1080p system wasn't crazy, but releasing it with less ram was. I think Sony and Microsoft also both suffered from being very late with true current gen content and cross platform really held back this gen, and still does more than it should. To be fair, I think Covid contributed a lot to that. Chip shortages had a real impact, and we can't really know if the approach would have been different if not for that. But with that in mind, I don't think any of those issues you mentioned are made worse by releasing games on PS5. I agree that quantity over quality has been the theme for the birth of game pass up to now, but selling more copies by releasing on PS5 doesn't really impact that one way or the other. Or if it does, it would seem they could maintain higher dev budgets with the anticipated extra sales. The homogony between Xbox, PS5, and PC now is at a level where there are no major hurdles for devs to release wherever they can. I think it's worth mentioning as well that Microsoft did make a lot of huge investments that have yet to really come to fruition. Had they made those investments a few years before launching game pass, they could have kicked off with a bang, but it's not typical for subscription services to launch with a big library of high quality first party IP. Netflix and Hulu started by streaming purely content they didn't produce, now they both have a lot of quality first party stuff. I think Microsoft will get there. Once titles like Stalker 2, MSFS2024, Fable, and all the other current gen stuff they have in the works come out, I think they will get the ball rolling in the right direction. It will be interesting to see if they still want to release titles on PS5 once they do have some truly good current gen titles out. This whole Xbox titles on PS5 thing seems like it could be temporary as sort of a stop gap to slow the bleeding from all their investments that don't have a short term pay-off. But I hope it lasts, and becomes more standard as time goes on. I'll just wrap up by pointing out FF16 is a good example of a game that was more or less forced to become a PC title because of the low sales. Not a first party Sony game, but from what I understand the game was supposed to be a PS5 exclusive indefinitely but it just didn't sell enough copies.

https://www.guru3d.com/story/amd-clarifies-ryzen-9000-game-benchmarks-new-windows-11-update-and-chipset-driver-will-help/

I think the market has changed. Consoles don't sell as well as they used to, which means selling games exclusive to one system means seller less copies over all. The Playstation 2 is still the best selling console of all time, followed by the Nintendo DS. Another factor is that games are cheaper now than they used to be. Games are still $60 as they were when I was a kid buying PS2 games, which means they're cheaper now since they price didn't rise with inflation. That means they have to sell more copies (or riddle their games with micro-transactions). In a world with fewer consoles being sold, and games being technically cheaper, somethings gotta give. The video game market overall is bigger today than ever, but individual console markets are smaller. The only way to keep profiting from game sales is to cut the dev budget or sell on more platforms. Nintendo is the exception, as the Switch is the third best selling console of all time; the audience is big enough there for Nintendo to stay exclusive. Plus I'd imagine the budget for their games is a lot smaller than a typical AAA game like COD or whatever. Also of note, all the Playstation games you listed are on PC now, except Gran Turismo. Sony is also seeing the need to sell their games on more platforms. I don't see Sony selling games on Xbox, but they're ramping up their efforts in the PC market. You said it's a double edged sword, and maybe that is or was true for the console makers, but as gamers we benefit from games being available in more places. I see no down side.

You can use extensions on chrome on your phone?

I may be the odd man out here, but I love that Microsoft is going full tilt on multiplatform titles. Microsoft's whole MO is: be everywhere people are using software. This is entirely within their main business strategy and long term it has the potential to really shake up the 'platform game exclusive' concept as a whole. We are past the days of needing to cater to hardware from a game dev perspective. The last time we were there was the PS3 era. Since then, dev are just leaving money on the table if they don't release their games everywhere they can. I understand that this move is happening early because Microsoft over-estimated the short-term success of game pass, but all that aside, we all benefit from more multi-platform games.

Anyone here playing this game? What is your experience so far? This game uses: Software Lumen Hardware lumen - up to path tracing Nanite It does not use: Nanite for vegetation Virtual Shadow Maps Note: virtual shadow maps are unnecessary when using Path Tracing. As an interesting note of comparison, HellBlade 2, the only other serious UE5 title to date, does use nanite vegetation and virtual shadow maps, but only software Lumen. The HellBlade team was actually only able to implement these features late into their dev cycle, nanite vegetation almost didn't make the cut. This is because those features were added late in development of UE5 itself, and likely why Black Myth doesn't use them. At the end of the day, this is the first open world game to make heavy usage of the bigger tech promised from UE5. Performance is definitely reflected, as a 4090 with DLSS cannot maintain 60 FPS without frame gen at max settings. AMD really suffering here. IDK if it's unoptimized drivers or what. AMD is behind in RT, but for medium settings one would assume this is software lumen, which AMD should be able to manage with decent performance. Black Myth: Wukong GPU Benchmark | TechSpot WWW.TECHSPOT.COM Black Myth: Wukong is a new action RPG that's gained attention for its stunning visuals and intense combat. Today, we'll focus on GPU benchmarking to compare performance... Note: this games release is impacted by a press release controversy that reflects the censorship views of a foreign nation. I have not played this myself, but I assume someone here has, or will. What are your thoughts?

Recently I had to reset my phone. Before the reset, I was using an older version of AdGuard that had a decent free ability to block ads universally on Android. After the reset, I found this app was no longer available in an effective form on the Android store. So I installed Egde Canary Build, and did a quick mod to allow it to use full desktop extensions. Now I have Ublock and SponsorSkip installed on my phone browser as extensions. Its nice to have these features on the same browser that windows defaults to on mobile for convenience reasons. How to Edge: https://lifehacker.com/tech/how-to-add-extensions-to-microsoft-edge-on-android What do you guys use to block ads on mobile?

If it were a standard feature that we all happily used, then it would be fair. But as is, it's an extra feature that you have to pay for to get an unfair advantage. As long as that is true, it should be banned IMO.

https://www.techspot.com/news/104359-valve-bans-keyboard-automation-counter-strike-2.html Glad this kind of thing is being looked at. Hopefully this leads to a more universal crack down from the industry as a whole.

I was just listening to the latest DF video and they mentioned something about Zen 5 that I hadn't heard before. Apparently the latency going from CCD to CCD on Zen 5 is about double what it is on Zen 4, so add that to the list of issues.

So no more RBG ram?

So perhaps it can be fixed?

This article doesn't do a good job of explaining the details of this leak very well. The leak really comes from a voice actress who put "project white sands" on her resume. She definitely did some voice work for Valve. There's a bit more to it than just that, but but that's probably the most concrete part of this. I actually think it's likely to be true that project white sands is a new HL game. Valve did say some 4-5 years ago that they were refocusing on game development and planned to make some single player games. They haven't said anything about it since then, but many assume the team that made Alyx started working on a new single player project after Alyx was finished. Valve has worked on HL3 at least twice before, and canceled those projects. So even if this is a real HL3 leak, I that doesn't mean Valve will release anything.

AMD Rumored to Increase TDP of 65W Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 5 9600X to 105W WWW.GURU3D.COM AMD is expected to increase the thermal design power (TDP) of its Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 5 9600X processors...

Google has always engaged in unfair competition practices. While I don't know all the history of how Google Chrome became so dominant, it's Google... For sure there was some shady stuff going on. Google doesn't do fair competition. Their strategy has always been to look for ways to force users into their ecosystem and then make it as hard as possible for other platforms to be compatible with whatever Google is doing.

https://www.techspot.com/news/104196-intel-arrow-lake-consume-100w-less-power-than.html Sounds like the GPUs are still on the books.

I disagree that Google is "better" for search. I just used edge, and Bing by default. I feel like Bing actually works better for searches because Microsoft is less invested in wasting people's time to ensure a certain amount of monetizable clicks. Google is still better for map searches just by sheer volume of people with Google maps listings vs Bing, but for everything else I don't think Google is actually doing anything at a higher quality level than the competition. If I actually need to find the answer to a random question/search, I genuinely think Bing is better most of the time. One thing I like about Bing is they stopped using Yelp for map/reviews. Yelp, like Google, is just a bidding war for marketing tration and Microsoft doesn't want that to be how their search works, it seems.

Personally, there is a zero percent chance I would have ever bought one of the full power 95c 7000 CPUs. I hated that design logic, running up to max temp and then throttling down, having giant liquid coolers that give you the same temps but maybe a tiny bit more performance... it just felt wrong. It's disappointing that there isn't a more tangible performance increase, but this is still a great step in the right direction, and arguably these CPUs are cheaper than the 7000 series for a new build because they'll work with a standard hyper 212 style cooler and don't need a big $100+ liquid cooler.

Skimmed through the GN video. Interesting results for sure. the 9700X has some clear wins in certain productivity tasks, but it often gets beat by the 5700X3D in gaming, which is about half the price of a 9700X. Then power and thermal differences vs the 7700X are kinda insane though, and a clear win there. GN had it running at 50c under full load vs 95c for the 7700X. I wonder if AMD might release some 9000XT-esk models later on with higher power and thermal limits. I also wonder if these low power 9000 CPUs will have more OC headroom.