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https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/amd-makes-super-resolution-officially-open-sourcefour-new-games-get-support.html Very cool..I wonder if this will improve it's effectiveness.

Just because it's listed at that price, doesn't mean people are going to pay that. There are other devices that exist that are just like the steam deck that are way less than $1600.

Sure but the way I see it, not many kids who don't already have a gaming PC would want this over a desktop or laptop and those kids who do have a gaming PC, well they are kids and usually don't have a ton of money to spend on secondary gaming devices. Just seems like a gap in the market that's too small to address to me but time will tell.

Thanks... due to some shipping stuff and issues with my order I actually ended up with an RX 6800, but I'm happy with it. In b4 Steam Deck purchase.

Hmm, sounds like your son has an interesting life. Still, I think if he were to use some kind of portable PC device for gaming, a laptop would work just as well if not better for his situation because it's not like he's riding a bus or something like that where it would have to be handheld.

Is your son a sailor? Sounds like a laptop would work just as well for that situation.

But is portable gaming really important to anyone over the age of 20 or so? Unless someone rides the bus to school or work, when are they realistically going to use this? All my adult friends who own a switch never use it portably. Only ever seen kids do that. I just don't think there are many PC gamers who want a portable device. Portable gaming not practical for the vast majority of adults IMO.

Valve's Steam Deck handheld PC starts at $399 and lands in December WWW.MSN.COM The rumors about Valve making a version of the Nintendo Switch for handheld Steam gaming are true. The company has revealed the Steam Deck, which will arrive in December in the US, Canada, the European... 1280x800 screen res Ryzen + RDNA2 SOC 16GB ram SteamOS Definitely more powerful than the switch but I still doubt this thing will see a much traction. If I wanted to play a PC game on mobile, it wouldn't be a game that needed fast responses so streaming it just seems like it would make more sense, and for those who actually want something portable, I think the switch has that thoroughly covered. The switch also works well because it can be marketed to kids who don't have smartphones so they don't have any other mobile gaming options, but adults who would want to play PC games probably don't spend a lot of time in places where they would be able to game on a portable device and for those times they do, a smartphone is enough for those rare instance. It's also kinda weird how it has thumb-sticks and touchpads even though Valve dropped the steam controller. Looks like they had a hard time deciding on a final design. Perhaps just another example of Valve trying to do something no one really wanted.

Yea, I don't think calling crypto currency in general is designed to be a scam, but it's usage is very scam-like.

Intel Core i9-12900K Could Outperform the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X | Digital Trends WWW.DIGITALTRENDS.COM Someone with access to a Core i9-12900K says it can hit 5.3GHz, which could mean the processor will outperform AMD's Ryzen 9 5950X. IIEC this is a DDR5 platform and it's only slightly ahead of AMD it seems. I don't think AMD will be worried.

The creator of Dogecoin says all crypto is a scam WWW.TECHSPOT.COM Software engineer Palmer, who created the payment system with Billy Markus in 2013 as a joke based on... I interesting take on the whole crypto thing.

If you don't want to play RE but want to try another game that uses RT-GI and runs pretty well on AMD cards, Metro enhanced is pretty impressive in that regard. It goes on sale for ~$12 on steam.

I'd guess that it would be functionally similar to xbox game streaming, but instead of a game it's a virtual PC stream.

Supposedly this game wants more than 10GBs of Vram at 4K max. One of the few games that I guess arguably runs slightly better on AMD cards aside from the few with more than 10GBs, if not the only one. I wonder how much piracy is still a big deal. It's hard to gauge but to me it seems like with things like game pass and the consistency of steam sales, there is less reason now than ever before to pirate games. The last time I pirated a game it was actually a game I own because I was trying to figure out if the DRM was the reason I was having performance issues at the time but it turned out not to be the case.

So just in case anyone has 2-3 hours they want to kill on some youtube videos, there are a few really lengthy and well made videos on the topic of WD1 and the depth it has that most reviewers missed.

Cracked Version Of Resident Evil Village Offers Drastically Better Performance On PC, Report Finds - GameSpot WWW.GAMESPOT.COM Since launch, Resident Evil Village has had issues on PC. And it seems DRM might be to blame. BOOO crappy DRM.

I thought drugs were what made school tolerable

Microsoft puts PCs in the cloud with Windows 365 WWW.THEVERGE.COM Windows 365 lets you access Windows anywhere. Not the most exciting news, but makes sense that Microsoft would do this by now.

If you're not familiar, Bloodlines is a new DLC for Watch Dogs Legion. I really like WD1. I got it for free and I didn't have much expectation going into it so I wasn't let down by the whole E3 thing. I feel like Ubisoft got more hate than they deserved for that since it was a console launch title for the PS4 and the E3 reveal was well before the console released so presumably Ubi was still nailing down the performance. I think a lot of people passed up on it because they felt like it was a bait and switch which just pissed them off, and people missed out on a great game because of it. Some of the hate for WD1 got lumped into the fact that it's not a happy ending game and Ubi really over-corrected with WD2, that game felt like a cartoon. I really liked WD1 for it's dark atmosphere and morally grey protagonist. I thought it was actually really well done and felt like unique because of it. I'm glad Ubi decided to expand on the character from the first game. I never expected it since the first game got so much hate so I find it kinda interesting they Ubi decided to do it. It's interesting to watch Ubi stumble over and over and also bounce back strong a lot of the time. They really oscillate in that way. I won't be surprised if I'm the only one here who cares about this at all haha but if anyone else here had any thoughts, please share.

I would never cheat in an online game, and I maintain that this AI cheat looks boring because it basically appears to just play the game for you, but I won't deny that there are some games that seem like they would be a lot of fun to cheat in. The game that comes to mind the most is PUBG. It would be a lot of fun to play that game with a cheat that showed where other players were on the map but even then I wouldn't want an AI to take over and do the aiming and shooting for me.

Oh wow, cool feature for sure.

Probably just end up with miners in other countries... Do you guys think other countries like the US will eventually start cracking down on this?

Also this: https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/amp/president-biden-signs-executive-order-calling-for-the-restoration-of-net-neutrality/

3,800 PS4s found and seized from a cryptocurrency farm in Ukraine WWW.TECHSPOT.COM Although the market for GPUs is starting to improve, and dedicated ASICs might be on the way to... I wonder if there's some PS5/XboxSX farms out there yet to be discovered.

President Joe Biden’s latest executive order is a huge win for right to repair WWW.MSN.COM Right to repair is having its moment Good news!