Oh dang now I want to get a group together for that, I loved crysis multiplayer

Maybe I’m just wildly crazy here, but I think a $70 game from a big studio should run well.

We’re not talking some $15 early access title here that lacks optimization because it’s like 2 guys making it in their free time.

Its a recent AAA game on a modern game engine, so it probably runs awful even on top of the line hardware.

Basically every game that comes out these days in the AAA space is a horrible unoptimized mess.

AMD needs to fix their software.

I had an AMD GPU last year for a couple weeks, but their software barely works. The overlay didn’t scale properly on a 4k screen and cut off half the info, and wouldn’t even show up at all most of the time, ‘ReLive’ with instant replay enabled caused a performance hit with stuttering in high FPS games…

Maybe they have it now, but I also couldn’t find a way to enable HDR on older games like Nvidia has.

I’m not sure that would even help that much, since tools out there already support CUDA, and even if AMD had a better version it would still require everyone to update apps to support it.

Only if you unlocked the bootloader first which would wipe the device. Graphene relocks the bootloader after install.

Subscriptions feed is nice, but doesn’t show other similar channels so I never discover anyone new to watch.

Yeah, but if left unlocked then they could replace the OS or part of it without it being very obvious.

Not a thing most people just wanting better privacy need to worry about.

It would have that too, it’s a standard option in android on any device to enable the 3 button nav instead of gesture nav.

I’m not sure really.

I like the idea of alternatives like a Linux phone OS or a custom ROM like Graphene, but I also hate the idea of needing to faff around with my phone to make it work how I want it to.

Yeah that’s fair, it would be nice if it at least showed you a warning that “windows might break things” if it detects a windows install and you’re choosing the dual boot option. That way someone has a better idea of what to do when it does break.

Yeah it’s more like I’ll forget clothes in the washer for days if I didn’t set up a reminder lol

But not the actual installer where you pick where to install the bootloader?

What do you do for time sensitive stuff like putting clothes in the dryer, or watering plants and that sort of thing?

I feel like 90% of the functionality and reason I use a Todo app is the notifications and scheduling of tasks.

To be fair if this was windows messing with the EFI bootloader, I don’t think the Bazzite installer notifies you to make a new EFI partition to stop that from happening (at least I can’t remember it doing so last I used it), so how is a new user expected to know it can be a problem?

Wouldn’t be an issue if: They READ THE DOCS.

It seems like Bazzite should handle this during install? They say to create a separate EFI partition if dual booting on the same disk, but does the installer even recommend that? Or just let someone blindly choose the wrong setup?

Oh well that’s awesome!

Sounds likely it won’t have community servers either. Seems like they will have them!

Private servers do have some downsides (power tripping admins mostly), but it’s also great joining a community and playing with the same group of people regularly, on a server that’s managed by a person who can remove problematic players.

I feel like modern AAA games have no sense of community anymore, you just hit play and sit in a queue, play with completely random people, and repeat. Sitting on Discord with a group and queuing together (if you’re lucky enough to play a game that allows it) just doesn’t feel the same.

The matchmaking/queue thing also leads to games being designed for shorter matches with more focus on your score/performance in the match. Those several-hour long BF3 games were always the best because it was just people there to have fun.

They’re removed by the business when they decommission them so the drives can be destroyed to make sure no data gets leaked.

They often don’t have power cables either because they’ll re-use those on the newer models if they can.

Enshrouded is my most played game over the last few months, it’s such a fun time.

I can’t say I’ve ever seen this, is your new device Xiaomi as well?

That makes sense, if archiving saves space then it’s just removing/uninstalling the app, but leaving the icon behind. Since you’ve manually installed the app from obtainium, it can’t do that because it has no idea how to re-install the app when you need it again.

IMO the one on the right is over-sharpened, so somewhere in the middle would probably look pretty good.

The one on the left has so much noise reduction the detail is just gone, I remember that issue on my Oneplus 7 Pro, Oneplus can’t seem to figure out their cameras, and their OEM camera app is awful.

I’ve found if a game has performance issues at launch it’s not going to get better later on, maybe slightly, but generally it’s an issue that won’t get fixed.

My sort of turning point where I stopped playing was when they added the ability to just inject skill points.

It was a much more interesting and fun game to me when there was no way around the time investment of learning skills.

Not even close from what I’ve seen, basic stuff doesn’t work right.

That’s sort of how it works though isn’t it? If games at $80 are too much then less people will buy, profits will drop and publishers will either lower prices, or vanish and get replaced by ones that lower prices.

It’ll do a reboot if there’s a bad crash of something important, I’ve had my S21 do that once or twice.

Surely with the money they burn they could have fixed up the store by now?

Yeah seeing a cool game and then seeing it’s made in UE5 really puts a damper on things. I wish the engine had more work into performance optimization.

Taking a PSU apart is not something the average gamer can do safely.

I agree, but at least OnePlus does have proper fast charging and not the slow stuff that Samsung has, my S21 barely does 18W. It looks like the S24U is up to 45W, but it would be nice to see 100W charge rate in more phones.

How? I can’t get it to give me the key, it just asks me to download their stupid app.

I wish they would change the wording on it, to me playable means I click the button and it works, if it needs tweaks and stuff it’s not playable.

I wanna use my PC not spend time tweaking things and fixing problems lol

What does ‘playable’ mean? Because on ProtonDB a lot of games will gave a gold/platinum rating, but don’t work properly and have bugs or performance issues.

It’s like RAM and processing power.

“Oh we have 70% more battery, now we can spend less time optimizing apps for power usage”

I figured the types who seed a lot also are likely to have a little low power server to handle it instead of the high idle draw of a gaming PC.

But if a gaming PC was intended to be on 24/7, then putting RGB and screens in it and putting it where one sleeps seems like a backwards move lol. Might as well save the pile of money from that and make it a silent build with no lights.

Just put it to sleep, I don’t understand leaving the PC on 24/7

Different markets, with some overlap.

The Switch is liked by people who just want to play games with minimal fuss.