I recently learned about GameNative, and now I’m pretty excited about Steam on Android/ARM devices. My phone has more than enough power for the kinds of games I’d wanna play on it, and the screen is excellent, maybe even better than the big TV at home.

3 meters away from a 55" TV gives you a very poor 23 degree viewing angle, let alone 4. The maximum SMPTE recommended viewing distance for that screen size in 16:9 is 2.3m.

In other words, for 4K to stop being perceivable, you have to make your experience worse in other ways.

Most people’s TVs aren’t even big enough for people with average eyesight to see a difference between 1080p and 2160p.

Why do people keep repeating something so easily disprovable? You can tell 1080p and 1440p apart on a laptop, let alone 1080p to 4k on a TV.

Alan Wake 2, Indiana Jones, Doom TDA, Stalker 2 all have no fallback lighting option and won’t work on PCs less capable than a Series S or Nintendo Switch 2.

Source is RDNA3 not being able to handle FP8 on any OS. It just can’t do FSR4.

There is an unofficial INT8 version of FSR4 that was leaked from AMD that works on RDNA3, but it’s a lot slower, and FSR4 is already pretty heavy.

Saudi Arabia:

I sincerely doubt that even if another launcher did everything Steam does, it would rival it without huge amounts of money being thrown around. People already use Steam.

And that’s assuming they get to this point, ignoring that Steam had decades to get there. It used to be ass.

And FIFA

As a player, I feel like discovery is great. I found literally dozens of interesting games just by scrolling down the main page.

I don’t know how it’s for devs, but it’s probably all but impossible to get traction if you’re just throwing your game in there, Fests being a compromised solution to an impossible problem

That’s hard to do when Steam has all but cornered the market. Say what you will about Epic’s ineptitude, but even investing billions, the publisher of the biggest game ever can’t break into the market. Now imagine how hard it’d be for a smaller player.

Yeah the article mentioned icebreakers too but I was specifically referring to merchant cargo ships

Huh, I had never considered civilian nuclear powered cargo ships. Wikipedia says only 4 were ever built and only 1 remains nuclear-powered (the Russian Sevmorput, built in 1988.) I suppose thorium molten salt reactors, being potentially smaller and lower cost, can make for easier adoption

3 and 4 were made with the limitations of PS4/XBOne’s CPUs that weren’t good even by 2013 laptop standards. A new game made with the right people could be something new and cool, but how the realities of AAA game development don’t help.

1. Software Lumen is raytracing.

2. Hardware RT did not have nearly that much of an impact when DF tested it, nor does it usually have such an impact compared to regular Lumen in other games. They even recommended setting it to on in the future if the shadows are fixed. So it’s very likely a bug he, and possibly others, experienced being reported as intended behavior.

Did the editor not watch the video the entire article is based on? It does >70 in at 4k with DLSS Quality (so 1800p native).

Not to say the game doesn’t have bad issues. Hardware RT is broken (that’s what prompted the performance drop on Daniel Owen’s video. Digital Foundry measured only a 6% drop with it on when not CPU limited, but the RT Shadows are shimmery af and makes it actually look worse than regular Lumen) there’s the usual shader compilation woes and a lot of the higher settings have a lot of cost for very little gain; but the article is clickbait bullshit.

Wanting a LLM do not hallucinate is like wanting a heater to not generate heat.

Computer people, does that mean that, if it becomes the standard in China in the future, GPUs made for the Chinese market that have been imported won’t work on a UEFI motherboard?

Isn’t that Garfield’s owner

We don’t believe in AI, says the developer of AI Art Impostor

Yeah, I didn’t think an OS could feel more skeezy than Windows until I got a Quest 3.

A shame too, cause it’s legitimately great hardware, implemented well (outside the corpo bullshit)

The PS Triple/360 generation was the last time that wasn’t the case

There was an Adult Swim infomercial sketch about this 10 years ago

Step 1. Become “too big to fail”

Step 2. Fail

Step 3. Cash printer goes brrrrr

Doubt

For more platforms, there’s SquirrelJME (itself a fork of J2ME). You can build it yourself or use the retroarch core.

https://multiphasicapps.net/doc/ckout/readme.mkd

You can get some great controllers on AliExpress. Got a Flydigi one two years ago and it became my go-to.

Hardware Lumen looks way better than only software

Phew. Pack it in, boys. No more AI

This is about plants! Calm down

You had my attention, now you have my attention

Entire field of game theory in shambles.

You can achieve, and beat, PS5 read speeds on PCIe 5.0. No game will really take advantage of it though. They don’t even really take advantage of it on the consoles

Hey, if anyone knows their stuff about hate crimes, it’s the Israeli army. Maybe hire one of the pigs who murdered George Floyd too

I built a PC earlier this year which should last me a long, long time. I fully expect my next one to come almost entirely from China

Aren’t those AI chips, as opposed to gaming GPUs?

A lot of governments already do. The credit card duopoly is the reason the US decided to come after Brazil’s solution.

Why would a government just block payments for something it doesn’t like instead of, you know, making it illegal, which it already can do. I doesn’t need to block my payment to the heroin store, because the heroin store isn’t legally allowed to operate.

May? The world’s most prominent torture camp was converted into a concentration camp, as the secret police is rounding up undesirables with no trial.

Class consciousness leaving my body when the money hoarder owns the store I buy treats from

“22 years? it must have been a second SNES game”

Me, shortly before feeling bad