The performance improvements claims are a bit shady as they compare the old FG technique which only creates one frame for every legit frame, with the next gen FG which can generate up to 3.

All Nvidia performance plots I’ve seen mention this at the bottom, making comparison very favorable to the 5000 series GPU supposedly.

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• MFG https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/dlss4-multi-frame-generation-ai-innovations/
• RTX 5000 performance claims https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/rtx-50-series-graphics-cards-gpu-laptop-announcements/

I can’t seem to find the source, it only says AMD, but the AMD keynote has not happened yet, where is the information from actually? Is it a leak?

I haven’t read the article so I can’t comment on it, but thinking that the solution is simply avoiding the services in question is not enough. It assumes that people know what the consequences to sign up are (most people probably don’t understand DRM) and it also assumes that there are better alternatives. Unfortunately, for the latter, I feel like there are fewer and fewer alternatives and the ones remaining are becoming increasingly niche. One may not be able to get a car which is self-repair friendly, independent on internet connectivity. So what does one do if one needs a car? Build one?

What’s the difference? And is this OS specific?

So cloudflare admits they are bulk processing the reports and the article just goes saying yeah too bad, it happens. But this is just for me a solid argument that scaling companies to that level is not beneficial, neither for themselves (as they get this kind of coverage about not doing the job properly), then for the websites being unjustly blocked and for visitors being misguided. I wish we could have a more competitive market instead of cloudflare, google and possibly some few others…

Gog does. The game manor lords is in early access on gog.

https://www.gog.com/en/game/manor_lords

Check the video. It clearly shows how performance drops significantly the moment you run out of vram. It doesn’t meant the performance will be perfect in 1440p, it means Intel is using that as a competition ground, something the 8GB cards fail at and maybe Intel’s GPU isn’t great but the 12GB will probably make a difference (and Intel is maybe being quiet at 1080p because they are likely to perform worse).

With its 8GB, the 4060 performs quite poorly when scaling up the resolution. There’s a great video by hardware unboxed showing how limiting 8GB are, in 1440p.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecvuRvR8Uls

Indeed, I’ve shared this with friends but we need more people and more awareness! This is a golden opportunity, if this tentative does not succeed, who knows how long until next time?

Of course, if a person with large following spreads the word, it can have a great effect, but please do not wait for this to happen, do not rely on this. By individually spreading the word, we are putting much more weight on it and giving it a much better shot.

This is a serious shot! Take it.

I’m not sure I see the issue to be honest. The development is made in the open, the architecture is pretty flexible and is designed to be rather robust to rug pulls specifically such that less trust is required in the model.

Also, whenever these discussions happen, I can’t stop feeling that it is somehow also meant to imply that mastodon is somehow better. And I am not a fan of that, as if there could only be one good social network. The internet is better with multiple services, multiple of many things. That’s how there is cooperation, compatibility and development for the better.

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Thanks! That’s what I wanted to know, I’ve been eyeing the game and interested in getting it. I think I’ve even seen it on gog, so that’s great!

How’s the game nowadays? I think I recall the game having some issues when it came out, assuming it’s true, are they all now resolved?

They don’t have to have a backdoor. They are most likely in possession of a master key to decrypt your data:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/04/apple-holds-the-master-key-when-it-comes-to-icloud-security-privacy/

You mean this key? https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/04/apple-holds-the-master-key-when-it-comes-to-icloud-security-privacy/

In japanese for those who want the original experience:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMZARZ8DE8I&t=11

The story was difficult to follow, for me, and plays a significant role in the game and is likely to influence your decisions. What I wish I did and what I recommend you, is make sure you pay close attention to it in the beginning, knowing who’s who, who’s battling who and why. Consider taking notes haha

Edit: the story and the game are fantastic, I hope you enjoy it like I did. I recently finished the game and started with the extensions.

It’s impressive how this initiative has gathered 360k votes in no time yet completely stagnated ever since. I don’t think it means that the initiative is done, actually I am quite optimistic it can pass, but these things go in waves. I think every time there is a new coverage on the initiative it launches it higher, we just need some folks who have some local presence in the EU to get their audience to act. Perhaps some famous video game streamers? Has that been done already?

The age of DRM means that they can now “unlaunch” the game and force you into a reimbursement while giving up the game. Why? What if someone liked it and wanted to keep playing? is this an online only game? This is just sad.

edit: this is a good time to remind people, if you live in the EU, please support the “Stop Killing Games” initiative, it has just past a third of the required signatures, and has 10 months to go still:

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home

Loved this game and the story. The second half of the game is where it really become interesting! I remember that mission in the screenshot :)

This is going very well it seems! I see the next few countries close to passing the threshold are:

• Denmark (88%)
• Netherlands (87%)
• Germany (75%)

Assuming we get those, we would need one more country. The highest remaining country is Ireland (55%). Getting all those still wouldn’t reach 1M signatures, but the rest could keep being distributed across the EU (even including countries which have already passed the threshold, I’m assuming).

This is all very exciting and gives me a lot of hope! Keep signing folks!

Recently started Fallout 3 on steam deck, am a few hours in, pretty good game! Love the freedom, the exploration, but it can occasionally be a challenging game with the fighting and various encounters. Story is good so far.

Title mixed up Wayland and Nvidia :) I don’t think you typically get a new GPU assigned on the fly as you select one window manager over another :D

I have this one sitting on my digital shelf, should probably play it!

The Witcher 3. It’s not far from being 10, but got a very nice graphics update for free and has 2 DLC. The game and the DLC and the free graphics update and a very recent mod kit, all for around 10-15 USD right now on GOG . it’s a steal! I highly recommend it. It became my favorite game of all time, very fast. And it will offer around 100h, and it will also offer replayability. What is there not to like?

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• The whole Pokémon franchise on gameboy/GBC/GBA/DS…
• Skullmonkeys on PS1
• The Crash bandicoot trilogy on PS1
• Abe’s Odysee on PS1

If you want to play them on an android phone, lemuroid is a great plug and play emulator. If you want to play on a PC, retroarch works well, but I recommend to follow guides on their website to get started.

I just replayed the 1 and 2 recently, love’em. Is reloaded bad?

Yes, it seems you are right. Nonetheless, even at equal prices, isn’t it surprising?

I don’t have any, but I see the following: Cyperpunk 2077, which is available on steam, is cheaper than on the developer’s own platform (gog.com), despite both being at 50% off. Is there any incentive for CDPR to sell it more expensive on their platform?

I don’t see how any of that justifies that valve prohibits publishers from selling their games for cheaper on a platform other than steam.

If anything, the 30% cut is significant and if a developer finds a cheaper platform elsewhere, why wouldn’t he also be allowed to sell his game for cheaper there too?

It’s really dubious to see valve try to control developers market strategies on platforms other than steam.

It’s not about what the publisher sets as price, it’s about restricting his options.

I found out recently GOG was created by CD project, the same company behind CD Project Red which made The Witcher and CyberPunk. Was very glad to find out about that.

There is nothing exclusive to steam with respect to Linux support. All of the things required for games to run on Linux which valve support are fully open source and even existed before valve got involved. They just threw money at the efforts and turbo charged it (which is great).

I’m fine with them existing, but if there are clauses preventing publishers from proposing their games both on steam and elsewhere while they can’t make it cheaper elsewhere, I would like these clauses to stop. I read somewhere there are such clauses and these kind of clauses seem very uncompetitive to me and I wonder why they are legal (if they are).

I don’t want to be cynical, but is this part required for Apple to implement RCS?

“and bring a wide range of iMessage-style features to messaging between iPhone and Android users.”

I can totally imagine it being limited to the encryption and the bare minimum, as imessages features don’t perfectly overlap with the RCS features (e.g. emojis).

Ownership of games is a pretty reasonable interpretation in this context. How can ownership of games exist in a context of digital access, activation, online requirements and no physical media?

It sounds like that would just be one of the consequences as the overall issue is abuse of dominant position. It is about all the defaults in Android, making alternatives hidden in the settings, but also the warning messages in browsers to revert back the search engine and paying all other companies for implementing google search as default.

There are other issues with google too, relating to privacy and such, but the above issue is really was is hurting the industry and preventing Google from actually ever being dethroned.

There is a fascinating article on the Verge about Neeva, an attempt at making an actually better search engine and they kind of succeeded but lost due to Google’s influence and power.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/20/23731397/neeva-search-engine-google-shutdown

I think it’s a reasonable middle ground. Much better than outright removing the content and the warning…

You see ads in your Lemmy feed?

Additional options are likely to come later. For their Laptop 13, they started with Intel and now have AMD options.

The full AMD version for the Laptop 16 is the result of a partnership with AMD in the Advantage program which means AMD was involved in the design and tuning of this system which makes sense for a CPU and GPU combo laptop.

With swappable GPUs it would make perfect sense to follow up with Nvidia options in addition to future GPUs from either company.

The Laptop 13 also allows for the motherboard+CPU combo to be replaced both to upgrade but also to switch between an Intel and AMD option. It’s quite a feature.