Unlikely but you may find a unicorn.

If you’re sticking with the old games then there’s a chance.

The Intel ARC graphics has potential. https://www.notebookcheck.net/These-are-the-slowest-and-fastest-Intel-Arc-8-laptops-money-can-buy-after-testing-over-35-different-models.984956.0.html

Anything under 16GB of ram is likely a waste of money. (But with the ram shortage anything new might be unreasonably expensive or sold out)

Your best bet would be the used market and using a line of credit to pay off the computer. Could you afford more over an extended period?

Check this out.

https://www.newegg.com/hp-zbook-15-6/p/1TS-000D-1PSS6?item=9SIADT2KGZ0423

So there’s a few ways I’ve been pondering to take this discussion.

Much like how there are users that create software cracks for games, and the game dev uses more sophisticated forms of DRM. There has been an similar arms race between software developers for game cheats. (Imagine an ouroboros) The attacker has the advantage; it’s much cheaper to attack than defend.

There has been a new trend of hardware based cheating. Aimbot controllers, expansion cards that let another computer read memory values from ram, poisoned random number generators, remote USB controller debugging, etc.

What kernel level anticheats that enforce secureboot and TPM requirements are hoping to achieve is enforcing the attestation feature of the operating system (typically Windows) that the preboot environment has not been manipulated. Manipulating the preboot environment would allow an attacker to gaslight the kernel level anticheat into believing everything’s fine.

This does little to resolve hardware level cheating. (It does help with stopping early expansion cards from loading modules into memory) What’s worse is secureboot+tpm is a defeated technology, relying on security patches to resolve these flaws. However, if your goal is to eliminate knowledgable adversaries they are just going to buy a motherboard with a secureboot issue and do it anyways, and the anticheat developer has no means to reliably triage that against an user with an older or insecure computer.

The cobra effect of anticheat tools like these are they typically eliminate linux players and users with misconfigured or legacy hardware. (such as someone who has installed Windows without using UEFI) These invasive anticheats load before windows at the same time as hardware drivers. (That spinny screen before you get into your desktop). If the anticheat tool malfunctions at this stage it take the whole computer down with it, an expensive problem for a ordinary user that needs hire tech support. And in the case of vanguard it downloads software updates at this point too, if you have slow internet or the update is huge you’re stuck waiting to use your computer. And it doesn’t even matter if you weren’t intending to play games at that point.

You might draw the conclusion that PC gaming is a dead fish from this information. But an important take away is that some of these issues are present on consoles as well thanks to how share the same framework of ordinary computers or smartphones.

The annoying part is this doesn’t stop cheating, just pisses off the regular users.

The long dark is a harsh winter survival game with a gloomy story (dlc). https://store.steampowered.com/app/305620/The_Long_Dark/

Glad to hear it. Perpetual early access games grind my gears

lol I hope they don’t expect people to stream their games over LTE.

Honestly that’s not much better. I shouldn’t be expected to reboot my computer to play a game.

It’s also silly games that are releasing without support for all common resolutions.

It’s a big problem from a money making perspective. We’re basically asking the game companies to compete with themselves.

The patient gamer in me sees a future where blue archive is completely free 2 play with no paywalls. :D

Must have been poorly advertised this is the first I’ve heard of it.

The various valve games would probably be ideal.

Portal 2’s co-op mode perhaps.

Fortnite’s Lego mode would probably work very well. Since it’s targeted towards younger kids that are still learning how games work.

Serious Sam franchise would be fun too.

Switch 2 is a dud. No OLED

Oh interesting there was also a botched Nvidia update on OpenSuse recently that sunk my battleship.

It’s funny because the majority of apple problems are caused by apple abandoning OpenGL, Vulkan and general support of older applications.

It’s the flying explosives that murder me.

Just pitching an idea, what if they used the Stargate universe?

What? Did the playing cards have their tits out or something?

Is it finally time to retire my 1080ti with one of these?

dx12 and Vulkan titles work fairly well is my understanding.

battlemage is expected to come with much better dx11 support.

Older directx games are getting their calls remapped to Vulkan. This is where most of the problems existed. But it’s much much better than at launch. When they weren’t doing that is my understanding.

My understanding is OpenGL games work fine.

Anyone reading this let me know if anything I said isn’t accurate.

We’ll know for sure once people have them.

But the rumours say that it’s expected to be 30% faster than the 4060.

I used to help test Gmod mods and this was common to find. Sometimes the author would even try to embed an obfuscated check for their own steamid to give them God rights over the multiplayer game session.

We would collect those steam IDs and add them to the ban list. And often switch mods all together.

My biggest problem with the Xbox app is it blocks you from modding the game by default. It’s up to the developer to enable it. And from my perspective I think many of these developers don’t even know it exists.

At least they didn’t say it was as good as the movie

The orange box for the orange box.

If I was in their boots I’d go all in the Xbox app. Make it less crap and port all my titles to that.

Maybe even sneak in a new directx with stuff that makes it easier to port games to winderp™️

Yeah it fixed my biggest problems with Divinity.

The ability to push & jump is wild.

Guess the fox is out of the bag on this haha

The basement that is full of rats caused my UI to flicker and the characters avatar to become corrupted.

So many rats

You can turn it off, it’s just going to be a different character save and only people with it off can play.

It’s left 4 dead with rats, magic and more.

Thanks!

I want the Airbender season back. That was such a great experience.

Warcraft 2, but I want Laurian studios to do it.

Activision is not trustworthy after the massive warcraft 3 disappointment.

Wow I can see why they are being sued that’s awful.

HDD storage used to be expensive. It wouldn’t be any surprise to hear they did it to save on costs.

Is this the same game that was on sale for a dollar recently but doesn’t work?

(for the switch)

The first Mario Party felt like a scam. Such a rip-off.

The 2nd Mario Party felt like what it should have been all along.

The 3rd Mario Party should have been a free DLC for the 2nd game.

Those are rookie numbers for strategy games.

Competency starts around 1500 hours.

Yeah this game needs friends. It’s not much fun with randoms since half the time they are talking in discord.

It’s a blast, played it over Halloween.

It’s not possible to do everything in one run as some of the paths are mutually exclusive. Like the quests related to the mother tree. Unless I’m mistaken, it has been a considerable amount of time since I played.