The more I think of it, the more I'm getting the impression that they want to coincide the release with both console launches. Since they said the game was essentially done and they just needed more time to work on tweaks and extra polish.

Can see a lot of people wanting to play this one PS5 and XSX on consoles.

I hope you're right.

Me too .

I grabbed the neon border and the black hole profile background

Here's a random video from Nvidia showcasing their GPU direct storage usage with their enterprise super computers that allows GPUs to bypass system memory and instead get the data directly from the SSDs. These are of course super computers with crazy fast SSDs and etc but still, impressive thing to see as something similar should be coming with the upcoming DirectStorage update from MS for consumer PCs. Just not nearly as fast of course since I am sure they have some sort of hardware acceleration.

Also some Intel news:

Intel Rocket Lake Desktop CPU With 8 Cores, 16 Threads Benchmarked, Up To 4.30 GHz Clocks & 32 EU Xe Graphics

https://wccftech.com/intel-rocket-lake-8-core-16-thread-desktop-cpu-xe-gpu-benchmarks-leak/

Intel 12th Gen Alder Lake-S Desktop CPUs To Feature Support on LGA 1700 Socket With DDR5 Memory

https://wccftech.com/intel-alder-lake-next-gen-desktop-cpus-lga-1700-socket-support-confirmed/

We need more cores!

Otherwise the videos in the Task Manager are too pixelated: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/watch-amd-threadripper-3990x-128-threads-render-video-task-manager

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zh8MiNzKkiA

Tried to update my drivers yesterday to try out that new GPU juice from Windows only to see that I can't update to 2004 yet. Anyway I updated my Nvidia driver from 421 to 453. It may or may not have fixed a really annoying frame drop issue in RL I had for weeks.

You have to be really, really bored to do that.

But kudos to the person who managed to pull that off. How do you even get specific chips to run at exact the wanted workload to get the shade you want?