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Star Citizen’s Social Module Is Now Available To Backers

http://www.dsogaming.com/news/star-citizens-social-module-is-now-available-to-backers/

Cloud Imperium has finally released the Social module for Star Citizen. According to the team, this module represents its first step into Star Citizen’s Persistent Universe. With this module, players will be able to enter your Hangar, load up Arena Commander and take the elevator to explore ArcCorp with other players.

 

Oxide Developer: “NVIDIA Was Putting Pressure On Us To Disable Certain Settings In The Benchmark”

http://www.dsogaming.com/news/oxide-developer-nvidia-was-putting-pressure-on-us-to-disable-certain-settings-in-the-benchmark/

When Oxide’s Ashes of the Singularity benchmark tool was released, NVIDIA issued a statement claiming that it does not consider this particular benchmark to represent what DX12 can achieve on its hardware. However, it seems that a lot has been going on in the background. According to one of Oxide’s developer, NVIDIA was pressuring Oxide to remove certain settings in its benchmark.

 

Khronos Group’s ‘Vulkan’ API, Performance Numbers Revealed – Prototype Build Show 89% Increase Over OpenGL in Intel StarDust 1.1 Benchmark

http://wccftech.com/khronos-vulkan-api-performance-numbers-89-star-dust-benchmark/#ixzz3kO3xJHlS

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In this case, we are looking at a constrained TDP scenario. This means that there is a given thermal-power envelop and the CPU/GPU combo has to utilize the same resources and attempt to maximize their output.

Valve adds free games to Steam Link, Controller orders

That's not for those who pre-ordered the initial batch of hardware to be launched on the 16th of October, but for those who preorder for the launch on the 10th of November.

Luckily for those who preordered earlier, they will also get the free games

http://steamcommunity.com/games/353370/announcements/detail/38632993100814830