Anyone remembers what was the thread we talked about nVidia RTX ray-tracing in? I think it was around end of march, that's when that Star Wars realtime clip was released.
Topic search seems to be broken at them moment, at least for me, I browsed trough my post history, can;t seem to find it...

I wasn't able to find it in the PC section? Forum Search isn't working for me either it seems.

Try looking at the Xbox threads.

Thanks guys - I'll try some of CGI's threads, maybe it was in one of them...if I come across them, given that search is definitely broken.

https://hardforum.com/threads/acer-predator-x27-4k-g-sync-display-is-loud-and-cheap.1962281/

Monitors with active cooling. What a time to be alive.

^And that's one of the reasons why you should never buy some kinds of hardware, like monitors, at launch: launch products often have issues that won't be resolved until the second or third iteration.

We need proper first test though. The Asus might not have the same issues.

I'm not gonna buy it anyway until I have a new GPU. Maybe there's something new by then.

But it's not just with these monitors, tho. I read Hardforum every now and then, and with monitors is always the same, specially Dell ones. Never buy an A00 Dell monitor, wait until A01 or A02 because there's always more problems with launch units than with later models.

Now the Asus one may not have the fan issue, but it may have other of its own, so I'd say the same again: to avoid the first batch of units and wait.

Yep. Always wait for the revision. Usually the same applies to consoles as well.
Although the Xbox One launch console was built like a brick shithouse.

With E3 over, we go back to the regular news:

SALES & "SALES"/DEALS

Steam's Top 10

1. Jurassic World Evolution
2. PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS
3. Jurassic World Evolution
4. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Game of the Year Edition
5. Jurassic World Evolution
6. ARK: Survival Evolved
7. Raft
8. Dying Light Enhanced Edition
9. The Elder Scrolls Online
10. Nioh: Complete Edition / 仁王 Complete Edition

Football Manager 2018 marks England's first World Cup game with a 66% sale
https://www.pcgamer.com/football-manager-2018-marks-englands-first-world-cup-game-with-a-66-sale/
The FIFA World Cup 2018 kicked off last week, and, to mark England's first game against Tunisia this evening, Football Manager is on sale on Steam. From now through July 16, FM 2018 costs 66 percent less its normal price—a number presumably inspired by the England international team's greatest achievement.

>>That's one deal. Another one is the daily deal, Megaton Rainfall, 38% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/430210/Megaton_Rainfall/.

At GOG, the Summer sale is about to end. Because of that, they already have a new weekly sale, Keep it rolling, with up to 85% discounts: https://www.gog.com/promo/20180618_weekly_sale

On the Humble Store, Offworld Trading Company Complete will be on sale for the next day, 73% off: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/offworld-trading-company-complete

Finally, at Fanatical there are three new deals:

• The Star Deal is Injustice 2 - Legendary Edition, and will last 48 hours: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/injustice-2-legendary-edition
• Next comes the All Stars X Bundle, that lets you grab 10 Steam games 98% cheaper than usual: https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/all-stars-x-bundle
• An lastly, there's a Focus Home Interactive sale, with up to 66% discounts: https://www.fanatical.com/en/publishers/focus-home-interactive

SOFTWARE

Steam will restrict 'fake games' which exist solely for achievement farming
https://www.pcgamer.com/steam-will-restrict-fake-games-which-exist-solely-for-achievement-farming/
Last year, Valve took action to mitigate the number of trading card farming games on Steam by developing a confidence metric that prevents games from dropping cards until it believes real people are really playing them. Now it's doing the same thing with achievement farming games.
In a brief message posted to the private developer group (which we can read via SteamDB and Reddit), Valve says that these achievement farming games aren't being used by many people, but that they confuse algorithms and users. Because of this, if a game hasn't reached the confidence metric Valve already developed for trading card farming games, it will be limited to 1,000 achievements, and those achievements won't count toward a player's global achievement count or be displayable on their profile. The game also won't count toward the number of games they own, and won't be eligible for coupons.

Valve says it's 'really easy' to spot devs manipulating reviews, bans them 'all the time'
https://www.pcgamer.com/valve-says-its-really-easy-to-spot-developers-manipulating-reviews-bans-them-all-the-time/
Valve bans developers manipulating reviews "all the time", and the practice is "really easy to spot", according to Tom Giardino, who works on the Steam Business team.
Giardino's comments came in response to Cliff Harris, the founder of Gratuitous Space Battles developer Positech Games, who warned on Thursday that online review systems were "fundamentally broken". Developers could illegally buy hundreds of copies of their own game "through shills" and then artificially boost its review score, he said on Twitter.

MODS/EMULATORS

Dark Souls Remastered gets its first HD texture pack, based on an Unreal Engine 4 fan project
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/dark-souls-remastered-gets-its-first-hd-textures-pack-based-on-an-unreal-engine-4-fan-project/
Back in March, we informed you about a fan remake of Dark Souls in Unreal Engine 4. Created by Evie Shudder, this fan project recreated the Firelink Shrine from Dark Souls in Unreal Engine 4. And yesterday, Evie released the first texture pack for Dark Souls Remastered that is based on this fan project.
As Evie noted, this is a retexture of majorly noticeable textures in Dark Sous Remastered based off her Firelink Shrine UE4 Remake. Currently, Firelink is 90% complete and the Valley of Drakes is 30% complete.
Those interested can download the current version of Evie’s Ultra HD Dark Souls REMASTERED Retex from here. Evie noted that players can can expect regular updates, though the mod will never include textures for armour or weapons.

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines Unofficial Patch 10 is now available for download
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/vampire-the-masquerade-bloodlines-unofficial-patch-10-is-now-available-for-download/
Troika’s Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines is now considered a classic PC RPG and a new unofficial patch has just been released for it. In case you weren’t aware of, the Unofficial Patch is like a restoration mod adding a lot of unfinished content, including new quests, maps, weapons, items, characters, dialogue, graphics, models, sounds and music.
According to its release notes, Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines unofficial patch 10 improves Chateau details and adds persuaded Gargoyle and killer, corrects noclipping taxi at the museum and TV in Skyeline haven, restores killing innocents Humanity loss and tutorial guard feed and problems with tutorial vampire enemies and disciplines.
Those interested can download this new patch from http://www.patches-scrolls.de/patch/4647/7/74918/download" target="_blank">here, and below you can find its complete changelog.

This Fallout 4 mod adds extremely high polygon face meshes for characters and companions
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/this-fallout-4-mod-adds-extremely-high-polygon-face-meshes-for-characters-and-companions/
Modder ‘SQr17’ has released a must-have mod for Fallout 4. As its title suggests, the HiPoly Faces mod for Fallout 4 adds brand new high polygon face meshes for player characters and companions, with functioning morphs.
This mod addresses the pointy noses and boxy chins/neck that come with the vanilla faces, and is a mod that pretty much all Fallout 4 should download and use. As the modder noted, the polygon count has been kept to a reasonable level, so there shouldn’t be any performance issues, even on weaker systems.

>>Available from Nexus Mods.

Alex Kidd in Miracle World fan remake is currently under development
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/alex-kidd-in-miracle-world-fan-remake-is-currently-under-development/
NareHop and Josyanf1 are currently working on a remake of the classic Alex Kidd in Miracle World game. This fan remake will be a free game and the team aims to recreate all the levels, enemies and bosses, and will introduce new sprites and animations.
Although we don’t have any additional details about this remake for Alex Kidd in Miracle World, you can find below its first screenshots and some GIFs comparing the original and the newly designed sprites.

There's an Unreal Tournament demake for Atari 2600 you can play in your browser
https://www.pcgamer.com/theres-an-unreal-tournament-demake-for-atari-2600-you-can-play-in-your-browser/
Unreal Tournament, as in the 1999 multiplayer first-person-shooter, has been demade for a new platform—the Atari VCS, aka the Atari 2600, a 41-year-old console. Fortunately you don't need to have kept your Atari since 1977 to play it, as UT 2600 runs in an emulator or can be enjoyed right in your browser.
This bleepy, chunky, 2D version of Unreal Tournament features capture-the-flag and deathmatch modes, can be played with a friend locally or online, and includes various classic pickups and weapons like everyone's favorite gun, the flak cannon.
UT 2600 is still in beta at the moment, but there are plans for a physical cartridge release in the future. In the meantime, check it out here.

GAMING NEWS

Far Cry 5 patch 1.07 available, adds new mouse+keyboard controls scheme for planes & FreeSync 2 support
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/far-cry-5-patch-1-07-available-adds-new-mousekeyboard-controls-scheme-for-planes-freesync-2-support/
Ubisoft has released a brand new update for Far Cry 5. According to the release notes, patch 1.07 fixes multiple low occurrence crashes, fixes an issue where the FPS could drop below 30 at certain locations in the world, and adds new Avatar Items in the Character Customization, new assets in the Arcade Editor and new loading screens.

Open-world survival game, SCUM, comes to Steam Early Access in August 2018
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/open-world-survival-game-scum-comes-to-steam-early-access-in-august-2018/
Devolver Digital and Gamepires have announced that their upcoming open-world survival game, SCUM, will come to Steam Early Access in August 2018. In order to celebrate this announcement, the publisher released some new screenshots and a trailer that you can find below.

Cyberpunk 2077 will have diverse relationship options
https://www.pcgamer.com/cyberpunk-2077-will-have-diverse-relationship-options/
Geralt, the Witcher, is a notorious sex machine, and there will be opportunities for Cyberpunk 2077's lead character V to romp around, too. But where Geralt came to videogames as a pre-existing character with established traits and preferences, V will be entirely customizable. Because of that, the romance options in the new game will offer "more diversity" than what was available in The Witcher series, CD Projekt told Game Informer.

Cyberpunk 2077’s E3 2018 demo was an actual real build, confirmed to be present at Gamescom 2018
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/cyberpunk-2077s-e3-2018-demo-was-an-actual-real-build-confirmed-to-be-present-at-gamescom-2018/
In an interview with Jason Schreier, Marcin Iwinski confirmed that Cyberpunk 2077 will be present at Gamescom 2018. Marcin also said that Cyberpunk 2077 will be powered by the next iteration of the RED Engine, called REDengine 4. Marcin also claimed that this demo was not a fake one, was not built entirely for E3, and it was a real build of the game.

Cyberpunk 2077’s E3 2018 demo was running on an Intel i7-8700K with an NVIDIA GeForce GTX1080Ti
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/cyberpunk-2077s-e3-2018-demo-was-running-on-an-intel-i7-8700-with-an-nvidia-geforce-gtx1080ti/
At the official Discord server, CD Projekt RED’s community manager “Alicja” confirmed the PC specs of the machine that was running Cyberpunk 2077’s E3 2018 demo. According to Alicja, the demo was running on an Intel i7-8700K with 32GB of RAM and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX1080Ti.

Beyond Blue is a new underwater exploration game, coming to PC in early 2019
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/beyond-blue-is-a-new-underwater-exploration-game-coming-to-pc-in-early-2019/
E-Line Media has announced a new underwater exploration game, called Beyond Blue. Embracing the same inclusive development process that was used to create Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna), the company paired world-class game makers with some of the field’s leading ocean experts to craft an experience that reflects the awesome wonder and unbounded mystery that infuses our planet’s beating blue heart.

New pre-alpha Serious Sam 4 screenshots surface
https://www.dsogaming.com/screenshot-news/new-pre-aplha-serious-sam-4-screenshots-surface/
A new set of pre-alpha screenshots for Serious Sam 4 have surfaced online. Unfortunately, these screenshots are of low-quality and are a bit blurry. Still, we are pretty sure that most Serious Sam fans will be interested in them (and especially in the last one that shows lots of enemies on screen).

Warriors Orochi 4 is coming to the PC on October 19th
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/warriors-orochi-4-is-coming-to-the-pc-on-october-19th/
KOEI Tecmo has announced that Warriors Orochi 4 will release on October 19th. According to the press release, Warriors Orochi 4 will boast a remarkable 170 playable characters from the Dynasty and Samurai Warriors universes, giving players an astounding number of options to choose from when playing alone, or with a friend.