I just started playing Pirate Warriors 4, and it's so jarring to have 60fps gameplay, but 30fps cutscenes, and there's no way to make them 60fps, and the only way you can have them both being the same, is locking the gameplay to 30fps 

Bamco still hasn't learned since PW3 PC.

I think the only ports I've ever liked Japanese wise, have been the Dragonball games, like Fighter Z and that MMO-like DBZ game, both of those had good options and played nice with my rig, while nearly anything else japanese is a omegalul clusterfuck (like Star Ocean, FFXV, Chrono Cross etc). 

Hi Guys, I'm back just in time for E3. Let's get disappointed together, like old times!

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Oof sounds like a lazy console port. I haven't played many Japanese games this gen though I keep hearing bad things about them. I think its just best to set expectations to low when it comes to PC releases. With a few outliers like Capcom who actually put effort into their games. And even then they can mess up like stuttering/performance issues with RE: Village.

So Devolver show ended.. Guess that Hotline Miami thing was just trolling :/

Morning, guys. I haven't seen it until today but, there's a new:

*** FREE GAME ***

If you go to Steam, you'll find Titan Souls free to keep until tomorrow, June 14: https://store.steampowered.com/app/297130/Titan_Souls/

Also, I'm sure you've already seen it if you have gone to the EGS to claim Control but, just in case, you can grab Genshin Impact from there until next Thursday.

There have been some more information since then on the Intel chips, mostly curtesy to Moore's Law is Dead.

As it's already widely known, Alder Lake will use a big.LITTLE design. The big cores are based on Tiger Lake while the little ones are a new iteration of their Atom cores called Gracemont. Based on their Tremont predecessors, which already are in 10nm, I guess they will come with a base clock of ~2Ghz and a boost clock of 3-3.5Ghz.

And now for the core configurations, as it's going to be a little bit confusing. For desktop, we have:

i9: 8 big + 8 little cores

i7: 8+4 cores

i5: K versions: 6+4 cores, non-k versions: 6+0 cores

i3: only non-k versions coming, 4+0 cores

On laptops, Alder Lake will come with 8+8 (45W+), 6+4(35W+), 2+8(15W-28W) and 1+4(12W and below) core configurations.

Raptor Lake meanwhile, being just a refresh of Alder lake (same cores), but doubles the little cores to 16 on the i9, so ending up with a 8+16 configuration. How the other versions will look like is not yet known.

My take: It looks like Intel knows their cores draw too much power to run in their own spec. On desktop, that's not much of an issue yet (though OEMs and big clients certainly want to run within spec), but the low amount of big cores in lower power configurations really shows that they really need to go this route if they want to include more cores without the power budget exploding.

Some news

AMD vs Intel Market Share according to CPU benchmark

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/market_share.html

Now this is based on those who did the benchmarks but still, quite interesting.

Age of Empires IV file size is 93GB

Forza Horizon 5 Will be Tearing it Up in Mexico in November 2021

https://wccftech.com/forza-horizon-5-announced-2021-release-date/

AMD patents a task transition method between BIG and LITTLE processors

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-patents-a-task-transition-method-between-big-and-little-processors

The GPU shortage means MSI is re-releasing the GeForce GT 730

https://www.pcgamer.com/the-gpu-shortage-means-msi-is-re-releasing-the-geforce-gt-730/

Ah yes, the GPU that Nvidia will soon stop supporting future driver updates for

AoE IV size is ridiculous, but at least we know it will launch this October, which is nice.

It's impressive to see how the tables have turned for AMD thanks to Zen and Intel's inability to respond.

that wasn't the steam news i wanted