Doesn't help that the Switch didn't leverage the latest and greatest nVidia Tegra SoC on it's release... So it was already outdated. Pascal could have offered 50% more performance at the same powerlevel and not added much to the cost.

But that 4GB of LPDDR4 1600Mhz memory is NOT doing the switch any favors in 2021, that bandwidth is limiting fillrate and keeping resolutions low and developers are struggling to work with 3GB of work-space. (As the OS gobbles a chunk.)

The Switch is a fantastic device, it's just not aging well visually, especially as we venture forth into the Global Illumination/Ray Tracing era.

Ah yeah Serious Sam brilliant game. I go back to Half Life series every once in a while. And have CS Go in my play rotation. I think it boils down to feel mostly. No crappy mouse acceleration, ADS or other gimmicks.

That the original or 2004? Loved 2004 back when it was fresh. The guns were great as were the the DM and the survival modes. Tried the newer UT and Quake Live but couldn't get them - the hero classes type of Live was really off-putting. All that said, am cautiously looking forward to seeing the new Quake, hopefully that brings back some of the arena shooters of old (a little skeptical as I'm not a fan of Machine Games, games). 

Idd glory kill ruined the flow for me. Watching the same pre-canned animation for the umpteenth time gets old, fast. And I hate the way it encourages you to do it to regain health and preserve ammo. That's the reason why I'm reluctant to play Eternal where its essential to do and forces you to play in a particular way due to lack of ammo - the whole point of having fun in playing an FPS for me is shooting and not having to worry about ammo every 5 secs.

Not sure if using the X2 would have resulted in that much more performance, (pure GPU performance was ~50% higher, but when both CPU and GPU were used, the margin tended to be much lower between the two chips iirc) but it would have been the better choice for sure, especially with it's larger memory bandwidth.

I expect NVidia to create a new Tegra chip soon. Not just for the Switch, but also for the Jetson Nano and NVidia Shield devices, which use the same chips as the Switch does. In fact, I believe that without the chip crunch NVidia would already have done it and it would have been the basis of the new OLED model.

It won't be much more than a die-shrinked X2 probably (to 12nm out for originally 16nm), but that alone could result in up to 50% more performance compared to the current model. Most interesting would be that the memory could be increased to 8GB on the next model, which could definitely help some games.

Both of them. In fact, I sometimes even prefer UT2003 because I have difficulties differencing the Link Gun with the ASMD Shock Rifle in UT 2004 while in 2003 they had very different designs.

Oh nice. Ngl been a while since I played those games and can't remember much on 2003 so I can't comment the differences between guns. Was there a big change? On another note the Flak Cannon remains one my GOT (and memorable) guns ever, nothing more satisfying than blasting someone into giblets at CQ and carefully predicting and shooting and well placed explosive rounds.

You kinda peaked my interest into getting 2004 lol. I read that the there's still an active community for the game.

Ah, somebody who want to get the "Flak Monkey" moniker at the match results table ;)

Yes, it's still very active. I've grown pretty slow with time, so I can't keep up with those players. I still try sometimes, but I mostly play with bots these days ^^

As for the Shock Rifle: https://unreal.fandom.com/wiki/Shock_Rifle

The Tuesday news, all in one post:

SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

As New World goes live in North America, it already has half a million players
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/as-new-world-goes-live-in-north-america-it-already-has-450000-players/
New World is out now, and it seems players are ready for a new MMO: the game is currently sitting pretty with 520,000 concurrent players, according to SteamDB's numbers. That's a hell of a result for a game that isn't free-to-play, and is basically a big grind. People do love a good grind.

GOG sees the release of two old Microids games, "Agatha Christie - Hercule Poirot: The First Cases" and "Murder Mystery Machine" and, to celebrate it, they've come up with the Microids Adventure Week Sale that will last until October 4th: https://www.gog.com/partner/microids_adventure

Steam has several new deals, including the new weeklong deals:

• The new daily deal is the Microids 2021 Sale, with up to 90% discounts: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/2021MicroidsSale
• The first Midweek Madness deal is Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, 50% off until Thursday: https://store.steampowered.com/app/731490/Crash_Bandicoot_N_Sane_Trilogy/
• Project Hospital is going to be 60% off until the 30th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/868360/Project_Hospital/
• KONAMI puts its games up to 90% off until Thursday 30: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/konamipublishersale
• Publisher Rebellion puts its games up to 85% off until the 1st of October: https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/Rebellion/sale/rebellionpublishersale
• ASTRONEER is going to be 35% off until October 4th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/361420/ASTRONEER/
• And here are some of the weeklong deals:
  • LOST EPIC, still in Early Access, is 15% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1426490/LOST_EPIC/
  • All-In-One Sports VR / Todo-En-Uno Deportes VR, also in Early Access, is 30% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1514840/AllInOne_Sports_VR__TodoEnUno_Deportes_VR/
  • Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins is going to be 50% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1508270/Doctor_Who_The_Lonely_Assassins/
  • La-Mulana is 67% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/230700/LaMulana/
  • And Redeemer: Enhanced Edition will be 85% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/447290/Redeemer_Enhanced_Edition/

The Humble Store has two new sales:

• Publisher Prime Matter puts its games up to 80% off during the next 6 days. There are keys for Steam and EGS: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/prime-matter-sale/
• And the Best of Bandai-Namco Sale comes with up to 90% discounts during the next 6 days: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/best-of-bandai-sale/

And Fanatical has a new Star Deal: Planet Zoo is going to be 67% off during the next 48 hours: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/planet-zoo.

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

Steam will still let you revert to old game builds, despite beta concerns
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/steam-beta-suggests-you-wont-be-able-to-revert-to-old-game-builds-much-longer/
The option to revert to an older build of a game has been an undocumented feature of Steam for a while now, but as SteamDB notes, the latest beta changes how the client connects to its content delivery network, removing the access customers had to previous versions of their games. Update: Valve has responded to claims that Steam will soon disable the option to download previous versions of games. In a statement provided to PC Gamer, a spokesperson clarifies the company is not planning to disable access to older versions of software.

MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

This 2.8GB Dark Souls 3 Mod lets you become some of the game’s bosses
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/this-2-8gb-dark-souls-3-mod-lets-you-become-some-of-the-games-bosses/
Modder ‘thefirsthunterapprendice’ is currently working on a pretty cool mod for Dark Souls 3 that lets you become some of the game’s bosses. Now do note that this isn’t a skin mod. Instead, players can now control the bosses themselves and use their weapons.
Unfortunately, we don’t have enough information about this mod. From what I could find, Elite Knight’s Original Weapons currently features the Farron Undead Legion, Lorian, Slave Knight Gael, and Nameless King. It also features some weapons from other bosses.
>> You can download it from here /Google Drive).

This 6.7GB Mod overhauls all landscape textures in Fallout 3 & Fallout New Vegas
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/this-6-7gb-mod-overhauls-all-landscapes-textures-in-fallout-3-fallout-new-vegas/
Modder ‘Spiffyskytrooper’ has released a new HD Texture Pack that aims to overhaul all of the landscape textures in both Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas.
(...)
This pack comes with three quality presets, “High”, “Medium”, and “Low”. High is almost entirely 2K, whereas Low is almost entirely 1K. Lastly, Medium is a mix of 2K and 1K.
Now what’s cool here is that you can use it in either Fallout 3 or Fallout New Vegas. Or in both of them. Thus, this will be ideal for those that want better textures, but cannot bother downloading individual packs for these two games. Furthermore, this pack supports all DLCs for both of these games.
>> Available from Nexus Mods.

The Witcher 3 Mod adds two Dark Souls-inspired combat mechanics
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/the-witcher-3-mod-adds-two-dark-souls-inspired-combat-mechanics/
Modder ‘Mugi-Defalt’ has released a pretty cool mod for The Witcher 3 that brings to it two Dark Souls-inspired combat mechanics.
Going into more details, this mod allows you to backstab and kill stronger enemies than you. Moreover, it adds a counter-attack that can instantly kill weaker enemies.
Surprisingly enough, these two combat tweaks work wonderfully in The Witcher 3. In order to showcase them, the modder released the following video.
>> You can get it from Nexus Mods.

GAMING NEWS

Here are 7 minutes of gameplay footage from Alan Wake Remastered
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/here-are-7-minutes-of-gameplay-footage-from-alan-wake-remastered/
IGN has shared a video, showing seven minutes of gameplay footage from Alan Wake Remastered. The game releases on October 5th, and this video will give you a glimpse at its remastered visuals.
>> And here are the system requirements.

Get all currently available Lord of the Rings Online quest packs free
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/get-all-currently-available-lord-of-the-rings-online-quest-packs-free/
Last year, Standing Stone Games gave away a bunch of quest packs for The Lord of the Rings Online so people had something to do during lockdown. Now the studio has a similar giveaway going on, and you can get all the currently available quest packs for free. All you have to do is redeem the coupon code LOTROQUESTS2021 in the LotRO store in-game before November 30. Which means you'll have to install it first, and given that it's an MMO that's gonna take a while.

Roblox settles $200 million lawsuit with music publishers
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/roblox-settles-dollar200-million-lawsuit-with-music-publishers/
The National Music Publishers' Association has settled its $200 million lawsuit against Roblox Corporation, announcing today that it has entered into a new opt-in agreement that enables NMPA members to come up with their own individual licensing deals for the use of their music in Roblox.

Activision sued by another federal agency, settles lawsuit for $18 million
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/activision-sued-by-another-federal-agency-immediately-settles-lawsuit-for-dollar18-million/
Earlier today the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit against Activision Blizzard after a three year investigation into alleged workplace discrimination. The EEOC's lawsuit says the agency issued Activision a letter on June 15—nearly a full month before California's Department of Fair Employment and Housing lawsuit was issued—and according to the Wall Street Journal, the parties have been in talks since.
After the EEOC's lawsuit emerged, Activision issued a press release announcing an agreement with the federal agency. The agreement involves the creation of an "$18 million fund to compensate and make amends to eligible claimants," while any remaining cash will be given to relevant charities.

Amazon's New World is finally live
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/amazons-new-world-is-finally-live/
New World has finally arrived, a wee bit later than originally planned (May 2020 was the first release date). No more delays—you can jump in right now. At least if you're playing on European servers. The rest of the regional servers will start opening up throughout the day.

FIFA 22 removes player accused of rape
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/fifa-22-removes-player-accused-of-rape/
On September 10, Manchester City defender Benjamin Mendy appeared in Chester Crown Court and was charged with four counts of rape and one count of sexual assault. (...)
Now EA has announced it has removed the player from FIFA 22 (per Eurogamer), which EA Play subscribers have been able to access a trial of since September 22 (the game releases on October 1). Mendy has been removed from the Manchester City and France teams, and his card removed from FIFA Ultimate Team.

Thanks for the video with very interesting results. The bigest problem in this whole theory, tho, is Nintendo actually going with an SoC that's so new that it hasn't even launched yet (only been announced as far as I know).

That said, I've been looking at Orin and found the article that WCCFTech did about it and found this excerpt:

"In a slide shared by Dylan522P over at his Twitter feed, various DRIVE configurations for the Orin SOC are listed. It seems like Orin will have a few TDP / workload-optimized variants with the base 1-Camera variant offering 36 TOPs at 15W, the 4-Camera variant offering 100 TOPs at 40W, a 2 chip variant offering 400 TOPs at 130W and the top-end 2 Orin + 2 discrete GPU variant offering up to 2000 TOPs at 750W. It looks like the TDP of the 200 TOPs, single-SOC lies somewhere around 60-70 Watts."

With the 1-Camera variant as the base of the console, Nvidia will work to do to turn those 36 TOPs at 15W to 20 TOPs for 5W, and using a more advanced process node isn't feasable as Orin is supposed to use Samsung's 8nm.

Also, back in June when everybody assumed Nintendo would reveal the Switch Pro, Kopite posted this:

This is a preliminary picture of T234 in Wikipedia. Very clear.
So why do we always guess?
Nintendo will use a customized one, T239. pic.twitter.com/Qp5Im5udlQ

— kopite7kimi (@kopite7kimi) June 11, 2021

If we trust him when it comes to Nvidia GPU, we should also give him the same level of trust when it comes to this, right?

Samsung's Quality Control Fail - Fixing the Broken Odyssey Neo G9

Quality Control issues on a $2500 monitor? Very cool Samsung... Least there will be a firmware update to fix some issues.

Fractal Puts Everyone to Shame: Fire Hazard Fix Tested (Torrent Case)

How to do a proper fix for issues