Look at that, MSoft has releasd an update just for you, Yuri.

Indeed. Maybe if I hope for 1 million dollars, MS will give me that too! Please? I'll cut my porn watching by half if they do!

Reviews for the RX 6600 are out and unsurprisingly in 2021 fashion, they're bad..

Almost no uplift in performance from a last generation card (5600XT) with crap raytracing and costs more, assuming you can get for MSRP. The GPU market is a joke rn.

so those intel gpus, i bet driver support is going to suck even if performance is the tits

Good thing for Intel is that if they are not complete crap. They'd sell everything they can make. Never been easier time for them to enter the gpu market. Imagine if there was no stock shortage and you could buy AMD/Nvidia gpus for msrp. Why would someone bother unless they significant underprice them.

The Wednesday news, all in one post:

SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

GOG's Midweek Sale contains "games with rich stories" up to 85% off during the next 3 days: https://www.gog.com/promo/20211013_midweek_sale

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

-Empty-

MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

-Empty as well-

GAMING NEWS

Monster Hunter Rise will use Denuvo, PC demo releases today, new 4K PC gameplay footage
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/monster-hunter-rise-will-use-denuvo-pc-demo-releases-today-new-4k-pc-gameplay-footage/
YouTube’s ‘gaijin hunter’ has shared a video, showing 8 minutes of gameplay footage from the PC version of Monster Hunter Rise. The YouTuber had early access to the PC demo that will come out later today. Thus, this video will give you an idea of what you can expect from it.

Riot is disabling cross-team chat in League of Legends
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/league-of-legends-all-chat-disabled/
Riot Games is making a fundamental change to League of Legends as part of its ongoing effort to reduce toxic behavior: As of League's 11.21 patch, /all chat has been disabled for matchmade queues.

'It's hard to be a woman in this company': More details of sexual harassment at Paradox Interactive emerge
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/its-hard-to-be-a-woman-in-this-company-more-details-of-sexual-harassment-at-paradox-interactive-emerge/
New reports from Eurogamer and Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet detail further allegations of a misogynistic workplace culture at Paradox Interactive, the studio behind grand strategy mainstays including Europa Universalis, Crusader Kings, and Hearts of Iron. The report comes just over a month after the leak of a Paradox employee survey in which 69% of women respondents reported some form of mistreatment while working at the company.

Call of Duty cheaters get an ominous warning from Activision: 'See you tomorrow'
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/call-of-duty-cheaters-get-an-ominous-warning-from-activision-see-you-tomorrow/
Activision has dropped a cryptic message for cheaters in Call of Duty, hinting strongly that new measures to combat them are incoming and warning, with great ominosity, that—"soon you'll know what we mean."

Avowed, Obsidian's Skyrim-style RPG, will feature two-handed combat and 'multiple class playstyles'
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/avowed-obsidians-skyrim-style-rpg-will-feature-two-handed-combat-and-multiple-class-playstyles/
Our colleagues at Windows Central published an article Tuesday with a few bits of fresh information on Avowed, Obsidian's upcoming first-person fantasy RPG. There aren't many new details, but we did learn a few things: Author Jez Corden says that Avowed will feature "multiple class playstyles" with two-handed combat that will enable dual wielding, two-handed weapons or a combination of weapons and wizardy, according to sources familiar with the game's development.

Total War: Warhammer's unloved sieges are being reworked in the third game
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/total-war-warhammers-unloved-sieges-are-being-reworked-in-the-third-game/
Since Total War: Warhammer 3 adds the China-themed army of Grand Cathay, for whom "making great big walls" is kind of a thing, it's fitting this is the game in the series to rework siege battles. As Creative Assembly explains in the above video and a blog post, Total War: Warhammer's least popular battle type is being significantly reworked.

Fallout 3 finally freed from Games For Windows Live scourge
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/fallout-3-finally-freed-from-games-for-windows-live-scourge/
Launched in 2007, Microsoft's Games For Windows Live was a maligned game launcher designed to unite PC and Xbox Live users. (...)
That's all in the past, now: A new update for Fallout 3 and its GOTY variant completely excises GFWL's perfidious remains, leaving a game that you should now be able to simply boot up, hassle free.

Fortnite backtracks and teases an Among Us crossover
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/fortnite-backtracks-and-teases-an-among-us-crossover/
This August Epic announced a kinda sus new mode for Fortnite called Imposters. As if the name wasn't enough of a clue, yes: it basically rips off Innersloth's hugely successful Among Us, aside from the inclusion of a banana who has technically appeared in federal court. Bad Epic!
(...)
Epic has belatedly realised that, if it's going to fight high-profile legal cases where it claims to be standing up for developer rights, then ripping off a smaller developer's game without credit is probably not a good look. The first mea culpa came in some patch notes yesterday, which began “v18.20 brings improvements to Impostors, the game mode inspired by Among Us from Innersloth!”

Final Fantasy 14 director explains how housing lottery system will work
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/final-fantasy-14-housing-lottery-explained/
When Final Fantasy 14 director Naoki Yoshida announced earlier this year that the Endwalker expansion would improve the incredibly frustrating house-buying process and make it more fair, details were a little scarce. PC Gamer spoke with Yoshida as part of a recent roundtable interview and got considerably more explanation and insight this time around.

Final Fantasy 14's game director doesn't like the drama surrounding World of Warcraft's player exodus
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/final-fantasy-14-vs-wow-naoki-yoshida/
It's no secret that Final Fantasy 14 director Naoki Yoshida is a huge fan of World of Warcraft, citing it as one of his biggest influences. While Final Fantasy 14's infamous redemption story certainly saved it from ruin, Yoshida doesn't enjoy seeing fans credit Final Fantasy 14's recently skyrocketing player counts to a supposed exodus of World of Warcraft players following Blizzard's high-profile missteps with its long running MMO.

The next battle royale game is an interactive live-action movie
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/the-next-battle-royale-game-is-an-interactive-live-action-movie/
Despite some idiot claiming the battle royale gold rush was over back in 2019, there are still plenty of BR projects elbowing their way into the crowded field. This year we've seen Naraka: Bladepoint make a big splash (and Vampire: The Masquerade—Bloodhunt make a small ripple), and of course Squid Game was not only very good but set viewership records for Netflix. People still can't get enough battle royale, and that's probably not gonna change.
There's a bridge between videogames and TV shows, and that's the interactive video, like we saw with 2018's Bandersnatch. Now battle royale is invading that space, too. The next battle royale is called Bloodshore, and it's a live-action "interactive battle royale movie" launching on Steam in November. In Bloodshore you watch people trying to kill each other and make choices about who gets to kill who.

Don't be so greedy. You already got your problem fixed, let someone else get the money .

That's one of my worries with those GPUs. At least, looking at the positive side of it, they'll have it easier than AMD and Nvidia since they don't have many older GPUs to worry about (only the integrated ones), but even then, we'll have to see how often they release new drivers and ihow good they are.

So I just got back from picking up my 1080ti from my local PC solutions store (I don't have the tools and the paste to do what was needed, and I like to support the only PC store on my island for how small it is), they removed the middle fan that was rattling and it literally fell apart in the engineer's hands lol.

He's slapped on a new coat of thermal paste and I've just plugged it in and got it running, but to my surprise, the two remaining fans are still spinning at full speed and I cannot figure out just wtf is going on. All 3 fans have seperate connectors, so I thought removing one would somehow cancel out all 3 fans trying to ramp at full speed.

I tested before taking it to the store and after with and without MSI AB running and with/without Aorus's shitty fan control software, and the results are still the same (although now there isn't a horrible rattling sound and temps are low, but it still sounds loud and I cannot tell MSI to keep the fans under control).

Anyone got any clues at all as to what this might be?. I'm thinking of doing a complete wipe oh my current GPU driver via DDU and going for the latest driver to see if that does anything (doubtful though).

I've never once flashed my GPU bios, but at the end of the day, that was something I've never thought to bother with in the first place.

NVIDIA Readies GeForce RTX 3080 With GA102-220, RTX 3050 Ti With GA106-150 & RTX 3050 With GA107-350 GPUs

https://wccftech.com/nvidia-readies-geforce-rtx-3080-ga102-220-rtx-3050-ti-with-ga106-150-rtx-3050-with-ga107-350-gpus-graphics-cards/


NVIDIA preparing GeForce RTX 3080 with GA102-220 GPU and 12GB memory for January 2022 launch

https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-preparing-geforce-rtx-3080-with-ga102-220-gpu-and-12gb-memory-for-january-2022-launch

So one fan is "normal" speed while the other two are max speed?