Yea we will see. If it does turn out to be as good as the previews say, then this is gonna be one fun holiday season, thats for sure!

Life is Strange: True Colors is locked in 1080p onn my 4K TV when I use the DX12 path :(

https://gfycat.com/dependentrigidbluebottlejellyfish

I'll play it in the recommended DX11 mode in 4K then without raytracing.

But RT is almost useless in this game anyways, so no big loss.

Nooope, no more consoles for me, thanks.

After the Joycon drift and the lack of games that interest me on the Switch has told me that I only ever really got the Switch for indie games, and since the Deck is coming out next year, I'll likely go for that and not bother buying anything new for the Switch itself (since I only ever liked AC/Zelda, and the next AC is eons away and Zelda BotW 2 is whenever). 

I don't think I'm ever going to get back into racing games in all honesty, because the last good one I really enjoyed was Burnout paradise and nothing has had that exact vibe for me since (holy shit that game's nearly 15 yrs old).

I dunno about "real fans", but I've played Halo since the OG days when it was on Xbox, heck I even played Halo CE on the college PC's with friends when our professors were on lunch break. Current Halo just ain't doing it for me though, hell hardly any AAA game these days has me wanting to pay upwards of £60-70 day 1 (myriad of reasons you'll know by now). 

Also, I'm not a gaming junkie these days, I've actually toned down my gaming sessions to like 1-2hrs a day, so I've no reason to binge game after game (hardly manage to complete any SP game in a week, so Days Gone/HZD are still on my "to finish" list). I'm honestly not phased by spoilers like most of you guys are on here (I'm one of those types that actually wants to know when they die, what they will do tomorrow, etc). 

But yeah, no more consoles for me. Still wish MS could whip me up something I'd go for in a heartbeat (it was going to be AoE IV, but y'know how that turned out). 

That's weird. Think I played that with DX12 + RT and it ran okay on my GTX 1070 @1440P - albeit with a few crashes. Maybe drivers issues? The RT effect is subtle but adds a bit more realism to the characters. Like they appear a tad more grounded.

Judge dismisses antitrust lawsuit filed against Valve
https://www.pcgamer.com/judge-dismisses-antitrust-lawsuit-filed-against-valve/
In April, Overgrowth developer Wolfire Games filed an antitrust lawsuit against Valve, alleging that Steam's dominance in the PC gaming market enables it to extract "an extraordinarily high cut" of the sales made through its storefront. Valve responded in July, saying Wolfire's complaint failed to meet "the most basic requirements of an antitrust case," and asking the judge to dismiss it as a result. In a ruling filed today, the judge in the case agreed with Valve.

Raytracing with a GTX card without raytracing cores?

Well, yeah, that's because most of what I used to love is now gone, replaced by other genres, other companies, and what I do tend to love today is kept from me because a rich CEO decided to come back to a platform they swore off years ago. 

That being said, I still game, just not anywhere as much as I used to (at least back in my early 20's). 

Course I get angry about some things when it comes to gaming, because I'm passionate about the hobby and I want devs/pubs to do better, not worse or regard us as "enemies" (Like how some Blizz staff see Azmogold).

I like Paradise simply because of what it was for me at the time. It was a fast paced arcade racer, which let me take down rival racers with flair/style, and the intense speed/blur gave a good adrenaline-like feeling (also helped that custom music like initial D went well with the game). Forza and other racers today just don't replicate that same vibe for me, and come off as le mons racers or rally types. I personally feel like paradise is my type of racer.

I already take breaks, simply by not gaming for a few days and instead focusing on talking with art friends on Discord/Twitter. I don't think you know me well outside of this forum to know that I do other things besides just game. 

I expect Wolfire to go with EGS next time round with whatever game they decide to spend a near decade on. They are part of Humble Bundle anyway, so it's not like they have anything to lose. 

AMD Radeon RX 6500XT and RX 6400 entry-level RDNA2 cards allegedly listed with 4GB GDDR6 memory

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-radeon-rx-6500xt-and-rx-6400-entry-level-rdna2-cards-allegedly-listed-with-4gb-gddr6-memory



64 bit bus... I don't think I have seen one that low in a long time! Of course, a 2060 will probably smoke it and will age significantly better so as usual with budget AMD GPUs... Skip


Intel Arc Alchemist with 512 EUs suffers from low GPU clock in Geekbench OpenCL benchmarks

https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-arc-alchemist-with-512-eus-suffers-from-low-gpu-clock-in-geekbench-opencl-benchmarks

"In four of the benchmark runs, the GPU scored 69220, 68418, 6603, and 64964 points, which according to Geekbench’s own performance charts, is close to GeForce RTX 2060 desktop GPU and slightly above Pascal-based NVIDIA Titan Xp. The 512EU model of Arc Alchemist GPU is to feature 16GB GDDR6 memory, so the 12.7 GB capacity reported by Geekench is likely incorrect."

I wouldn't put too much thought into it as because of the low clocks, it probably goofed it

Yeah they must be using software raytracing for shadows.

Definitely has it though xP