The Friday news:

SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

The Humble Store's Spring Sale brings another flash deal: Assassin's Creed Valhalla Ragnarök Edition gets a 55% discount during 26 hours. The key is for UPlay: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/assassins-creed-valhalla-ragnarok-edition.

Fanatical's new Star Deal is Aksys Anime Pack, 95% off during 24 hours: https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/aksys-anime-pack.

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

NVIDIA GeForce Game Ready 512.77 WHQL
https://videocardz.com/driver/nvidia-geforce-game-ready-512-77-whql
This new Game Ready Driver provides the best day-0 gaming experience for Evil Dead: The Game, which uses NVIDIA DLSS to maximize performance. In addition, this new Game Ready Driver offers support for the latest releases including Dolmen and Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong.

MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

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GAMING NEWS

These could be the first leaked screenshots from a new Silent Hill game
https://www.dsogaming.com/screenshot-news/these-could-be-the-first-leaked-screenshots-from-a-new-silent-hill-game/
Industry insider Dusk Golem has shared some leaked screenshots and artworks from what appears to be a new Silent Hill game. Dusk Golem have been behind numerous Resident Evil leaks and they have been accurate for the most part. Nevertheless, and since this is a leak, we suggest taking it with a grain of salt.
>> The images have been removed "in response to a report from the copyright holder", but there are copies.

Here are some brand new concept art for Alan Wake 2
https://www.dsogaming.com/screenshot-news/here-are-some-brand-new-concept-art-for-alan-wake-2/
Remedy has released some new concept art for its upcoming action-adventure game, Alan Wake 2. In addition, the team stated that it won’t share any news about it this Summer, so don’t expect any screenshots or trailers during Microsoft’s conference or the Summer Game Fest event.

Dead Space Remake to be released in January 2023, gets new WIP in-engine footage
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/dead-space-remake-release-january-2023-new-wip-footage/
Electronic Arts has announced that Dead Space Remake will release on January 27th, 2023. In addition, the publisher shared two dev diary videos that focus on the game’s visual effects, and pack some in-engine WIP footage.

Friday news, part two:

Dying Light 2's first major story DLC is delayed
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/dying-light-2s-first-major-story-dlc-is-delayed/
Starfield isn't the only big videogame delay to happen today. Techland has announced that the first major story DLC for Dying Light 2, which was expected to roll out in June, won't actually be out until sometime in September.

Use nukes and airstrikes to protect your keyboard in Keymasher Ultimate
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/use-nukes-and-airstrikes-to-protect-your-keyboard-in-keymasher-ultimate/
"Who has time for Lore?" asks Keymasher Ultimate. "There's no lore!! Only action!!"
I narrow my eyes and nod gravely. The game is correct. I don't have time for lore. Not with all these creeps on my keyboard.
Keymasher Ultimate is a free game about protecting your keyboard from "Seglings," which are little rectangular enemies on tiny two-wheeled scooters. For reasons unknown (there's no time for lore, remember) the Seglings want to roll around on your keyboard and wreck all your keys. Luckily, you have the perfect weapons to stop them: your keys.

Overwatch 2 beta will make a 'secret' Mercy ability easier to trigger
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/overwatch-2-beta-will-make-a-secret-mercy-ability-easier-to-trigger/
Overwatch 2 is in its beta stages, and the theme so far is Blizzard's determination to make support heroes a bit less lacklustre. The developer recently made a bunch of changes, including giving Zenyatta a badass super kick, and now it's looking at perennial favourite Mercy.

Deathloop now has a photo mode and better accessibility options
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/deathloop-now-has-a-photo-mode-and-better-accessibility-options/
Deathloop, for me, was one of the most stylish games of 2021. Though firmly set as a shooter on a little dystopian island, there was something very Met Gala about a man in hot pink trying to kill you as you run away screaming. The fashion of the characters and NPCs is something special, as is the highly stylised world they inhabit, so it's only natural that Arkane has finally introduced a photo mode along with other accessibility options in a recent update.

And these are the GOG and Steam deals for the weekend:

+GOG

• The Focus Home Interactive Sale will last another 55 hours: https://www.gog.com/promo/202205_focus_entertainment
• The new Weekly Sale features games about Zombies and other monsters up to 90% off: https://www.gog.com/promo/20220509_weekly_sale
• The Midweek Sale features adrenaline-fueled games up to 90% off during 2 days: https://www.gog.com/promo/20220511_midweek_sale
• Slitherine puts its games up to 80% for another 3 days: https://www.gog.com/partner/slitherine
• 505 Games also puts its titles on sale, with up to 90% discounts during 4 more days: https://www.gog.com/partner/505_Games
• To celebrate the release of a new expansion, Stellaris and its DLCs are on sale, up to 75% off during three days: https://www.gog.com/promo/20220512_stellaris
• The Weekend Sale features games with an isometric perspective up to 90% off: https://www.gog.com/promo/20220513_weekend_sale
• The first flash deal is Children of Morta, 65% off during 70 hours: https://www.gog.com/en/game/children_of_morta
• The second flash deal is Torment: Tides of Numenera, 75% off: https://www.gog.com/en/game/torment_tides_of_numenera
• The third, and last, flash deal is Hitman: Absolution with an 80% discount:

+Steam

• The daily deal is Clone Drone in the Danger Zone, 40% off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/597170/Clone_Drone_in_the_Danger_Zone/
• The first Weekend Deal is DCS World Steam Edition, that puts its DLCs up to 50% off until the 16th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/223750/DCS_World_Steam_Edition/
• The Subnautica Ultimate Collection gets a 55% discount until Monday. The individual games are 50% off: https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/21469/Subnautica_Ultimate_Collection/
• The Forest is going to be 70% off until the 16th of May: https://store.steampowered.com/app/242760/The_Forest/
• There's a Total War Sale, featuring up to 75% discounts until Monday: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/CAhistoric
• Publisher Modern Wolf puts its games up to 60% off until Monday 16: https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/ModernWolf/sale/modernwolfpublishersale
• The Watch_dogs games are between 75 and 80% off until the 16th: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/watch_dogs/
• The Team 17 Publisher Sale<^/u> features up to 90% discounts until Thursday, May 19: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/Team17PublisherSale
• And of course, there's also the weeklong deals.

And that's about it. Until next time, I hope you have a happy and gaming weekend.

Steam Deck Client Update: Per-game perf profiles, keyboard updates, and more

https://steamcommunity.com/games/1675200/announcements/detail/3216144458727332894

Top regrets of 2022:

1) Selling Steam Deck
2) Buying Macbook Pro M1 (Probably In July at least)
3) Forgetting to blacklist certain tags in hanime (nsfw)

AMD Ryzen 7000 ‘Raphael’ Desktop CPU Leaks Out: 8 Zen 4 Cores, 5.2 GHz Max Clocks, RDNA 2 ‘GFX1036’ Integrated Graphics Clocked at 2.0 GHz

https://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-7000-raphael-es-desktop-cpu-8-zen-4-cores-5-2-ghz-rdna-2-igpu-2-0-ghz/

Gigabyte announces recall and exchange for Z690I AORUS Ultra motherboard, citing PCIe Gen4-related issues

https://videocardz.com/newz/gigabyte-announces-recall-and-exchange-for-z690i-aorus-ultra-motherboard-citing-pcie-gen4-related-issues

Bloomberg: "Samsung in Talks to Hike Chipmaking Prices by Up to 20%"

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-13/samsung-in-talks-to-hike-chipmaking-prices-by-up-to-20

Samsung to reduce prices and improve yields on QD-OLED screens by introducing single pane panels

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Samsung-to-reduce-prices-and-improve-yields-on-the-2023-QD-OLED-screens-by-introducing-thinner-panels.618794.0.html

LG shat the bed. They were first to OLED for so many years and they could have cornered the PC Monitor market but instead, they decided to be arrogant. Now Samsung has come out with their superior QD-OLED tech while being small enough to be a good monitor size that is making high end PC gamers jizz their pants and QD-OLED is superior in TVs too. Next year, QD-OLED is gonna get even cheaper and I have no doubt it will be in even more monitor sizes. LG pulled an Intel in the monitor space.

Virtual reality mask adds realism by making it harder to breathe

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2319349-virtual-reality-mask-adds-realism-by-making-it-harder-to-breathe/

AMD CPU Share Skyrockets Amid Biggest Desktop PC Quarterly Decline In History

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-share-skyrockets-amid-biggest-quarterly-desktop-pc-decline-in-history

With covid going down, Lovelace/RDNA 3/Ar-LOL on the horizon as well as zen 4/Raptor Lake, there is little reason to get a PC atm.

Zenless Zone Zero Is an Urban Fantasy Action RPG from the Makers of Genshin Impact

https://wccftech.com/zenless-zone-zero-is-an-urban-fantasy-action-rpg-from-the-makers-of-genshin-impact/

I still don't know why you sold it so fast. How long did you have it? A couple weeks?

If you couple that Zen4 CPU with the latest leak from Moore's Law Is Dead, only those that must get a CPU should do it now.

For those that don't know, I'm talking about this leak: https://wccftech.com/amd-next-gen-zen-4-zen-4c-zen-5-zen-6-core-architecture-details-raphael-dragon-range-phoenix-cpus/

This is a summary of the improvements of Zen4 compared to Zen3:

• 15-24% IPC Increase (Over Zen 3)
• 8-14% Clock Increase (Over Zen 3)
• 28-37% ST Perf Increase (Over Zen 3)
• ST-Like or Higher MT Perf Increase (Over Zen 3)
• 1 MB L2 / 4 MB L3 Per Core (vs 512 KB / 4 MB L3 per Zen 3 Core)

F*ck!

WTF?!

I can understand developing something to give us the sense of smell, but why would someone need someting that makes it harder to breathe? It's stupid.

More like a couple of days. When you buy a product, there are certain aspects thats makes it easy to tell whether or not you will keep it or sell it. The main reason I sold my Deck was because of the fan noise as the high pitch sound was so annoying that it was louder than my laptops fans and that's saying something. And since every reviewer mentioned this exact issue, this wasn't a one off problem and Valve support at the time didn't have a solution.

That along with other problems would have meant that I would have stopped using it and hoped that Valve would fix the problems. But based on experiences, while I am sure the software problems I experienced would eventually be fixed, I doubted the fan noise would have. Especially based on what various reviewers were saying about how confined it was and it needs to be that loud and etc. Two months later however, Valve actually did fix all of my issues including the fan which really is something rare for the industry. Typically the hardware problems are unfixable yet here we are. So while I regret my decision in retrospec, I don't regret selling it based on my reasons and experience. So next time with Valve, I'll be more patient.

Guess if you want the next gen experience of under water levels, that would be a good candidate loll.

Woah i think you massively missed it(probably you've gotten high pressured by the ignorants). No, Conina. I was only complaining just about Steam Deck that they're not letting me to buy a hardware due to exclusive store and limitation country, not the games. lmao

AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2.0 - FSR 2.0 vs Native vs DLSS - The DF Tech Review

And here is why you wait for Digital Foundry instead of the usual tech press that don't do this for a living. There's a lot of info and most of the info is interesting so please watch the video if you are interested.

But the highlights are:

FSR 2.0 runs better on Nvidia GPUs including Ampere and Pascal compared to their AMD counterparts.
Lower end GPUs get worse FSR performance so using FSR on lower end GPUs such as 1060/580 won't be as good
DLSS handles performance mode a lot better than FSR 2.0's performance mode at the same resolutions
DLSS runs faster than FSR on RTX GPUs.
FSR 2.0 similar to Unreal Engines TSR will require manual tuning from devs where as DLSS is a plug-in that will do the reconstruction by itself.
As for the side by sides and this is what I meant by DLSS handling complex situations much better...

Oh, you meant the gaming hardware, not the software. My bad.

It's alright, not your fault. It's Valve, they wanted to prevent from or avoid the scalpers and sell their gaming hardware directly to the steam users carefully during chips shortage.

So overall, FSR 2.0 is a step in the right direction. While in the complex scenes and lower resolutions and with lower end RTX cards, DLSS wins handely, FSR 2.0 is still a big improvement compared to FSR 1.0. This does mean that FSR 2.0 is no longer a simple shader pass and instead, they need to implemented in the render pipeline afaik. And because of that, you won't have situations like on the Steam Deck where you can just enable it globally.

The thing that people will continue to miss understand about FSR/TSR and etc is that it's not a tech that will make aging systems run games better unless you are okay with a lot of compromises and such. FSR 2.0 upscaling to 4k is where it's at it's best and the lower the resolution you go, the worser it gets. So if you have an older GPU, it begs the question, do you have a 4k monitor? Cause if you don't, you will probably turn it on, see how bad it looks and then turn it off. Combine that with the performance uplift being less and less the as you go down the GPU's chain and maybe you should ask yourself if lowering down the graphical settings is just a better option all together.