Which emulator and config are you using? And is it worth playing now or the glitches ruin the experience?

Since it's all imported my TOTK copy will arrive like three weeks from now only :/

Ryujinx works well enough while Yuzu doesn't seem to launch it. I generally get 30fps after the initial shader compilation finishes and so far, I haven't seen anything too bad but keep in mind that this isn't a short game. The sky area runs pretty well and is largely glitch free but idk how it will turn out as we continue to the ground. Plus some of the recent zelda games had that game save bug at launch that needed to be fixed post patch so idk if we will see that happen with ToTK.

It plays best at 720p native resolution with Vulkan and Graphics Backend Multithreading on. Everything else I left default + "Pro" controller. Keep in mind there is a real version and a fake version that's out. The one with XCI format is the legit version.

I see. Perhaps it might be worth giving a few days for a patch. Given the popularity of the game I'm sure the emulator developers are already at it.

DESORDRE: Nice puzzle game with awesome visuals (UE5, Lumen, raytracing...) and a playable demo:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2097490/DESORDRE__A_Puzzle_Game_Adventure/

The Thursday news:

SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

The Epic Store gives away three new games:

• Against All Odds: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/against-all-odds
• Horizon Chase Turbo: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/horizon-chase-turbo
• And Kao the Kangaroo: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/kao-the-kangaroo

Next week, they'll give away The Sims™ 4 The Daring Lifestyle Bundle.

Steam has two new deals:

• Square-Enix's Golden Week Sale, that started last week, features up to 80% discounts until May, 8th: https://store.steampowered.com/developer/squareenix/sale/goldenweek23
• Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation will be 60% off until the 17th of May: https://store.steampowered.com/app/455980/Judgment_Apocalypse_Survival_Simulation/

Humble Bundle has the new Feel The Rythm Bundle, with up to 7 games to get during 13 days: https://www.humblebundle.com/games/feel-rhythm.

And Fanatical has two deals:

• Today, there could only be one new Star Deal: the Star Wars Collection Bundle, with 14 games and featuring an 81% discount during 24 hours: https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/star-wars-collection
• And the new Platinum Collection BYOB for May has launched with 20 titles to choose for your 3, 5 or 7 games bundle: https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/platinum-collection-build-your-own-bundle

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

Valve won't let devs frontload Steam screenshot galleries with a dozen trailers anymore, says many don't know 'how best to manage' the space
https://www.pcgamer.com/valve-wont-let-devs-frontload-steam-screenshot-galleries-with-a-dozen-trailers-anymore-says-many-dont-know-how-best-to-manage-the-space/
Valve loves tweaking and futzing with Steam to ensure that everything is running just so. Some of it is front-facing, like the recent beta client update that added "game notes" and a slew of other new features, and some happens more in the background—for instance, the discount policy changes for developers it rolled out in early 2022. But even by those measures, the changes that went live today are really granular.
Steam store pages are now limited to just two videos on the left-hand side of the thumbnail row. Developers can add as many as they like, but any excess videos will be display on the right-hand of the thumbnail row, after the screenshots. Page owners can set which two videos they want before the screenshots, and which will come after, through the "Edit Store Page" section in Steamworks.

MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

DLSS 3 Mods for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor & Elden Ring available for download
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/dlss-3-mods-for-star-wars-jedi-survivor-elden-ring-available-for-download/
NVIDIA RTX40 series owners, here is something for you today. PureDark has just released the DLSS 3 Frame Generation Mods for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor and Elden Ring.
Unfortunately, these mods are currently behind a Patreon wall. As such, you’ll have to become a Patreon, link your discord account to Patreon, and then join PureDark’s Discord server. Once you do that, you will get pulled in the server by the Patreon bot, and you will be able to download the mods from the “beta-access” channel.
In order to showcase these versions of the DLSS 3 Frame Generation Mods for Elden Ring and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, PureDark shared the following videos.

GAMING NEWS

Unreal Engine 5-powered MMORPG, Chrono Odyssey, gets official gameplay trailer
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/unreal-engine-5-powered-mmorpg-chrono-odyssey-gets-official-gameplay-trailer/
In November 2020, we informed you about a new open-world MMORPG, called Chrono Odyssey. And today, NPIXEL released a brand new official gameplay trailer for it.

Here is how you can completely eliminate traversal stutters in PC games, including Star Wars Jedi: Survivor and Redfall
https://www.dsogaming.com/articles/here-is-how-you-can-completely-eliminate-traversal-stutters-in-pc-games-including-star-wars-jedi-survivor-and-redfall/
A lot of PC players have been experiencing traversal stutters in numerous games. And finally, we have a solution for all the traversal stutters that plague the latest PC games. However, there is a catch.
>> It makes sense, but you won't like it.

Thursday news, part two:

System Shock studio angers fans by having an AI imagine its own evil AI
https://www.pcgamer.com/system-shock-studio-angers-fans-by-having-an-ai-imagine-its-own-evil-ai/
The best-laid plans of mice and men, per Robert Burns, can often go very wrong indeed, as the System Shock remake developer Nightdive Studios has just learned. The studio embarked on a little marketing stunt that probably seemed like a good idea at the time, which has been met with fierce pushback: It used the AI software Midjourney to create a picture of Shodan.

This new co-op survival action RPG the developer calls 'Valheim meets Zelda' has my full attention
https://www.pcgamer.com/this-new-co-op-survival-action-rpg-the-developer-calls-valheim-meets-zelda-has-my-full-attention/
There are some pretty strong Valheim vibes at the beginning of the trailer for Enshrouded, a new survival action RPG for 1-16 players coming to Steam early access later this year. An adventurer runs around in the woods wearing a pair of burlap pants, hunts with a wooden bow, chops down a tree, and cooks some meat over a campfire as night falls. Feels like a solid, if pretty traditional, opener for a survival game.

Microsoft promises 'tons of gameplay' in June 11 Starfield deep-dive
https://www.pcgamer.com/microsoft-promises-tons-of-gameplay-in-june-11-starfield-deep-dive/
Microsoft has announced that the next Xbox Games Showcase will begin at 10 am PT/1 pm ET on June 11, and will be followed immediately by the much-anticipated Starfield Direct, "a deep-dive into Bethesda Game Studios’ highly anticipated sci-fi RPG."

This new Counter-Strike map was created to smuggle the truth about the Ukraine war into Russia
https://www.pcgamer.com/this-new-counter-strike-map-was-created-to-smuggle-graphic-ukraine-war-reporting-into-russia/
The newspaper Helsingin Sanomat has sometimes been described as a cultural institution in Finland, the country's own paper of record and over the years a campaigning media presence. Ever since Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine, Helsingin Sanomat's coverage has been extensive and extensively critical of the Putin regime, to the extent of setting up a dedicated website (banned in Russia, naturally). Now it's found a new avenue of expression: a Counter-Strike map.

A new lo-fi Sims competitor just launched in early access
https://www.pcgamer.com/a-new-lo-fi-sims-competitor-just-launched-in-early-access/
On the very short list of games attempting to take a bite out of The Sims, I was not expecting to find a super pixelated, funky game like Tiny Life. It may not be sleek and polished like Paralives or have the former Sims developer pedigree of Life By You, but Tiny Life launched in early access today with a roadmap full of ideas and a demo version that you can try for yourself.

Former Dragon Age lead writer claims BioWare 'quietly resented' its writers
https://www.pcgamer.com/former-dragon-age-lead-writer-claims-bioware-quietly-resented-its-writers/
Beginning with Baldur's Gate and running through series including Neverwinter Nights, Knights of the Old Republic, Mass Effect, and Dragon Age, BioWare has built a reputation as a studio that creates great characters and tells great stories. But David Gaider, who has design and writing credits on just about all of them, said on Twitter that attitudes toward writers at BioWare had soured prior to his departure in 2016.

Activision will let you pay to make your Call of Duty guns sound like 2009
https://www.pcgamer.com/activision-will-let-you-pay-to-make-your-call-of-duty-guns-sound-like-2009/
There are few artifacts of videogame culture that can teleport me to a specific time and place more powerfully than the sound of the MP5 from Modern Warfare 2. For months in 2009, the prickly whine of an MP5 followed (ideally) by the chime of a 3-killstreak UAV meant that I was in my happy place—getting a few matches in after school, probably sipping an energy drink I bought with quarters.
I was the perfect age to become a Call of Duty obsessive and still associate the series with some of my fondest memories of gaming, which is why I'm not surprised that, 14 years later, Activision is bottling up that nostalgia and selling it back to me with Season 3 Reloaded's "Throwback Audio Pack."

Months of Apex Legends audio issues caused by 'a single line of code,' Respawn confirms
https://www.pcgamer.com/months-of-apex-legends-audio-issues-caused-by-a-single-line-of-code-respawn-confirms/
Today in "making videogames is hard" news: Respawn's journey to track down a bug that caused months of audio issues in Apex Legends. Grenades that don't explode, guns that don't shoot, damage that has no source, and months of agonizing investigation—all apparently caused by a single line of code added in Apex Legends' Season 16 update.
>> At least that was quick, unlike the next one.

Latest Minecraft update fixes an 11 year-old bug
https://www.pcgamer.com/latest-minecraft-update-fixes-an-11-year-old-bug/
The latest Minecraft update, which the game for some reason calls snapshots, is mostly routine: Focused on smithing, squishing a few bugs, tweaking a few parameters. Then one of the most popular and widely played games on the planet says it's finally managed to deal with a bug that was first noticed 11 years ago.

Current AMD AGESA 1.0.0.7 BIOS Firmware Riddled With Bugs, New Patch To Intro Thermal Limitations & Fix Memory Compatibility

https://wccftech.com/current-amd-agesa-1-0-0-7-bios-firmware-riddled-with-bugs-patched-version-intro-thermal-limitations-fix-memory-compatibility/

Not a good look for AMD after their recent debacle. Still waiting for CuckSuS to release theirs from beta

70 NVIDIA Quadro GPUs Attempted To Be Smuggled Among Live Lobsters in China

https://wccftech.com/70-nvidia-quadro-gpus-attempted-to-be-smuggled-among-live-lobsters-in-china/

You know your GPUs are popular when...

AMD Shows Ryzen 9 7840HS With Radeon 780M RDNA 3 GPU Faster Than GTX 1650 Max-Q, 35% Faster Than 680M at 15W

https://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-9-7840hs-radeon-780m-rdna-3-gpu-faster-than-gtx-1650-max-q-higher-efficiency/

Impressive

Gigabyte confirms Radeon RX 7600 8GB and GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8GB GPUs

https://videocardz.com/newz/gigabyte-confirms-radeon-rx-7600-8gb-and-geforce-rtx-4060-ti-8gb-gpus

Feels like getting a 6700XT over both of these will end up being the wiser choice

Might be a long generation or the next generation might use the same node.

Well, I mean, why spend all that money booking space for a new node when you won't be able to pass that extra cost (and "a bit" more) to the consumer because a) sales are going down; and b) it turns out that not every PC user is willing to spend an atrocious amount of money on new parts.

Might as well scale back to a less cutting edge node that's less expensive or delay it until the economic situation gets better and/or the new node gets a bit cheaper.

Ah, so it was the BIOS update that clocked my RAM down from 6000Mhz. It also looks like I was right in waiting for a more permanent fix. The only positive in all this is that I can look forward to slightly increased performance sometime in the near future. What a shitshow, between melting GPU connectors and CPUs roasting itself and the MOBO to death, and a slew of games launching in record-breaking poor form on PC, I chose the perfect time for a new rig!