^ I wonder if that quote might have been mistranslated and instead it meant that no new current gen Switches (Oled version etc.) are expected to influence sales. The headline already extrapolates a bit more than it should from the translation.

Of all the components it might be the most likely to have some issues on post, but in all likelihood, it should work fine, no worries.

I suppose the irony of all of us recommending Asus despite their fuck up of AM5 goes to show that when I said "This won't affect their brand," I really meant it lol. But the fact of the matter is that Asus motherboards have a wide range compatibility and better control software than other vendors. Once you start adding in RGB and all that stuff, Asus simply does compatibility better and are often the first ones to be compatible with third party accessories such as iCue and etc.

End of the day, everyone fucks up.

Just when Asus fucks up they tend to put the effort in to rectify the issue more than other companies, they also have more resources as they advertise themselves as a "premium" brand. - So it's that mindshare thing coming into play.


They also just have better software... I was "fixing" a friends computer with a Gigabyte board, even after a fresh reformat and windows install, every time I launched the RGB software, the entire system would blue screen and crash.

Ironically 3rd party RGB control software worked fine.

Logitech is another one where the RGB software is extremely convoluted.

Well I do have Ultra Street Fighter II on Switch along with Ultra Street Fighter IV on PS4/XBO/PC , and the Street Fighter 30th anniversary collection on Switch/PS4/XBO/PC which I havent played yet but I'll get to it in the future.

And yep, its a theme run.

I'm playing more than 3 games though, these are just three on PC.

https://backloggery.com/basilzero

^ Is pretty much what I'm playing now along with that pretty much all I play is on my YT channel.

Hey, just wanted to chime in here as well. As some of you know, I got the ASUS PRIME X670E-PRO motherboard, and despite the recent troubles I'm quite happy with it. I also went with the ASUS TUF version of my GPU, so figured it was a great fit. As for compatibility, ASUS are really great, and support a wide variety of RAM and specs. I also have a 6000MHz kit (Kingston FURY Beast CL36), and just want to point out that right now, your 6000MHz kit will be limited to 4400 or so due to the MOBO issues. They have no choice but to fix this, but regardless of your EXPO settings, the memory can't surpass that frequency on these boards right now. I'd go for the 6000 kit regardless, as they will fix the issue in time. It would be a bad look otherwise, with both DDR5 kits and AM5 needing traction in the market, ASUS would be silly not to be on top of this.

I think your plan/build sounds good. And, yes indeed, shit is expensive. I still can't quite wrap my head around how much my build cost me, all things included.

The Wednesday news:

SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

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Warner Bros. exec says Hogwarts Legacy's sold 15 million, made over a billion dollars, and now they want to do the same with Superman
https://www.pcgamer.com/warner-bros-exec-says-hogwarts-legacys-sold-15-million-made-over-a-billion-dollars-and-now-they-want-to-do-the-same-with-superman/
On a recent earnings call, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav waxed lyrical about the ongoing success of Hogwarts Legacy, before going on to discuss this in the context of James Gunn's upcoming Superman film. The movie, Superman Legacy, has rather brutally dumped everyone's favourite super-geek Henry Cavill and is intended as a reboot of the character.
The point Zaslav's making is that games are now as big if not bigger than the more traditional movie avenues for the likes of Harry Potter. "The real differentiator for us as a company is that we own our IP," said Zaslav (thanks, Tweaktown). "We may be the only media company that owns, whether it be the DC universe, Harry Potter, all the content that we own, Game of Thrones, that's for us to deploy. I think that's particularly important strategically."
Zaslav went on to outline just what a success the game has been: "Hogwarts Legacy has amassed more than $1 billion in retail sales and over 15 million units sold worldwide to date, and today the team is launching the game on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One platforms."
>> Owning the IP is useless if you don't know what to do with it.

The daddy of battle royales is still going strong as publisher Krafton posts record sales for PUBG
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-daddy-of-battle-royales-is-still-going-strong-as-publisher-krafton-posts-record-sales-for-pubg/
PUBG might not be the talking point that it was at launch, but six years on the daddy of battle royales is still going strong. In a preliminary earnings announcement, publisher Krafton boasted about its "all-time high in in-game sales", which on PC has grown by 68% year on year. This has also been the main driver for Krafton's "record quarterly sales" of $407.8 million.
This has led to a net profit of $202.2 million, with Krafton's mobile division also enjoying a period of growth thanks to PUBG Mobile's sandbox mode and new releases. Aside from acknowledging that it published Callisto Protocol, the sci-fi horror romp was left out of the celebratory announcement. This is unsurprising given that it failed to meet publisher's absurdly high sales expectations. Krafton was hoping for 5 million sales in the first year, but soon after launch slashed that number down to 2 million.
While PUBG continues to grow when it comes to sales, player numbers have not seen a similar rise. The battle royale is still looking very healthy, of course, with consistent concurrents of between 4-500,000 players. After this many years, and with so many competitors trying to get their own slice of the battle royale pie, that's nothing to be sniffed at.

Age of Wonders 4 is the fastest-selling game in the series
https://www.pcgamer.com/age-of-wonders-4-is-the-fastest-selling-game-in-the-series/
Magical turn-based strategy Age of Wonders 4 has become the fastest selling game in the series, according to aptly-named developer Triumph Studios.
The announcement was made via the Age of Wonders 4 twitter account, in a post that also provided some impressive stats. In "less than a week" AoW 4 has sold a whopping 250,000 copies. Meanwhile, on Steam, the game has experienced a peak concurrent player count of 42,826. That's a lot of players conquering arcane realms as cannibal mole-people.

GOG has two new Deals of the Day and two new sales:

• The first DotD is Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness, 50% off during 46 hours: https://www.gog.com/en/game/black_geyser_couriers_of_darkness
• The second DotD is Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark, with a 75% discount until Friday: https://www.gog.com/en/game/fell_seal_arbiters_mark
• The Midweek Sale features up to 90% discounts during 4 days: https://www.gog.com/en/promo/20230510_midweek_sale
• And Kalypso puts its games up to 75% off for 7 days; https://www.gog.com/en/promo/2023_kalypso_publisher_sale

Steam has two new deals:

• Starship Troopers: Terran Command will be 20% off until May, 16th: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1202130/Starship_Troopers_Terran_Command/
• And GreedFall gets a 70% discount until next Tuesday: https://store.steampowered.com/app/606880/GreedFall/

The Humble Store has a flash deal: Planet Zoo will be 80% off during 26 more hours: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/planet-zoo

And Fanatical has four new 24 hours flash deals and a new bundle:

• The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil In Me is 33% off: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/the-dark-pictures-anthology-the-devil-in-me
• Dying Light 2 Stay Human gets a 60% discount: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/dying-light-2-stay-human
• Breathedge is 75% off: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/breathedge
• The last flash deal is RESIDENT EVIL 7 biohazard Gold Edition, 78% off: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/resident-evil-7-gold-edition
• And the new Mystery Mayhem Bundle comes with up to 20 unknown games to get: https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/mystery-mayhem-bundle

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

Unity manager publicly states company is 'out of touch', is fired within three hours
https://www.pcgamer.com/unity-manager-publicly-states-company-is-out-of-touch-is-fired-within-three-hours/
A manager at game-engine developer Unity has been fired after calling the company "out of touch".
Miranda Due, Senior Partner Relations Manager at Unity, originally made the remark in reference to an executive's idea for making commuting to Unity's offices easier.
"A Unity exec just shared that they rent a secondary [apartment] in [San Francisco] to make it easier to be in the office- maybe we should all just do this to make it easier to RTO [return to office]" Due tweeted on May 8. "This company has lost it. Completely out of touch."
>> Nothing denies the claims of being out of touch like firing the person that made those claims, right?

MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

Zelda: Ocarina of Time in Unreal Engine 5.2 looks better than ever
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/zelda-ocarina-of-time-in-unreal-engine-5-2-looks-better-than-ever/
CryZenx has released a new video, showcasing 18 minutes of new gameplay footage from his fan remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time in Unreal Engine 5.
For those unaware, CryZenx has been remaking this classic Zelda game in Unreal Engine 4/5. And, this new video, showcases some new features that the creator has implemented.

GAMING NEWS

The Last of Us Part I Update 1.0.5 reduces shader building times, improves CPU performance, full patch notes
https://www.dsogaming.com/patches/the-last-of-us-part-i-update-1-0-5-reduces-shader-building-times-improves-cpu-performance-full-patch-notes/
Naughty Dog and Iron Galaxy have released Update 1.0.5 for the PC version of The Last of Us Part I. According to the release notes, this latest patch reduces shader building times. Moreover, it optimizes the game’s code to improve global CPU performance.

A Plague Tale: Requiem gets a Performance Mode on PC
https://www.dsogaming.com/patches/a-plague-tale-requiem-gets-a-performance-mode-on-pc/
Asobo has released a new PC Update for A Plague Tale: Requiem that introduces a new Performance Mode to it. According to the team, the Performance Mode brings additional options to optimize the game’s graphical performance.

Bloodborne Remaster/Remake rumors resurface online
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/bloodborne-remaster-remake-rumors-resurface-online/
And it’s that time of year guys. According to reports, Sony may hold a Playstation Showcase on May 25th and the Bloodborne Remaster/Remake rumors have re-surfaced. Oh yeah, here we go again.

Wednesday news, the long part two:

Starfield has some of the worst post-sex dialog I've ever seen
https://www.pcgamer.com/starfield-has-some-of-the-worst-post-sex-dialog-ive-ever-seen/
Back in March, Australia's Classification Board let slip that there will be no knocking spaceboots in Starfield—and for those unfamiliar with the vernacular, that means no sex. But now the ESRB rating is up, and according to that, you will have the opportunity to play chesterfield rugby with various NPCs, and engage in some genuinely jaw-dropping dialog when it's over.

Activision Blizzard hires barrister who advised Boris Johnson on partygate to front CMA appeal
https://www.pcgamer.com/activision-blizzard-hires-barrister-who-advised-boris-johnson-on-partygate-to-front-cma-appeal/
Activision Blizzard has hired one of the UK's most prominent legal eagles to lead the fight against the Competition and Market Authority's (CMA) recent decision to block the proposed $65 billion deal with Microsoft (thanks, Financial Times). Lord David Pannick KC of Blackstone Chambers is viewed as one of the great barristers of his time, with former clients including Queen Elizabeth II. Most recently he was in the news for advising the disgraced former Prime Minister Boris Johnson over the partygate scandal (where UK government figures were living it large behind closed doors while imposing lockdown restrictions on the population).

Vampire survival game's new expansion adds awesome multi-level castles with all the Dracula vibes
https://www.pcgamer.com/vampire-survival-games-new-expansion-adds-awesome-multi-level-castles-with-all-the-dracula-vibes/
Vampire survival game V Rising remains in early access, and is celebrating its first anniversary with the Gloomrot expansion: In which developer Stunlock Studios has basically said sod it, let's add Frankenstein's monster. The studio has now released a trailer for the expansion, which arrives on May 17, but the big takeaway for me is just how awesome the new castles look.

Dark and Darker early access release delayed: 'We ask everyone to hold the line just a little longer'
https://www.pcgamer.com/dark-and-darker-early-access-release-delayed-we-ask-everyone-to-hold-the-line-just-a-little-longer/
It will probably come as no surprise given Ironmace's ongoing legal dispute with Nexon, but the studio announced today that the planned early access release of Dark and Darker has been delayed.

Walt Disney rolls over in his grave as I wishlist this M-rated Mickey Mouse FPS
https://www.pcgamer.com/walt-disney-rolls-over-in-his-grave-as-i-wishlist-this-m-rated-mickey-mouse-fps/
Just in time for Steamboat Willie's upcoming induction into public domain is a new indie FPS inspired by '30s-era Disney animation: Mouse. Developed by Polish studio Fumi Games, you might have caught a first glimpse at Mouse on TikTok, where short clips of early gameplay have earned millions of views since late April.

Wait, there are two different games about causing large-scale mayhem in a pretend Ikea?
https://www.pcgamer.com/wait-there-are-two-different-games-about-causing-large-scale-mayhem-in-a-pretend-ikea/
We learned last year about The Store is Closed, a survival game that trapped players inside an "infinite furniture store" that was quite clearly an Ikea in all but name—creator Jacob Shaw even referred to it as "an infinite Ikea game" on Reddit. The similarity was overt enough that Ikea threatened legal action, and so when we ran across Retail Royale on Steam—"a chaotic Battle Royale inside a furniture store where everything is a weapon"—our first thought was that The Store is Closed had rebranded, retooled, and come back as a battle royale game. But no: Somehow, there are now two distinct, large-scale pretend-Ikea games on the market.

Make famous VTubers fight in this surprise Steam hit
https://www.pcgamer.com/make-famous-vtubers-fight-in-this-surprise-steam-hit/
Idol Showdown bills itself on Steam as "the definitive fan-made hololive fighting game experience," and that might not be overselling it. Four days after launch, it remains very near the top of Steam's "new and trending" Fighting and Martial Arts game chart, and has earned a "very positive" rating across nearly 2,500 user reviews. And if you have no idea what a "hololive fighting game experience" is, don't be alarmed, because I am about to explain.

Total War: Warhammer 3 roadmap outlines the next year of DLC and updates
https://www.pcgamer.com/total-war-warhammer-3-roadmap-outlines-the-next-year-of-dlc-and-updates/
Creative Assembly has finally laid out plans for how it's going to make Total War: Warhammer 3 both more total and more Warhammer over the next 12 months. The DLC roadmap details three expansions, each of which will be accompanied by a "free-LC" adding a Legendary Hero for everyone. It also mentions "interim patches" for bug fixes, balance changes, and other additions will come between each DLC.

Hollow Knight: Silksong may be delayed, has 'gotten quite big'
https://www.pcgamer.com/hollow-knight-silksong-may-be-delayed-has-gotten-quite-big/
While Hollow Knight: Silksong didn't have an exact release date, its appearance at the Xbox & Bethesda showcase in June of 2022—which Xbox made a point of saying was focused on games coming in the following 12 months—led us to expect that it would release by June, 2023. That may no longer be the case.

Hope you weren't planning on playing Dragon Age: Dreadwolf anytime in the next year
https://www.pcgamer.com/hope-you-werent-planning-on-playing-dragon-age-dreadwolf-anytime-in-the-next-year/
Future videogame and current concept art collection Dragon Age: Dreadwolf has been in development for years now, but there's still some time to go before it finally releases. In its latest financial report, EA gave us all a quick rundown of the game releases on its slate for the 2024 financial year, and Dreadwolf was nowhere to be found, suggesting that we won't see it before April next year at the earliest.

Publisher calls out Metacritic after hit indie JRPG gets inexplicably review bombed
https://www.pcgamer.com/publisher-calls-out-metacritic-after-hit-indie-jrpg-gets-inexplicably-review-bombed/
Review bombs are an endemic part of the modern media landscape at this point. Whether they're about player frustration, politics, or just because a crypto company bought your game, we've all become well-accustomed to the long red candles that pockmark Metacritic and Steam user review charts during periods of controversy. But there's usually some discernible reason for the review bombs, even if it's a really bad one.
Not so in the case of Chained Echoes, a 16-bit throwback JRPG from developer Matthias Linda that is, by all accounts, really rather good. But as spotted by GamesRadar, its Metacritic user review score wilted beneath a wave of negative reviews that contained no actual written text whatsoever, leaving its dev and publisher helpless to do anything about it.

Here's that Murder on the Orient Express adventure game you wanted
https://www.pcgamer.com/heres-that-murder-on-the-orient-express-adventure-game-you-wanted/
French publisher Microids has announced a video game adaptation of Agatha Christie's classic mystery novel Murder on the Orient Express. Describing the game as a "faithful, but augmented" retelling of the story, it's set to launch later this year.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB Launches on 24th May & AMD Radeon RX 7600 8 GB On 25th May

https://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-rtx-4060-ti-8-gb-launches-24th-may-amd-radeon-rx-7600-8-gb-25th-may/

It's like they sat at a family dinner table and decided when to launch these products

RISC-V Chiplet CPU With 432 Cores To Handle AI & HPC Workloads In Space

https://wccftech.com/risc-v-chiplet-cpu-with-432-cores-to-handle-ai-hpc-workloads-in-space/

Certainly worth keeping an eye out for this arch

AMD Radeon GPUs Can Now Enjoy AV1 Encoding Support In DaVinci Resolve Studio

https://wccftech.com/amd-radeon-gpus-can-now-enjoy-av1-encoding-support-in-davinci-resolve-studio/

ASUS introduces GeForce RTX 4090 TUF OG series with RTX 3090 Ti cooler

https://videocardz.com/newz/asus-introduces-geforce-rtx-4090-tuf-og-series-with-rtx-3090-ti-cooler

Hmm that is actually kind of weird as I never heard of that problem. Is it just some kits or some boards? Cause with mine, 6000 Expo always worked. I was able to go up to 6200Mhz without issues. Was your board listed in the QVL list for Kingston or Memory on Asus?

As a side note, I did install the new BIOS from Asus and turned on Expo with my 6000mhz kit and yea, it fixed the voltage issues based on my tests. I did a ton of benches and such and the SoC voltage never went above 1.27 volts. So I'd say that with the BIOS Asus as released, the main issue should largely be fixed.

I haven't downloaded the latest one yet, was at work until this morning. But mine hasn't gone above 4400, it was in a press release earlier as well, a part of the temporary solution was to limit certain options (on the 4.10 release of BIOS drivers) but it could be fixed now!

Edit; the driver for my particular board is still in Beta, I'll hold off a little longer just in case.