As long as AMD keep supplying enough over the coming weeks, even if there's huge demand people won't simply pay those inflated prices if it keeps crawling closer to that 5070Ti mark. At least you'd hope not. It's on some of the retailers to then price them accordingly.
| Shaunodon said: Still a few hundred more expensive than mid-high end cards should be. But given the current market and just the usual markup we have to pay down here, I can't be angry at all. What's the situation looking like in other regions? Edit: I was very pessimistic about what the situation would be like here after all the hush-hush around retailers. But an hour later outside a couple models, pretty much all the models are available and none of them are marked up yet. Maybe we were lucky. |
Several sites here in the UK had MSRP cards and I could of definitely of grabbed one if I wanted but now they all seems to be the MSRP +£100 versions for the better fan/cooler with OC models that will likely become the standard cards for most AIB's outside of tiny MSRP card restocks.
The Thursday news:
SALES/PLAYER COUNTS & DEALS
The Epic Store gives away Them's Fightin' Herds: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/thems-fightin-herds https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/thems-fightin-herds
Next week, the free games will be Mortal Shell and the Anniversary Party Favor for World of Warships.
GOG has three new promos:
Steam has a few new deals:
Fanatical has three new Flash Deals and a bundle:
SOFTWARE & DRIVERS
AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 25.3.1 driver
https://videocardz.com/driver/amd-radeon-software-adrenalin-25-3-1
HIGHLIGHTS
New Product Support
New Features
Other Highlights
FIXED ISSUES
Steam users react ecstatically to update that lets them access their heaving game notes via the web, also it fixes Monster Hunter Wilds video recording
https://www.pcgamer.com/software/platforms/steam-users-react-ecstatically-to-update-that-lets-them-access-their-heaving-game-notes-via-the-web-also-it-fixes-monster-hunter-wilds-video-recording/
I gotta be honest, the sum total of my engagement with Steam's Game Notes feature is that one time I wrote a news story about people using them to cheat at Counter-Strike 2. I've never used 'em myself. Is this because of my incredible mind and prodigious powers of recall? Yes. But also it's because I tend to open Notepad before I even remember Steam has a notes function.
But maybe the time to switch is now. As of yesterday's beta update to the Steam client, you can now access your many tomes of game notes via the web. The web! Imagine that. You don't actually need to opt into the Steam beta for them to work, either: I've tried creating some test notes on beta and non-beta versions of the client and they all end up showing in Steam's remarkably barebones new Notes section.
Which is pretty useful, sure. It's a lot easier to compile handy notes when you can easily flick back and forth between browser tabs, and you'll be able to add info to them from any device, not just ones you already have Steam installed on.
(...)
The whole web-notes thing isn't the only feature of the client update. Valve also says it's fixed game recording and video streaming in Monster Hunter Wilds, which is handy considering the entire planet seems to be playing it right now.
It's also added support for the 8BitDo Micro gamepad and futzed about with "display of notifications for in-progress achievements," meaning those cheevos you get for doing things like 'killing 100 whatevers,' and which update whenever you kill a whatever. All sounds good to me, even if I'm not quite sure this is the start of a long career in note-taking.
MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS
Monster Hunter Wilds Mod fixes stutters caused by the anti-tamper tech
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/monster-hunter-wilds-mod-fixes-stutters-caused-by-the-anti-tamper-tech/
Praydog, the man behind some amazing VR mods, has released a new version of the REFramework for Monster Hunter Wilds. This latest version fixes the stutters that are caused in the game by its anti-tamper tech.
For those unaware, Monster Hunter Wilds suffers from some stutters. And, according to Praydog, these stutters are caused by its anti-tamper tech.
To prove his point, Praydog shared the following screenshot. In this image we get to see the smooth frametimes that are possible when using REFramework.
My guess is that these stutters are NOT due to Denuvo. These are due to Capcom’s very own anti-tamper tech. In other words, they appear to be similar to those we saw in Resident Evil Village.
Alongside the stutters, this latest version of REFramework resolves some crashes. Again, those crashes were caused by the anti-tamper tech. Talk about a clusterf’ck.
I want to make it crystal clear that Praydog knows his stuff. This isn’t an unknown modder. So, when he says that the anti-tamper tech causes these stutters, I’m 100% certain he knows what he’s talking about. And no, this isn’t a placebo mod. This actually fixes those stutters.
>> The article has the screenshot it mentions.
'3 hours of my life that I'll never get back': A Minecraft modder did the lord's work, creating a mod that adds Jack Black's voice to the game
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/survival-crafting/3-hours-of-my-life-that-ill-never-get-back-a-minecraft-modder-did-the-lords-work-creating-a-mod-that-adds-jack-blacks-voice-to-the-game/
As the upcoming Minecraft film creeps closer, one modder has found a creative way to blur the lines between film and game. By adding Jack Black's voice to Minecraft, players can now feel even closer to the one who calls himself Steve (via GamesRadar).
It all started after a player compiled all the times Jack Black says something from Minecraft verbatim in A Minecraft Movie trailer. There's "Steve", "Enderpearl", "Overworld", "water bucket", and who could forget "crafting table". Then another player pitched an idea where someone could make a mod "where every time you pick up an item or hit a mob, you get a clip from the movie of Jack Black saying it like this, like that one mode that flashes Jesus at you at low HP."
A few hours after this ingenious pitch, a mod popped up that did just that. "Now you can be Steve from the hit movie Minecraft in the game Minecraft based on the movie Minecraft," SnailMan says. "Three hours of my life that I'll never get back went into making this."
So far, all you get is Jack Black's voice saying "Steve" when you load into Minecraft or "crafting table", whenever you build or interact with that item in-game, but I'm sure there'll be more to come: "I'm squeezing everything I can from these voice lines, nothing will be wasted." SnailMan intends to release the mod on Modrinth but still has to jump through a couple of hoops before it's released to the public.
"I submitted the mod for review on Modrinth," SnailMan says. "No idea how long it's gonna take. Will link it here once it's accepted." I have no clue why an epic mod like this wouldn't be allowed. I mean, who doesn't want to pretend they're Jack Black, pretending to be Steve playing Minecraft—it seems like a dream. I also want to point out that as A Minecraft Movie isn't out yet, we can't say for sure that it'll be a hit movie, even if the new trailer does look like the film will make a trillion dollars.
>> Other than a pic from Jack Black, there’s no media of this mod.
GAMING NEWS
Here are 58 minutes of gameplay from Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/here-are-58-minutes-of-gameplay-from-clair-obscur-expedition-33/
YouTube’s member ‘Punish’ has shared a video, showcasing 58 minutes of gameplay from Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. This footage appears to be from the game’s latest preview build, so it can give you an idea of what it looks like in its current state.
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Update 1.003 Is 18GB, Full Patch Notes
https://www.dsogaming.com/patches/final-fantasy-7-rebirth-update-1-003-is-18gb-full-patch-notes/
Square Enix has released Title Update 1.003 for the PC version of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth. This patch is 18GB in size, so let’s take a look at its full patch notes.
Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 Patch 4 released, bringing CPU & GPU performance improvements
https://www.dsogaming.com/patches/marvels-spider-man-2-patch-4-released-bringing-cpu-gpu-performance-improvements/
Nixxes Software has released Patch 4 for the PC version of Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, and shared its complete changelog. So, let’s see what this new update brings to the table.
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Thursday news, the second part:
The first Monster Hunter Wilds event quests let you wear an adorable forest creature as a helmet, which means my headgear is locked in for the next few months
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/action/monster-hunter-wilds-event-quest-mimiphyta-helm-news/
Event quests, limited time hunts that offer special rewards, are a mainstay of Monster Hunter replayability. They're usually available for a week at a time, and completing them can provide materials for event-exclusive armor sets, farmable upgrade materials, and more. Capcom just rolled out the first event quests for Monster Hunter Wilds, and as far as I'm concerned, one of the rewards is a definite must-get: materials for crafting a Mimiphyta helmet, which lets you run around with a precious woodland creature clinging to your scalp.
>> And here’s a new attempt to fix the performance: making sure everything is updated (windows, GPU drivers and even CPU microcode)
Early backers of game decry 'bait and switch' after it backtracks on monetisation promises, dev chooses to stir the pot: 'Seeing Reddit lose it today lets me breathe a huge sigh of relief'
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/card-games/early-backers-of-game-decry-bait-and-switch-after-it-backtracks-on-monetisation-promises-dev-chooses-to-stir-the-pot-seeing-reddit-lose-it-lets-me-breathe-a-huge-sigh-of-relief/
The Bazaar, after seven long years, is finally entering into open beta with a F2P package—and it's, uh, not going great.
>> I can’t really summarize the whole thing in two or three paragraphs, so you’ll have to check it out. But I won’t be surprised if there’s another article about this game in six months saying that it has ceased development.
Epic's war against the Fortnite fraudsters sees it simultaneously name and shame alleged ne'er-do-wells as its high-powered lawyers sue them
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/battle-royale/epics-war-against-the-fortnite-fraudsters-sees-it-simultaneously-name-and-shame-alleged-neer-do-wells-as-its-high-powered-lawyers-sue-them/
Epic Games has announced it is suing an individual from Illinois, named in its suit as one Isaac Strock, for allegedly stealing hundreds of Fortnite accounts which he then re-sold through Telegram.
Ubisoft reveals Assassin's Creed Shadows preload and unlock times
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/assassins-creed/ubisoft-reveals-assassins-creed-shadows-preload-and-unlock-times/
In what I think we can all take as final confirmation that Assassin's Creed Shadows is not going to be hit with one more super-last-second delay, Ubisoft has revealed a somewhat complicated rundown of the game's global preload and unlock times.
>> And here’s a reminder that you’ll be able to customize your hideout.
Cities: Skylines 2's asset editor remains a distant dream: Colossal Order is still working on it but says it's 'proven more technically challenging than initially anticipated'
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/sim/cities-skylines-2s-asset-editor-remains-a-distant-dream-colossal-order-is-still-working-on-it-but-says-its-proven-more-technically-challenging-than-initially-anticipated/
Colossal Order said in November 2024 that an update on the long-awaited Cities: Skylines 2 asset editor would be shared "once the remaining issues are ironed out." As it turns out, that promise was a bit off the mark: The studio posted an update on the asset editor today, and those remaining issues remained unironed.
>> Man, Colossal Order really dropped the ball with this game.
The Hand of Fate devs are back with a bullet heaven called Hordes of Fate
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/roguelike/the-hand-of-fate-devs-are-back-with-a-bullet-heaven-called-hordes-of-fate/
Bullet heaven is what we're apparently calling the Vampire Survivors-like genre, because the only decent competing name was "auto shooter survival" and unfortunately the acronym for that is "ass". Spitfire Interactive, the developers of Hordes of Fate, are splitting the difference with "bullet heaven auto shooter", but you know what kind of game it is: a roguelike where you gear up a hero then set them loose to auto-attack endless monsters, upgrading as you go.
Firaxis says it's 'entering our Sukritact Age' as it hires popular modder to work on Civilization 7
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/strategy/firaxis-says-its-entering-our-sukritact-age-as-it-hires-popular-modder-to-work-on-civilization-7/
It's fair to say that the release of Civilization 7 has not gone quite according to plan. It's good but not great, and the resulting letdown—people expect big things from new Civ games—has manifested in a straight 50/50 split between positive and negative user ratings on Steam and concurrent player numbers that continue to lag behind those of Civilization 6.
But a recent announcement spotted by VG247 has a lot of fans excited for the future: Firaxis has hired noted Civilization modder Sukrit "Act" Tan to work on the game in an official capacity.
A demo for a lost videogame based on George Orwell's 1984 has emerged from the memory hole
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/puzzle/a-demo-for-a-lost-videogame-based-on-george-orwells-1984-has-emerged-from-the-memory-hole/
George Orwell's 1984. It was called Big Brother, and you played a member of the resistance called Eric Blair (which was Orwell's real name), breaking into and sabotaging government installations across 12 levels with hundreds of puzzles. Yes, they were turning Orwell's classic dystopian novel into an adventure game.
MediaX's Big Brother was canceled in 1999 or 2000, possibly because the licence had expired before the game could be completed. It had been shown at E3 in 1998, with a release date of September that year and a $30 price tag, but at some point after that it was delayed and subsequently thrown down the memory hole.
A demo from January of 1999 has recently surfaced on the Internet Archive, though before you race to download it I'd take a watch of the video embedded above. It's an adventure game of the "find wrench" and "turn valve to adjust water pressure" variety, only in first-person, as if someone remade Myst with Quake's graphics. Apart from the posters declaring WAR IS PEACE and HATRED IS POWER it doesn't feel particularly Orwellian, nor does it look like a particularly interesting videogame.
Nintendo wins major French piracy case with EU-wide consequences: 'Significant not only for Nintendo, but for the entire games industry'
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/nintendo-wins-major-french-piracy-case-with-eu-wide-consequences-significant-not-only-for-nintendo-but-for-the-entire-games-industry/
Nintendo has won a lengthy legal battle in the French Supreme Court against the company Dstorage, which owns and operates the file-sharing website 1fichier.com, in a judgement which the Japanese giant trumpets as a victory "for the entire games industry."
The verdict follows years of hearings and appeals, and means that any file-sharing company based in Europe must remove illegal copies of games when asked to do so by the copyright holder. If they don't they can now be held accountable for the content, and face huge fines.
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WoodenPints said:
I think the Hardware Unboxed numbers are a much better representation of where the 9070XT sits overall as they use reference specs on all the cards the Tech Power UP one is really inflated by using the flagship Sapphire OC Nitro+ card that is $300 above MSRP which is why we are seeing so many different numbers across review sites maybe that was a smart marketing tactic by AMD with not releasing a reference card AIB's are sending the super duper OC editions to reviews to inflate the review charts because all the other cards could throw an extra 80W and gain another 5-10% performance as well. Basically matching a 5070Ti for $150 less in raster and 5070 performance in RT. *snip* |
I agree with you, new graphic cards should be tested at stock settings so we can see what's th ebaseline and the min. performance we'd get from that GPU.
But the results from TPU and HU are vastly different, with one being almost twice the fps of the other. That's not the result of a factory overclocked card versus a stock one, but a different testing methodology. Both use custom scenes for their benchmarks, and that could explain some of it. Now, did TPU use a scene that represents the performance you'd get during most of the game while HU went for the worst case possible? I don't know. Did both use upscaling but at different settings, like quality vs performance? I don't know either.
This is why it's so hard to compare different reviews, and also why it's important to check multiple reviews to get a broader picture of what's going on.
| Jizz_Beard_thePirate said: Retailer confirms Radeon RX 9070 “MSRP” only applies to first shipments, price set to increase later This was indeed the case in Canada where the models that were MSRP went out of stock instantly and were left with a lot of models that were very close to 5070 Ti prices. XFX 9070 XT was even more expensive than some 5070 Ti models. Suffices to say my friend got tired of playing games and managed to get a 5070 Ti before those went out of stock. Thanks for the rug pull AMD lol, very Nvidia of you. Hopefully the situation will improve as time goes on. UK retailer confirms stock of 1,000 units of a single Radeon RX 9070 XT model at MSRP Alienware to launch 27-inch QD-OLED gaming monitor at $549 https://videocardz.com/newz/alienware-to-launch-27-inch-qd-oled-gaming-monitor-at-549 Crazy how cheap OLED monitors are becoming |
MSRP only for some launch cards is a dick move. Let's hope stock keeps coming and, once demand starts to normalize, so will prices. Tho Nvidia will also benefit from that, putting more pressure on AMD.
But well, at least AMD didn't lie about the stock availability, which seems to be quite good.
And hey, at least there's still something that follows common sense and gets cheaper over time! That's a nice looking monitor, perfect for a 5070Ti or 9070XT.
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