Exactly. That’s why it’s a trash motherboard as soon as root access is gained. It can never again be trusted.

How do you trust that the flash was done properly if you did it from the compromised system? This would only work if you flashed it externally somehow without the system running.

Finally some news to make buying dozens of studios then laying off tens of thousands of employees all worth it

As an individual consumer… Not much. Still wouldn’t buy their product as it’s showing support with whatever little power you have.

In a better world there would be market regulations or something to keep a massive company from burning all their money in a market to have an unfair advantage over all others.

I mean they’re a mega corp willing to lose billions upon billions to own the market. That none of their competitors are willing to bleed money like that isn’t surprising, and buying into such an obviously poisoned platform is not a good idea for the future of the industry unless you want it to be owned by Meta.

It’s not raw framerates that are bad now, developers pushing tech is not a bad thing and has been how gaming has been since it’s invention, aside from the “dark ages” of X360 ports where PC just meant 360 graphics at crazy res and framerates.

The problem nowadays is games are straight unplayable even at lowered settings or extreme hardware due to shader compilation or streaming stutters. This is just bad programming with no fix aside from an engine rework, and most devs don’t have engine programmers anymore since they just ship UE4/5

Also UI has to look good at either 720p or 1280x800. A lot of modern games don’t do that well at low res.

No, because that still gives these assholes money. I hope someone hires the original team to make something new.

So? JC didn’t last forever anyway, the series switching protagonists isn’t new.

I’m not sure what you mean.

Zero ads with uBlock Origin on my phone, maybe try an adblocker?

Nice. Showing disk space per item will help a lot with cleaning up some long term libraries (SteamVR)

Is it though? It’s targetting 5-15W, the other APUs are terrible at lower wattages and only good if they’re blasting through energy.

The speed boost is from the faster RAM, which is a pretty big bottleneck in many cases. Up to 11% faster. In many cases not faster though, just depends on the game and settings.

No, it’s native Linux with native Vulkan as well.

I love it. I do wish they had opened up mods and community servers before launch but the core game plays and looks so good. Most of the missing modes were never core to the game, hopefully they add some of them back after reworking them later (DZ?). It runs even better than GO did on Linux too.

Only DX11 and 12? Shame they don’t support open APIs like Vulkan if true.