Still won’t be buying it. I will not support a company and devs that once again tried to pull a Capcom on disk dlc shenanigans.

I’ll see how 3 pans out and they don’t try scummy tactics again.

Intel: hold my beer.

Yup.

Fifteen minutes into your refund window.

Expedition 33 seemed to have to recompile shaders regularly but never for 15 freaking minutes for things to take effect properly.

Yeah, downvoted because I woke up and saw this absolutely ridiculous strawman that bordered on marketing drivel worth of Nvidia and monitor manufacturing advertising wing.

1. The argument is that this tech is being used by both the manufacturer and game devs to be lazy and market lies not how can we ever get to 1000hz with path tracing.
2. The whole 500hz benefits are skeptical and subjective at best considering even going from 144 to 240 you’re already seeing large diminishing returns but that’s really a whole other argument about monitor BS currently.
3. Being a complex solution doesn’t make it a good solution and frame gen is not a good solution for making sure your game doesn’t run like ass.
4. Frame generation is supposed to help older cards get better “FPS” and smooth out motion, you know what would help that over having new games use frame generation as a big ass crutch? Optimizing your damn game so you don’t stutter like a drunken sailor with a speech impediment in the first place and not adding a crap ton of latency with fake frames.

Which was what this tech was supposed to be for when it was first pitched to gamers, a tool to help extend the usable life of a GPU.

Not we know now that’s not how the tech is being used and especially for Nvidia, that not how this is used and marketed at this point and it would seem that developers are just expecting upscaling to fill in the gap for not doing a proper job to being with.

ETA, also don’t forget that it’s not just upscaling, Nvidia are pushing fake frames as the standard too in their marketing and optimization push.

I think it’s even worse than that.

To me It’s basically Nvidia staying there no need to optimize, just rely on fake frames and upscaling with the worst image quality because you’re poor.

I usually do a raffle when I give away keys online but I’ll ping you to make sure you get to throw your hat into the ring.

This is one of the reasons why when these companies ask if you would download a car and raise a stink about piracy, I always say he’ll yeah I support piracy because corporations endorse it too.

Pretty bad overall. But I’ll stay for plucky squire and I’ll probably give away the wonderful monkey Island some I already own it.

Yes, it’s mostly a US-only issue but you know that other countries, Australia, looking at you, that love to be ban happy with any flimsy justification.

I think he fill that niche for people who enjoy gaming but aren’t ultra technical, which has that’s what he’s kind of always been.

Yup. Even just release the match matching server as a Linux app would be better than what they do now which is just kill it all.

I think a lot of pre-builts are just bad and certainly overpriced but overall but I wouldn’t call it a scam. It has its place and it’s not so much of a scam but a luxury if you ask me. And while it’s just Legos for people who have been doing this for a while, it’s certainly daunting when you’re new to this and quite honestly even in software development, I know plenty of guys who’d just not have to deal with building anymore.

And let’s be real here too, we know it’s not just about putting the thing together as a paint by number thing. It’s also all about those little nits and bugs you’re going to find when you first turn it on. Bios settings that don’t get along with your memory for some reason. Dealing with the whole secure boot and TPM that may or may not get along with your install of choice. Dealing with a distro that isn’t getting along with your hardware. Which theoretically is what these companies are supposed to be doing but just too many fail miserably at and why I personally will always build my own.

Just my two cents.

Well you win the most asinine comment I’ve read today.

Even I remember girls getting crapped on in the arcades.

Dang, that’s rough. So I have not a clue why it would be doing that on a simple driver update unless the driver got corrupted. I would try booting directly to the command line next time if it happens again, maybe try booting the recovery partition. Sounds like you’d be able to get a terminal there and then you can use apt purge to remove and reinstall and see if that helps.

I’ve had to do the apt purge route myself for a few failed updates myself, mostly odd little application updates, and that clears up the issues.

Good luck!

So quick question were you able to get to a command line when the driver wasn’t recognizing your GPU?

Not familiar with that distro so I would just pop into their forums and ask. I’m personally running Bazzite and have had no issues with the past couple of driver updates.

Weird, what was the issue exactly?

So I gather this is just about people who are building PC’s and not about developers actually needing or actually utilizing more than 16 GB of ram.

Of course that doesn’t account for Windows 11 bloat out the ass and why if you ask me, now’s the best time to start the migration to Linux gaming.