technology The Glorious PC master race thread

[long gone 8,929]

What brand would you recommend? I currently have Corsair Vengeance, but I've heard Kingstone and G-skill ripjaw are good, too.

G.Skill, no doubt. Lifetime warranties on their RAM and their RAM is supposed to be some of the best, most reliable modules out there. I got G.Skill Ares because of the low-profile heatsink compared to Ripjaws.

 

note to self: get a K70 RGB next month.

[Celli 4,337]

G.Skill, no doubt. Lifetime warranties on their RAM and their RAM is supposed to be some of the best, most reliable modules out there. I got G.Skill Ares because of the low-profile heatsink compared to Ripjaws.

 

note to self: get a K70 RGB next month.

Awesome, thanks for the help   

[FoxyCryptid 4,330]

Why would you ever choose to play The Evil Within? That's a baaaaaaaaad game.

 

1)I didn't pay for it, I "downloaded" it.

 

2)My ass is so desperate for a horror game that isn't Zombies and assault weapons it's better than nothing

 

3)Once you get past the shiitty optimization it's not that bad. 

 

4)I can finish Silent Hill 3 because the PC port hates anything newer than Windows XP.

[VulpineTaco 525]

1)I didn't pay for it, I "downloaded" it.

 

2)My ass is so desperate for a horror game that isn't Zombies and assault weapons it's better than nothing

 

3)Once you get past the shiitty optimization it's not that bad. 

 

4)I can finish Silent Hill 3 because the PC port hates anything newer than Windows XP.

Oh, I got past the optimization. The design is just awful. Game mechanics are frustrating, and not hard in a good way.

[FoxyCryptid 4,330]

Oh, I got past the optimization. The design is just awful. Game mechanics are frustrating, and not hard in a good way.

 

I admit, there's some frustrating stuff, but I've got through far worse. 

[VulpineTaco 525]

I admit, there's some frustrating stuff, but I've got through far worse. 

Doesn't mean that it's acceptable....

[long gone 8,929]

Doesn't mean that it's acceptable....

It could be worse. It could be an Ubisoft game.

[FoxyCryptid 4,330]

Doesn't mean that it's acceptable....

 

It's still fun, it's no Silent Hill 2 but it's fun. 

[Azure Envy 1,092]

I see. The only reason why I say  becuase  I was tempeted to go back to consoles becuase of the Master Cheif Collection and boy the communitty I grew up with completly the oppisite of what it once what. 

 

Yeah, I can see where you're coming from, but don't forget that MCC is currently plagued with matchmaking issues causing quite an uproar.

 

That being said, Ubi still bites it harder. ACU is atrocious and Ubi's drop in stock value reflects that.

 

:okiedokielokie:

[FoxyCryptid 4,330]

It could be worse. It could be an Ubisoft game.

 

With the way it's optimized it might as well be. It uses like 1.5GB of vram.  

[long gone 8,929]

With the way it's optimized it might as well be. It uses like 1.5GB of vram.  

Really? With those textures?

[FoxyCryptid 4,330]

Really? With those textures?

 

You can see on the MSI read-out in that screenshot, it's using 1,532MB(and that's at 1600x900 resolution because I get huge frame-rate drops in some areas with it any higher)

 

Serious Sam 3 barely used half that despite having some really gorgeous and high-res texture work. 

[Azure Envy 1,092]

You can see on the MSI read-out in that screenshot, it's using 1,532MB(and that's at 1600x900 resolution because I get huge frame-rate drops in some areas with it any higher)

 

Serious Sam 3 barely used half that despite having some really gorgeous and high-res texture work. 

 

I don't believe TEW uses texture compression, SS3 uses high-quality texture compression to achieve what it does, much like many other games.

 

I'm wondering how many modern games have completely eschewed (high-quality lossless) texture compression in favor of CINEMATIC QUALITY GRAPHICS.

[long gone 8,929]

You can see on the MSI read-out in that screenshot, it's using 1,532MB(and that's at 1600x900 resolution because I get huge frame-rate drops in some areas with it any higher)

 

Serious Sam 3 barely used half that despite having some really gorgeous and high-res texture work. 

Textures must be poorly-compressed then.

[FoxyCryptid 4,330]

I don't believe TEW uses texture compression, SS3 uses high-quality texture compression to achieve what it does, much like many other games.

 

I'm wondering how many modern games have completely eschewed (high-quality lossless) texture compression in favor of CINEMATIC QUALITY GRAPHICS.

 

Textures must be poorly-compressed then.

 

 

The whole thing is a wreck from a optimization standpoint, it brings by GPU to full load and still had trouble keepinh 35-40FPS at 900p despite not being that pretty a game. freakin' Battlefield 4 on High settings with some stuff on Ultra runs better. 

Edited November 15, 2014 by Shoboni

[Azure Envy 1,092]

The whole thing is a wreck from a optimization standpoint, it brings by GPU to full load and still had trouble 35-40FPS at 900p despite not being that pretty a game. freakin' Battlefield 4 on High settings with some stuff on Ultra runs better. 

 

BF4 runs beautifully on my system. The netcode was another story back when I played it but graphics-wise it looked excellent and almost always pegged 60 fps in multiplayer. It along with CryEngine are multi-core aware and according to my highly scientific task manager tests, makes good use of available cores.

[long gone 8,929]

Oooh, GPU rumors!

 

http://www.loadthegame.com/2014/11/12/nvidia-geforce-gtx-960-will-stick-256-bit-bus-4gb-ddr5/

 

So if this is right, the GTX 960 will stick to a 256-bit bus with 4GB RAM, but have reduced memory bandwidth and a 1GHz slower effective memory clock than the 970 and 980. I've heard rumors that the price will be $256, but we'll have to see what the benchmarks look like. Based on the 970 and how that made AMD drop the price of the R9 290/X over $200 because of how good it is for the price...

[FoxyCryptid 4,330]

In other news, I had to employ the "bumble around until you find the right setting" method to fix my steam because it decided to switch to what i think was Russian on it's own. 

[Azure Envy 1,092]

In other news, I had to employ the "bumble around until you find the right setting" method to fix my steam because it decided to switch to what i think was Russian on it's own. 

 

How goes your adventures in GPU overclocking?

[FoxyCryptid 4,330]

How goes your adventures in GPU overclocking?

 

It feels stable when I add 130mhz(although I can't tell if it's giving me much of a performance boost, I should run some benchmarks with FRAPS) to it, haven't messed with the memory yet.

 

Learned SS3 hates Afterburner and even running it in the background with no OCing on causes pretty bad visual bugs. 

Edited November 15, 2014 by Shoboni

[Azure Envy 1,092]

It feels stable when I add 130mhz(although I can't tell if it's giving me much of a performance boost, I should run some benchmarks with FRAPS) to it, haven't messed with the memory yet.

 

Learned SS3 hates Afterburner and even running it in the background with no OCing on causes pretty bad visual bugs. 

 

Messing with my 670, memory clock doesn't appear to affect my scores very much or make a noticeable difference in framerate. It still overclocks like crazy though, I've got mine set at +500 because... I dunno... 500's a nice round number, right?

 

If you're gonna mess with the mem OC, you should run 3DMark or something else to make sure your scores aren't actually going down. GDDR5 performs error detection so you shouldn't get any artifacting, but detecting errors will slow it down and lower performance as a result.

 

Glad you figured it out.

Edited November 15, 2014 by Lunatic Envy

[FoxyCryptid 4,330]

Messing with my 670, memory clock doesn't appear to affect my scores very much or make a noticeable difference in framerate. It still overclocks like crazy though, I've got mine set at +500 because... I dunno... 500's a nice round number, right?

 

If you're gonna mess with the mem OC, you should run 3DMark or something else to make sure your scores aren't actually going down. GDDR5 performs error detection so you shouldn't get any artifacting, but detecting errors will slow it down and lower performance as a result.

 

Glad you figured it out.

 

What it did seem to do was make the FPS more stable in some things and stop some drops. I'm running it at like 1333Mhz as you can see in the screenshot(don't know if if I should go higher or not)

 

Probably won't mess with the memory because it already goes 2700Mhz stock. 

Also, why does my 750ti also have 2GB of shared memory when it has dedicated on-board memory?

[Azure Envy 1,092]

What it did seem to do was make the FPS more stable in some things and stop some drops. I'm running it at like 1333Mhz as you can see in the screenshot(don't know if if I should go higher or not)

 

Probably won't mess with the memory because it already goes 2700Mhz stock. 

Also, why does my 750ti also have 2GB of shared memory when it has dedicated on-board memory?

 

Shared RAM is not allocated. The driver will dip into system RAM if you run out of dedicated video memory.

If anyone is in the market for 12 TB of storage and has $400 burning a hole in their pocket...

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboBundleDetails.aspx?sdtid=7367090&SID=de79b16c75b348caa6c5649ed2d4b0b9&AID=10440897&PID=1225267&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-cables-_-na-_-na&ItemList=Combo.2008778&cm_sp=

[VulpineTaco 525]

Guys, there's very bad news.

http://mlpforums.com/topic/114703-psa-steam-has-a-new-virus-going-around/#entry3259398

Hopefully this hasn't affected any of you.

[long gone 8,929]

Guys, there's very bad news.

http://mlpforums.com/topic/114703-psa-steam-has-a-new-virus-going-around/#entry3259398

Hopefully this hasn't affected any of you.

Protip: Don't click random links, especially if it says something shady-looking like screen-pictures in the URL.