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What are you playing?

It's stable as it should be; 2 hours and no crashes.
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If I didn't just get Fallen Order and still have Greedfall going I would probably buy RDR2. Game looks too good to worry about them thinking I am a knuckle head.
 
I completed Far Cry Primal, GTA V, main story and overwhelming majority of side quests in Fallout 4 and will start playing Far Cry 5. Sometimes I play GTA V for an hour or two, doing ridiculous things, especially shootouts with cops and SWAT using only vintage pistol or musket...
 
I completed Far Cry Primal, GTA V, main story and overwhelming majority of side quests in Fallout 4 and will start playing Far Cry 5. Sometimes I play GTA V for an hour or two, doing ridiculous things, especially shootouts with cops and SWAT using only vintage pistol or musket...

It's interesting how the human brain works. It seems vast majority of humans that play games like GTA end up doing stuff like that, makes you wonder what we are capable of if society collapsed. Scary stuff, haha...
 
I just started Blood and Wine DLC for Witcher 3 :laugh:
 
I just started Blood and Wine DLC for Witcher 3 :laugh:

I need to play the expansions still myself, but I just am not in the mood these days for long gaming sessions. I hope I get around to it someday. I know I will enjoy it.
 
Damn it, Far Cry has hooked me, just when I bought RDR2 as well.
Maybe I'm into linear games, probably.
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It's interesting how the human brain works. It seems vast majority of humans that play games like GTA end up doing stuff like that, makes you wonder what we are capable of if society collapsed. Scary stuff, haha...

lol wut? That is what GTA games are for. Shooting shit and stealing cars. Luckily, many people aren't stupid.
 
GTA V, finally going to finish this. :laugh:

It's interesting how the human brain works. It seems vast majority of humans that play games like GTA end up doing stuff like that, makes you wonder what we are capable of if society collapsed. Scary stuff, haha...
Heh, as a kid the only reason to progress in the story was to unlock new areas where I can cause mayhem.. :rolleyes:


e: aaaaaand it gone, or rather done :P
 
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Just got the brand new Ferrari 488 Pista. Now that Toyota is coming back, I hope they're bringing the LFA to FH4.
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Feels extra-good to be playing Fallout 4 again... a month after basically losing my whole mod setup and starting from scratch. I was lucky that I had a reference to go by. The backup was corrupted but the entire folder/file tree of my game folder was preserved, along with the appdata folder for Vortex, where the mods are staged and archived. So I could see what I had and somewhat how it was set up. I thought I could use it... that copy seemed to run okay, but as you go on, it becomes obvious that a lot of the files are corrupted. But it was at least good as a starting point. I was even able to pull some mods from it that are no longer on the nexus :D

It ended up being worth starting over. I sorted my texture packs better, so the highest-quality ones get priority, while the ones that are simple optimizations and/or up-scales are stacked underneath. First time around I didn't know which were which. Now I recognize the modder's style and techniques. I kinda know now which ones aren't as good by looking at a handful of their screenshots. Definitely looks better with them sorted proper!

While re-downloading everything I went back over the mods, skipping over ones that are now known to cause problems, as well as ones I wasn't appreciating or even using. I also found when reinstalling all of my mods that patches/fixes I needed to make last year are no longer necessary thanks to mod updates. It was mostly minor things with tags for lists that didn't jive right. Maybe 20 minutes of work to do that.

All in all, I rebuilt my whole modding setup of ~400 mods in an afternoon. Wasn't as bad as I thought. I remembered more than I expected. And it gave me really good opportunities to fix old problems I never touched because of how far back I'd have had to go. The worst part was going through the texture packs, which is a good 300 of those 400 mods. As you might imagine, most of those conflict on at least one texture. One of them is 7.1GB and conflicts with with close to 30 other packs. It's like... good luck making rules for that without them bumping into eachother! Setting all of the rules is probably a pretty good IQ test. Once you have like one that conflicts with 12 other packs, and then some of those packs conflict with eachother, you start inadvertently making them double into each other. The whole thing involves a level of logical thinking I just don't have anymore.

Vortex gives you a weird plot to try and solve it but I've never understood it. You get a bunch of dots spread around with intersecting lines that have arrows on them connecting them all. It looks like in the detective shows when the guy's got that corkboard with all of these maps, photos, and notes tied together with pushpins and string.

Like this...
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Your chances of solving it are about as good as this guys chances of solving that 30-years-dry cold case...

It's definitely a way to show all of the info, but my god is it painful to try and make the connections you need to make while also going over the packs in your head and thinking of what has what in it.

I found a tedious workaround. You can override the rules you set for whole packs on a texture-by-texture basis... and it never cycles because those overrides go by the specific file. So if I had like 6 packs cycling into each other and I'm looking at a list of 20 or so conflicting packs that I'm trying to get in order, I would just set the rules to fix the cycle and then go in and override each individual texture so they all crisscross how I want them to. The downside is that you have to crawl through each and every pack, making a note of which ones should come from which pack. Quite time consuming. I don't know if I'm smart or stupid for that. I used to do the same with Skyrim SE in Mod Organizer... if I ran into an unsortable combo of texture packs, I would just overwrite or delete the textures I didn't want coming through.

I don't like doing it. It doesn't leave easily detectable traces. So if I ever have to reinstall a pack or something, I'd have nothing to help me recreate the order.

It was funny, too. When I finally got it all working, I wound-up with the EXACT problem I was trying to fix before Vortex crashed and destroyed everything. And I solved it in 30 minutes. For some reason a blood spatter overhaul causes loading crashes in 3 specific locations, that I personally know of. Best part is that none of those locations even have blood spatter that I can find. But it's a thing. I enable that mod and I get very predictable crashes. Why? Bethesda.

I don't know why I do it anymore. If you want my opinion on the game, it's a mediocre game and was when it came out. Yet I've still got over 1000 hours playing it. Nearly a month and a half of my life. o_O


Upgrading from a 2600 to 3900x has made things interesting with Fallout 4. The performance is actually markedly better. There were always a few spots in the game with nasty FPS dips... and I mean always, even without mods. Those are mostly gone. What used to shoot me down to 30-40FPS now only takes me from 60 to... 57. It's crazy to me, to see such a difference. Shadows are DEFINITELY cpu bound in a big way. I used to have to minimize the shadow res and distance to get past shadow-related dips. Any increases would just decimate my FPS. Now, with my 3900x, I can run them at 'ultra' resolution and far enough back that I don't see them rendering (looks like a fog line, but with shadows.)

Probably point to the physics system for that one, which is widely known to be pretty crappy. I'm betting that's why it struggles with volumetric light, too. I can say the godrays no longer bring my machine to its knees, either.

Did AMD finally do it? They made the mythical CPU that can run Fallout 4 properly? Seems like Ryzen 4000 should run Crysis no problem...

Apparently, there's not nothing to it. GN looked into it once and the results are pretty unusual. I'm not sure what CPU it's actually optimized for, it's so bad on all of them. Really just a matter of insanely varied degrees. https://www.gamersnexus.net/game-bench/2182-fallout-4-cpu-benchmark-huge-performance-difference

Sadly I'm not out of the woods yet. I decided to install the game on my 860 evo sata drive instead of the 970 nvme system drive. Just to see... and to make potential backup/restore ops later lower on variables. And man... what a difference! It's actually quite slow. That really surprised me... more than the differences the 3900x made. The texture pop-in and microstutter are pretty bad running off of the sata drive. Do people really play this game on spinners? My question for you would be HOW?! Even ignoring the stutter, the load times are tantalizingly long. Long enough to invoke past traumas of hanging loading screens. Usually I'd say you could skip the nvme for gaming... really I would. Unless the game in question is Fallout 4. Then, it seems like its almost mandatory. :rolleyes:
 
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Got a ton of snapshots from yesterday's session. Gonna be uploading here soon :D

Here they are :D
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I have been on a little buying spree. Have Greedfall going, Fallen Order, and had a few to drink and now have RDR2.
 
I'm playing The Outer worlds atm. It's really good but I kind of want to stop in the event they add VR support. Fallout 4 VR and Skyrim VR is so good in VR. I started SkyrimVR last week and it's a whole new game. I never cared for it on pancake monitor, but in VR it's amazing. I really need to finish FO4VR as well. I have too many games that I've started and just stopped playing.. lol I need to finish them all before the 10th when Boneworks releases.. lol
 
I need to finish them all before the 10th when Boneworks releases.. lol

I don't generally finish games unless I really, really like them. The Witcher series are about the only games I can remember finishing in the last many years.
 
I don't generally finish games unless I really, really like them. The Witcher series are about the only games I can remember finishing in the last many years.
On that note I need to finish GTAV oh wait and GTAIV.. lol and all of the batman games.. I did finish the first one BatmanAA. I might be the only person that likes only a 5 hour game.. lol Something I can finish in a couple of days.. haha

EDIT: I lose direction fairly quick and then just quite.. Games that open-world I just tend to do everything but the story.. lol Like GTA games I just drive around stealing cars.. lol
 
On that note I need to finish GTAV oh wait and GTAIV.. lol and all of the batman games.. I did finish the first one BatmanAA. I might be the only person that likes only a 5 hour game.. lol Something I can finish in a couple of days.. haha

EDIT: I lose direction fairly quick and then just quite.. Games that open-world I just tend to do everything but the story.. lol Like GTA games I just drive around stealing cars.. lol

The GTAV story was pretty good. But I didn't finish it. I guess you could say I finished Destiny 2 but I don't count MP-centric games as 'finished'. I likely won't finish Fallen Order, Greedfall, or RDR2. Part of the problem now is I have so many other things to do...fix the house, work on the car, mow the lawn, work, take the boat out...that I feel guilty playing games.
 
holy smokes look at this bull hit

 
His red Bermuda shirt doesn't help much.
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and to say this place is well defended would be an understatement. And the mercs can see through grass, walls and other solid objects :ohwell:
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Just finished a replay of Bioshock 2. I do enjoy spending time in Rapture.

Next up is Metro 2033 Redux. I've played the game several times but never the Redux version which I got compliments of EGS.
 
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