What are you playing?

[Space Lynx]

Took my Paladin I made in 2004 in World of Warcraft to max level last week. Haven't played him since late 2005? Was a blast from the fucking past looking at my inventory and shit. lol

Took a Monk to max level this week. I am done now though, maybe for another ten years, had my fun though. Really liked that I could re-do all the old quests in Stranglethorn Vale and Duskwood, nostalgia is wild how powerful it is. I had a blast and had some massive dopamine rushes.

Now? Now what do I do? Time to fucking rock out I suppose. Man, I wish they would make a new guitar hero, but based off the original two games only, go back to the roots. and make it just for PC. I miss rocking out, and I am too fucking lazy to learn the proper way, and to cheap to do it the concert way. and I never gave two fucks about Rock Band or the rest of it. just want the original shit again.

 

[OneMoar]

I am playing with myself

Me and myself on Steam

Lily, a little girl who lost her parents in a car accident, lives in a big empty house. She really wants to have a friend with whom she could pass the tough time. One day, she finally get a friend, from mirror...

store.steampowered.com

 

[InVasMani]

AC Odyssey?

Metro Exodus. You have to let the bear hit you...

Can't it hit a friend instead < 3

 

[Count von Schwalbe]

Can't it hit a friend instead < 3

I can!

I was playing on Amazon Luna (free with prime!) and idk if it even supports co-op in games that have it. Personally I don't have gamer friends so it is a moot point...

 

[Super Firm Tofu]

Took my Paladin I made in 2004 in World of Warcraft to max level last week. Haven't played him since late 2005? Was a blast from the fucking past looking at my inventory and shit. lol

Took a Monk to max level this week. I am done now though, maybe for another ten years, had my fun though. Really liked that I could re-do all the old quests in Stranglethorn Vale and Duskwood, nostalgia is wild how powerful it is. I had a blast and had some massive dopamine rushes.

Now? Now what do I do? Time to fucking rock out I suppose. Man, I wish they would make a new guitar hero, but based off the original two games only, go back to the roots. and make it just for PC. I miss rocking out, and I am too fucking lazy to learn the proper way, and to cheap to do it the concert way. and I never gave two fucks about Rock Band or the rest of it. just want the original shit again.

Did you play any Classic, or WotLK? I played Classic about a year and a half ago for a month's sub. That was some serious nostalgia.

 

[GreiverBlade]

AC Odyssey?

a Plagues Tale Requiem if i followed correctly

 

[Count von Schwalbe]

a Plagues Tale Requiem if i followed correctly

Ah yes, I see that now. My brain didn't link Sithaer's post with Cvrk's.

 

[mechtech]

Terraria - labor of love update - celebration mk 10 seed - master mode

so much changes/additions!!!

 

[Space Lynx]

Did you play any Classic, or WotLK? I played Classic about a year and a half ago for a month's sub. That was some serious nostalgia.

I was going to, that was my original plan then I read about the 50% experience bonus for month of October, so decided to give my Paladin a whirl and I ended up having more fun than I expected.

I may give classic a try now...

 

[GreiverBlade]

The plants are thick. Only seen this in mods in Skyrim.

i know what you mean ...


also, woohoo near 1600hrs in SSE AE ... and i had to use a downgrade patcher ... to 1.6.353 since when i was on holiday there was 2 update and most of my mods requiring SKSE, which was updated for the last build, were crashing the game right at start (SKSE library obsolete ahahah ... i hate AE!) 1hrs purging mods on Vortex, 2hrs re DL skyrim, 15 min downgrade patching and 4hrs re installing my 509 mods (203 "normal" 306 "light" ) 17.2hrs playing to compensate (and 45min passed cleaning and sorting the saves that got corrupted bah! fresh start with a 100% clear clean save is fine too )

60fps steady except when i have 2 followers based on preset from Wammy who have extreme HDT-SMP hairs ahah the author mention something like "guarantee to halve your FPS or the next haircut is free" in the FOMOD section proposing HDT-SMP or non HDT-SMP hairs options well ... i will not have a free haircut, *cough* not that i have much hairs left to cut... *cough* 24fps when they are present

Spoiler: baasically Senhua from Hellblade, Forsworn'ified semi NSFW i'd say ... you've been warned

outside the trend of the "tig bits" follower and as with every "fantasy" world armour: the less they cover the more they protect ... as for the hair, every single dreads are skinned and all the small metal beads and ring are full 3d models and animated ... Nvidia Hairwork? what's that, a brand of shampoo?

 

[InVasMani]

Hey I know you!!

 

[mouacyk]

EDIT: FPS also tanks from 75fps to 55fps.
Anyone know why the GPU usage drops to 70% in this scene? It's typically 99% everywhere else. @3840x1620.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Anyone know why the GPU usage drops to 70% in this scene? It's typically 99% everywhere else. @3840x1620.
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Likely because of render distance. Even though it's rendering a lot of objects in the frame, only a few are up close and thus need high detail rendering.

 

[LifeOnMars]

Got my key for Uncharted! Preloading now, feels weird to have it in my PC collection but can't wait 4hrs until release apparently.

 

[The red spirit]

I finally tried out Cyberpunk on RX 580. It's as hard to run as I expected and at 1440p it needs low settings, max textures with adaptive FSR with 65-100 range. Fortunately, even at low settings, game looks okay. FSR in this game looks better than it usually does, but there are artifacts, which blend with game's atmosphere, unfortunately some artifacts look like blotches of blur, so that's not nice. In the end game runs with RX 580, performance isn't great, FSR still blows, but works as crutch and I get basically locked 45 fps with that adaptive FSR. Admittedly, some one or two settings aren't set to low, but I don't think they would help much to reach higher fps. Without FSR game is "playable", that is it gets around 33 fps. I briefly locked it to 30 fps and the only thing I can say is that I forgot how crap 30 fps is. No two ways about it, 30 fps just sucks, even 40 fps is just so so. At least now I know that Cyberpunk runs on RX 580, but with some hefty compromises.

 

[mouacyk]

Likely because of render distance. Even though it's rendering a lot of objects in the frame, only a few are up close and thus need high detail rendering.

I forgot to mention that FPS tanks also, from around 75FPS to 55FPS. Clocks and power stay the same. If the GPU was actually power-gating, because there's less work, it would make sense, but the fps drop doesn't.

 

[Frick]

I forgot to mention that FPS tanks also, from around 75FPS to 55FPS. Clocks and power stay the same. If the GPU was actually power-gating, because there's less work, it would make sense, but the fps drop doesn't.

Could be one of Those Places. Some games just tanks at some places for no apparent reason.

 

[Cvrk]

"Control your flame protector...others have burned in it"

When he said that, ohhh it gave me the chills. This game is soo well written, the story is super!

There is a Photo Mode my guys, and you can even use it during a cutscene. More.... you can control the camera during the cutscene to look and take pictured from any angle. Chose to hide certain protagonists and only take pictures of what you like... dude this game is incredible.

 

[SmoKies]

 

[LifeOnMars]

Pleased to report that so far Uncharted appears to be an awesome port. I've played two hours so far and it's been a lovely experience. Maxed Settings@4K/DLSS Quality Locked 75fps Vsync and some wiggle room left on my 3080 12gb. Using my Dual Sense controller and it's supported natively with triggers/haptics/rumble. When you first install and run the game it will compile shaders for a little while on the menu like Horizon Zero Dawn did on launch but it's a one time thing until you either clear your driver's shader cache or install a new driver.

I only have one niggle and that is sometimes, at the end of cutscenes, there is a very brief black screen (whilst the scene is still playing) before the scene then finishes and onto the next bit of gameplay (I'm sure it will be patched) Other than that the graphics, sound, control, and performance seem extremely well done. Happy. Took a few early game screenies.

 

[Vayra86]

I forgot to mention that FPS tanks also, from around 75FPS to 55FPS. Clocks and power stay the same. If the GPU was actually power-gating, because there's less work, it would make sense, but the fps drop doesn't.

CPU load / assets in the scene, its often seen with very long view distances. LoD might not be defined for everything, stuff like that. This is one of those typical game logic things that just happen. Something devs could patch out by limiting what's seen/loaded in that scene.

Most performance in games is maintained by manually tweaking every sequence and scene, in open world games you'll find more weird stuff like this because of it; its just not possible to cover everything. The majority is handled by general limitations in what's being placed around the world already, I reckon newer engines can make more of it dynamic.

 

[80-watt Hamster]

It's tries hard to compete with Ark on worst storage requirements, but it's not quite there yet meanwhile Valheim is like we've managed to run on 640KB it's all we need!

I feel like Valheim demands resources somewhat out of proportion to its visual fidelity.

To the topic at hand, I binged my way through DOOM 2016. It's pretty alright. Blew through pretty easily on I'm Too Young To Die, but the final(?) boss is still kicking my ass. Re-re(-re?)played Portal as a palate cleanser. Dang, that game's good.

 

[Super Firm Tofu]

Thanks to @Sithaer and @Cvrk I'm finally giving A Plague Tale: Innocence a go. Hopefully I can finish before Requiem leaves Game Pass.

 

[lexluthermiester]

I forgot to mention that FPS tanks also, from around 75FPS to 55FPS.

Ah, that says a different thing. What's your CPU doing when this happens?

 

[mouacyk]

Ah, that says a different thing. What's your CPU doing when this happens?

Here's another crop, I took with Ansel:

It's locked at 5.1GHz with RAM at 3886-15-15-15, VRAM temp at 56C, VRAM usage at 7.4GB, GPU temp at 35C, GPU usage at 77%, power at 66%, and max core usage at 72%. I would like to believe it's just bottlenecking on streaming scene assets from disk. Just such an odd scene to see both FPS and GPU usage drop.

This is turning around and looking the other way:

In this game, it's just this one scene, but in other games, it can be entire levels or even the entire game. Devs, we're onto you... fix your sheet.