I find the lack of Battle Mage owners threads disturbing. My Onix Odyssey B580 arrived.

RJARRRPCGP · 2025-02-05T21:13:07+0000

IGS appears to have a nasty bug of the following: For GPU core OC'ing, you must only drag the slider to one position and hit the apply button. Then to change the OC level, you must disable tuning then re-enable tuning. If you move the slider after a setting was applied already and hit the apply button, there's a very high chance that it will overshoot the GPU core frequency far beyond what the GPU can do, causing totally random crashes. Especially Cyberpunk 2077 randomly flatlining.

Fouquin · 2025-02-05T21:29:05+0000

Don't have Battlemage because I still have Alchemist, and an A770 at 2500MHz is not really that different from the B580 in the games I play, and the A770 doesn't have nearly the CPU overhead issues the B580 has been displaying. So I'm not rushing out for a side-grade. If Intel musters up the courage to release a B770/780 though...

RJARRRPCGP · 2025-02-05T21:42:43+0000

Fouquin said:
Don't have Battlemage because I still have Alchemist, and an A770 at 2500MHz is not really that different from the B580 in the games I play

I observed the unexpected behavior with IGS on my Arc A770. It's stable at 2.5 GHz, indeed! Currently can't get any Battlemages.

Space Lynx · 2025-02-05T21:47:38+0000

What's your experience with XESS so far with the card, if any? I have always been a bit disappointed in every version of FSR for being a little blurrier than is acceptable. FSR4 apparently fixes this, but I am not upgrading for a few years so its a moot point.

XESS support native on the latest chip from Intel should fair better I expect? I know it probably doesn't match DLSS level of quality, but still better than FSR?

RJARRRPCGP · 2025-02-05T21:48:54+0000

Space Lynx said:
What's your experience with XESS so far with the card, if any? I have always been a bit disappointed in every version of FSR for being a little blurrier than is acceptable.

Tested on Alchemist, XeSS looks super in Cyberpunk 2077.

Space Lynx · 2025-02-05T21:54:00+0000

RJARRRPCGP said:
Tested on Alchemist, XeSS looks super in Cyberpunk 2077.

Yep, I love AMD and always will, but their "frame gen boost in every game" gimmick and the FSR blurriness of every version really irks me the wrong way. If I try to play Witcher 3 for example right now, FSR 3 in that game just makes it look smeary... but if I turn it off, my fps tanks really hard. It's just annoying at this point. I probably will go with a flagship Intel or Nvidia card in 4-6 years. I'm happy with what I have for now as I mostly am doing raster only games or emulation.

AusWolf · 2025-02-05T22:49:28+0000

Space Lynx said:
Yep, I love AMD and always will, but their "frame gen boost in every game" gimmick and the FSR blurriness of every version really irks me the wrong way. If I try to play Witcher 3 for example right now, FSR 3 in that game just makes it look smeary... but if I turn it off, my fps tanks really hard. It's just annoying at this point. I probably will go with a flagship Intel or Nvidia card in 4-6 years. I'm happy with what I have for now as I mostly am doing raster only games or emulation.

I can't for the love of god understand why we need FSR or DLSS in a 10 year-old game.

kilo · 2025-02-06T03:06:31+0000

AusWolf said:
I can't for the love of god understand why we need FSR or DLSS in a 10 year-old game.

4.0 released a while back and added rt, dlss, and other graphics improvements.

AusWolf · 2025-02-06T05:28:52+0000

kilo said:
4.0 released a while back and added rt, dlss, and other graphics improvements.

None of which was/is necessary, imo. It was a decent and good-looking game when it came out.

RJARRRPCGP · 2025-02-06T06:05:58+0000

XeSS, at least in Cyberpunk 2077, looked the most native-like that I ever saw!

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Processor	Ryzen 9 5900X
Motherboard	ASRock B550 PG Velocita (UEFI-BIOS P3.40)
Memory	32 GB G.Skill RipJawsV F4-3200C16D-32GVR
Video Card(s)	Sparkle Titan Arc A770 16 GB
Storage	Western Digital Black SN850 1 TB NVMe SSD
Display(s)	Alienware AW3423DWF OLED-ASRock PG27Q15R2A (backup)
Case	Corsair 275R
Audio Device(s)	Technics SA-EX140 receiver with Polk VT60 speakers
Power Supply	eVGA Supernova G3 750W
Mouse	Logitech G Pro (Hero)
Software	Windows 11 Pro x64 23H2

Processor	7800X3D -25 all core
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Memory	32gb ddr5 (2x16) cl 30 6000
Video Card(s)	Merc 310 7900 XT @3100 core
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Power Supply	Corsair RM850x Gold

System Name	KHR-1
Processor	Ryzen 9 5900X
Motherboard	ASRock B550 PG Velocita (UEFI-BIOS P3.40)
Memory	32 GB G.Skill RipJawsV F4-3200C16D-32GVR
Video Card(s)	Sparkle Titan Arc A770 16 GB
Storage	Western Digital Black SN850 1 TB NVMe SSD
Display(s)	Alienware AW3423DWF OLED-ASRock PG27Q15R2A (backup)
Case	Corsair 275R
Audio Device(s)	Technics SA-EX140 receiver with Polk VT60 speakers
Power Supply	eVGA Supernova G3 750W
Mouse	Logitech G Pro (Hero)
Software	Windows 11 Pro x64 23H2

Processor	7800X3D -25 all core
Motherboard	B650 Steel Legend
Cooling	Frost Commander 140
Memory	32gb ddr5 (2x16) cl 30 6000
Video Card(s)	Merc 310 7900 XT @3100 core
Display(s)	Agon 27" QD-OLED Glossy 240hz 1440p
Case	NZXT H710 (Red/Black)
Power Supply	Corsair RM850x Gold

I find the lack of Battle Mage owners threads disturbing. My Onix Odyssey B580 arrived.

RJARRRPCGP

Fouquin

Staff

RJARRRPCGP

Space Lynx

Astronaut

RJARRRPCGP

Space Lynx

Astronaut

AusWolf

kilo

AusWolf

RJARRRPCGP

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