revelator
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i agree was a bit fun to see the DLSS entusiasts going ape over comparing FSR performance on a RTX card though, omg sacriledge . on the older gtx models it also hurts some that these cards dont have any RT cores for raytracing but it does make some games who uses light raytracing playable at 4K. not really sure what to make of frame generation, guess we will have to see how much of an impact it makes and how visible it will be.
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so turns out FSR is just as fast as DLSS in a few cases a little faster DLSS looks better though. FSR does have the advantage that it can be used by pretty much any gfx card though a gtx 10 series is probably the oldest card where it makes sense. great news for 1080 ti users as it actually makes raytracing viable on these cards.
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oh boy it had to happen https://www.techspot.com/review/2652-dlss-vs-fsr-performance/ mighty big can o worms opened in that review hehe.
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huh seems there are some future plans for a smart transistor based on the hybrid materials silicon germanium and carbon nanotubing which promisses to cut down the transistor count in a cpu by as much as 85% due to it being able to auto reconfigure itself 85% ... omg.
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https://www.waferworld.com/post/why-is-germanium-making-a-comeback-in-the-semiconductor-industry germanium was the material used in the first transistor but was harder to work with, so it got waylaid when silicon was discovered. it does have better charge carrying capabilities and is very stable, with the advanced fabrication technology today it made sense. since it also has 3 times the electron movement speed compared to silicon
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aye lots of experiments going on atm, germanium is also making a comeback as a semiconductor material in cpu's mostly hybrid silicon/germanium though.
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DLSS is supossedly better when moving where FSR has a tendency to artifact more, speedwise it should also be a good deal faster though the gap is shrinking i heard. cant really see much difference myself my eyesight is not what it was, i can see the difference at 1080p but it looks like crap at that resolution and they actually discourage using it there.
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bad wording a good deal compared to the other models maybe no.... it was the memory bus that was the problem with the 4060 ti, at 128 bit it did not really have the bandwidth to take advantage of the added ram and was only 5 to 8 % faster at 4k sadly it could not even manage 30 fps at that resolution so erf. the added ram became moot at 1080 and only miniscule at 1440 resolutions. the 4070 does have a wider bus so it should handle it better i reckon. lets cross fingers for more X3D models for the am4 a 400 mhz drop should not be to bad
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hmm i should have thought about that when i noticed the built in ram on the lunar lake, though also usable on a micro computer it makes more sense for mobile. 4070 ti super sounds like a good deal if the price is right, not so sure about the other models ?, performance wise they are already up there but may lack a bit more memory for higher resolution gaming, 12 gb iis mostly ok though, strangely it seemed the 4060 16 gb model was a flop but being the lowest model of the midrange cards might have been a hinderance (not performant enough to warrant the memory increase) the 4070 should have the muscle to make it a hit though. agree on the m4 socket still being popular and actually a smart move to also make the 3d cache chips availiable on those boards, looking forward to see the performance.
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well hal9000 was based on optical computing... lets hope we dont end up with something monolithic here probably right right about the apple stuff havent owned one since my G5 so i havent kept that much track of developments. its probably still pretty far of into the future with the light based stuff sorta like the fusion reactor (should be up and running in 30 years.. said 30 years after they last said it ho hum...) still pretty cool but i wouldnt be surprised if im dead and gone before it becomes a reality :P.
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mostly looking forward to this https://www.pcgamer.com/microsofts-light-based-computer-marks-the-unravelling-of-moores-law/ no more noisy and expensive cooling needed would most likely also be pretty fast in comparison with current cpu's. also they are by nature quantum computers ssince they can use the whole ligt spectrum for data flows no 1 - 0 but everything between 1 and 0 including. they also dont need to be cooled by stuff like liquid nitrogen or other fancy stuff so that is pretty big.
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hmm yeah i heard something about the new lineups being optimized for AI, guess it will be the new hit with all the focus there has been on it :). hopefully the gfx card lineup with the 4070 ups the memory bandwidth and ammount which was actually a rather big stopgap for the 4060 to really shine not sure if it was as much a problem with th 4070. hmm i wonder if lunar lake is going to be the new atom ?? sounds a bit like it, apples M series are interresting ARM based i think ? looks like they are going back from standard x86 again, but yeah ARM should be more mature now, also the older motorola based cpu's they used before changing to intel were heat monsters, my old G5 had a ginormous hybrid water cooling system built in i remember. a 3D cache chip for AM4 well those who havent yet updated for the new socket would be thrilled i bet
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the 2080 ti is not a great 1080p player it starts to shine at higher resolutions best at 4k at 1080p it barely beats my 1080 ti at 1440 it runs about 15 to 20% faster and at 4k it speeds away at more than 30%. i can barely get it warm at 1080p mostly stays at 40 degrees in crysis remastered at can it run crysis mode (nope it cant really run it heh) getting around 30 fps at 1080p with occasional spikes into the 50 range heh. at higher resolutions the fps starts to go up which is kinda weird when used to it murdering fps at 1440 i get around 40 fps and at 4k it goes into 59 fps but cant quite break the 60 fps barrier sigh, it does look very good though. my old cpu might actually be holding it back at lower resolutions despite being comparable to a ryzen 3700x in performance (benchmarks show allmost the same performance between them), then again at the insane detail levels at the highest setting of this game it might be better to just go 4k anyway at which point it does not matter that much.
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aye there are a few mods using DGengine might be worth a look :), the glide wrapper is not needed with DGengine it uses opengl also supports native resolutions like D2R but a whole lot more moddable when it comes to interface elements (could roll your own hud and menus if wanted it uses json format).
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had a hell of time finding it again but the mod i was thinking about is here https://www.moddb.com/mods/reign-of-shadow have to say the grim dawn mod looks very good the author should be proud.
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wait no was a mod for diablo 2 with a similar name, looks interresting though
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aye though its a some time ago there is also an updated engine avaliable for the old diablo 1 and hellfire mod here -> https://github.com/diasurgical/devilutionX as well as one that should be usuable with the original diablo II here -> https://github.com/dgcor/DGEngine the one for diablo II is not quite there yet though for most parts playable.
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hmm newer winter nights that is quite a while since i last played any in that series, liked it ok though i allways been more of a diablo fan myself all the way from diablo 1 to diablo 4 mixed in with some wild years in world of warcraft as a member of one of the largest guilds. also played darkstone dragonage divine divinity and a slew of other rpg's. newer been much into the turn based variants before now though i did at some time play bg2 which ended horribly for me also tried dungeons and dragons but i could newer quite get used to it. i was an avid shooter player in my youth counterstrike, quake 1 2 3, medal of honor etc. earliest pc games i played where duke nukem, redneck rampage, carmageddon, omikron the nomad soul, outcast, quake 1, half-life, system shock 1 and 2 thief and a few titles i cant remember anymore . before the PC i played stuff like sid meyers civilization on my commodore 64 plus a variety of the titles avaliable for it at the time. mass effect was one of my favorites in the more recent years the andromeda offshot while having a nice combat system newer really got me though.
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havent played much recently it was only mentioned in passing but the discussion spiraled a bit out of control , despite some hard to navigate places i actually liked prey 2017 :). bg3 is just the only recent game i been playing.
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well... i just ran the same benchmark and mine beats it by about 1000 points 14856 in timespy with mine 13888 points on his setup holy hell... guess i won the silicon lottery . i own the fastest 2080 ti setup on a 6950x cpu ever recorded.
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we all do i was not sure myself if it would be my cup of tea but im actually enjoying it immensly now.
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some like this kindof play type, this is more like the old D&D board games in playstyle (turn based) which i was not normally fond of myself but after getting used to it i dont find it all that distracting (gives you some time to ponder your next move). gfx are gorgeus and the characters in your party are quite fun (like waking up with a wamp about to bite your jugular then getting all kinds of flustered because you caught him in the act) . some can seem like real aholes like lae'zael untill you get to know her, others are secretive like shadowheart and can actually become quite dark if you dont play your cards right.
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just recently got baldurs gate 3 and wow nice game, i was actually starting to loose interrest in gaming but thought what the heck so i tried it out and i like it there are a few downsides to it but i guess when you have an illithid passenger in your brain and your girlfriend in game has an infernal engine as a heart there ought to be downsides . well i guess the residents of avernus will be cursing our names for years to come especially zariel hehe.
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the sad thing was that the 6950x was 2000$ when it was new so only something for the wealthy back then, and ryzen was starting to nip it in the butt with lower priced and allmost as fast cpu's. could actually be fun to try out the 2080 ti on a recent ryzen build to see the result, but im quite happy with my setup now i even got an asus x99-AII with a 6900k and a 1080 ti which plays pretty much everything (as long as you dont use raytracing and lower settings a bit for the newest titles). Well not completely true you can actually use raytracing with it using FSR2 but it does lower the framerate quite a bit 20 > 30 fps on some titles, as long as you dont go 4k its more than playable though -> callisto protocol at high settings with raytracing and FSR2 runs at 75 fps at 1080 resolutions.
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heh its the rtx 2080 ti asus strix gaming OC not even running in SLI the cpu was overclocked a bit 4.2 ghz up from 3 ghz (gets pretty hot beyond that but at 4.2 it barely scrapes 40 degrees in my setup). the 6950x is a 10 core 20 thread broadwell i7 so not to shabby. the gaming machine i built uses SSD's exclusively 2 x 2tb samsung 870 evo and one 2tb crucial nvme. PSU is a 850 watt seasonic platinum. it has 32 gb of G-skill DDR4 ram. board is an asus x99 deluxe with a dual thunderbolt adapter which i dont use atm so is disabled. plays everything i throw at it at more than 60 fps in 4k. only lacking the tpm module for the board which ill probably get next to atleast have some of the requirements ready for win11, still have to disable the check for the cpu because its not on the win11 list but it runs fine (tested).
