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Tropico 4 100% off on GOG https://www.gog.com/en/game/tropico_4 https://www.gog.com/giveaway/claim I've only played the original Tropico, released in 2001, a game that used the same engine as Railroad Tycoon II. https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/postmortem-poptop-software-s-i-tropico-i-
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100% off Distant Space and Weapon of Choice DX on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/569610/Distant_Space/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/373600/Weapon_of_Choice_DX/ https://www.notebookcheck.net/Two-well-rated-indie-games-are-available-for-free-on-Steam-for-a-short-time.878519.0.html Free to Play: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2398520/Classic_Marathon_Infinity/ https://slickdeals.net/f/17708517
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That was one of those heavily promoted games but it must have been a market failure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Callisto_Protocol#Reception
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It certainly is. Maybe ~40% faster than my GTX 970 (real mobile performance depends on TDP/thermals) which was perfectly fine for 1080p60, the best display I had available. https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-rtx-4050-mobile.c3953 I still need to test it on the 5700G iGPU-only in the future. But it's easy to run TDM these days. Landfill systems + $150-200 GPU will yield a good experience, or a ~$400 7735HS or better APU mini-PC. Go used/refurb and find a good deal, and the total cost could be driven down more. Are you reminding to match the refresh rate of the laptop (not specified) or is there a technical reason?
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Honestly. if supermium is still being updated, maybe it will be fine. Full-fledged Adblocker (not gimped Manifest V3) will improve performance and block some threats. Script blocker will do more but it's not as convenient. Maybe threats inherent to those old OSes make it totally unsafe because it will be scanned and pwned? Not sure. https://www.nvidia.com/content/geforce-gtx/gtx_560_user_guide.pdf You can decode H.264! Welcome to the future!
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I believe Intel's issues are damaging millions of chips in real time, vs. a small handful of 7000X3D AMD had a problem with on specific motherboard vendors overriding the safe voltage (particularly ASUS). Intel's issue is orders of magnitude worse, still unsolved, and the scope is unclear (if it affects mobile it's truly over). How about another class action? lulz https://wccftech.com/second-law-firm-begins-class-action-lawsuit-investigation-on-intel-on-14th-13th-gen-cpu-instability-issues/
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https://wccftech.com/intel-extends-warranty-boxed-14th-13th-gen-cpus-two-years-instability-issues/ “We've been trying to reach you about your CPU's extendead warranty"
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I don't think the silicon scaling issues are at play here. We know there's other types of transistors, such as GAAFETs and QFETs, that could be less susceptible to quantum tunneling. They are being deployed or are on the roadmaps or in the lab. Carbon nanotube transistors or other advances will take over in 10 years or so. After we run out of obvious things to improve, there will be a complete shift to 3D scaling. The problem is the company culture at Intel, and the attitude that they must be #1 at any cost. They rushed Raptor Lake as a refresh product, and got burned by faulty microcode and other issues. They own fabs but have struggled to open them up to customers other than themselves. They are burning billions to get into discrete GPUs, after completely missing the peak of gaming GPU pricing, and may not establish good AI revenue before that bubble pops. All sorts of problems. BTW the class action is here: https://abingtonlaw.com/class-action/consumer-protection/Intel-Processor-Issues-class-action-lawsuit.html
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I have a Galaxy S9 (4 GB RAM), so that should be a good test of ratcheting down the performance from the S21. I have 29 GB free so I am inclined to do this. I will connect it to a PC and use scrcpy to see how that looks and get a mouse and keyboard.
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What device are you using and how's performance so far?
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This could easily become Intel's greatest disaster in the last 10, 15 years. They are signalling that they won't do a recall. I smell a class action lawsuit. In other news, reviews of AMD's Strix Point for laptops have been coming out: https://www.anandtech.com/show/21485/the-amd-ryzen-ai-hx-370-review Zen 5 desktop CPUs in 1-2 weeks. Gains should be relatively minor, but power efficiency is good, and the 7800X3D will still be the best choice for gaming until the 9800X3D comes out.
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The missions I remember are the worst optimized.
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Fallout: London 100% off on GOG. Requires Fallout 4: GOTY Edition to install. A paid total conversion mod? I guess so. https://www.gog.com/en/game/fallout_london https://www.gog.com/giveaway/claim
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Time to talk about the elephant in the room. Intel Addresses Desktop Raptor Lake Instability Issues: Faults Excessive Voltage from Microcode, Fix Coming in August Intel finally announces a solution for CPU crashing and instability problems — claims elevated voltages are the root cause; patch coming by mid-August [Updated] Buggy microcode in 13th and 14th gen Raptor Lake desktop CPUs caused incorrect increases in voltage, which led to permanent and irreversible degradation of the chips. Now all of the impacted CPUs will be suspect on the used market.
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https://www.anandtech.com/print/21469/amd-details-ryzen-ai-300-series-for-mobile-strix-point-with-rdna-35-igpu-xdna-2-npu https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-deep-dives-zen-5-ryzen-9000-and-strix-point-cpu-rdna-35-gpu-and-xdna-2-architectures/ More details about Zen 5 CPUs and APUs are out ahead of release. +16% IPC increase which will need to be independently verified as usual, possibly +20% in games. Power efficiency improvements mean that you are getting more performance with less power usage and temperature, at the same time, not either-or. Zen 5 has a full implementation of AVX-512, not "double pumped" 256-bit like Zen 4. You can expect a 20-30% increase from 890M iGPU over 780M. It can outperform an RX 6400 and other weak discrete GPUs.
