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What game are you playing now?

Sun, 23 Jan 2022 06:47:23 +0000

We should probably start a successor thread to the good old "What game are you playing now?"

I'll go first: Arkham Knight. Having a blast so far. Way more complex compared to Asylum.

😎

Mod Edit: Renamed title (testing)

Can the experts here have a look at this issue?

Mon, 27 Oct 2025 17:16:10 +0000

Having an issue but no responses. Can you all look at this issue and give me a clue as to what is causing this?

Laptop over heating in sleep mode

The Tragic Decline of Optimized Video games

Thu, 09 Jan 2025 00:34:57 +0000

Personally i think this is one of most realest videos about the ongoing problem of modern gaming.

Affinity photo benchmark Dell Inspiron with intel 1165G7 vs asus laptop with amd hx 365.

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 17:07:53 +0000

So I did the affinity 2.5 photo processing benchmark using my dell laptop with the 1165G7 and iris Xe and compared to a asus laptop with the HX 365 and 890m graphics onboard. Supposedly the 890 is the be all end all of on chip GPU performance. Well my pc posted a 4690 for GPU performance, the 890 that was tested posted a 3367. Is this because I have 64gb of ram?

Star Wars Outlaws

Tue, 13 Jun 2023 06:42:53 +0000

Finally a open world Star Wars single player game. Made by Ubisoft so i think it will be like Ghost Recon/Far Cry but within Star Wars Universe. Also i like that you play a rogue/scoundrel and not a jedi.

Best game of all time gets vr update

Sat, 17 Aug 2024 02:42:03 +0000

The best game ever made is actually subjective but as far as votes go half life 2. It now can be played in vr @cucubits the same way half life alyx can..I checked it out and it's seriously impressive. If that's not enough for you to at least get the toes wet Skyrim has vr and with gta v having an unofficial vr mod..I think it's safe to say vr is the next big thing. So what are you waiting for..quest is only 160usd. Price of a 2tb ssd

Geforce NOW. Game without GPU updated

Mon, 01 Aug 2022 00:09:52 +0000

so I pawned my gaming laptop desperate!\\

I now only have a chromebook and decided to give geforce now a go. yet again

honestly it is so good it looks like its running on native hardware. truely awesome that i can play rise of the tomb raider on a 100 dollar laptop and get this good of an experience

StarField!! Anyone else excited

Tue, 13 Jun 2023 06:38:44 +0000

We finally got a better glimpse at the new Starfield game from Bethseda, looks gigantic: Star Citizen combined with No mans land.😁

Fallout: London

Sat, 21 May 2022 02:30:46 +0000

Time to reinstall Fallout 4.

A new DLC in town.

DLSS 3(Frame Generation-double Framerates) MOD for 3xx series graphics cards

Tue, 11 Jun 2024 03:34:54 +0000

Hi guys, I thought I'd share something with the community. You can download for free and use DLSS FG for 30 series cards I have not tried it with 20 series cards but its confirmed with the laptop 3060. all you do is download two files then copy and paste them into each folder where the exe for the game is. really easy then you simply enable fg, not tweaking nessessary, and this will breath new life into you 3 series cards, for example the 4060 has 10 percent faster performance and like 80 percent fast performance with fg, now i can re gain some of the loss and have it within the 10 percent preventing me from the need to upgrade.

step one: sign up or login to--- dlssg-to-fsr3 (Replace Nvidia DLSS-G Frame Gen with AMD FSR 3 Frame Gen) at Modding Tools - Nexus Mods

step two: extract the files

step three: double click and run this file

DisableNvidiaSignatureChecks

its in the folder as easy as double clicking.

step four: copy the two dll files

dlssg_to_fsr3_amd_is_better

nvngx

paste them into the games exe folder. dx12 where available

DONE

here's a list of games that will benefit from DLSS 3

NVIDIA DLSS & GeForce RTX: List Of All Games, Engines And Applications Featuring GeForce RTX-Powered Technology And Features | GeForce News | NVIDIA

here's an example, it's not the best but it shows the real life gains. 47 up to 69fps with a simple on off toggle of FG

Stock

off

Noticeable going from 39fps to 52fps

the witcher 3 which is a big game and many will use this mod solely for it, its a 30 percent gain. looks identical off vs on

Ghost of Tsushima

Tue, 21 May 2024 22:10:27 +0000

Im sure most people here know that Ghost of Tsushima is avaliable on the PC now and im curious if anyone here played it on their PC yet. Never played the PS4 version because i dont have one and probably one of the few games i would buy at full price.

HELLDIVERS II

Tue, 23 Apr 2024 15:09:19 +0000

So, anyone here been playing?

I've got around 150 hours in the game so far, been playing with a buddy of mine for a couple hours each day. Got to say loving the PVE and how self aware the game is.

Lenovo ThinkPad T14s (Intel 13 gen) or Asus Zenbook 14 OLED (Intel 14 gen Ultra)

Thu, 18 Apr 2024 10:24:37 +0000

I am thinking of buying a new notebook, for development and maybe some light gaming. Between these two, which one would you recommend?

is there an auto keymapper for gamepad.?

Mon, 22 Apr 2024 17:54:46 +0000

is there such thing as an auto keymapper for gamepads.? i just dont fel like keymap every key.

i find it hard to be on the controller set up screen and looking at a picture to map it specially in full screen.

How fast are you? Reaction time test See your potential

Tue, 22 Feb 2022 21:13:38 +0000

are you lightning or mud check this out and post results and share with us just how fast you are!!

https://humanbenchmark.com/tests/reactiontime

I scored 273ms which is perfectly average even though I thought I was faster at reacting than most...ah well being average aint a bad thing

What games can I run, find out here

Fri, 23 Feb 2024 21:00:35 +0000

Heres a site that rates your system and lets you know how many out of 1000 games will run at recommended settings on your system, it also ranks games in order of popularity helping you find games worth buying/trying. I got a score of 84 percent and can run 844 out of 1000 top games. share your results

https://www.pcgamebenchmark.com/

heres my results, guess its not time to upgrade yet 🙂

https://www.pcgamebenchmark.com/ratemypc?platform=windows&cpu=intel-core-i7-11800h&memory=64gb&gpu=nvidia-geforce-rtx-3060-laptop-gpu

Grand Theft Auto GTA Thread

Sun, 13 Mar 2022 22:53:50 +0000

I was thinking that it would be good to have a thread dedicated to one of the largest vg franchises of all time. This is for any and all GTA stuff you want to post. I'll start off by with the official R* homepage.

https://www.rockstargames.com/

Here's a link to some news on GTA6, unofficial of course. Taken right off the top of a google search.

https://www.gamesradar.com/gta-6-release-date-news-trailers-map-gameplay-rumours/

My understanding of 6 is that it will be in the South Florida region, thus continuing the regions used in the first trilogy. NYC, Socal and South Florida. It would actually be nice to get a different region say NOLA, UK, Europe, S. America etc but looks like RS is sticking to its guns.

My favorites of the original 3D (NON-Remake) trilogy go like this. 1. San Andreas, amazing game still fun to play 2. Vice City, great music and Miami Vice tie ins. 3. Liberty City, this was HUGE when I was in college, had some grad friends who were WAY into this and got me into it(they were into one of the Quakes too in LAN lol)

My favorites of the current trilogy are: GTA4, gritty dark story that jives w the GTA genre, SP focused, great DLC's, detailed gameplay, more realistic car handling. GTAV is also an amazing game, having lived in Socal it really feels like it, incredible graphics that are very efficient hardware-wise, NOT a fan of the online stuff, MUCH better controls and general QOL than 4, Action movie story, really cool character switching, NO SP focused DLC ever released, MODS!

Can't comment on the original 3D trilogy remakes, never got them.

The original 2D games I never played but I did have some cousins that were into it way before GTA blew up, watched them play it around 1998.

Asus Studiobook 16 H7604JI does it matter if ram is dual or not these days?

Fri, 02 Feb 2024 11:04:00 +0000

Hi, I am thinking of getting this laptop, basic specs are

Intel i9-13980HX, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD, Windows 11

From what i can find on this laptop, it seems like it's 1 ram stick. Does ram being dual not really make much odds these days? I haven't bought a new laptop for a while, so not sure if it still matters as such.
If they are still better in dual mode, it's odd they would opt to create a pretty expensive laptop with just single stick if it would be faster with 2 x 16gb.

I also wondered if anhyone knows this laptop is pretty quiet? if its in balanced mode and I am just browsing the net, or doing general work, would it be very low noise?
Thanks
James

Recommend Me A Game Thread

Wed, 20 Dec 2023 01:45:09 +0000

So a few people here have been searching for a game or two that they might fancy, here's a thread as a follow up.

Please don't be too general, the more details you give the closer to a game you would likely enjoy can be recommended

Top 10 games of all time and you can't go wrong unless your not a gamer

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Tetris

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1) Half Life 1 +2

2) Elderscrolls Skyrim

3) Crysis

4) Forza Horizon 5

5) Baldurs GATE 3

6) Fallout 4

7) God of War

8. Unchartered 1 + 2

9) Grand Theft Auto 5

10) Red Dead Redemption 2

these games are must haves in your collection, there are many more and a list below will light up eventually detailing them

------------------------------Recommend A Game (indies welcome)-------------------------------------------------------------------------

DXVK for windows dx11 and below also linux

Fri, 30 Dec 2022 22:34:17 +0000

I've seen this floating around and looked into it and noticed it really helps with the open world AC games that run on dx11 and below and other older games. This was originally done for linux gaming compatibility but others figured out it helps with windows older games resulting in fps gains and lower cpu etc in some situations. Next time I boot up origins or odyssey will def try it out.

https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases

Cyberpunk 2077

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 18:28:22 +0000

We should probably pick up the thread we had going on NBR.

This is still a big title to warrant more discussions and with today's big patch landing, I'm thinking it may even be time to start another playthrough. Well, maybe after Dying Light 2 🙂

https://en.cdprojektred.com/news/patch-1-5-next-generation-update-list-of-changes/

Recommend a good game for older guys

Fri, 14 Jul 2023 17:29:43 +0000

Can anyone recommend a good came for older guys? Not a shoot-up game if possible. Just want something that is engaging and to increase my brain power before dementia sets in. 😁

Forza Motorsport: Looking Incredible

Wed, 16 Aug 2023 18:30:03 +0000

Now I'm very excited for this game that is scheduled to release on october 10th 2023 for xbox and PC. It is looking truly next gen and will not be coming out for xbox one it will be a game pass game but i'm going to be buying it for 79.99 when it releases. The graphics are insane, I remember seeing horizon 5 for the first time and thinking, is this real do I get to play with this or is this pre rendered. Now step forward 3 years and they topped horizon 5 with full ray tracing and 4k textures, as for customization you can change just abouut anything from tire pressure to how much gas you have in the tank. I am very excited for this as I'm a big Forza Anything fan and love every single one of their releases as everytime they release something they take it to another level.

Game Screenshot Thread

Sun, 12 Mar 2023 04:24:30 +0000

I was just thinking a games screenshot thread would be cool rather than clogging up other threads. Always good to see what other games look like. Request as little post processing as possible, just real in game shots even just printscreen paste to paint stuff. Photomode is cool just try to not do tweaking to the image unless it's necesarry(thinking of cp77 needs wide open aperture or you get blurry lines around your character)But whatever no worries. Maybe put your resolution playing at if you like etc Uh well I've been binging again mods, lots of play on RDR2 so here's one. Used Rampage to get the snow on the ground map wide this is near Annesburg.

Requirements for your next laptop.

Fri, 29 Sep 2023 00:16:52 +0000

These are my uses: 3D, Video editing, gaming, TV series, movies etc.

My Laptops requirements:

Silence: needs to be Zero Noise while listening music, seeing movies, navigating internet sites, general office work. It is a PC manufacturer engineering shame that a minimal smartphone can do this but not a big laptop.

Thunderbolt : needs to be able to work with top eGPU's for 3D, Video editing and gaming, also other uses like AI.

Screen: P3 colour but with also a good 100% sRGB setting available. 17.3 or 18" screen.

Internal GPU: 16GB VRAM minimum..

RAM: soldered modules not acceptable unless it is 64GB and the laptop is cheap.

CPU: single core needs to be stronger.

Battery. 99wh, consumption should be very low without components pushing. 8-9 hours minimum for navigating web, general office, listening music.

Weight: Ideally around 2-2.5kg

Ideally we should be able to add VRAM to laptop or that RAM as same class as VRAM and add up to the memory pool like Apple Mac's. PC's are facing defeat from Mac if Apple fix their performance and software availability issues.