Hertzian56

Uh well I use an xbone controller so if you're kbm it's different. For me it's the pause menu and then on the lower right it will give the button to activate it, for me it's the little double screen button to the left of the "x" light. Maybe search it online.

https://www.hardwaretimes.com/intel-arc-a770-drops-to-269-cheaper-than-the-nvidia-rtx-3060-and-much-faster/

I'd use photomode(AND paste your images directly into your post no outside links) usually it shows how to open in the pause menu, looks like a printscrn there to me. Oof I dislike Chapter 1 so annoying, it's fairly easy to go grab a chapter 2 save at nexus or rdr2mods but if you've never played it before then it's good to start at the beginning. Your 3060m much better but I'd turn off msaa, reflection quality, water quality all to med or so to get best performance. Here's a guide that lays it out: https://www.hardwaretimes.com/red-dead-redemption-2-pc-performance-guide-best-graphics-settings-for-60-fps/ Note: that was done BEFORE DLSS/FSR was available in RDR2 though but it had it's own built in resolution factor scaler in the settings I don't use it afaiR have to look at my settings next time. By turning off Vsync and limiting it to 60 max I get responsive controls and minimal fps crashes.

yeah I forgot about that one solid fighter jet game. Another one is project wingman.

yeah be careful and make sure if you're heavy gaming to elevate the rear end. My m6700 w a 980m died on me playing doom eternal which isn't that heavy of a game. Think the 980m is 110w. Clean out the grilles, some updated TIM etc

Yeah this is now on nexus, https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/7652 I don't know that I plan on getting it since I have hundreds of mods and it could possibly break a few for not that much benefit to me at 1080p anyways. I think the background npcs without names etc are way over detailed in this game, could have done it like GTA5/RDR2 and had lower details on them and then have more of them to fill it out more or more random stuff etc. World is too big and mostly empty, needed to be smaller but more going on etc I've got a lot of higher res/upscaled ads, grafitti etc already. For me the clothes, weapons, cars mods along with the QOL mods are way more in game changing then some rando textures here and there.

More rdr2 from last night, I have the dynamic seasons mod it's fall, rampage to put snow on the ground, etc That game just makes time go by way too fast.

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.

And that in game shot is w my lowly system, I don't even use dlss and get mostly 60 locked. Still have not found a way to turn off the vignette ugh. Still secrets there too after playing it a lot before. Just wandering is actually fun, esp w Rampage, more than just a trainer. Have to take a roundabout way to get my screenshots bc of RS antisocial club nonsense, so dumb compared to say cp77. GTAV fits in there too, huge open world that's alive. CP77 world is empty if you go anywhere out of the main areas, those fwys/etc would be packed and I'm not sure why they couldn't do that other than sparing peoples cpu's and ram with those gorgeous graphics etc Yakuzas also fit in there but MUCH smaller worlds, but are packed with amusing things and of course not in the same league graphically. Y7 seemed to be a lot larger still have to get back to that.

Amazing game and I really can't remember anything close to rdr2 other than TW3, the amount of detail and writing mind blowing. Too bad it's essentially abandoned for a while, switched to gta6 focus.

yeah it was that or some other powershell trojan picked up somewhere, uninstalled malwarebytes free trial just do it again if I notice anymore problems, tdsskiller didn't pick anything up either, nor roguekill. I think this is also the cause of rdr2 out of virtual memory error I got the other day, only time I ever got it and I noticed the blue powershell window sometimes peeking through while playing, it was a memory hog and my system couldn't handle it while rdr2 was going at the same time. Sticking with just windows hd audio driver as well since it's worked during regular usage, although it's just some generic realtek driver anyways it probably doesn't have the overhead of full realtek drivers.

After researching this it seems to be tied to some browser assistant thing. I noticed that when I startup opera, the powershell spike happens after a few minutes. Malwarebytes has about 5 powershell trojans listed. Must have been at a site that injected this somehow to track usage in Opera specifically or the trigger was opening opera. Opera is not really that great just fast and works with difficult sites that really need all the bells and whistles to work right AND it's relatively lightweight compared to firefox/waterfox. I like the built in vpn as well, it's only for what you are looking at in the browser itself though. https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/d-b-scheduler-being-intrusive.3755832/ https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/detections/trojan-browserassistant-ps

I'm on 2004 home edition this came with and after installing realtek drivers and some chipset drivers looks like they enabled defender, what a pain. So had the rigamarole of going to sordum, getting latest defcon version because the version I had no longer works or defender was flagging it and would continue to delete it after I allowed it, loop. So reading sordum info had to add the new folder to exceptions then I could run defcon and disable defender finally. I noticed that my Winaero tweaker was not able to disable defender either even after a restart, guess I'll have to update that as well. At least updates are still disabled. ========================= I've had some weird happenings lately(Powershell RAM hog and sudden multiple hidden windows, freeze computer 10gb ram etc) and that usually means some infection so I went to bleepingcomputer and got the latest tdskiller etc and it found a couple of virus' so deleted them and restarted must have had something to do with it. So after installing realtek audio drivers and the chipset stuff, from here: https://www.station-drivers.com/index.php?lang=en which I got from a toms hardware article so I suppose it's legit, I got multiple powershell windows running in the background and taking up 4gb ram. Not sure what happened. I then went to an intel page with win10 realtek drivers and tried to install it but after the restart and etc it said something and quite, like couldn't install etc and I noticed in device manager it doesn't say realtek but hd audio device with a MS driver from 2020, like original from when this was made. I have not had the powershell running in the background so far so I guess it was the realtek stuff. ======================== So got malwarebytes trial from bleepingcomputer and did a scan, since 20+ powershell windows in the background suddenly came back and spiked memory usage, froze computer for a while. Wow I guess I had a lot of malware on here in the registry so quarantined and deleted them see if it works.

Edit: sorry guess this is in the wrong section since this is news etc uh I guess I'll start a new thread copy this stuff over and then delete these here, sorry.

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Got this drivers page from a toms hardware link, by toms hardware staff so it seems like it's trustworthy. https://www.station-drivers.com/index.php?lang=en

What a buggy game rdr2 is, just get unknown error fffff yesterday, restart worked. Then was playing for a while and got the out of virtual memory crash for the first time after playing for so long, so I adjusted the page file to min of my physical ram, 16gb to around 25gb max. It's also on an external ssd so went ahead and did a page file on there 8-15gb. So far it's been fine, doing the ch.2 save mostly story stuff but interesting to see how the world is in 1899 vs 1907 around the map and during the main story there's more going on in general than during post epilogue. I have the never wanted and disable hidden snipers on in rampage so can go anywhere. I also turn off MSIAB and the lite OC I have as a preset there probably also source of some bugginess with rdr2. But last I had MSIAB on during rdr2 it takes about 7.5gb sysmem and 4.5gb vram, nothing crazy so the virtual memory thing must be a game bug more than anything, not surprising seems like an abandoned game really and definitely abandoned SP, still want 60-100$ for it though sheesh. Still, watching some atomic heart yt's they also want 60 for that and seems like much less content, crazy.

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High end stuff no way, but like others have said eb is automatically in the buyers corner almost all the time no matter what but who would want the hassle of being required to mail the item back to china, with tracking, if required. Rather pay for stuff nearby that's more but probably sourced from china anyways. Lots of counterfeit stuff all over too. The bad part about the customer's always right on eb is that if you are a seller and get screwed by a buyer the next time you buy something and have a problem or not you're feeling like the rules are ok to be a bad buyer/you are owed something, so you use it with that in mind. I once sold an m6700 chassis that was almost stripped bare since I sold all the parts separately, and it was clearly marked broken condition for parts, clear pics of it all big fonts red fonts etc and later the buyer comes back and says some BS about this or that, initiates a return. There was no option in eb for me to dispute it, had to call them and get it squashed with no feedback privileges allowed by the fraudulent buyer either but I had to find a number, call in, explain etc Why they don't have automated options to have them look at it is just aiding fraud. And the one way only feedback also helps fraud. Terrible site that has gone way downhill and you've had to pay taxes on used items for a long time now, go to a garage sale no taxes but the various states greedsters will find any way to tax everything and anything, probably an air/breathing tax at some point for "warming" bs. I only use it for things that are hard to find, pretty old not made anymore new/can't find anywhere else and occasional selling of odds and ends.

Update2: yeah restart worked but how ridiculous to have to do that to start the game, going to try later to see if I have to restart again or not, no changes whatsoever. Update: Ugh this game is such a pain, now it crashes in the loading screen, no error given and I made no changes afa mods etc from a previous long session. I turned off MSIAB w the OC to see if that was it. As RS's most recent release it's terrible that stuff like this has not been solved, plenty of people still get this sort of bug today when doing SP. Updates are all for RDO for a long time and usually break SP. Ugh keep trying but so frustrating. Another system restart to see I guess but it's ridiculous to have to do that every time, my page file is 18gb should not be a problem. ============================= Started the Ch 2 ultimate save from nexus. Works fine, kinda nice to see all the stuff I never bothered with in the other story play throughs like the crafted clothes tied to hunting etc Another "unknown error FFFFFF" road block out of nowhere. Fixed it. Some details below for anyone having problems needing info. I also came across this video game articles web site, has an interesting article about RDR2 and its slower moments which are nice but the slower controls can get irritating during high action, really bad in transition. https://gamestudies.org/2203/articles/vanderhoef_payne Of course before this game there were plenty of others that had slower time in them, just TheHunter COW is slower, much slower than RDR2, if you play it without spawn cheats and the environment on average looks better than RDR2. INFRA is not the fastest game either but is geared towards exploration, observation and environmental puzzles. I get that they focused on a AAA mass market game there though. Very Marxist interpretation/jargon, not surprising. ------------------------------------ I put in a Vestigia plugin for no vignette and another vestiga compatibility for TAA Enhanced as well as RDR Enhanced Visual Settings for no vignette. It's hard to tell if vignette is disabled without a clear example of the vignetting. I'm guessing it's easier to see in the lower screen edges that usually looks darker to me. So I went back to previous things and still the FFFFF error. Tore out the latest save still FFFFF. According to the RDRscripthook log right after it loaded ASI list and then extended 1-4 memory pools it left off logging probably the crash. Some memory leak or tweak issue. Anyways I put the save back in, same settings file in documents, just got rid of the Vestigia Community variants, the Enhanced Visual Settings stuff. Restarted system then it fired right up. So it's not settings, it's not save file corruption, must have been a conflict or change between those 3 mods. I'm not thinking it's Vestigia community variants must be the Enhanced visual settings mod for no vignette issue. Just stick with the Vestigia plugin for no vignette assume it works. -------------------------- https://www.nexusmods.com/reddeadredemption2/mods/27?tab=description

I actually have the space for this game, I just got another nvme for my second slot, with cp77 and DL2 on there still have the space for TW3 Remastered but that would be almost all it's only 256gb so was cheap. I have a bunch of 2.5 SSDs as well but those have no-uninstall games on them. I could just go get like a 250gb old used 2.5 SSD stick it on there, I use a sata3 to USB3 adapter. I have plenty of room to put it on one of my 2.5hdd's, only just a longer load time and maybe some pop in in places. Until I'm wanting to play TW3 again it's hardly worth all that hassle anyways. I don't have the system for raytracing, dlss3 and such so definitely holding on this for a while. Probably better w a CPDR game to wait for a lot of patches.

It's actually kinda funny you took it so seriously though, it was just to lighten this thread up a bit. Agree, that grizzly man guy was a mental case, animals are animals, especially ones living in the wild. Even domesticated ones are just animals despite what many imagine, and they are unpredictable especially to the public. Can't stand these people who let their dogs run right up to people etc, great your dog/emotional replacement creature, would never harm someone, IN YOUR OPINION. But guess what if I get bit and I'm not requiring immediate medical attention I'm the one shouldered with tet shots and trying to get anything out of you for your responsibility. I feel at this point that if most officials only enforce leash laws here and there then go ahead and make it like mandatory car insurance, dog liability insurance.