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[tps3443]

23 minutes ago, Mr. Fox said:

Until the end of the $1 first month, or past that?

Something like that lol. Worth a try. Game pass as a TON of games though. So, it may be worth keeping it and paying the $15 per month or how much it cost. I cancelled mine and could not live without it, so I got it again a few months ago lol! So many games that are $60 dollar hits on Steam, are totally free on Xbox Game Pass.

This game Stalker 2 runs GREAT! My minimum FPS has been 99fps, running 4K maxed out, DLSS Quality+FG getting 99-117 fps cap. My RTX4090 GPU is NOT overclocked at all. Anything outside of the red arrows is minimizing the game and going back to desktop. Pretty good for a Day 1 release on a demanding title. 

[Mr. Fox]

13 minutes ago, tps3443 said:

Something like that lol. Worth a try. Game pass as a TON of games though. So, it may be worth keeping it and paying the $15 per month or how much it cost. I cancelled mine and could not live without it, so I got it again a few months ago lol! So many games that are $60 dollar hits on Steam, are totally free on Xbox Game Pass.

This game Stalker 2 runs GREAT! My minimum FPS has been 99fps, running 4K maxed out, DLSS Quality+FG getting 99-117 fps cap. My RTX4090 GPU is NOT overclocked at all. Anything outside of the red arrows is minimizing the game and going back to desktop. Pretty good for a Day 1 release on a demanding title. 

I game so little that paying $15/month would be a waste of money. The $1 then cancel strategy would work for a lot of folks, but there would be more than a 50% chance that I wouldn't play any games during the introductory $1 month because I would be too busy doing other things. I also have to be in a certain mood for it. I typically play games on less than 30 days in an entire year. When I do it, I binge hard on it, then stop and don't play anything again for 60-90 days.

[tps3443]

2 hours ago, Mr. Fox said:

Until the end of the $1 first month, or past that?

Stalker 2 is lots of fun so far. Playing on the hardest difficulty for realism and title longevity. 😃 It runs butter on a 4090, 4K@120HZ is perfect for it. Seriously surprised by that. Thank goodness for DLSS+FG. And thank goodness for a nice AAA title that incorporates those features on day 1. Some games do not lol. “Cough” “Cough” Starfield. “Cough” Cough” Ark Ascended. 

[electrosoft]

5 hours ago, tps3443 said:

Grab a Xbox gamepass subscription for $1 dollar, then cancel it. You’ll be able to play if you have Gamepass. 

 

I just noticed Fallout 76 is now on Xbox Gamepass. I signed up for a year on Steam for $100 = ~8.50/mo but you can transfer over your character and items to Gamepass now from Steam (not achievements). If they add World of Warcraft (they already have Diablo IV now), I'd switch in a heartbeat and save ~$6/mo AND have access to the rest of their library.

 

 

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Corsair was having a black friday sale so I bought 

 

2x 480mm radiators

pump/res combo

fittings

hardline tubing

EK waterblock 

 

should be all coming tomorrow 

[Papusan]

From 8:28 - Intel don't know how to make good products anymore. 

 

[cylix]

3 hours ago, electrosoft said:

 

I just noticed Fallout 76 is now on Xbox Gamepass. I signed up for a year on Steam for $100 = ~8.50/mo but you can transfer over your character and items to Gamepass now from Steam (not achievements). If they add World of Warcraft (they already have Diablo IV now), I'd switch in a heartbeat and save ~$6/mo AND have access to the rest of their library.

 

 

F76 on Gamepass is a buggy mess, I originally had it there and played but because of the bugs I bought it again on steam and also lost a month of 1st because you cannot transfer it to steam. On of the stupid bugs is related to the installation folder. If you install it in a new location, partition and not the default gamepass one when a new update comes it will not find the path and also it will just delete the whole game, you will need to install it again and again..it will just delete the whole game folder 🤣🤣. And there were more bugs. Stay away from it. Microsoft/Bethesda knows about it but they don't care..

[electrosoft]

34 minutes ago, cylix said:

F76 on Gamepass is a buggy mess, I originally had it there and played but because of the bugs I bought it again on steam and also lost a month of 1st because you cannot transfer it to steam. On of the stupid bugs is related to the installation folder. If you install it in a new location, partition and not the default gamepass one when a new update comes it will not find the path and also it will just delete the whole game, you will need to install it again and again..it will just delete the whole game folder 🤣🤣. And there were more bugs. Stay away from it. Microsoft/Bethesda knows about it but they don't care..

 

Whew, thanks for the heads up! I'll stick to Steam. It has pretty much been rock solid the last few years overall.

 

 

[Clamibot]

After some preliminary testing with Shadow Of The Tomb Raider in Windows 10 LTSC 2019 and WIndowsXLite 22H2, it looks like the CPU side performance is actually slightly higher on the 22H2 installation. I'm using the maximally tuned OOB install without Windows Defender. I can probably do a bit more tuning with it too. My LTSC install is also tuned with stupid security mitigations disabled, but it's probably not tuned as much as some of you guys have managed to do with your installs.

 

GPU side performance seems to be higher too, but I don't know by what amount as I was only testing CPU side performance. I need to get some concrete numbers, but this is looking really good so far. To be fair, the 22H2 installation is currently set up as a minimalist installation purely for game testing, so I need to install all my programs onto that Windows install and compare again as that could affect the results. It probably won't, but I need to cover all my bases.

 

If WindowsXLite 22H2 truly outperforms Windows 10 LTSC 2019, I will be happy. This will be the first time I've seen a version upgrade in Windows actually deliver a performance upgrade rather than a downgrade (other than upgrading from regular consumer editions to Windows 10 LTSC since I've seen this firsthand, and that jump in CPU side performance was significant). I'll then need to upgrade all my systems🤪

[tps3443]

2 hours ago, Clamibot said:

After some preliminary testing with Shadow Of The Tomb Raider in Windows 10 LTSC 2019 and WIndowsXLite 22H2, it looks like the CPU side performance is actually slightly higher on the 22H2 installation. I'm using the maximally tuned OOB install without Windows Defender. I can probably do a bit more tuning with it too. My LTSC install is also tuned with stupid security mitigations disabled, but it's probably not tuned as much as some of you guys have managed to do with your installs.

 

GPU side performance seems to be higher too, but I don't know by what amount as I was only testing CPU side performance. I need to get some concrete numbers, but this is looking really good so far. To be fair, the 22H2 installation is currently set up as a minimalist installation purely for game testing, so I need to install all my programs onto that Windows install and compare again as that could affect the results. It probably won't, but I need to cover all my bases.

 

If WindowsXLite 22H2 truly outperforms Windows 10 LTSC 2019, I will be happy. This will be the first time I've seen a version upgrade in Windows actually deliver a performance upgrade rather than a downgrade (other than upgrading from regular consumer editions to Windows 10 LTSC since I've seen this firsthand, and that jump in CPU side performance was significant). I'll then need to upgrade all my systems🤪

I’m running 22H2 as well. My 3175X absolutely rips on this OS. I tried 24H2/22H3/22H2. Only thing I have not tried yet is Windows 10 on this system. It’s an older system with lower IPC. So I need every advantage I can get. I think 22H3 barely performs slower than 22H2. And it always reflects in my CPU physics scores, and GPU usage. 
 

(1) Fastest bios 

(2) Fastest micro code 

(3) Fastest OS

(4) Highest possible overclocks. 
(5) Good game optimization is always welcome 😃

[Clamibot]

1 hour ago, tps3443 said:

I’m running 22H2 as well. My 3175X absolutely rips on this OS. I tried 24H2/22H3/22H2. Only thing I have not tried yet is Windows 10 on this system. It’s an older system with lower IPC. So I need every advantage I can get. I think 22H3 barely performs slower than 22H2. And it always reflects in my CPU physics scores, and GPU usage. 
 

(1) Fastest bios 

(2) Fastest micro code 

(3) Fastest OS

(4) Highest possible overclocks. 
(5) Good game optimization is always welcome 😃

 

Oh you're using Windows 11 builds? My WindowsXLite install is based on a Windows 10 Pro 22H2 build.

 

To add to that list you have:

(6) Disable unnecessary security mitigations like Spectre, Meltdown, Core Isolation/Memory Integrity (Virtualization Based Security), and Control Flow Guard

 

(7) Install DXVK Async into games that see an uplift from it

 

(8) Use Lossless Scaling (you get best results if your raw framerate is already 100 fps or higher with mouse and keyboard, or if on a controller, if your raw framerate is already 72 fps or higher). This software is absolutely amazing!

 

(9) Perform settings tuning in games. I find that some settings barely have a difference between low and ultra, especially in newer games.

 

(10) Disable anticheat and/or DRM if possible