I have tried Ubuntu many times over the years and always went back to Windows. For games and consumer hardware (like VR) there are just too many issues and stuff that doesn't work, and I don't want to maintain two OSs. Windows 11 has its annoyances but does everything I want to do and I have it...
Yes the secrets are an exercise in frustration. Many of them need speedrun-style glitches to get to. There is also one super hard level only accessible on the hardest difficulty.
Yeah the early game is annoying and the game is basically designed to be played a specific way (standard weapons, melee and hacking) despite all the choices it offers. It does become much easier later when you can buy ammo easily.
Painkiller captures this feeling better than other games of that era. Serious Sam just throws too many waves of enemies at you.
I liked Doom 3 a lot but it was a very different type of game than any of the other Dooms and closer to System Shock 2 in some ways.
I liked this a lot, but you have to be into games from that era to really appreciate it.
I'm now playing Trine 5. Great continuation of the series, takes all the good things from Trine 4 and adds many new abilities and puzzle types. It's even better in co-op and is almost designed for that.
60 to 120 is a huge difference in everything, while 120 to 160 or more is less so. I'm thinking of upgrading my surface pro to the current version just for the 120hz screen.
This game actually runs natively on Windows 11. I still have it installed on my old games drive.
I have 98 and XP VMWare setups and 3.1 in Dosbox, but only rarely use them for a few old programs. I think all of my old games work natively, some with a wrapper like dgVoodoo.
I noticed that a lot of the upscale EVs have insane depreciation, which makes used ones a pretty good deal. The EQS and i7 drop by over 50% in 3 years. There is still the inconvenience of charging though if you don't have a single family home.
The 4090 already feels like this to me. It handles anything I play perfectly, except for a few badly optimized games that look the same on high vs ultra settings or with RT on/off. I would get a 5090 but can't think of any new experiences it would enable. The 4090 actually did enable a lot of...
I would love to use the VIsion Pro for PC and SteamVR, but it seems unlikely anyone will find a way around the Apple DRM.
As it stands I plan to keep using the G2, nothing else is truly a significant upgrade and there is not enough new PC VR content to justify buying a better one.
I wonder how much nvidia will care about gaming cards in the future. The datacenter business is going to be the bulk of their business going forward. Gamers will only get cut down cards because the fully enabled chips can be sold for 20x as much to datacenters.
I have this board too and the last M.2 slot drops to half speed if the last PCIe slot has anything in it, but otherwise they are supposed to work at full speed. I keep the OS drive (990 pro) in the top slot, but doubt you would notice any difference in games.
It might be designed for static images. It's like those medical imaging displays that also have poor refresh rates but very high resolution and color accuracy.
The AIO cards are really good for this. I would mount mine this way, but the CPU heatsink gets in the way. If I had a CPU AIO too, it would easily fit though.
If it's like the S23 ultra, you can buy an old phone off ebay and still get the $1000 credit, then sell your old phone separately. It doesn't have to be your existing phone. Check the specific model on the carrier website before buying. I got a $30 S7, traded that in and then sold my old S10+...
You need both WMR and the WMR SteamVR runtime. Also get fpsvr, and set the default steamvr resolution to 50%. The 3090 runs everything fine at that half resolution. You can have per-game settings of 200% for well optimized games to get 100% for that game.
I have the V1 G2 but got the updated cable. It has always worked well for me, except the tracking is sensitive to room lighting and needs to be used in the same environment it was calibrated for.
There is a recent port of Freespace in VR, which works quite well. I would really like to see...
Alyx is also the platform for some excellent mods that could have been commercial games in their own right. If you liked the game, try out Levitation and Gunman Contracts.
I play Project cars 2, Dirt Rally 3, Grip, Elite Dangerous and Freespace (an older game that runs much better in VR). I haven't played FS2020 or DCS but they are supposed to be even more demanding in VR. I would love to have a Forza-style open world game in VR, but nothing like that exists.
Yeah the Quest 3 does look like the best all round deal, and it has more of a future than anything pc based. The Index has outdated resolution and is too expensive at this point.
The G2 is cheap now and still one of the best headsets for sims and seated games, which I think is all we are going to get on PC VR from big AAA developers going forward. There are some great indie titles and Alyx mods though. Otherwise everything is moving to standalone VR.
I'm not a huge...
How did you get Lone Echo working? I have it on Revive but it crashes constantly and is basically unplayable. It seems to only work properly on the oculus headsets.
The sims are all poorly optimized and run much worse than flatscreen, and VR at native runs at a much higher resolution too. Alyx dynamically adjusts the resolution in different parts of the eye and runs well on any hardware.
I know you hate nvidia prices, but the 4090 is far and away the best VR card, with a bigger lead than in anything flatscreen. It was really a night and day difference from a 3090 for me, which often struggled in sims. The AMD cards do look much more attractive at current prices, but no idea...
It depends on the game. In VR sims benefit a lot from the AMD cache but bethesda RPGs are limited by single thread performance which is faster on Intel. I did this upgrade and it was noticeable but not a big difference, compared to video card upgrades.
Yeah that Danse quest line was really good and one of the high points of the game.
You have to get the mods I mentioned earlier, otherwise the game doesn't quite run properly at framerates higher than 60 even if it's allowed to. I was getting crashes every 5 minutes without it.
Get FOSE and the "stutter remover" mod. You can also run it properly at high framerates this way. Otherwise it gets locked to 60fps. There are also a bunch of HD texture mods, which I haven't tried but look really good in the pictures.
I played the original game when it came out but only played...
I just started playing this too. I wouldn't say it has really grabbed me yet, but the setting is unusual and different from the usual fantasy. That already makes it interesting. It also seems like a shorter and more focused game than huge RPGs like Starfield or Witcher 3, which is what I'm...
I think FO4's main/side quests and companions were pretty good. The settlement building is a fun diversion but little more than that, and the radiant quests should be completely ignored. The only weapons/armor worth finding are the unique variants, not the random legendary drops. At least I...
How much charge gets lost if you leave it unplugged overnight, especially in the cold? I often don't use my car for a few days, then drive around a lot the next few days.
I think there are plugs outside the building but not sure if residents can use them. There is actually a Taycan and e-tron GT in the parking lot, maybe I'll ask the owners what they do. I use the NJ transit train to go downtown for work but a car for most other things.
I'm in a mixed use development, which have become popular across the country. They are dense enough to have a lot of ground level shops but also easy parking and car access. The apartments are typically larger and cheaper than what you get in downtown areas.
The NYC suburbs (NJ/queens/etc) are not that densely packed, but still dense enough that buying over renting a similar type of place doesn't make sense. The unrecoverable cost of buying (mortgage interest+tax+hoa, sometimes even just tax+hoa) is much higher than renting. I like cars and want to...
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