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  1. TheThief

    The five worst Nvidia GPUs of all time: Infamous and envious graphics cards

    Oh boy was it hot garbage in DX9. I "upgraded" from a geforce 2 to a 5600XT (three whole generations!) and performance went down in Homeworld 2. Why? Because it automatically switched to a DX9 renderer! It wasn't just slower either - it was pretty much unplayable. Not helped by the scam that...
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    News 1-bit CPU for ‘super low-performance computer’ launched – sells out promptly

    Unfortunately it is not Turing complete. A Turing-complete processor needs to be able to write to memory (the "tape" of a Turing machine) and this can't. It also can have the halting problem solved for it - the answer is no, it never halts. You could instead look at whether it reaches the end...
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    News DirectStorage Bug Drops Frame Rates in Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart

    This is my guess too. The problem will likely get worse over time as the OS files get fixed and improvements and the game ones don't... If we're right, this isn't disabling DirectStorage, only "RTX IO".
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    News All AMD Zen CPUs Vulnerable, Might Need to Disable SMT

    A different mitigation to just disabling SMT might be to just make sure SMT threads are all allocated to the same VPS of a cloud host? That way only code from the same client can be on the threads of the same core. Most VPSs are two or more threads anyway these days, so it may already be done...