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    TheyCallMeContra replied to the thread News Indiana Jones and the Great Circle requirements may put your PC in a museum — minimum requirements include a Core 7-10700K and a ray-tracing GPU.

    I think with The Console Optimization Factor (fixed hardware platform allows for highly specific/specialized performance optimizations)...

    Dec 4, 2024
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    TheyCallMeContra replied to the thread News Latest Valve Proton Experimental update enables DLSS 3 Frame Generation and fixes performance in dozens of games.

    Most likely. SteamOS prior to Deck supported NV hardware fine, and while Proton is primarily associated with Steam Deck and its AMD...

    Nov 25, 2024
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    TheyCallMeContra replied to the thread News World's first Ryzen AI 300-powered gaming handheld presale stretches up to $1,699 — flagship OneXFly F1 Pro sports Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, 64GB RAM, and....

    Well, the performance at 15 Watts here (same as Steam Deck) is still really good and not all that unreasonable. I hear what you're...

    Nov 25, 2024
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    TheyCallMeContra replied to the thread News World's first Ryzen AI 300-powered gaming handheld presale stretches up to $1,699 — flagship OneXFly F1 Pro sports Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, 64GB RAM, and....

    So...Nintendo Switch?

    Nov 25, 2024
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    TheyCallMeContra replied to the thread News TI-84 CE calculator demonstrated playing PC games, slowly — Plays Sonic X Shadow Generations remaster at 2FPS.

    Okay, of the things you just listed, only Doom and Sonic 2 actually resemble their original games. The others are obviously demakes or...

    Oct 29, 2024
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    TheyCallMeContra replied to the thread News TI-84 CE calculator demonstrated playing PC games, slowly — Plays Sonic X Shadow Generations remaster at 2FPS.

    Game streaming is a real thing, dude. It's a reality of the current industry and the only way to experience a lot of software on...

    Oct 29, 2024
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    TheyCallMeContra replied to the thread News TI-84 CE calculator demonstrated playing PC games, slowly — Plays Sonic X Shadow Generations remaster at 2FPS.

    author here, original title was Sonic X Shadow Generations, other PC games apparently playable on a TI-84 CE— Why run the numbers when...

    Oct 29, 2024
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    TheyCallMeContra replied to the thread News Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 sucks up to 180 Mb/s of internet bandwidth while in flight — equivalent to 81GB of data per hour.

    I think they already use some gen AI in FS 2020 in the lower-bandwidth areas- the peaks are definitely for places that require...

    Oct 14, 2024
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    TheyCallMeContra replied to the thread News Doom port runs entirely on your GPU — no rip-and-tear wear on your CPU.

    ah yes, AI that can't count the number of Rs in strawberry, mistakes recipes for poison for food, and certainly can't actually test...

    Oct 3, 2024
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    TheyCallMeContra replied to the thread News Doom port runs entirely on your GPU — no rip-and-tear wear on your CPU.

    it's free. test it yourself or pay me if you insist I miss my deadlines for you [also, not an AMD GPU user, but I'd say the same thing...

    Oct 3, 2024
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    TheyCallMeContra replied to the thread News AMD 24.9.1 drivers mark the proper debut of universal Fluid Motion Frames 2 — along with improved geometric downscaling.

    there's nuance to it! off the clock of writing articles like these, I take competitive gaming pretty seriously (including offline...

    Oct 2, 2024
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    TheyCallMeContra replied to the thread News The Arch Linux team is now working directly with Valve — SteamOS and Arch should both benefit greatly.

    Valve's pivot to Linux support has been a longtime thing! It's just matured more noticeably since Steam Deck and SteamOS 3, but the...

    Sep 29, 2024

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