The video even shows it makes a difference, although it only touches on that part, with no in-depth analysis. Some modern games don’t work properly on HDDs and you get tons of glitches and pop-in.
In older games it probably won’t affect much more than load times though.
Watch the video instead of talking nonsense.
This is not about specific SSDs, but a general comparison between SSD types (and some basic HDDs). It shows that some modern games actually take advantage of the increased speed, but once you’re using PCIe SSDs, it basically doesn’t matter if it’s 3.0 or 5.0, so just get the cheapest drive you find.
Probably should have just posted this in that thread about people on Steam switching to Linux. Without context, this seems just like some weird post.
MS is not going to get them back
Until they want to play a multiplayer game with their friends, that doesn’t work because of Anti-Cheat. Or maybe Linux is a bit more involved than they initially realized.
Most of those that switched probably won’t go back, but I think with Linux it’s going to be more than someone might think (however it’ll still grow, especially over the coming months with Windows 10 support ending).
I guess Gabe did another interview, so now PCGamer is gonna post some article every day for the next couple of weeks, about every little thing he said?
That’s his super old look. I think since Covid he’s been staying in New Zealand most of the time, owns a Marine Research company, and occasionally does interviews, so there’s like two sets of pictures, that constantly get posted, when an article is about Valve/Gaben.
The white beard has even been a thing for years before that though, just now his head is also starting to match the color.
That’s an old photo, I think, articles just use the same one over and over again.
Apparently this is a picture from last year, during his introduction to The International. Lost more weight, but also looks older.
Another great performing UE5 title, with a Mostly Negative rating.
Seems like the Chinese are review bombing though, partly for the performance, but also that people got Deluxe Edition skins with even though they bought the Standard Edition, so they wasted their money by getting the Deluxe Edition? Or lower price outside of China? Maybe something about the time period it’s set in. I’m not really sure.
2k English reviews, 67% positive, still not great, but better.
I recently checked my box with old game CDs and DVDs, just out of curiosity, not because I wanted to play something. Most of the stuff is just sentimental value/nostalgia, but there’s one promo disc/game, I tried to archive because I found nothing about it on the net, but I couldn’t even read it. Others also have read errors, but I don’t know if a better drive could still work (just have a cheap external one).
I think the last PC game I bought on disc was SC2: HotS, but I don’t even know if I ever used them, since you can just download the game, after you’ve added it to your Battlenet account. Definitely haven’t used game discs since 2014, because I remember building a PC then, putting in my old drive, but then I gave it away, because I just never needed it.
The Bluesky post is already over 10 hours old, and it’s supposed to only last 666 minutes (a bit over 11 hours), so get it quick, if you’re interested.
If you can get the B580 for like $250 or close to it, it’s good, but otherwise there are better options. The 9060XT 8GB is 20-25% better, but you have to know, if 8GB of VRAM are sufficient. Otherwise, something used might be the way to go.
If that counts as a console, every PC counts (everything’s an Xbox, according to MS), then a $6000 prebuilt is a more expensive Xbox.
Everything’s got this shit green tint.
Unless you’re making some Nvidia = green joke, that’s some setting on your side. The crashes might be as well, some unstable overclock or PSU issue.
The main things that’s been plaguing the Nvidia drivers is black screens, which are seemingly finally getting under control for the last two driver releases, along with Windows Updates.
Value of the 50-series is definitely shit though.
Probably, but the other points still stand.
BTW this is about UNIX, not Windows. Also, only about driver optimizations, security updates would still get released for a few years, if the past is anything to go by.
I tried it in the training mode, but switched back to first-person and forgot it even exists most of the time.
#teamred
Temu Nvidia is so much better, true. Please support the “underdog” billion dollar company.
There are.
The game has multiple cosmetic(?) DLC, like the Nier and Nikke crossovers, but for some reason they aren’t on the Steam Store page like for every other game. They’re included in the Complete Edition, and if you click on that bundle you can select and potentially buy each one separately.
Also it’s Z2 Extreme, not Zen 2 Extreme
um akshually 🤓
It’s the AI Z2 Extreme in the Xbox Ally X. There is a non-AI variant, which is the same, except of course the AI hardware, but that’s not used for these.
Couldn’t be AMD without dogshit mobile processor names.
As I said, the video is about general types of SSDs, not specific games. It’s also mixed between first load after launch, reload of a save and sometimes fast travel, no real methodology.
When the game uses DirectStorage, a PCIe SSD will be a lot faster than SATA or HDDs. Games like Last of Us Part 2, Spider-Man 2 or Ratchet & Clank were shown. Indiana Jones doesn’t use DirectStorage, but still shows this kind of behavior.
Without DirectStorage, it mostly doesn’t matter, as long as it’s an SSD, although PCIe drives were almost always faster. If you reload a save, a lot of time, it often also doesn’t matter if you use an HDD, although you might still get the glitches and pop-ins from slow asset streaming.
Here’s a list of Steam games, that use DirectStorage. It’s not a lot right now, so you definitely don’t need to switch right this second, especially if you already have a SATA SSD, and you’re not playing the latest AAA games constantly. It is something to keep in mind, when you’re upgrading though.