Neshura

Doesn’t change the fact that historically balancing the wires on the connector was the job of the GPU. Arguably the connector spec should include who should load balance the wires, it didn’t and afaik it doesn’t, but the established practice was that the GPU takes care of it.

Significant part: there were fewer customers in the entire market back then

The concept is used by pretty much all games now. It’s just that during the gilded days of Intel everbody and their mother hardcoded around a max of 8 threads. Now that core counts are significantly higher game devs opt for dynamic threading instead of fixed threading, which results in Intels imbalanced Core performance turning into more and more of a detriment. Doom Eternal for example uses up as many threads as you have available and uses them pretty evenly

Let’s be honest here it was never more than a band aid thrown together in an attempt to keep up with chiplets. Intel is in serious trouble because they still cannot compete with AMD in that regard, it affords them a level of production scalability Intel can currently only dream of.

Imo if you’re going to be the only one who would use the instance it is not worth it. Instead look for an instance that lines up with your personal interests (maybe check out the db0 instance).

Content federation basically works on a subscription model so you will only see content from other instances if someonen your instance went out of their way to subscribe to it. Smaller instances suffer under this as they might not even see popular communities from other instances.

Between this and infinity nikki actively blocking non SteamDeck devices I have a feeling that Valve will bring the hammer down on this sometime soon.

When people buy a game, the store front says it should run and then it doesn’t they’re not going to yell at the developers. They’re going to yell at the store and I doubt Valve wants to bother with the extra support workload that entails.