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- Comment on Relooted - Game made by South Africans has been bombarded by right-wingers 15 hours ago:
Much more relevant are the last two numbers in nvidia classification. A 2060 is miles behind a 1080. The first 2 numbers just represent the generation, not how “strong” it is.
I know what these numbers are. I thought it’s obvious from my comments.
1060 was always an entry level gpu, and is outclassed by even modern integrated graphics.
1050 was an entry level garbage of this generation, going as low as 3GB of VRAM, while 1060 got 4-6GBs. The latter is not in the best position now, after 3060 dropped, and affordable VRAM got into 10GB+ territory, but it’s still capable of enduring tasks on it’s budget. 4060 and 5060 didn’t brought as much to the table as 10xx-30xx jump did after failed 20xx imho.
Since new vcards are still trapped in an overprice bubble, used 1060s are still nice, especially coupled together. And I doubt that this discrete card is worse than integrated graphics of, say, 13gen i5 Intel, that is, by defenition, uses a part of availiable RAM rather than having it’s own soldered-in VRAM of the next gen, and also steals computational power from the CPU, that is rarely a bottleneck but cpu-heavy tasks still happen. In games, it’s titles like Vermintide 2 that exhaust mid-range machines by calculating horde logic.
Source: I do live VJing and occasional v-render on contractor’s hardware, ranging from sexy 5080 speeds to vcardless trash setups, and just a couple of days ago I was forced to use a 730 vcard that could hardly handle OBS and projecting software at the same time.
- Comment on Relooted - Game made by South Africans has been bombarded by right-wingers 21 hours ago:
1060 is certainly low end, which is the card you mentioned. 1080 (ti) might still be considered higher end, but the 1060 has been called low end years ago.
Nvidia had a lot of cards this generation, and 1060 in 6gb variant is not as bad as you think. It’s two generations behind, because 20xx were sometimes even worse, and 50xx-40xx changes weren’t that significant as 10xx-30xx were. 10xxs won’t produce top gfxs in the recent games, but most time it’s not them being outdated, but devs fucking it up. And you casually ignored that most PCs have something like an Intel Integrates 13100 instead that barely rebders Dota.
What? That doesn’t make the models of the character and scenery any less 3D. Are we looking at the same game?
I suggest you to watch one video on original Resident Evil and how it was designed. Devs managed to do hd gfxs because they could prerender some bits, and others only existed in a POV of the player. With most of the gameplay focused on one side-scrolling perspectieve, devs limited things they need to render (like the world behind you doesn’t exist), and could’ve cut the resources required. I don’t know if they did so, but 12gb ram and 1060 are still ubreasonable.
don’t get what you’re trying to say. Yes, an 11 year old game performs fine on 10 year old hardware. What does this have to do with an unreleased, unoptimised, modern game?
Skipping over beta condition this game is in, I want this game to provide anything of value for resources consumed. I proposed an old game that does all of that in 3d, and I’m wondering why a 2d game can’t do the same.
- Comment on Relooted - Game made by South Africans has been bombarded by right-wingers 23 hours ago:
But most importantly, it’s still a WIP.
To make it clear, I’m not barking at that dev, but at the industry that gets pushed further and further in reqs without any visible upsides.
Optimisation for lower end PCs will probably happen last.
10xx is still not a lower-end PC. Most modern PCs in the world don’t have discrete graphics card and instead use integrated Intel/AMD solutions. Buying a PC or a laptop with a discrete one is 30% addition to an already bloated price tag, so unless you know you need one you can skip it. And, unsurprisingly so, 10xx show themselves still capable, although lacking raytracing stuff.
2D in gameplay, but it’s a 3D game
No, it isn’t. The gameplay is tied to two dimensions and it lets devs leave out everything but a thin line of scenery that serves the 2d perspective.
1060 is almost 10 years old
And Sunset Overdrive is 11 yo, yep, and it’s a full 3d game with similar gfxs where you can actually navigate these three dimensions hopping through it’s map. Most of the game happens from a zoomed out pov, so there’s probably even less need for computational power and caching if they downsized textures for these scenes acorrdingly.
There is still no reason to exceed these demands, unless you go all into raytracing, VR or 4k high fps range. The most probable blunders are UE5 and lack of optimization. For a game that doesn’t call itself as a groundbreaking AAA expirience, these reqs feel misplaced.
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- Comment on Relooted - Game made by South Africans has been bombarded by right-wingers 1 day ago:
Looks genuinely fun but omfg 2d platformer with 1060 and 12gb ram as low specs? Five years from now I wouldn’t be able to play a modern three-in-a-row browser game it seems.
- Comment on New "symbolic image compressor" posted in r/computerscience turns out to be AI hallucinated nonsense 1 day ago:
Reading OP and thinking about their misinformed understanding of what they are doing, I came upon an idea I propose to all of you: the almighty Babylonian Compression Algorythm.
As long as we have all combinations of (say, 256x256px) images in the database, we can cut down image size to just a reference to a file in said database.
It produces a bit-by-bit copy of any image without any compression, so it puts OOP’s project to shame. Little, almost non-existent problem is having access to said database, bloated with every existing but also not-yet-existing image. But since OOP’s solution depends on proprietary ChatGPT on someone else’s server, we are on par there.
- Comment on New "symbolic image compressor" posted in r/computerscience turns out to be AI hallucinated nonsense 1 day ago:
Reading OP and thinking about their misinformed understanding of what they are doing, I came upon an idea I propose to all of you: the almighty Babylonian Compression Algorythm.
As long as we have all combinations of (say, 256x256px) images in the database, we can cut down image size to just a reference to a file in said database.
It produces a bit-by-bit copy of any image without any compression, so it puts OOP’s project to shame. Little, almost non-existent problem is having access to said database, bloated with every existing but also not-yet-existing image. But since OOP’s solution depends on proprietary ChatGPT on someone else’s server, we are on par there.
- Comment on No, just listen, this is for real. 5 days ago:
You can add one, as a prediction of something. What do you find unbelievable in nearest future and also funny? Mecha Turnberg announcing the end of Israel?
- Comment on Where my Newfies at 1 week ago:
Potatoes: Become poisonous from a touch of sunlight because they would be too plain and basic veggies without having a fucking defensive mechanism against their discovery on the surface
- Comment on Pied 2 weeks ago:
Clownussy beacon calls.
- Comment on peach: frozen 2 weeks ago:
Such a loss I almost forgot already.
- Comment on peach: frozen 2 weeks ago:
Why? Kirk can say shit. The problem is not him specifically, but the lack of education in the population that makes him thrive.
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- Comment on The bullet engravings as per WSJ 2 weeks ago:
We russians assume just as well, and have a lot of strikingly similar behavioral patterns when we are at our lowest. I don’t know which country is going faster in it’s race to the bottom, and I am of course to egoistically assume it’s mine. But, either way, take and have as much care as you wished me <3
- Comment on The bullet engravings as per WSJ 2 weeks ago:
Thank you for going so far thinking about my safety. That’s rare. Thank you for that.
I am from another problematic state, so I’m probably safe posting that. But being there on Lemmy I feel a kind of a second-hand involvement with what haunts americans whose news are frequent there. And talking about that, making shitposts, I feel relieve as I say what I want to actually say about my own state, but would be ruined if I did.
- Comment on The bullet engravings as per WSJ 2 weeks ago:
Guys, guys, guys! It’s a shitpost collage I edited myself and posted in the according community. Seems like I need a big disclaimer.
- Comment on :(( 2 weeks ago:
He smelled cheese and got excited only to hear the news.
- Comment on The bullet engravings as per WSJ 2 weeks ago:
Can be anything. Other versions had stock photo watermark. I only photoshopped text over it.
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- Comment on Here comes the merch 2 weeks ago:
Honey, you forgout to pour ketchup from our favorite screaming dispenser. Honey?
- Comment on Here comes the merch 2 weeks ago:
Yep, some rotating tower spreading water around a small patch could’ve been fitting, especially with a fake gold plating on every detail.
- Comment on Here comes the merch 2 weeks ago:
I tried to mistakengly mirror his head (instead of cans) and when I saw him looking in the same direction as a paint stream I reverted it back asap. That weird image made me give up on further corrections. I saw a small tankhead screaming and pulverising blood on it’s enemies. It was not only too wicked, it was too badass to imagine Kirk in it in any form.
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- Comment on Time to bash Americans again 2 weeks ago:
More chill, probably.
Unchecked capitalism of this degree is a stressful world to live in and it drives people insane. Fear and hate not only breeds mass shooters, it makes your random Joe shoot PoCs, delivery guys or really everyone stepping on their lawn. And it’s not racism or some other kind of hatred alone. It’s a general fear that EVERYTHING entering your comfort zone is there to fuck you over. And in the US they aren’t totally wrong, because many things we find normal in Europe, like affordable healthcare, insurance, education, etc - are traps constructed to drink you empty, not to say about how many real scams flourish there. They are in a fight or flight mode like 24/7, so it’s no wonder they shoot on sight and cheer to bigotry.
Meme/anecdote: many european listeners of Cool Zone Media podcasts were confused, while visiting US of how many advertisements to buy gold deposits were in automatic ads while there, and how agressive they were. In a sense, gold investments is a panic button you press when you gamble on everything else going down. And this particular scam, the popularity of crypto, and the power of rabid christian sects kinda says a lot about how secure regular folks feel.
I’ve never been to the US, so it’s all built on assumptions and hearsay.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is now available on Steam - and it broke the Steam store 3 weeks ago:
I’m not in one of them, so I do know. I’m just sceptical GOG would do that with such complications. And I’m supporting the way of correcting it with piracy or more affordable prices rather than region locking that would lead to it’s own shenanigans.
- Comment on Green owl recruits 3 weeks ago:
Feel free to do it. I think that most of people already saw it here. But if I find something like that, it’d be better to share a compilation of several cases at once.
- Comment on Green owl recruits 3 weeks ago:
I’d look into how I can report that, and also in probable alternatives, thanks.
- Comment on Green owl recruits 3 weeks ago:
Yep. I’m on the edge about uploading a screenshot, but it would be safe to say it happened in the first hour of going into Intermediate English course and saying I’m 100% proficient in it. It occured to me in the third three tasks I believe. In this exact task it asked me to pronounce what the boy says and I cropped out my notifications bar and the lower part of the screen. It was in the app, so I couldn’t have done any edits on the site, only after that.
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- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is now available on Steam - and it broke the Steam store 3 weeks ago:
Steam services that by injecting more DRM, region-locking games (and accounts) to a set of countries like consoles do, and that is incompatible with GOG’s idea. They can let devs decide on pricing without implementing any rudimentary locks, but then it would be inconvinient for wealthy countries’ gamers to ever purchase a game in their own region unless they intent to support dev/platform. It greatly complicates their side of things and would be a very divisive decision for a smaller storefront that is built around their wholesome image.
Here comes the merch
