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- Comment on PlayStation boss says single-player games won’t come to PC going forward | VGC 1 week ago:
It’s very much a CPU-bound program requiring single-core performance; I get about 50 fps at any resolution including 4K with a Ryzen 9 5900 XT and an RX 6700 XT. Ryzens are multi-thread beasts but their single-core isn’t the best, it’s not the ideal CPU for ShadPS4. You can turn up the amount of “GPU memory” in your emulated PS4, and need about 10GB for 4K.
Of course, Bloodborne originally ran at 30 fps, so that’s more than enough frames and it looks amazing; didn’t have any problems playing it all the way through. I will obviously not be upgrading my PC any further with prices the way they are, too.
- Comment on What gaming console you owned disappointed you the most and why ? 1 week ago:
Man alive, that’s gutting. I also haven’t bought a Bethesda game since F4. Was hoping they might have doubled-down on the improvements between F3 and F:NV, but what they came out with was no kind of RPG at all, a shocking disappointment.
Means I missed out on F76 and Starfield, which is no kind of hardship at all. And I’m whatever the opposite of “hyped” is for ES6 - looking forward more to booting up Morrowind again.
- Comment on References: [1] out of his ass 1 week ago:
Scientific method and all that. Any conjecture is okay.
Now, what’s the hypothesis that you can make out of it? We’ve plenty of observations that don’t match theory, which we believe to be on account of dark matter - galaxy rotation speeds, what happens in the core of a type 2 supernova, and so on. Does this hypothesis explain those problems better than what we have?
If it does, keep it. If it doesn’t, discard it. Repeat, until we’ve solved all the mysteries of the universe by banging our heads against them.
This strikes me as the kind of conjecture that has no predictive power, and therefore must be discarded, but I’m no PhD-level theoretical physicist.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
It’s a slow burn, and it undoubtedly sags in the middle - the massive empty spaces tip over from ‘epic’ into ‘time wasting’. But it benefits hugely from telling a very personal drama with a lot of character development, and it has one of the darkest stories of any Zelda game. The Gamecube version has much sharper controls than the Wii version, so is the much better choice to reimplement. Hope you enjoy - I’m a big fan of this game, and set this up to play last night, it’s really smooth.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
If your system is all-AMD, then it’s amazing how well Linux just works. Turn it on, hardware accelerated everything.
If you’ve got NVidia anywhere near it, that’s not so much the case. If Mint is being a bit dodgy, then I would have used to recommend trying it with Pop!, since that has pretty good driver support out of the box. Probably outdated advice, something like Bazzite might make more sense now, but I’ve not used it first hand. Partly because my system is all-AMD and just works, but also because I run Arch btw.
- Comment on Subnautica 2 Early Access Gameplay Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Well, on the one hand, that just looks like a graphics upgrade from the first game. On the other hand, you wouldn’t expect the EA trailer to give too much away, there’s no evidence of the snowfox or the spy pengling in it, and the original is one of the finest games ever made so why mess? So I’m thinking that’s mostly positive. Will need to go and reinstall the original now I’ve seen this, too.
- Comment on Octopussy 2 weeks ago:
Six legs, and a tail split into two for what looks to me like flight. I think you’ll find that’s a beautiful Butterfly Cat.
- Comment on Fallout: New Vegas dev says don't expect a remaster, argues Bethesda doesn't have the source code or 'the engineering knowhow' 5 weeks ago:
It was quite prone to crashing-to-desktop and certain PC configurations had bizarre graphics issues, but I did play through it on hardcore in the week of release and had a great time with it. Just needed to quicksave a lot.
The kind of bugs that it did not have a lot of were quest bugs. Bethesda’s own games are ‘wide but shallow’, and very few quests in the world seem to interlink with each other, but despite that, they’re very easy to break accidentally, or cannot be completed due to flag issues. Oblivion managed to wrangle up a complex plot with tonnes of interrelated parts, and it mostly just worked.
What F:NV could have been if it had been made in a good engine… Most of the times where it got dinged in review scores were for bugginess and instability. Trying to build a castle upon sand; there’s only so much you can do before all the cracks appear.
- Comment on Teenis 5 weeks ago:
Alas, no.
- Comment on Teenis 5 weeks ago:
I call mine ‘little Elvis’, because that’s what Elvis called his, and it’s always struck me as a good name for it.
- Comment on More than a dipper 1 month ago:
It’s a creature that comes from an environment where we cannot survive, and drags us back into its realm to eat us. I was thinking more the kraken, but maybe ‘space cthulhu’-type aliens work too.
Don’t think Bigfoot is a particularly violent chap? Maybe a Wendigo night be a better match.
- Comment on Wireless Festival cancelled after Kanye West blocked from coming to UK 1 month ago:
Standard operating practice would just be to move everyone else up a slot, and book some ‘up and coming’ band to fill the very early slot that’s left vacant. Glastonbury managed to shuffle people between days when they lost their headliners a few years ago, depends who’s free and who’s got other bookings.
Looks like they had West headlining all three days, and I can’t find anything about who else was due to play - Drake, maybe? The 2026 festival looks like a scam, how little detail there is about it.
- Comment on Wireless Festival cancelled after Kanye West blocked from coming to UK 1 month ago:
Shrewsbury Folk Festival might be for you? Great bands, tremendous beers and ciders, splendid vibe, and Morris dancing throughout the day. A morning of dancing is just the thing to let your hangover ease off to do it all again.
- Comment on Crying is a free action 1 month ago:
Josuttis’s books are normally pretty good, lots of examples and a clear explanation of why you might want to use something, but oof that looks akin to a kick in the essentials.
Even if you’ve no other reason to update to C++20, the fact that
if constexprgets rid of half the things you’d previously need to use SFINAE for, and concepts gets rid of the other half, makes it well worthwhile. Amazing how much it stops hurting when you stop doing ridiculous things. - Comment on "Born From Ruin, First Steps" (Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon) 1 month ago:
I didn’t mean it negatively, really - I much prefer that devs add features to polishing them, and the fact that the quests and the world are so interesting makes up for a lot.
Yes, you can see through the level geometry in places. Yes, the enemies repeat the same barks again and again. But hell yes, it’s a lot of fun to play.
Bethesda have been on a serious downhill slide lately. Fallout 4 wasn’t an rpg imho, Fallout 76 wasn’t in anyone’s opinion, and Starfield was a bit of a disaster. I’m whatever the opposite of ‘hyped’ is for ES6. It’s good to play an RPG in this style that’s so blatantly a labour of love.
- Comment on exactly one year ago!! 1 month ago:
Sway window manager? Discerning choice. I see you have good taste.
- Comment on "Born From Ruin, First Steps" (Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon) 1 month ago:
Enjoyed the first few hours of it. If you’re on the mood for a much more ambitious, Eurojank take on Oblivion, then it’s probably right up your alley. Highlight of the Steam sales for me so far.
- Comment on After Almost 4 Years, My Indie Game Is Almost Ready! 🥹 1 month ago:
Still wishlisted from the time you posted before! Good luck, FirsTimeDev, hope it goes well, and looking forward to it.
- Comment on Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says 'employers will see a stream of resumes of once-in-a-lifetime quality' after the company laid off more than 1,000 people 1 month ago:
Unreal and Unreal Tournament, sure. I feel like all of their many sequels saw a continuous decline in quality, but the originals were great games. Can’t deny that Gears of War has been influential. Epic Pinball and One Must Fall 2097 were good for a laugh for ten minutes, but I can’t help but feel that they’ll have aged badly.
Seems crazy to think that Jill of the Jungle, which is an awful game, is what lined their pockets enough to develop the Unreal engine, and they were riding on the success of that all the way up to Fortnite.
- Comment on I do this on behalf of soup 1 month ago:
Managed to snag free tickets to see them and Buckcherry warming up for Steel Panther a while back.
Bowling for Soup were absolutely superb; charismatic crowd-pleasers, loads of energy, top songs, great to watch. Buckcherry played for about twenty minutes and then fucked off, which is gutting because it was them that I really wanted to see. And then Steel Panther played for about two hours, faaaar too long for a one-joke band, and went past ‘satirically sleazy’ into just ‘sleazy’, which is not the same.
Take home message is really ‘go see Bowling for Soup’, I suppose.
- Comment on The RAM crisis could completely change how developers make video games 2 months ago:
Digital scoreboards? No-one will have the cash for that kind of RAM in future, Kolanaki. Going to have to go old-school for keeping our pinball scores.
- Comment on Can't get better than this 2 months ago:
Two mattresses? Is he expecting guests?
I’m assuming that his beer fridge is just out of shot, as well.
- Comment on GoldenEye 007: The Accidental Masterpiece Trapped in Licensing Limbo 2 months ago:
Should probably run it quite well. BB was ‘designed for 30 fps’ and you’ll get more than that. Certainly run it better than it does on PS4, anyway.
- Comment on GoldenEye 007: The Accidental Masterpiece Trapped in Licensing Limbo 2 months ago:
It doesn’t take too much of a graphics card to push a ten-year old game about, but you need quite a CPU to handle the emulation. I’ve just upgraded from a Ryzen 7 / 2700X (which struggled a bit, kept 30 fps though) to a Ryzen 9 / 5900XT, which does it quite well. Ironically, the RAM crisis seems to have made CPU upgrades a bit more affordable, since not so many people are buying either.
Higher resolutions need a fair amount of RAM, but we’re talking “a fair amount of RAM compared to a PS4” - if you’ve a few gigabytes of system and graphics card RAM, that should be plenty.
- Comment on GoldenEye 007: The Accidental Masterpiece Trapped in Licensing Limbo 2 months ago:
The licensing isn’t particularly difficult for Bloodborne - Sony own it, and their video game publishing arm is still a going concern. I doubt there’s any technical problem, since it’s on the same engine as Dark Souls 3, and that’s multi-platform. Could probably recompile it for PC and release it tomorrow, if they wanted to.
From consider it one of their masterpieces, and want to do any ‘HD’ remake themselves. They’ve had quite a few offers (I understand) by other companies who’d like to do it, but I think they’re aiming higher than unlocking 60 fps and a quick upres of the textures.
Sony have a bit of a complicated relationship with ‘primarily single player games’ and ‘multiplatform ports’. Since Xbox appears to be dying, they’ll have the only next-gen walled garden in town. Why share, when they could sell systems?
Any consolation, ShadPS4 can run BB at 4K / 60fps right now, if you want it? Need a bit of a beast of a PC, but can confirm you can play it all the way through, not too many issues.
- Comment on Anon lives in the past 2 months ago:
Maximum settings at 4K = rock-steady 144 fps. Not in power-saving mode, however! Rig is a Ryzen 9 5900XT cpu paired with a RX6700XT gpu, so probably higher-end but not top-tier.
It is a truly exceptional engine, that’s for sure. Have you seen Adrian Courrèges’ breakdown of a rendered frame? That tricks that it gets up to to keep things fast and smooth are really impressive.
- Comment on Anon lives in the past 2 months ago:
Depending on the engine, some of those chunky 3D graphics have quite an appealing style. My gaming rig can render eg. Doom3 in 4K at 144 fps with no effort at all - power draw is the same as when the system is asleep. The super-smooth animations on chunky polygons look great, which was never feasible back in the day.
Shame Doom3 isn’t a better game - the strong art and engine don’t make up for the very mid gameplay.
- Comment on Anon finds a cool rock 3 months ago:
It’s the massive stone slab that lies in front of a fireplace, stops stray sparks for burning holes in your carpet or floorboards and burning the house down.
They’re usually half-tonne rectangles of granite. Fair play to the lad for digging one out and carrying it home, it’s normally a job for a forklift.
- Comment on Why doesn't my phone put all of my apps to "sleep" by default? 3 months ago:
5G is for spreading the woke gay mind virus. Collecting all of your personal information is the Jewish space lasers. Fortunately, tinfoil hat stops both.
- Comment on Too late 3 months ago:
Just need a chutney that was developed in the 90s, and then we can make a delicious chutney+blue ciabatta sandwich that’s all younger than you think.
