What are you playing right now?

[Leetonidas]

Playing the Dead Space remake on PS5. Never played the original. Enjoying it but idk why people think this game is scary because it's not even remotely scary and just relies on jump scares basically.

[Cry Havoc]

Just snagged Total War Empire for my new phone.

It's marvelous. Feral is the best mobile port developer in the business, and even I cannot believe they crammed the full PC experience into a mobile port, made it better, fixed many of the bugs, and even improved the graphical fidelity.

We're gonna be playing BG3 on our phones in 5 years. Insanity.

If you haven't tried it, Balatro is sensational. Pick it up on the Steam Fall Sale that starts in 3 days.

I'm also liking NBA 2k25, they finally brought the next gen engine to PC and it plays really well after some tweaking (single player only).

GOTY for me personally is probably still divers 2. Easily the most fun I've had this year with any le.

[baseline bum]

Get in here spurraider21

[spurraider21]

Get in here spurraider21

havent turned on my PS5 since playing Fallen Order

thats one way to pull me back in

[spurraider21]

just bought TLOU Part 2, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, and Spider-Man 2

i still have a backlog, but these are the games i'd probably put before most of what i have. need to play TLOU before season 2 drops

[Leetonidas]

Last of Us Pt2 is one of the GOATs. Might have to fire it up before season 2 again myself

[William Hung]

PS5 has some good deals.

RE 8 Village $19.99
Outlast Trials $19.99
Plague Tale Innocence $9.99

[spurraider21]

Last of Us Pt2 is one of the GOATs. Might have to fire it up before season 2 again myself

Got survivor for 20, spiderman 2 for 30, tlou pt2 for 40

spiderman 2 was selling for 40 most places. Walmart alone had it for 30. The others i just got from best buy

[Leetonidas]

Got survivor for 20, spiderman 2 for 30, tlou pt2 for 40

spiderman 2 was selling for 40 most places. Walmart alone had it for 30. The others i just got from best buy

Solid haul kinda surprised LoU2 was $40 on sale though, game is over 4 years already

[baseline bum]

Solid haul kinda surprised LoU2 was $40 on sale though, game is over 4 years already

Sony remastered it and jacked the price up to $40 for the original PS4 version so they could sell the remaster at $50. The PS4 original I bought for $20 was already perfect on PS5 after the 60 fps patch so this was the most unnecessary remaster yet but it gave them an excuse to jack the price up due to the success of the TV series.

[baseline bum]

Got survivor for 20, spiderman 2 for 30, tlou pt2 for 40

spiderman 2 was selling for 40 most places. Walmart alone had it for 30. The others i just got from best buy

First time I have seen Spiderman 2 for $30. I would have bought at that price before but the typical sale price has only dropped to $48 until now and I wasn't buying at that price. But now I figure no reason to pay $30 for it on PS5 since I can just pirate it on PoorC for $0 in January.

Ghost of Yotei is about the only thing keeping me from selling my PS5.

[baseline bum]

ElNono man you see this ? Even 10GB cards like the 3080 getting skull ed at 1080p by weaker 12GB cards

Ouch never would have thought I'd see the day a 6700 XT would wreck a 3080 with raytracing turned on

[ElNono]

ElNono man you see this ? Even 10GB cards like the 3080 getting skull ed at 1080p by weaker 12GB cards

Ouch never would have thought I'd see the day a 6700 XT would wreck a 3080 with raytracing turned on

It's the stupid game:

The game reserves and presumably uses a fixed amount of graphics card memory (the "pool") and if this amount is not sufficient, the game stutters. It doesn't matter whether that much VRAM is actually needed at the time, which has the disadvantage that the game sometimes runs worse than it theoretically could when there is a shortage of memory, but has the advantage that the memory allocation and usage hardly change during the game. So if the graphics card memory is sufficient at the start of a game, it will probably be sufficient at the end too.

Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to say how much VRAM the game actually needs. The game allocates around 14 GB in the benchmark with the Hyper preset, 13 GB with Giga and just over 12 GB with Ultra - so the differences are small. With a 16 GB graphics card, there were no problems with the Hyper preset in Ultra HD even after a long time of playing. However, it is unclear whether this also applies to a 12 GB graphics card.

With 8 and 10 GB there are big problems even in Full HD
8 GB is clearly not enough for the hyper textures even in full HD, it's nothing more than a stuttering orgy. And the giga textures are still too much for an 8 GB graphics card, which run much better than hyper, but still stutter a lot. And the ultra textures are still too much, even if the average frame rate is right, the game still stutters a lot. Only from the medium setting onwards do 8 GB accelerators no longer have any problems - yes, even high textures are still too much.

With a 12 GB VRAM, WQHD can be played well with the hyper textures and even at higher resolutions, corresponding graphics cards are stable, at least for short periods of time - and experience shows that memory consumption does not increase further when playing games with the id-Tech engine.

However, the maximum performance is not yet available with 12 GB in Ultra HD. The frame rate only increases to the maximum with a 16 GB graphics card, even if the frame pacing is no longer disrupted with 12 GB.

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Even though Indiana Jones and the Great Circle uses hardware ray tracing throughout, AMD graphics cards perform well. The two fastest Radeons in particular perform well. In WQHD and UWQHD, the GeForce RTX 4080 Super and Radeon RX 7900 XTX work at exactly the same speed, and only in Ultra HD does the Nvidia graphics card pull ahead by 9 percent. Since all Radeons fall behind in Ultra HD, it is conceivable that the additional pixels are a bit too much for the ray tracing capabilities of the AMD GPUs, which then have to struggle accordingly. In this regard, one should not be fooled by the Radeon RX 7800 XT, which suddenly moves closer to the GeForce RTX 4070 in Ultra HD. The latter simply runs out of 12 GB of memory, and the FPS drops accordingly.

Even in Full HD there is a lack of VRAM
Even in Full HD, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle quickly runs out of VRAM, even when the textures are reduced by two levels to the Ultra setting. Graphics cards with just 8 GB run slightly faster than with "Hyper", but are still slow: GeForce RTX 4060 and Radeon RX 7600 only manage a barely playable 30 FPS. And the GeForce RTX 3080 with 10 GB is hardly any better; the former high-end graphics card doesn't achieve more than 36 FPS even with the textures reduced by two levels.

Graphics cards with at least 12 GB achieve their normal performance, the Radeon RX 6700 XT easily achieves 60 FPS in Full HD, while the actual compe or, the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, idles around 30 FPS. The Arc A770 also has problems despite having 16 GB of VRAM - so there is no limitation in this regard. The Radeon RX 6700 XT is a whopping 61 percent faster, but the 60 FPS mark remains far away despite sufficient memory.

[ElNono]

FYI:

[spurraider21]

[spurraider21]

Jedi Survivor for PS5 selling for 9.99 at BJ's

https://www.bjs.com/product/star-wars-jedi-survivor-playstation-5/300000000000433425

best buy was able to retroactively price match so i didnt have to decide whether it was worth it do go do an in-store return to save ~$10

[Joseph Kony]

so I've been playing Dragon Age: The Veilguard for the last few weeks when time allows. game is bad or just very mediocre. it is terrible as a DA game and it's so bland and shallow but it also has a decent story and is somewhat entertaining. some of the characters are ing insufferable though and the dialogue is ass. i dont get much time to play these days so i've only put in about 23 hours, but not sure if i'm going to finish it or not. Think i might just buy Black Myth Wukong and play that instead

[baseline bum]

so I've been playing Dragon Age: The Veilguard for the last few weeks when time allows. game is bad or just very mediocre. it is terrible as a DA game and it's so bland and shallow but it also has a decent story and is somewhat entertaining. some of the characters are ing insufferable though and the dialogue is ass. i dont get much time to play these days so i've only put in about 23 hours, but not sure if i'm going to finish it or not. Think i might just buy Black Myth Wukong and play that instead

No reason to compound a bad purchase by spending time on it too. Might as well just move on to something that'll be an enjoyable use of your time.

[Joseph Kony]

yeah you're probably right. Black Myth Wukong it is

[baseline bum]

yeah you're probably right. Black Myth Wukong it is

Oh

[spurraider21]

[Joseph Kony]

Oh

[baseline bum]

CDPR says 2027. TLOU Part II PC coming April 3rd 2025. FFVII Rebirth PC port I think January 30th. New Naughty Dog game shown off too.

[baseline bum]

Finally a sequel to Dying Light where you play as Crane

[Joseph Kony]

CDPR says 2027. TLOU Part II PC coming April 3rd 2025. FFVII Rebirth PC port I think January 30th. New Naughty Dog game shown off too.

2027??? lame. That Naughty Dog game looks interesting but of course the main is another non-binary looking female i'll still play it but i'm sure the neckbeards are raging about it already