From reading the specs, I have a few questions though:

• A350M: 1150MHz vs A550M: 900MHz vs A730M: 1100 MHz . How comes ? (I know that the core counts increases, but still...)


• Ray Tracing Units: from 6 (A350M) to 32 (A770M), yet the benchmark shows performances "just" above" 60FPS, with some game settings even being on medium. Are we supposed to expect enabling ray-tracing, provided that most games that have the option are also graphic-demanding ?

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My friends and I are waiting for the full game to be released, so that we can start a world all over and discover everything it has to offer... instead of being somewhat "spoiled" if we played every "smaller" releases.

But our first playthrough was incredible :wub:

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Quoting: omer666This is madness. They can't supply GPUs people can reasonably buy, yet they spend R&D cash in this...

"By unreasonable people, for unreasonable people" :tongue:

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...when Cyberpunk 2077 runs better on Ultra on a Steam Deck than on your GPU on Medium... :cry:

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I had downloaded the demo a while ago, but with the pandemic, I didn't have the chance to test it with friends...
Guess I'll try to give it a go again :smile:

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Quoting: Doc Angelo

Quoting: axredneckHow can i use them just for antialiasing (without upscaling) ?
(Especially for games that have neither DLSS/FSR nor antialiasing built in)

I'm not sure, I don't have an RTX card, and never tried FSR. But in theory, you could run your native resolution (for example 1080p), let it upscale to 1440p or 2160p, and then configure your display to downscale that to 1080p. That should result in a high quality anti alias effect.

But I never tried that.

I have tried that in the past, on Windows, on some older games that didn't have built-in AA.
Scaling up to 4K, then downscaling to 1080p (max resolution supported by my monitor), the edges did look better, as well as some other details.
But it was a bit clunky to use (you had to enable it manually for each .exe program)

I found back the link that explained how it works (with the dot grids) : https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/dynamic-super-resolution-instantly-improves-your-games-with-4k-quality-graphics/ [External Link]

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Quoting: TheRiddickAllot of people were complaining that Valheim is a pretty terribly optimized game even for normal PC. Given its low polygon+texture art style, that is surprising.

Everything seems fine, until your friends decide to build a (massive) base...:whistle:

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Quoting: constI own witcher 2+3 and never really played them. Certainly looking forward to try them again on my deck (just finished the real order *yay*)
Can I just start with witcher3 or should I go back to Witcher1 and walk through the series?
Anyway, very reassuring that CDPR is actually committed. Guess I'll go out of my way and order cyberpunk on next sale :D

If you have time (1 and 2 are "shorter" than 3), I suggest you walk through the series again.
There are a lot of references in each games about things that happened in the previous games, and I like how you can carry on from the save of the last game to the next one, keeping your equipment and part of your inventory, too.

Like, if Geralt is a traveller, he surely would have some possessions when going to a new location, right ?

Spoiler, click me

I also loved the fact that, in Witcher 3, you get all your money from the previous game, but you have to wait a certain point in story to be able to use it... Cleverly integrated in the lore of the game, and of course preventing being overpowered too early in the game, while rewarding you from playing through the series

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: furaxhornyxIn addition to this excellent comment, I would like to add that there would be way less people using smartphones, consoles, cars, and whatnot, if they had to resort to command line to use them (and this comes from someone who launched a lot of games as run"mygame" on an Amstrad CPC as a young kid)

When it comes to command line usage in a standard consumer environment, Linux IS the exception ; everything else has a nice GUI to guide the user.

What you seem to miss here, is that the command line is not only something that can save your ass when you exhausted other UI solutions,, but a resource per se that can be used to do certain tasks much better than a gui would ever do.
And expressly avoiding even to name it because some people fear it is not something that meet my approval.
[...].

It's not a question of "avoiding to name it" (Liam even added the command line way to the article), it is a question of "appealing to most people", which usually favor the GUI way, such as Warpinator :smile:

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Quoting: furaxhornyxWhen it comes to command line usage in a standard consumer environment, Linux IS the exception ; everything else has a nice GUI to guide the user.

Your Linux doesn't have a nice GUI? Mine does.

Yes, it does. Not for everything though: I had to install a GUI separately for quite a number of programs though, and I still have to resort to CLI, because either the online tutorials use this, or there is no GUI for a particular program

Quoting: tuubiOr is the availability of the CLI a problem in itself? Because I sure as hell remember having to resort to running commands on an extremely awkward command line interface to fix stuff back in my Windows days, 20+ years ago.

I discovered PC with Windows 98, and even back at the time, no CLI was required. The only command line that sometimes saved me was sfc /scannow (which is also quite easy to remember)

Quoting: tuubiIf you do any advanced tinkering or troubleshooting (or software development), you're going to be typing commands into some sort of a CLI at some point, regardless of operating system.

What if you don't, like most end users ?

Quoting: tuubiAll that said, I agree with Purple Library Guy in that being comfortable in the terminal is not a sign of intelligence. The terminal is a powerful tool that doesn't limit the ways you can mess with your system, or that you can mess up your system, and hardly a day goes by that a professional nerd like me doesn't do something using a handy CLI tool simply because it's faster or more comfortable (for me) than messing about in a graphical UI of some sort. Learning it is definitely useful if you want or need to get the most out of your computer, but I'm sure most people have better things to do with their time.

Emphasis mine. Yep, this was the point :smile:

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