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Quoting: ShabbyXJust got myself a ryzen 3700X. Intel's core count is absolutely ridiculous in comparison.

What about the single core performance?

In fact Intel's single core performance makes a difference when the CPU is the bottleneck, i.e. when you run a Source game at 720p with an RTX 2080 Ti. Real life scenarios tend to be much less discriminating towards AMD. Also even Intel's Core i7 have weaker single performance than Core i5, but Core i7 is still the better all-around option, because single-core performance is not as relevant as it used to be. Also keep in mind that nowadays gamers do a lot of other stuff while gaming (they have Twich, Discord, and many others running in the background). Get a good multi-tasking CPU, a good GPU, and you're set for gaming. It's not a 5 frames difference at 200+ FPS that matters here.

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Quoting: lejimsterI will be interested to see how the iGPU performs, if they can push AMD to go harder in this area it benefits us all. It would be nice to see an APU that is able to comfortably game at 60fps on medium settings.

Apparently crush renoir vega igpu and win in some cases compared mx 350

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And technically seems better than vega igpu

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Be careful, those are official slides and Intel has a bad habit of having silly benchmarking procedures.
That said, if it proves to be true, good for them. I'll wait for AMD's response to buy a laptop.

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Thanks for the article!
I may be more of a terminal guy than you are, but the issues you describe would get on my nerves very quickly nevertheless.
A little question, how does the RX 5700 XT fare in VR, performance-wise?

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Also do not forget that Microsoft's "gold key" is actually compromised, meaning the SecureBoot is basically useless now.

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Quoting: LinasI would think that the story is copyrightable. Like you cannot just take Harry Potter, rename the character to Harriet Otter, rearrange the events a bit and be done with it. But other than that, yes you could make a post-apocalyptic game that follows the same general recipe, and uses the same gameplay elements (like a computer on the protagonist arm).

That's probably the difference, yeah. Point taken.

And it's not like Wipeout were the first "pod racer" either. Nor the last. Plenty that follows the same general formula (obviously). But this game here is like a cheap Chinese copy of a product! :D
I just find it puzzling. But it's not meant as more than a footnote really.

It is more of a spiritual successor than a "cheap" copy. I mean, is Cities: Skylines a blatant copy of SimCity? Is Road Redemption a cheap Road Rash? Is FIFA a Kick-Off ripoff? Oh I loved Kick-Off so much...

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Quoting: Beamboom"inspired by"... oh, yeah. The "inspiration" may perhaps be detected if we look real close. :D
Or how about we just call it what it is, "a blatant copycat of"? :D

Yes indeed, but considering Sony isn't going to release a real good Wipeout anytime soon, I am glad that copycat exists.

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I really like BallisticNG because it is very close to Wipeout 2097, which I used to play on OS X back in the day, which was ported by no other than Virtual Programming, mind you.

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Quoting: ShmerlApple being serious about gaming? What kind of koolaid is he drinking? Apple let OpenGL support rot, refused to support Vulkan, dropped 32-bit, then decided to change hardware architecture. If some early steps in this list didn't kill gaming for Apple users, the later ones for sure did. Serious gamers left Apple already a long time ago. These last developments were killing a dead horse. Apple was and is run by mobile eggheads who don't care about gaming.

To be honest gaming on Apple computers back when I had a PowerMac G4 required to change GPU, and at the time I had to put a Radeon 8500 in place of the crappy Geforce 2 MX 200 they offered. The Apple Store offered an optional Geforce 3 Ti for a very indecent price, which nobody right in their mind would have picked up. Which tells how much of an afterthought gaming ever was for Apple, and you may notice how retail graphic cards for Mac just disappeared shortly after they switched to Intel.

Edit: just noticed you can now put any GPU into 2010-2012 MacPro, which invalidates part of my statement. Yet, who would be right in his mind and put money into a GTX 1660 only to run OpenGL 3.2?

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Wow happy birthday!

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It's more of a monopoly problem than a low market share problem. Back in the days, porting a game on 4/5 different OS was the norm.
Today all computers run on x86 architecture, all you need for testing your game on Linux is to install the damn distro.

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