Just reinstalled it. Running fine on a Ryzen 2600 with GTX1060-6gb through a 60hz TV on my Fedora 32 machine. Turned virtualsync off, and put shadows on low. 2xAA. Multicore enabled. I could probably raise quality settings, but it's running well enough. Haven't played through Xen yet, and last time I played Black Mesa it was a stuttering mess. Game is actually enjoyable now that it's running smoothly. It always makes me wish Valve had put any effort at all into the Source port of Half Life instead of leaving fans to have to do it for them.

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Purchased because of this news. Was playing the first one the other day and I had forgotten most of it. Have to get serious and work my way through to get to it.

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Shadow Warrior(2013). Very entertaining. Next up, Cloudpunk.

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One hopes that they will first remove the children *before* their hospital gets launched into space.

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Quoting: TheRiddick

Quoting: jarhead_hThe 850 should handle the power draw of the 6900XT just fine

Why do people think they need a 850W PSU for a 300W card?

Because it's always better to have more than you need than to need and not have. The 3090RTX is supposed to be a 350w card. According to LTT it can pull almost 500w and caused them noticeable problems on their test system because it only had an 850w PSU. Now do you think I trust AMD's power rating? Do you? If so, why would you do that?

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Quoting: WJMazepasI have a RX470 and honestly, im pretty happy with it. Of course i would love to have a Big Navi with a Ryzen 9 5950X but it would be really expensive and i just dont want to deal with problems of a new release. I got a Ryzen 2700 instead of a 3600 because it was cheaper and all the issues had gone already

If you buy a new card from AMD and decide to use Mesa, there will be issues, but a older card will work just fine

I have a slightly different upgrade strategy. Buy the best mobo and heaviest PSU you can, skimp on ram, NVME, GPU, and CPU. Each one basically drops in one at a time.

I bought an x570 & Corsair 850 in January. It got an on-sale Samsung 970 evo 500gb, a standard on-sale 2600, 16gb ddr4, and a recycled 1060-6GB to run a 60hz 1080p tv. Now running 32gb of TridentZ Neo c16 timing. Been waiting on Sabrent and AMD to release the rest, and the IRS to get me my money back.

Hoping there won't be any major issues with Mesa or kernel support by end of Q2 2021. There were some weird bugs with the Ryzen 2000 series, but I haven't experienced any this year. The 850 should handle the power draw of the 6900XT just fine, according to LTT the 3090 has issues with a psu that small iirc.

And I was gonna go AMD this gen no matter what simply because I'm on me third XX60 NVIDIA gpu and I'm sick of NVIDIA's proprietary drivers. More than once I've had to revert back and wait for a kernel update because the new driver breaks my system.

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Let's see, with all of my tax returns coming in the next months, I should be able to finally finish out my existing x570 build with an Asus PG43UQ 43” 4K, a 5900X, a Sabrent 1tb Rocket Plus PCIE4 NVME, and 6800XT, OR MAYBE a 6900XT. Not sure, have to wait and see if the performance justifies the price. Not buying anything until February probably so should have the best build relative to what's available that I've ever had. Ihaven't decided on the distro yet. Still leaning towards Fedora 33, but PopOS is tempting.

It's actually kind of sad. I don't game anywhere near what I used to, especially not AAA devs, but I am doing video editing, and 4K Windows games via Steamplay need all the GPU horsepower you can bring.

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Quoting: M@GOidFor one Mega Drive game and a emulator, I have to download 583 MB????

Funny story, the 3D menu has higher system requirements than the games. Of course I took the opportunity of the sale to buy all of them. I genuinely don't understand why Nintendo and Sony haven't followed Sega's lead and bundled together old games for sale with a working freeware emulator. It's like leaving money on the table.

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Quoting: Arehandoro

Quoting: Perkeleen_VittupääI like the 4th one.

Heresy!

P.S: I like the 3rd one, also a heretic for the purists I guess :D

Curse of Monkey Island is my favorite of the series.

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Quoting: NezchanCue half a dozen people defending him on the basis he shouldn't be cancelled for his opinions.

Oh, me [raises hand]. Definitely count me in. Also, anyone defending cancel culture, just know that I'm going to buy his game just to piss you off.

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