I don't know what they're trying to show but the DLSS reflections in Hitman 3 look remarkably poor. Not really a good showcase of tech here.

The almighty yuan will tickle down to rightful places eventually and foreign developers will know what to do to court the massive market.

This game will be remembered the way Super Metroid is remembered nowadays. Sometimes during the game I can't really believe what is happening on the screen is in fact something created by humans and assembled together in working form.

This looks like a perfect Game Pass game.

One stupid thing I did was to use a power cable that came with another PSU on a new one thinking all power cables are compatible. It ended up frying all the HDs and SSDs connected to it.

Guess Bezos gave each one of them bigger bottles to urinate in.

Krodge wrote on Dec 16, 2020, 19:15:
Taiwan has been earmarked by the communist party for invasion in the next 5 years. They openly state it.
The most democratic and progressive nation in Asia with a population the size of Australia and our government's and corperations won't recognise its existence.
So much for all our values.

Actually, the most democratic nation in Asia is New Zealand. If you mean Far East region, then it's a tie between Japan and South Korea. But Taiwan is the best China regardless.

RogueSix wrote on Dec 16, 2020, 18:46:

jdreyer wrote on Dec 16, 2020, 17:49:

Jivaro wrote on Dec 16, 2020, 17:46:

jdreyer wrote on Dec 16, 2020, 17:43:

El Pit wrote on Dec 16, 2020, 14:22:

Verno wrote on Dec 16, 2020, 14:16:
I'm hoping for a 3080 Ti with 16GB of memory release in Feb. Oh and hoping I can actually obtain one!

3080 Ti? RRP $999 - buy it (not just from scalpers, but also from common webstores) for just $1,399 - and this being the cheapest price.

Let's face it - this is not a free market, this is a crooked market.

It's actually classic free market. This is what happens when demand outstrips supply.

*cough*intentionally created by manufacturer*cough*

True, but not intentionally IMO, otherwise they'd have charged $1500 as MSRP. Nvidia is an incredibly successful multi-billion dollar company. They do their market research.

Nope. Not true at all. nVidia are always selling their own FE cards at MSRP from their own store and they are also enforcing their MSRP on those dealers who sell FE cards. The RTX 3080 FE may rarely be available but it's always $699.99 at BestBuy. Go check.

As far as the board partners are concerned, nVidia just supplies the GPUs and does not have any influence on the prices of the final product. The board partners have their own MSRPs and they have no influence on what the distributors and dealers do with the cards. The cards that are selling now have been manufactured many weeks or months ago. The prices we are seeing for AIB cards are no fault of nVidia, probably no fault of the board partners but all the way the fault of the distributors and greedy dealers who try to make a buck from the supply vs. demand situation. Same for AMD, of course.

I think it's board partners' job to maximize profit too, they set their MSRP but segments product lineup up and down to produce higher end, more expensive SKUs the difference between them being in most cases slightly overclocked bios. Gigabyte did it with introducing Aorus Master and MSI with their Suprim. So they certainly contribute to the MSRP being inflated further from the FE pricing. Also I think they're producing more 3090s than 3080s given limited resources as the cards share a lot of parts in layout and sell out anyways, contributing to the scarcity of the more affordable but less profitable 3080s.

InXile has flown under the radar as one of the more consistent smaller sized rpg developers in recent years. I enjoyed Wasteland 2, and Bard's Tale IV, in Director's Cut version, is pretty fun too.

Please stay safe and hope things return to normal soon. Best wishes!

I don't think PC gaming is in decline, at the outset it is in a transitional period being subsumed as part of content delivery service unified under one OS. What he lists as part of decline has its roots in console gaming. Inherent characteristics of PC gaming, especially the level of involvement in modding and long term support of quality in gaming, may not be reflected in quarterly financial reports of AAA publishers but is still on another level of uniqueness that is unmatched elsewhere. Build good games and they will come and play, and it is easiest to translate good and revolutionary ideas on the PC platform (i.e. Disco Elysium).

I fail to see what's the point. You still need to interect with the specific clients to do anything other than inaccurate and scant analytics (who really cares) and check better offers or sales. Waste of time, just make desktop icons of games you own and put them on Windows 10 tile.

Already loaded onto the PC Game Pass. Looks right up my alley!

I'll be impressed if No One Lives Forever returns via RTX 'remastering'.

While this is a very reasonable and optimized requirement for such a visually spectacular game, I still wonder why RDR was never released on PC.

Wish they'd do something to help performance on AMD hardware

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This game is supposed to hit Game Pass for PC? Then it might be worth giving it a whirl. Looks like a pretty fun time, given that it is more a contained experience.

I do hope that AMD's console GPUs keep them relevant in the PC space. Navi is a good performer and more efficient but people will NOT be satisfied until it has the fastest discrete card in the market.

Looks like the Navi cards struggle particularly on UE4 games. Perhaps a driver could fix this issue?