WannaLogAlready wrote on Sep 28, 2022, 07:46:
Absolutely, if you count weak discounts and a paltry number of offerings.
But not *major* sales defined by Steam itself, that's the point of the article, isn't it ?.

Well, your "weak discounts" actually apply exactly to the major sales. Many games get deeper discounts on special occasions or shorter/specialized sales events while the discounts during a season/holiday sale are very moderate (understandably since the publishers try to optimize their income from such sale events that span more than a full week in many cases).

Slick wrote on Sep 27, 2022, 19:31:

RogueSix wrote on Sep 27, 2022, 19:20:
I'm glad you have found a game that is more suitable for geezers like you, Slick.

Get off my lawn or I'll telefrag you.

I will have crossed the lawn, broken into your house and entered your old, sandy vagina before you can even say "frag", let alone "telefrag"

WannaLogAlready wrote on Sep 27, 2022, 23:48:
What clowns, "It will allow us to create more space between our four major seasonal".
Summer sale began june 23, that's 5 months till Autumn sale begins.

Not really a problem thanks to:

- Publisher/Franchise sales
- Event sales (Steam Next, Gamescom in August, Halloween etc.)
- Midweek Madness
- Daily/Weekly/Weekend Deals
- Just a good old regular sale for shits'n'giggles
- And if all else fails... Fanatical, GreenManGaming and Humble (or maybe even the grey market for the daring folks)

TL;DR = A lack of sales we have not

Saboth wrote on Sep 27, 2022, 21:15:
Autumn and Winter a month apart?

Been like that for many years. Effectively a Thanksgiving/Black Friday at the end of November and then the Xmas sale with usually the exact same prices.

I'm glad you have found a game that is more suitable for geezers like you, Slick.

What? Whaaaaaaaaaaat? I'm sure everyone is 100% glued, GLUED, to their screen from 9 to 5 when working from home.

Boring af for 4K gaming. I'ma stick with my 9900K and invest the money in a RTX 4090 instead.

Sims 7

Xero wrote on Sep 25, 2022, 16:30:
I haven't read much about COD MW2 but what is "all new gun handling"?

Something that old people like Slick can't handle without ragequitting kek

Slick wrote on Sep 25, 2022, 22:09:

RogueSix wrote on Sep 25, 2022, 21:37:

Slick wrote on Sep 25, 2022, 20:15:
I already uninstalled and refunded. Haven't yelled at my screen that much in a long time.

1) 6v6 same ol' with enemies spawning up your own asshole
2) already infested with hackers, 1 out of 3 rounds I've played has had a cheater
3) the 40 player mode is fun, but there's no squad spawns, so you start 600m away from each other's spawn everytime
4) "It would be smart to buy the game so I can scream my way through the multiplayer to unlock guns so that I can effectively compete in Warzone, which is a battle royale..."
5) Uninstall

sounds like ur just a n00b d00d

I was winning Quake tournaments when you were still swimming around yo daddy's ballsack.

sure b00mer kek

Slick wrote on Sep 25, 2022, 20:15:
I already uninstalled and refunded. Haven't yelled at my screen that much in a long time.

1) 6v6 same ol' with enemies spawning up your own asshole
2) already infested with hackers, 1 out of 3 rounds I've played has had a cheater
3) the 40 player mode is fun, but there's no squad spawns, so you start 600m away from each other's spawn everytime
4) "It would be smart to buy the game so I can scream my way through the multiplayer to unlock guns so that I can effectively compete in Warzone, which is a battle royale..."
5) Uninstall

sounds like ur just a n00b d00d

eRe4s3r wrote on Sep 25, 2022, 04:24:
That Windows Update story is also a laugh. It's not the windows update causing it, it's GeForce experience thats broken.

There is already a new GFE beta version 3.26 available that should fix the issue. I can't confirm this because I'm neither on the 22H2 update yet nor do I use GFE.

According to the official support article, nVidia will also be releasing a new GameReady driver including a new, updated non-beta GFE version next week. That driver should hopefully also include the long awaited stability and performance updates for Microsoft Flight Simulator Sim Update #10.

BTW, since this is a common misconception:

- The power connector on a RTX 4090 card has nothing to do with ATX 3.0. The 16-pin (12+4) so called 12VHPWR connector is PCIe 5.0 spec.

- The ATX 3.0 spec enables a PSU to sustain up to twice the power draw for a certain amount of milliseconds.

There are non-ATX 3.0 PSUs that have a PCIe 5.0 12VHPWR connector. Most/all ATX 3.0 PSUs will probably have the 12VHPWR connector since they are new enough to feature this PCIe 5.0 connector but it has nothing to do with the ATX 3.0 spec per se.

eRe4s3r wrote on Sep 24, 2022, 15:49:
Well, it really has to do with a GPU that needs 600W which is flat out insane.

This is incorrect. What is correct is that you CAN (manually and optionally) increase the power target on some RTX 4000 cards to 600W. No RTX 4000 card "needs" 600W. The official TDP of the RTX 4090 is 450W. Anything above that is optional overclocking.

Laughing Man wrote on Sep 24, 2022, 13:16:
Imagine if they released a finished, polished product and the praise they would have received, along with full price purchases instead of having to dangle it in front of people for half price the last year to even get people to buy it.

Exactly. I made the mistake of preordering Witcher 1 CE and Witcher 2 CE. Never again. Bought TW3 when the GOTY was available and will do the same with Cyberpunk once that receives a complete edition and the final patch.

I'm not a fan of their early access releases. It might not be called early access but the MO is exactly the same. I'd prefer a content and feature complete game on release day. If I can not have that then no buy. Cya (maybe) in 2024, Cyberpunk.

Quboid wrote on Sep 23, 2022, 16:42:
Is it? I don't see the correlation. I'm not sure Oxfordshire police are particularly active in either 3rd world countries or wherever GinRummy lives.

Never... NEVER underestimate the power of the Ooohhh Peeee Deeeee!

I'll play this when there is a content and feature complete final edition. And I will definitely play this on a RTX 4090/5090 card with DLSS 3 and RT Overdrive. Gunna be gud.

Is this a game about a Star Citizen backer?

GaianElite wrote on Sep 20, 2022, 23:09:
What games are coming out to push these cards? For that price, most certainly should wait until the next generation of consoles.

Well, the transition from past gen consoles to current gen has been an arduously long one by now for various reasons (CoVid, chip crisis, short supply of materials like substrates etc.). We still barely have any true "next gen" (or now current gen PS5/XSX) games.

But the next/current gen games are in the works and they will start releasing sooner or later. I'm mostly thinking about the huge slew of Unreal 5 engine games that are in the making. Unreal 5 games are not going to take it easy on the hardware.

Right now there may only be about a dozen games or so to push a RTX 4090 but that will change quite a bit since developers have started to embrace ray-tracing more and more and the implementation has gotten much easier thanks to updated engine versions. Ray-tracing is fully "baked" into UE5 and can be activated by any dev rather easily. The problem might be consoles holding them back but pushing a RTX 4090 would be easy if a dev pulls all the stops.

This comment was edited on Sep 21, 2022, 05:38.

It's an unusual, special situation this time around since RTX 4000 series and RTX 3000 series will coexist for quite some time. The way it used to be is that the current gen phased out very quickly, or even shortly before, the next gen was released. But due to a massive oversupply of RTX 3000 everything is a little different this time.

The new high end cards perform quite a bit better than the RTX 3090/3080Ti/3080. No one would buy leftover RTX 3000 stock if the prices would be too similar. That's why nVidia had to price them according to their performance uplift above the current range of cards. Those prices won't last forever.

I don't see the price of the RTX 4090 (halo product) coming down much but the RTX 4080s will probably drop quite a bit some time next year when RTX 3000 supply finally trickles away. I could even see the RTX 4080 12GB phase out entirely in favor of other cards (4070Ti or whatever).

We'll see but this current setup is certainly not set in stone for the entire duration of the RTX 4000 generation. Things will change quite a bit once the RTX 3000 series has finally sold out (hopefully sooner than later).