Maybe I’m stupid, but my understanding was that the map in “Dave the Diver” changes every day.
Mine does not; it’s exactly the same, day after day.
I think there are certain story beats that force map changes; otherwise it sometimes stays the same.
Red Dead 3 is a go!
I’m more interested in whether we can get to see RDR1. RDR3 is likely a PS6 exclusive in 10 years time, coming to PC in about 15 years. With a bad port.
Been busy:
Something on my motherboard was shorted so I had to get that fixed, and once I got it back I decided to do a bit of upgrading. I maxed out the fans in my case, which I really should have done long ago but I was being lazy about it, probably because it’s so cheap and easy.
Now that GPUs have dropped more or less to normal prices I swapped out my used EVGA GTX 1080 of questionable provenance for a brand-new Gigabyte RTX 4070 Windforce OC 12G I picked up on sale at Micro Center for $579 (MSRP $599).
I also doubled up my RAM from 32GB to 64GB (2x32GB DDR4@3200MHz), and bought two curved 27" Samsung monitors and a double arm monitor mount while I was at it.
It’s been quite the upgrade. I’ve got 4 feet of screen in front of me right now. My video rendering times are 50-75% shorter. I don’t own any games that can’t run at the highest possible settings. I’ve had my biggest Planet Coaster park open to maximum capacity and it ran at a relatively smooth 40fps (about as smooth as that game ever gets at high guest capacities). I’m working on an “all 25 tiles” city in Cities: Skylines to see what it might take to crash this thing.
Nice! I’m super jealous. I covet a 4070, so much so that I’m kind of thinking of getting one for myself for Christmas.
My game for the last couple of days with Book of Hours, which I think I could best describe as “occult dollhouse simulator.” It’s a sequel to the also-excellent Cultist Simulator, although the game play is very different. You play a newly-hired librarian for a ruined occult library. Your job is to restore the library, room by room, find books to stock it, and lend the books out to various magically-inclined guests who are looking for occult information. It’s leisurely paced, has no lose condition, and provides virtually no instruction on how to play, beyond the most basic of mechanics. Everything else you’re expected to figure out through experimentation and exploration.
I’m completely obsessed. I got Starfield last night and played about 90 minutes before I had to go to bed. I’m at work now, and seriously considering whether I want to jump back into Starfield, or figure out how I can get my Winter aspect above 15 so I can unlock that room I found under the well.
This looks interesting.
It’s been on my wish list since I saw a trailer for it a couple weeks ago!
Is it weird that I have gone fully back to corded? I feel like a throwback to a decade ago.
Currently I have four devices plugged into the back of the computer with cables: mouse, keyboard, controller and headphones. And my computer is plugged into the router with a cable, meaning there is absolutely nothing that my computer does wirelessly. Love it!
I have also learned that the mouse does not wake up my computer from sleep. The reason it used to is because the keyboard and mouse used the same wireless USB dongle, meaning the mouse and keyboard were interpreted the same way. Either both woke the computer or neither did, so I had to have both wake the computer. Now that everything has its own discrete cable, only the keyboard wakes the computer from sleep. I can once again move my little mouse stand without waking up the computer, woohoo!
My mouse, keyboard and headset are all physically connected. None of them are ever away from my desk so there’s no real benefit to them being wireless, just the additional need to charge/replace the batteries. The modem & router sit on my desk so I’m directly weird via Ethernet as well.
I don’t think that being wireless would be any real burden, it just didn’t work out that way with my peripheral selection. I had specific keyboard wants that didn’t have a wireless option.
I gave up on wireless keyboards a while ago. They were just not as convenient as advertised. Constantly plugging them in and out to charge, eventually I would just leave them plugged in to avoid the hassle, which then led to just getting a new wired one. How much do you really walk around the room with the keyboard anyways? For me, never.
Still rocking the wireless mouse since two AA batteries will last over a year in it. That I can live with.
My router is basically right above my computer on the floor above and I have an ethernet cable coming through the floor/ceiling so I can plug in directly. My motherboard doesn’t have onboard Wi-Fi anyways so I’d have to plug in a dongle which would use a USB plug I probably need for something else.
I’ve got a wireless mouse, mostly because my wired mouse was not scrolling well, so this was basically the cheapest replacement. And I have to admit, the mouse is the one thing I prefer un-wired; it just gets all in the way otherwise.
My problem is that I operate off a laptop with only two USB ports, and I’ve got a mouse, a game controller, an external hard drive and mixer/interface to plug into the thing. I just recently bought a USB splitter with has made my life much better.
Epic announced layoffs of 16% of its staff today as well as spinning off its SuperAwesome marketing division and selling off recently acquired Bandcamp (to music licensing service SongTradr)
Unsurprisingly, Sweeney says that Epic has been spending “way more” money than they make for a while now. All those exclusives and free games add up and they haven’t really been showing much increase in new customers and sales in their annual reports. Heaven only knows what all the IP licensing for Fortnite costs them.
3 mm is enough clearance for a video card, right?
I think I’ve decided to start saving for my dream card, the MSI 4070 Gaming X Trio. I plan to reduce power all the way just like I’m doing now, which supposedly brings it down to a lean 150 W. And by all reports, the Gaming X Trio runs a little warmer but a little quieter than its tier competitors. (68° versus 60°.) That’s still well within acceptable range to me; all I really care about is noise. I’m thinking the fan on my 750 W power supply will continue to never even turn on with an undervolted 4070 and a 10400 sipping power.
The only snag is that I just checked Max GPU Length. The card says 338 mm, my case says 341 mm. “More if you remove the front fans.” I will not be removing the front fans, so I’m wondering…any issues with only 3 mm clearance, do you think?
I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure it’s mostly the vertical clearance that matters.
I have the MSI 4080 Gaming X Trio, I haven’t played around with power limits, but it’s a quiet card, and runs cool even with maxed out settings in Cyberpunk.
I see that DCnDC just posted, and I agree, the vertical clearance matters more. To that point, a recent Hardware Unboxed computer build video showed a build with just under 5mm clearance in length, and the only issue they had was carefully fitting it place to avoid scratching.
Yeah, I’ve barely wedged in cards and they were fine so long as they had space around the fans to draw air in and a way to vent out of the fins. Fitting it might be a little tricky with that little clearance since you don’t have much room to shift and cards don’t really go straight in but I’m sure you can make it work.
Come to think of it, the entire width of my case is pretty long; I should check Amazon… And of course Amazon has what I’m looking for:
Graphics Card GPU Brace Support, Video Card Sag Holder Bracket, GPU Stand, L https://a.co/d/7NhvEhF
There’s a bunch of different styles to choose from. I’ll take measurements and find something perfect. Nicer than my first thought of cutting down the cardboard of a paper towel roll to fit as a support. Not that my case has a glass window anyway.
My MSI 4080 came with a brace that attached to the PCI brackets on the case underneath the card. Maybe the 4070 you are looking at does as well.
ETA: that is a neat looking holder though, looks like a machinist’s jack.