Dirty Keyboards, Gaudy LEDs, and Cheeto Dust: Let's Talk PC Gaming

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cinci zoo sniper: Mar 15, 2013

So, NVIDIA has rolled out Maxwell-based 800M GPU line. I am going to buy myself a laptop this autumn - what are the chances that 900M line fires off around that time?

# ¿ Mar 13, 2014 17:24

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 12:35

cinci zoo sniper: Mar 15, 2013

Maxwell Adams posted:

It's a huge mess, though. The 870M and 880M are based on the older Kepler hardware. The 850M and 860M are based on Maxwell, but only some of the 860Ms, because nVidia has the awful habit of giving several different laptop GPUs the same name.

So all high end stuff is better but not still there? :psyduck:

# ¿ Mar 13, 2014 20:25

cinci zoo sniper: Mar 15, 2013

notZaar posted:

When was the last time that games were CPU bottle-necked?

Planetside 2 was CPU bottlenecked for me.

# ¿ Mar 25, 2014 14:58

cinci zoo sniper: Mar 15, 2013

XenoCrab posted:

For me, ArmA 2/3 and the DCS flight sims are CPU bottlenecked.

ArmAs cause me issues too, forgot about them.

# ¿ Mar 25, 2014 16:12

cinci zoo sniper: Mar 15, 2013

Not sure if this is the thread, but whatever.
Facebook buys Oculus Rift for 2 billion.

# ¿ Mar 26, 2014 00:10

cinci zoo sniper: Mar 15, 2013

GeForce GTX TITAN Z, $3000 ~gaming~ GPU.

# ¿ Mar 26, 2014 15:45

cinci zoo sniper: Mar 15, 2013

ColHannibal posted:

They are not going to require ads or anything stupid like that

Is this a

# ¿ Mar 26, 2014 16:42

cinci zoo sniper: Mar 15, 2013

Kibayasu posted:

I wonder if its possible that Facebook wants to adapt the Oculus into some kind of Google Glass competitor thing. I know precisely jack and poo poo about engineering though so I have no idea if Oculus and Glass are even comparable.

They are different in terms of Rift being VR (virtual reality) device and Glass being AR (augmented reality) device, but that does not rule out the possibility of that happening too. One would think, though, that it will take literally different product, because Oculus Rift with cut-out "front window" would look awkward to say the least. :v:

# ¿ Mar 26, 2014 19:43

cinci zoo sniper: Mar 15, 2013

Essobie posted:

I think I've posted this about a dozen times in this thread, but one can't be expected to read the entire thing for a mousepad recommendation, so here it is again: don't buy a "mousepad", get a self-healing cutting mat. They are awesome mousepads, last forever, and you can get really big ones for typically less than you'd pay for these pro-gamer getups. http://www.cutting-mats.net/cutting-mats-1008.html

Mung Dynasty posted:

Any recommendations on a durable, soft mousepad that's not gonna interfere with my need for ~*progaming mouse smoothness*~ while also not being some lovely blinged out disaster?

While I cannot comment on various mouse pads from exotic building materials and while they may actually be good and what not, I can recommend you QcK+ or QcK Heavy. Any of them will work if you do not need to have an airfield set up for your mouse. Heavy is preferable over QcK+ if your desk is significanty worn out/damaged/destroyed/devastated/dismembered/disintegrated. If it is not then QcK+ will be good enough.

# ¿ Apr 9, 2014 16:11

cinci zoo sniper: Mar 15, 2013

Mung Dynasty posted:

Maybe I just need to see a doctor or something but

I would strongly advice you to consult with someone medical in regards of these issues so you know for sure whether if a doctor visit is necessary or not. For me it seems that yes, but I neither am medical dude nor I would visit doctor myself in this case case. The latter though is that here in Latvia we have separate specialists for such issues who are more accessible than doctors and who then appoints us to the doctors on their own.

# ¿ Apr 9, 2014 16:41

cinci zoo sniper: Mar 15, 2013

mfcrocker posted:

I really like my QcK+.

I like mine too. I bought my first QcK+ in 2007, if I recall correctly. In 2010 I got another one as a gift with my laptop purchase, which I carry around with the said laptop everywhere on a daily basis. Incredibly durable to wear and resistant to food/drinks. Clean looks, and I think it is even washable. Never had to wash it, though, because all the spills/stuff were dealt with a piece of moist cloth.

# ¿ Apr 9, 2014 18:05

cinci zoo sniper: Mar 15, 2013

Pews posted:

I feel like your description is the exact opposite of a wonderful pair of headphones ;o

Well, headphones with bloated bass that shits all over everything else, which happens to be the case for any 'gaming headsets', is further from wonderful than a slight lack of bass.

# ¿ Apr 20, 2014 09:23

cinci zoo sniper: Mar 15, 2013

Bloody Hedgehog posted:

I think he was referring to the headphones being "unbearable" to use, not the lack of bass.

I considered this option but then I thought that ergonomics being referenced does not make much sense in the light of the question.

# ¿ Apr 20, 2014 16:05

cinci zoo sniper: Mar 15, 2013

120 Hz and 60 Hz monitors. I can feel difference between those (at least I think so). Now watching Starcraft 2 on DreamHack Open 2014 Bucharest and there is EIZO FORIS FG2421 monitor advertisement that claims their stuff is 240 Hz. Opinions?

# ¿ Apr 27, 2014 13:21

cinci zoo sniper: Mar 15, 2013

Maxwell Adams posted:

It just takes 120 hz input and tries to upsample it to 240 hz. This can only add input lag and possibly make things look blurry.

Well, that is one underwhelming gaming 'feature'. Thanks for explanation.

# ¿ Apr 27, 2014 13:33

cinci zoo sniper: Mar 15, 2013

Neo Rasa posted:

"[File.cpp:150]: ERROR! cannot open mod\cursors\targ.mod.cmp in \ein.dat for reading"

Open MEAT.REG, which should be in game folder, with notepad and edit paths to proper.

# ¿ May 5, 2014 22:46

cinci zoo sniper: Mar 15, 2013

AirRaid posted:

Anything else that loads in content on the fly will have a noticable difference. Skyrim for instance, and also Rage should see a boost in how fast it streams it's oodles of textures in.

Rage must be a particularly incredible example, if I recall it's texture problems correctly.

# ¿ Jun 18, 2014 20:00

cinci zoo sniper: Mar 15, 2013

notZaar posted:

Isn't that sort of counter productive? If your game streams on the fly and you don't notice chugging, then it's fine. I've noticed SSDs do wonders for games with a lot of loading screens.

Some games have problem that you, for example, enter a cave, with 20-30 second loading time, then run (assume human) 50 meters forward to some wall on the cave, and what you'll when you close on that wall is just a gibberish looking like a bad parody of the actual theory. Then the proper texture loads. While there isn't any chugging in that process, "immersion" can be improved by being able to load on-fly textures faster. It certainly isn't overly productive if we put it dry, but there are cases when that isn't completely useless.

# ¿ Jun 18, 2014 20:08

cinci zoo sniper: Mar 15, 2013

Jippa posted:

Exactly the same here. I had a dodgy 880 once but apart from that the combination has worked well.

880 or 8800?

# ¿ Jul 8, 2014 15:50

cinci zoo sniper: Mar 15, 2013

Jippa posted:

Yeah 8800.

I had a 8800GTX that died in a strange way, at the same time as 8800GTXs of a few of my friends (within two weeks from mine).

# ¿ Jul 8, 2014 16:59

cinci zoo sniper: Mar 15, 2013

mobby_6kl posted:

Secret nVidia killswitch?

The fan on my 8800GT would occasionally not turn on (at all), which was great for desktop usage as it made the PC much quieter. Not so great in-game, when the card overheats and shits itself .

All of us had the same manufacturer of 8800GTXs. Palit, I think, but I need to dig up old spreadsheets to find the exact configuration, and all mentioned cards just burned out. :tinfoil:

# ¿ Jul 8, 2014 17:16

cinci zoo sniper: Mar 15, 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VohrddwVQqg

# ¿ Jul 22, 2014 14:31

cinci zoo sniper: Mar 15, 2013

Sab669 posted:

That actually sounds pretty neat, but I feel like an carrying around a console-like controller (and tablet) is the antithesis of portable gaming.

I don't think I would ever buy it for portable gaming. But as a remote streaming-playing thing - maybe. Depends on the price tag, of course.

# ¿ Jul 22, 2014 22:34

cinci zoo sniper: Mar 15, 2013

It also may be static - try unplugging mouse and frantically click all problematic buttons for 10-20 minutes.

# ¿ Sep 5, 2014 11:16

cinci zoo sniper: Mar 15, 2013

Has anyone got so experience and complaints with G710+?

Also, I often see people with mixers connected to their computers - what does it enable you to do?

# ¿ Sep 30, 2014 15:19

cinci zoo sniper: Mar 15, 2013

Alright, thanks for answers. Saw G710+ in store today and it felt nice, but I need to read up that button breaking think since my keyboards have to live through a lot.

# ¿ Sep 30, 2014 15:40

cinci zoo sniper: Mar 15, 2013

Cardboard Fox posted:

I had a question about refresh rate. Mostly comparing 60hz to 120hz and 144hz when it comes to monitors. I saw that Asus 1440p monitor running at 144hz that a bunch of people were buying. Doesn't that mean that you would have to run the game at 144 FPS(locked) and 1440p to get the full benefit of the monitor? How is that possible? No modern video card would be able to do that, so what's the point?

I believe that monitor is with nvidia gsync so it does some refresh rate magic to keep things in check.

# ¿ Oct 25, 2014 18:24

cinci zoo sniper: Mar 15, 2013

Nevvy Z posted:

36 and 72 would be fine also wouldn't they? So for newer games you might have to fiddle a bit but both of those sound reasonable to me.

Yes, but then motion blur would be applied to smoothen the picture out, and, depending on the game, command input may be less responsive, as in less smooth compared to higher frames.

# ¿ Oct 26, 2014 19:34

cinci zoo sniper: Mar 15, 2013

Great Joe posted:

if you're dumb and don't put on triple buffering, yeah

Aren't there some rendering latency issues with triple buffering in DirectX games?

# ¿ Oct 26, 2014 19:53

cinci zoo sniper: Mar 15, 2013

If you liked all CoD games up to now then it is a safe bet to say that for you any released FPS game is good.

# ¿ Nov 2, 2014 15:22

cinci zoo sniper: Mar 15, 2013

SolidSnakesBandana posted:

Despite this, there are a surprisingly large number of people that buy new Call of Duty games at full price just so they can play the singleplayer campaign.

The last one, as far as I know, is in top selling games on Steam both with regular and deluxe editions. I just don't get it. :psyduck:

# ¿ Nov 2, 2014 15:33

cinci zoo sniper: Mar 15, 2013

Guillermus posted:

Being honest, CoD games were fine until 2 and maybe CoD4 (basically 4 games if you count COD:UO). I admit I played a lot of mw2 and black ops on my 360 but then we had a dedicated group of goons specialized on making kids literally cry.

CoD 1/2/4 were fine in my opinion as well, I just think that later on it went pretty bad quite quickly.

# ¿ Nov 2, 2014 20:42

cinci zoo sniper: Mar 15, 2013

Sab669 posted:

Hey guys, what would be the simplest way to record something on screen and turn it into a GIF, preferably watermark free?

Tried out Gyazo and it's kind of clunky and awkward...

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gooncam/, War Thunder thread favorite.

# ¿ Nov 8, 2014 21:03

cinci zoo sniper: Mar 15, 2013

MrYenko posted:

Ok, but now imagine that you've been using a G9/G9x for the past decade+. What the hell am I supposed to do now that my �bermaus is out of production?

G9x refugee checking in, still no idea where to get similar mouse with respect to shape and build quality.

# ¿ Nov 10, 2014 17:31

cinci zoo sniper: Mar 15, 2013

all_purpose_cat_boy posted:

I think the ti is, on paper, around the same level as the ps4 so would expect it to hold up better in future and might avoid the need to upgrade again quite as soon.

PS4 uses modified HD 7870, so 750 Ti should be okay for now, but I do not think that for too long, unless the plan is to play the games at the same quality and performance level that console players have to.

# ¿ Nov 19, 2014 09:28

cinci zoo sniper: Mar 15, 2013

Ramagamma posted:

I dunno like, I use a 360 wireless controller on my PC and I'm sure my terrible Pinball Arcade scores can't be blamed on input lag.

I'm surprised you didn't mention lag for playing chess from a wireless controller. 'Pinball' is not amongst the type games that are victims to a susceptible input lag from a controller - generally that is only a concern for an FPS game.

# ¿ Dec 8, 2014 09:22

cinci zoo sniper: Mar 15, 2013

Bloody Hedgehog posted:

This isn't true at all.

Maybe, last pinball game I played was some 10 years ago. From what I remember since then, it never was matter of precision and speed of that of a nice FPS game, such as Quake.

# ¿ Dec 8, 2014 09:38

cinci zoo sniper: Mar 15, 2013

Bloody Hedgehog posted:

The entire point of pinball is precision and speed.

And I believe The Pinball Arcade did suffer from some input lag on PS3 when it was first released. If you can hit the ball at the exact moment you need, it's virtually impossible to get a high-score

Fair enough, though by precision I mean that in pinball, if I recall correctly, you press one button and 'a hand' flops automatically, as in it is dimensionless timing, though now that I am halfway through writing this post, that does not really make much difference with the argument I have had.

# ¿ Dec 8, 2014 09:54

cinci zoo sniper: Mar 15, 2013

Ramagamma posted:

Lets be honest, input lag isn't what's holding you back from those space-age k/d ratios in CS:Go.

Neither I play CS:GO nor do I blame the input lag for pitfalls in my performance in those FPS games I currently play, if anything.

Edit: Also, k/d is a dumb statistic to go by in most cases.

cinci zoo sniper fucked around with this message at 11:44 on Dec 8, 2014

# ¿ Dec 8, 2014 11:37

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 12:35

cinci zoo sniper: Mar 15, 2013

Though in reality sub-50 keyboard is cheapest 6-KRO you can find and which has all extra features you want, with leftovers deposited for a decent mechanical keyboard.

Edit: X-mas came early to me, my mechanical keyboard has arrived. I'll maybe do some short writeup or w/e in the evening, poo poo's cool.

cinci zoo sniper fucked around with this message at 13:55 on Dec 23, 2014

# ¿ Dec 21, 2014 17:33

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