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The PC Gaming Era | February 2019
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ohrly? :p
I'd wager Epic Store is the Trump of PC gaming - no matter what your feelings, it'll be hard to avoid discussion (reading or actually partaking) until they stop with the full-exclusives.
Totally agree with this. I know it gets kind of tiring, but this Epic stuff is big news. Putting your head in the sand, or pretending it's ok by not talking about it, isn't gonna happen.
Now that's a good idea for a subtitle.
PC Gaming Era | February 2019 - Welcome to the Trump era of PC gaming
I think that's FFXV's size with the 4K textures which, from what I've seen, it's not really worth it if you need disk space. As for Hitman 2, I don't have the game but I'm able to download the original Hitman levels and play them on Hitman 2. I believe you can download each episode/stage/map/mission standalone. Let's say you wanna play the first level of Hitman or Hitman 2, then you can choose to download that level from Steam checking the DLC options on Steam's library. Then, once you are done with that level, you could download the next one and uninstall the level you just completed. Honestly, I know you can do this with the first Hitman's season levels and I seem to remember you are also able to do so with the Hitman 2 original levels.
Nice.
Would playing catherine on the PS3 count? (runs away and hides, then looks)
Currently on a Half 2 Mod called entropy zero and 2064 Read Only Memories.
Can we let the Epic stuff go for a bit. Most of us feel the same here, so... I mean if there is new news then sure.
Would playing catherine on the PS3 count? (runs away and hides, then looks)
Currently on a Half 2 Mod called entropy zero and 2064 Read Only Memories.
Can we let the Epic stuff go for a bit. Most of us feel the same here, so... I mean if there is new news then sure.
Thanks for the hitman check off information! I have a tb but I just have way too many things installed.
Upgraded to an rtx card so I wanted to try out dlss/max the game out so the pack seems worthwhile. XV looks so great at 60 fps, tho you still have to turn off nvidia effects lol
Era keeps saving discarded comments from way back ugh.
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Got Kiwami pre-ordered but still haven't even touched 0. The PC gamer way of course. ;)
Otherwise, with Metro having left Steam, not many big things in Feb. for me. Guess I'll be on the prowl for smaller games and any surprises this month might have in store for us.
I know Durante is working on something he teased a couple months ago, a console exclusive no less... I wonder when he can announce it?
Otherwise, with Metro having left Steam, not many big things in Feb. for me. Guess I'll be on the prowl for smaller games and any surprises this month might have in store for us.
I know Durante is working on something he teased a couple months ago, a console exclusive no less... I wonder when he can announce it?
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This is perfect.
Yeah, damned things make me carry an extra item because I'm not sure if I can survive them otherwise :D
Ubisoft is giving away Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China -- https://store.ubi.com/assassin-s-creed--chronicles--china/56c4947f88a7e300458b4682.html
Every time I want to clean out my Steam backlog, my cursor just automatically moves to Forza Horizon 4's icon.
Thanks for the heads up.
LOL logged into uplay for the first time in ages to ten shitloads of friend requests out of nowhere.
Edit: Oh wow they got Farcry 5 for $15.00.
Farcry 5 is a great game if you look at it from the evolution of Farcry. Ubi really does well building and polishing games in a series from the previous entries.
Lewd
Hm...Hard West, I might have to join in that one, assuming I finish PoE. Although I also was thinking finally finally beating Riddick next and then trying Vampire Bloodlines. We'll see how things fall together.
The graphics in Ace Combat 7 are incredible and the textures hold up great at 4K outside of stickers when zooming in all the way during the replay mode. Legitimately impressive and the best clouds in a game yet tho I suppose you'd hope so given the nature of it.
Been so long since the last game tho that I crashed into planes or the water 3 times in the first mission tsk.
Been so long since the last game tho that I crashed into planes or the water 3 times in the first mission tsk.
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I've been having insane issues running games lately. Not entirely sure what my problem is. I have an i5-8400, GTX1060, 8gb RAM, and a 1TB 7200RPM HDD.
I get insane stutters every few seconds no matter what game. Playing something like Doom 2016 I get really 50-60fps at 1080p, but then it'll hitch regularly. The reason I'm posting is because I get this problem with even low spec indie games. I was trying to play a simple 2D overhead Zelda clone and it kept dropping to 10-15fps. Audio would freak out too. I've had this problem for a while now but haven't found any solution, so I'm kind of at a loss what to do.
The only thing I could notice was that my disk usage was at 100% in task manager when I left the game (mostly by "system" and "registry"), and the highest % in CPU was for "interrupts", which went away after a few seconds. I'm honestly so bummed out, since this computer is basically less than a year old (around 6 months).
I get insane stutters every few seconds no matter what game. Playing something like Doom 2016 I get really 50-60fps at 1080p, but then it'll hitch regularly. The reason I'm posting is because I get this problem with even low spec indie games. I was trying to play a simple 2D overhead Zelda clone and it kept dropping to 10-15fps. Audio would freak out too. I've had this problem for a while now but haven't found any solution, so I'm kind of at a loss what to do.
The only thing I could notice was that my disk usage was at 100% in task manager when I left the game (mostly by "system" and "registry"), and the highest % in CPU was for "interrupts", which went away after a few seconds. I'm honestly so bummed out, since this computer is basically less than a year old (around 6 months).
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So Youtube showed me a trailer for Project Black Sun, and I went to look it up online
http://www.starflowergames.com/blacksun.html
Game can be bought for $2 over at Gamersgate.com, on Macgamestore if you want a Mac copy (but no Windows copy?!) and on the Japanese Playism games store (but not English!)
It was on Steam Greenlight but nothing happened since then. I'm gonna go buy it soon myself, but it's a bummer it didn't get released on at least itch.io and I'd much rather a platform like that than whatever kind of installer that GG uses >_>
At any rate, 2 of Starflowergames' titles are on itch.io curiously enough
https://starflowergames.itch.io/
I wonder if it is beause that game was by a different development team?
http://www.starflowergames.com/blacksun.html
Game can be bought for $2 over at Gamersgate.com, on Macgamestore if you want a Mac copy (but no Windows copy?!) and on the Japanese Playism games store (but not English!)
It was on Steam Greenlight but nothing happened since then. I'm gonna go buy it soon myself, but it's a bummer it didn't get released on at least itch.io and I'd much rather a platform like that than whatever kind of installer that GG uses >_>
At any rate, 2 of Starflowergames' titles are on itch.io curiously enough
https://starflowergames.itch.io/
I wonder if it is beause that game was by a different development team?
Sounds like HDD (or cable) could be bad. Might be useful to check using CrystalDiskInfo+Bechmark tool, HDD Sentinel or some other smart tool and benchmark.
Somehow i missed this piece of information. Stellar Overload is dead since November. https://steamcommunity.com/app/397150/discussions/0/3374780959379838491/
They expected to sell 100.000 units? What? They more or less misused Early Access. How did they expect to sell this much units? The game was light on content.
From the Early Access guidelines:
Early Access is not a way to crowdfund development of your product.
You should not use Early Access solely to fund development. If you are counting on selling a specific number of units to complete your game, then you need to think carefully about what it would mean for you or your team if you don't sell that many units. Are you willing to continue developing the game without any sales? Are you willing to seek other forms of investment?
Why do developers ignore these guidelines? Do they do it deliberate? Valve should enforce these guidelines. :(
They expected to sell 100.000 units? What? They more or less misused Early Access. How did they expect to sell this much units? The game was light on content.
From the Early Access guidelines:
Early Access is not a way to crowdfund development of your product.
You should not use Early Access solely to fund development. If you are counting on selling a specific number of units to complete your game, then you need to think carefully about what it would mean for you or your team if you don't sell that many units. Are you willing to continue developing the game without any sales? Are you willing to seek other forms of investment?
Why do developers ignore these guidelines? Do they do it deliberate? Valve should enforce these guidelines. :(
Lot of good stuff this month imo
AC7
RE2 DLC
Metro (well I got it on Steam anyway)
Devotion
Yakuza Kiwami
There's definitely a Brexit/Exodus joke in here somewhere :/
AC7
RE2 DLC
Metro (well I got it on Steam anyway)
Devotion
Yakuza Kiwami
There's definitely a Brexit/Exodus joke in here somewhere :/
What's the fastest way to transfer from an HDD to an SSD without loosing anything or reinstalling any drivers? Cloning the whole thing over is what I want.
Also is this one any good?
https://www.samsung.com/za/memory-storage/860-evo-sata-3-2-5-ssd/MZ-76E1T0BW/
Online store here has it for 200$.
And there's also this one
https://www.crucial.com/usa/en/ct1000mx500ssd1
For 165$.
How do they compare?
Also is this one any good?
https://www.samsung.com/za/memory-storage/860-evo-sata-3-2-5-ssd/MZ-76E1T0BW/
Online store here has it for 200$.
And there's also this one
https://www.crucial.com/usa/en/ct1000mx500ssd1
For 165$.
How do they compare?
Has anybody who played the Anthem Beta actually enjoyed it? I feel like the best impression I've read so far was "It's kinda alright maybe?"
I really like the Samsung "Magician" tool for this. You need to boot your PC with both the SSD and HDD connected, then let the tool do its thing. Afterwards you can swap the HDD with your shiny new SSD, and everything else will continue to run as before, just faster.
Only works with Samsung SSDs, though. I'm sure there is open source stuff that does the same thing as well.
Can I do it with just one partition? Because my HDD is 2tb split in half, I only want to transfer the first, C, partition over. Thanks.
PSA: The Steam Awards cards from this past Winter sale will expire in less than 8 hours. Either convert them to gems or sale them ASAP.
Reading the manual of Samsung's Migration software, it doesnt' seem capable of giving that level of granularity, unfortunately.
On a quick search I found this: https://www.easeus.com/backup-software/tb-free.html
They also advertise the ability to clone individual partitions. I don't have any experience with this one, but it does look like it comes from a legitimate software company, though
Uninstalled Anno 1800 beta. Not sure I like the influence system. But it's hard to get a good idea of it because the beta is limited, so I guess we'll see how it shapes in the final game.
On the plus side it seems pretty solid on a technical level. Noticed one UI bug and that's all.
On the plus side it seems pretty solid on a technical level. Noticed one UI bug and that's all.
MRORANGE if you're talking substitle suggestions here's one
Welcome back, Computer Cowboy
Hard West was my pick. If you got a suggestion for an older game, hit up MRORANGE with it for March.
Welcome back, Computer Cowboy
Hard West was my pick. If you got a suggestion for an older game, hit up MRORANGE with it for March.
As mentioned your HDD could be broken, make sure to make backups. Or it could be as simple as a defective SATA cable, had that problem myself. But it needs to be said, running W10 from SDD is kinda a must, doesn't work all that great with HDDs and if you then put games on the same drive it'll get worse. Only 8GB aren't helping either but indies should still be okay.
Of course you could do more trouble-shooting like checking/updating the BIOS or looking for updated SATA AHCI drivers. What motherboard? If Intel: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/product/55005
And try https://www.resplendence.com/latencymon to see if maybe some random driver is running rampant.
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For those who are interested in flight sims, DCS World is doing a lunar sale starting now until Feb 14th. I just picked up two of the terrains, and the new A10-C campaign.
On their shop: https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/shop/
So Long (Patreon), and Thanks For All The Fish!
Rise to Ruins dev earns enough money with his game to sustain himself.
Shuts down Patreon.
Offers to give everyone back 2x of what they gave him.
Rise to Ruins dev earns enough money with his game to sustain himself.
Shuts down Patreon.
Offers to give everyone back 2x of what they gave him.
Nice new thread, thanks MRORANGE.
Picked up Wargroove last night and played the first few missions. Seems good so far. Definite AW vibes but its not 100% the same.
Picked up Wargroove last night and played the first few missions. Seems good so far. Definite AW vibes but its not 100% the same.
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