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Actual leaked e-mail: "Hey guys make sure the game uses 12.1GB of VRAM kthnx." One benefit to being UE4 is the game can be modded easily. I replayed Fallen Order as Ashoka and Darth Maul, was cool AF.

RTX IO is Nvidia's version of Direct Storage. There is a world in which either could be used sidestep VRAM limitations, but developers would have to optimize for it. And I don't particularly trust them to put the time into doing that with the trend we're seeing in the latest releases. Plus I don't see it really solving problems like HUB showed in Hogwarts Legacy and Forspoken, each having extreme texture pop-in. It'll make pop-in less severe, but loading in would still be inevitable compared to just having it there in the VRAM. I wonder if HUB tested Forspoken with DirectStorage enabled anyway.

I don't think it'll have much impact on VRAM usage. DirectStorage will affect CPU load the most.

Even a severely underclocked, 150W version is outpacing the 3070. This time next year, we're probably going to be having the "If only the 3080 came with 20GB of VRAM" discussion.

Rick Famuyiwa directed episodes are definitely among my favorite episodes, especially visually, so I'm glad the last two of this season turned out to be enjoyable. He was able to tone down the campiness of this season. There were definitely some rushed moments and head scratchers, but overall it was solid. I also couldn't help but notice Gideon in Season 2: Gideon now: Of course that is the least of the turnabouts for the Gideon character from last season, but we might as well just accept these relatively minor plot holes in Star Wars.

Then it wouldn't be a cube anymore.

There are already mods that let us tweak the Path Tracing settings to get better performance, basically a providing an in-between the RT Psycho and PT game settings. Raytracing Overdrive Optimizations WWW.NEXUSMODS.COM Grab some almost free fpsTM! Thumbnail is an exaggeration, expect more like a 25% uplift on Nvidia GPUs. Perhaps it has a bigger impact on AMD. There are also other PT mods for those curious.

Keep your GPUs erect and straight, boys: GPU Sagging Could Break VRAM on 20- and 30-Series Models: Report | Tom's Hardware WWW.TOMSHARDWARE.COM Sag brackets are not just nice accessories, but necessary to prolong the life of heavy triple-slot graphics cards TLDR: Sagging + thermal expansion/contraction over time can break solder joints.

That is the sad part. Value doesn't currently exist anymore. AMD followed Nvidia and overpriced the 7900 cards.

We shit on all big corporations in here! RTX 4070 release, only 30% faster than the 3070 while being 25% more expensive on launch MSRP. https://www.techpowerup.com/review/nvidia-geforce-rtx-4070-founders-edition/32.html Yet again we see no value gain from a node shrink. The last time they raised the price of a xx70 card, with the 2070 launch, you could at least argue the extra die space that RT and Tensor cores take up justifies the price increase. This time they don't have that excuse. I am displeased that several reviewers are calling this card a good value. It's "meh" at best, just like the 4070 Ti and 4080 before it.

All their stock coolers are like that. They're basically only good enough for 85W operation, and with their 7000 chips they are designed to boost all the way up to 95 C.

You just spoiled Filoni's movie

It was gradual throughout seasons 1,2,and BoBF, but turned logarithmic when episode 3 spent half its runtime with an F-tier character. The show is not that meta.

Turning her prior kiss incestual, classic Star Wars!

I do not like the corniness as it's presented in this season. It feels goofier than even any of the animated series (the Bad Batch takes itself more seriously), probably because it's contrasted against the live-action nature of the show and the tonal expectations they established in prior episodes. In Season 2 I could see the Clone Wars-esque trend of introducing multiple storylines and protagonists was going to be a bigger part of the series and was I all for that, but I didn't expect a drastic shift in tone for this season. I also think the writing is bad - very ham-fisted, uninspired - and the cinematography makes the CGI even more cartoon-like than it needs to be. Both of these exacerbate the other problems, and overshadow my enjoyment of the good parts.

Go over this checklist to make sure all the software was installed properly: https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-ryzen-9-7950x3d/5.html In the BIOS have you tried changing the preferred CCD to "cache" instead of outright disabling the non-cache one? AMD recommends "auto", but setting it to "cache" should make it like a 7800x3D 90% of the time.

@stepee 4 sticks of RAM is not a good idea with Ryzen 7000, especially if they're not matched. They could have different latency and sub-timings and motherboards won't know what to do if you try to force EXPO. But more importantly the DDR5 memory controller will be under even more strain with 5 sticks, and you'll most likely have to run a significantly lower frequencies, maybe all the way down the 4800 MHz (or lower). I definitely advise not pushing the AMD memory controller to its limits. I have a Ryzen 5900x and manually overclocked and tuned the timings for 3866 MHz. Everything passed stress tests and extensive MemTests 1.5 years ago, but the last few months I started having weird issues mostly with horrible stutters when gaming. After troubleshooting the video card, I ran another Memtest and was getting all kinds of errors. I backed the RAM speed down and Memtest was stable again, but I've probably borked portions of my Windows install and will have to reformat to truly fix it. I haven't narrowed down the degradation being due to my CPU or isolated to just the RAM, but there are lots of reports of Ryzen chips not sustaining any kind of overclock. So I would play it safe and not push your memory controller too much. AMD recommends 6000 Hz tops and that's with just two sticks of memory.

100% brightness will probably give you eye strain. Almost all modern displays can attain brightness way higher than you need for day-to-day desktop use. 50-75% will probably be the best value. While my monitor is completely different than yours, I have it set to 60% brightness and it's still super bright.

One caveat about benching games with DLSS or any other upscaler is that you might as well just test the game at a lower resolution, since for example if you're at 1440p and test with DLSS balanced you will be getting basically the same framerate as if you were testing at 1080p native, since DLSS balanced is using 1080p render scale and then upscaling from that.

I believe I came across a claim the game was loading in assets it didn't need to, but I think a patched just dropped yesterday claiming to improve memory performance so I'm sure we'll soon see just how well they do. And don't take away my guilty pleasure of watching clickbait videos, knowing full-well the community is going to have a melt-down and engulfing myself into the chaos of maulding. Sometimes I just need a little bit more than my daily LTT laugh video. Although on a basis of principle, I agree with the claim HUB is making about Nvidia shortchanging gamers on VRAM. I still find it so silly the 3080 has less than the 1080 and 2080 Ti.

There are more new games to pushing VRAM than TLOU. Hardware Unboxed provides the most extensive and updated performance numbers, regardless of what their actual opinions are. I like GamersNexus' transparency, but their benchmarks are pretty outdated. Their choice of games to test was outdated even when they last updated it a few years ago. And NGL, every benchmarker needs to retire Shadow of the Tomb Raider in favor of newer games; we have enough data points on this one game that literally everyone uses.

Don't buy an 8GB card in 2023. Probably won't be long before the 4070s 12gb starts having issues.

The chipset driver is a separate install from the Andrenaline GPU drivers. And yes, as far as I understand you need to keep Xbox game bar on. AMDs software isn't detecting game .exe's, they are using Xbox for that.

You need to check if you have the latest AMD chipset drivers as well as the latest version of the Xbox game bar installed for max performance. And most likely anytime a new game comes out you'll have to update the game bar.

Your 4090 should be pushing air from bottom to top, so any case fans on the bottom and front of the case should be intake to feed fresh air to the video card.