Mithan

MY GOD!  The NSA will know where I am in a game!

Going to pick this game up when it comes out.  I really loved BF1, it was much better than BF4 was.  

I think this one is going to be great.  

Really want to play this game, but too much other shit going on.  Grrr...  Looks good though.  

Tried it, but I can't.   I think it ruins the experience too, because you end up rushing to the next game.  You might tell yourself that you will return, but you probably wont.

When I was hardcore into WoW, I skipped a lot of games or just blew through them quickly to get back to WoW.  Wasn't good.  

Gaming is like a fine whine, sipped (even if you are sipping in 18 hour stints), it sucks when you are playing "just to get through it and to the next game".  

11 hours ago, CitizenVectron said:

 

I feel the same way, it seems kind of generic and "cool."

I guess we get a demo in February.  

I am looking forward to it obviously (it is Bioware) however I am really worried they are going to fuck it up, like Destiny, where the game lacks any soul and it comes across as a marketing driven game in a lot of ways, sanitized and not much fun at the end of the day.  

Hope it doesn't suck, because graphically it looks awesome but that doesn't mean fuck all these days.

3 hours ago, Reputator said:

Also it completely wouldn't make sense for a consumer card to have 32GB of HBM2 right now. So these specs may be referring to a Radeon Pro card.

Yep. 

Snipes was awesome as Blade.

That being said, you guys should go read what a fucking cunt Snipes was on set.  It is pretty comical.  lol

This will be very interesting and can potentially shake up the market for a single generation.

My points:

-IF they hit 18-20TF, it will be faster than the 2080 cards.

-nVidia is focusing more on the Ray Tracing algorithms this next cycle, which will hamper their rasterization performance, giving AMD a bit of a chance to shine even further.

-If we follow price history, their price for the high end will probably be in the $500-600 range, which is far less than the nVidia cards.  

All in all, we could be in a position where AMD delivers a faster, cheaper card than the 2080/2080Ti, giving nVidia a bit of a kick to the balls for a product cycle.  

I really hope this happens.  I usually buy nVidia cards, but nVidia, like Intel, need a good kick in the ass.  

*grabs popcorn*

1 hour ago, legend said:

 

I'm also a framerate whore about a steady 60 fps and loathe micro stutter and tearing, so I always optimize for that. But every indication shows that 1080P (which is the original context of my comment to Dre who said he wanted to stay at 1080P) with ray tracing features at 60FPS is absolutely going to be possible quite frequently, and it's only going to get more possible with time as developers start optimizing for the hardware. The DF Dice videos do a good job at making that clear.

 

Now if you're commenting out of the original context of the 1080P discussion,  want 4K at 60fps, and otherwise would rather have that than ray tracing, then this is *still* a great card to get because this is the first line of cards that seem to make conventional ultra raster games at 4K extremely reliable. And because the ray tracing resolution can be lower than the screen resolution, as time goes on you'd probably still be able to do 4K Ultra at 60 with some degree of ray tracing on as well.

 

Really, no matter your preferences on how much you care about each kind of graphical features, this is a winning card.

 

The prices are high, there is no doubt about that. But if you're the kind of person who is willing to spend 1K on gaming hardware, there hasn't been a card that gives a better reason to do that in a very long time.

Not disagreeing with you on "winning card part", just saying it is very expensive and many people wont really benefit right now and in my case, I will wait for performance to imporove, I do not think this will offer much over my 1080Ti.  Benchmarks will show that of course.

For Sure Day 1 buys:

AC: Odyssey

Battlefield 5

Fallout 76

Maybe, based on time/how I feel:

Red Dead Redemption 2 PS4 Pro or maybe wait for PC version

Spiderman

Hitman 2

Dragons Quest 11 Switch maybe

Currently playing:

Fallout 4, No Man's Sky Next and might revisit Destiny 2 a little bit and finish FarCry 5.  

1 minute ago, mikechorney said:

Based on the rumours, I agree that they will likely launch a chip on 2019, but I haven't seen anything that makes me think it will be a GeForce gaming GPU.

 

A x2 or x4 performance increase in 2 years is unlikely until we get to a new chip technology.

Hard to say what sacrifices they had to make for this first generation and how fast they move down in node process.  I am not talking about a 2x to 4x performance increase in normal rasterization (you are lucky to see a 30-50% increase every 2 years these days), but specifically Ray Tracing, as they dig into it, they will make considerable improvements.  

Take the original CUDA cores that came out, they totally wrapped that thing performance wise with the 2nd and third revisions.  Obviously, process tech was changing too quickly, but it wasn't just due to that.  

On 8/31/2018 at 8:09 AM, legend said:

 

I don't think that's true unless you consider "bolted on" to be anything other than completely ray traced (which won't happen for many graphics generations).

 

The stuff out of the gate we're seeing with almost no time is already quite promising and it's clear there is a huge range of software improvement that can be done that developers are excited about it. It also has support from DX and Epic in UE4. 

 

The only reason I think we won't see a nice substantial growth in this tech is if the cards are a major commercial failure.

I think in time it will go that route, but I do not see this as being something people "must have" today or in the very near future (next 12 months).  I also think the hit to performance is more than the vast majority of people will tolerate.

You might disagree, but I am one of those people who loves graphic fidelity and will drop $1000 on a new video card, but I still want a decent frame rate.  I don't see a point in dropping $1600 Canadian on the 2080Ti version, when it will give me the great graphics but at about 30-40FPS, not after playing at 120+ fps in almost every game the last year, maxed out.  I just don't see the trade off worth it, so I will skip it until it IS worth it, which I suspect will be a generation, so late 2019 or 2020.  

I like the tech, it is the future but I think at this point, prices are extremely high.  

18 hours ago, HardAct said:

I'm now confused, I need a card that will be future proof. I do not upgrade as ofen as I'd like, not because of funds, just because with all that life throws at us {5 kids, etc} and owning each and every damn console it just dosen't fit into my life style! That said, boy have I gotten a country mile out of my 980Ti and I bought into that a few years late too. i'm willing to spend the money, I just want a BIG BANG FOR my damned buck. Is that too much to ask these days? I do not want to buy these 2080Tis and have them actually only 15-20% better then a 1080Ti. So now I don't know what to do, except just keep reading the great stuff some of you PC Enthusiasts Gurus who really know whats what and on the web to wait and see, and maybe let another series go by the by. I want to be able to play @4k high specs HDR mostly 60FPS. Is or is this not the card now -> 2080Ti? 

I think 2080 will be fine, I am just not a fan of "first revisions" for new tech.  The Ray Tracing performance will probably increase by a factor of 2-4 in the next chip.  

23 hours ago, mikechorney said:

Do we have any evidence that NVidia will use 7nm for gaming GPUs in 2019?

Rumors mostly, but if you follow the evidence, chances are they will go for 7nm late 2019, as it makes sense and that is what TSMC is close to offering.  Might be delayed of course, but that seems to be the next logical step, and much sooner.

This is good and bad.  For AMD, it is probably a mix, because TSMC will produce their chips on time now, but probably at a higher cost.

One assumes that GF will license off of Samsung again, hard to tell. 

I got the Steelseries aPEXm400, which I like.  I think it also uses standard keys, so you can mod it if you like (verify that though).

I also had the Blackwidow Ultimate original and loved it.  I killed it with coffee in January and replaced it with a BW Ultimate 2016, which is good too.  That died when it got humid (it works though normally) so I keep it as a backup.

I picked up the Corsair k75 or k85, can't recall which, but didn't like the "depth" of the keys on the right side.  I can't explain it entirely, but it kind of bugged me.

On 8/23/2018 at 12:47 PM, legend said:

 

You won't be maxing it out if devs start embracing the hardware of the 20x line. A 'low' resolution like 1080P won't save you.

 

If devs don't then yeah, you'll be fine.

I don't think you need to worry about that.  Ray Tracing will be bolted on for a few years at least and unless we see PS5/Xbox 4 adoption, it will matter less and will continue to be an "nVidia Feature" until other people catch up.

Normal rasterization isn't going anywhere for the next 5 years at least IMO.  

The change is a needed change, but I think that most people should wait for the .7nm reworks to come in 2019, which will probably also half the price and increase general game performance more than this one will do (obviously, we don't have benchmarks yet).

I know in my case, as I own a 1080Ti, I do not need this card in any way shape or form, yet and the hit from RayTracing being bolted on is too much (today). 

On the flip side, we are looking at a few years before RayTracing really matters and we need console adoption first, something I do not think we are going to see with PS5 and Xbox Next.  

On 8/7/2018 at 3:46 PM, Massdriver said:

https://semiaccurate.com/2018/08/07/intel-has-no-chance-in-servers-and-they-know-it/

 

I always find articles like this amusing because we really have no idea how AMD and Intel will end up executing. However, it does seem like the perfect storm working against Intel right now and playing in AMD's favor. I just think it will be much more difficult than the author assumes for Intel to have 'no chance' against AMD. My bet is Intel comes out swinging really hard after 2020.

They are usually full of shit.  Semi-accurate has been saying Intel would be bankrupt by 2015 for example.

Just morons talking on the internet.  Sort of like the WCCFTECH comment section.

Whatever.  

Guy is an idiot.  

The game has improved by a LONG SHOT.  That doesn't mean if you hated it before, you will love it now.  

3 hours ago, Xbob42 said:

You called?

Wasn't referring to you.

2 hours ago, Paperclyp said:

https://kotaku.com/star-citizen-backer-sues-to-get-4-500-back-loses-1827666550

 

I've been a pretty big skeptic of this game for a long time. If you are cool with chucking money into it and have the means, have at it. But $4,500 and then you feel duped? 

 

Please. 

 

AT THE SAME TIME - 

 

I feel like the dev is full of shit as well. I just can't believe the support they've gotten. 

Problem I have is you can't say anything about it without some dumbass getting all pissy about it.  

5 hours ago, SFLUFAN said:

TiE Fighter

X-Wing

X-Wing: Alliance

Dark Forces

Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II

Jedi Knight: Jedi Outcast

 

 

Gamers should weep those have not been remastered or better yet, remade with new textures/graphics.  

Sennheiser HD555's, they are high quality but you can get the gamer version too.  I use my web camera for microphone.