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I feel as though I’m prepping myself for the Steam Deck by playing my Switch in handheld mode lately. With the Satisfye Grip, I’m liking handheld mode more and never felt fatigued, or hands cramped. Let's hope the Deck can deliver similarly.

TFW 33 years old is consider old AF.

IMO, AMD's competitive edge tends to come in the form of power efficiency, plus in general their multi-threaded performance. Intel I always recall being dominant in single-threaded workloads, and will tend to overtake in raw horsepower, and brute force. AMD's Ryzen though has been the necessary drive to make Intel more competitive, but games, and still many applications don't tend to incorporate more than a few cores. I would've figured by now, given the PS4, and X1's tenure, 8 cores would've been the norm by now, but 6 cores is about the sweet spot, and I believe it'll remain that way for some time. With AMD's FSR, it won't be superior to nVidia's DLSS, but like FreeSync before it, it's open-source nature will likely drive more adoption.

I seem to recall one of my older brothers getting it, and told my other brother and I we needed to watch this. We were so excited at the prospect of rumble in a video game, especially towards the end when the guys in the ad talk about feeling the rumble. We kept imagining what the rumble would feel like, and how it would impact the game. "Like you're actually IN the game!" Nostalgia is a powerful drug.

If those results are accurate, FSR 2.0 looks to be a nice step up over 1.0. The use of a Temporal Upscaling method vs. Spacial looks to be the biggest reason why the upgrade.

To play MK8 online, you must have an NSO subscription, which is typical for all Switch titles. For playing MK8D Booster Pass online though, only ONE person in your online group is required to have it. Nintendo Support: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – Booster Course Pass FAQ EN-AMERICAS-SUPPORT.NINTENDO.COM Relevant bit at the bottom of the page: Can I play courses included on the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - Booster Course Pass online even if I haven't purchased the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - Booster Course Pass and I am not a Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack member? As long as at least one of the players you are matched with online has access to the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - Booster Course Pass, it is possible to play on one of the included courses if players vote for it. A Nintendo Switch Online membership (sold separately) is required to play online, and your Mario Kart 8 Deluxe game must be updated to the latest software version.

All the 48 tracks included in Booster Pass are existing tracks "remastered" from earlier games, some of which from the more recent MK Tour as well. Depending on your experience with MK in years past, however, that could be a good, or bad thing. For me, I haven't really dived into a MK game since MK64, so all those tracks from GCN, Wii, 3DS, and MK Tour will all be new to me. Still, for 25 bucks, 6 waves of content, each wave including two new GP Cups + 8 tracks, it's I think a hell of a deal for DLC. And since I bought MK8D just last week during the MAR10 sale, altogether, I'm spending just a smidge over the amount of the full price the game normally would cost. It comes out to a little over 2 dollars per wave in the end over the course of into 2023. If you're a fan of MK8D, you almost can't not buy it imo.

Last week, I finished Doom Eternal on Switch (a Masterclass in Switch ports I might add), and now continuing with Ass Creed Unity on PC, plus just started diving into Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. Gotta get ready for the new waves of tracks coming out over the next year, you know?

Looking at the sites that talked about the leaks, it looked to be some twitter user who mentioned "ray-tracing" support (as well as DLSS) because it uses Ampere architecture, which normally it would. Tegra Orin though normally does not have RT cores in it, so it would have to be pretty custom to include it. I do recall the leaks suggested it would use 8 ARM Cortex A78 cores vs. the 12 that is in the standard T234 version. Interestingly, nVidia does have a version of the Tegra Orin chip, named the Jetson Orin NX, listed on their site: Jetson Orin NX | NVIDIA Developer DEVELOPER.NVIDIA.COM Jetson Orin NX NVIDIA® Jetson Orin™ NX brings the most powerful AI computer for energy-efficient autonomous machines to the smallest Jetson form-factor. It accelerates the NVIDIA AI software stack with more than double the CUDA cores and up to 5X the performance of NVIDIA® Jetson Xavier™ NX, and supports multiple sensors with the latest high speed interfaces. The Jetson Orin NX module is coming... If you ask me, this is the more realistic version of what would power the Switch 2. The memory bandwidth is cut in half (uses 12GB instead of 16), same with the CUDA cores (1024 vs. 2048), uses only 8 ARM cores instead of 12, and can come in a 15w variant, same as the Switch in docked mode. It's almost a perfect upgrade over the Tegra X1. If the Switch 2 does truly have RT cores, and of course full ray-tracing support, I'll be incredibly surprised.

Yeah, this is what I see happening. A "profile" would be loaded similar to your typical optimized settings when playing on a normal PC.

I think it's simply down to die size, plus power usage. Add the fact you're dealing with a mobile chipset, it probably makes less sense to utilize to begin with. That'll probably change in the coming years for sure, but I don't see it happening this go around. Even if Tegra did have RT cores, Nintendo would likely just disable them, or outright have them removed in order to reduce costs. Based on recent patents, plus Nintendo's EAD division, Nintendo themselves are quite interested in machine learning, and upscaling tecniques (hence why something such as DLSS makes sense), but don't appear to have the same feels towards ray-tracing right now. This is the same company after all that opted against including the Super FX chip into the SNES for the NA market due to costs. You could definitely imagine what would've been possible if more developers utilized it if it were baked into each system though. But I'm sidetracking this whole thread by this point, so apologizes on that.

That's too bad, but sounds like it didn't get fully off the ground to begin with. Hopefully, if Warren Spector is up for it, his "all-original" immersive sim game can be fulfilled now. Now if the System Shock remake is dead as well, then that would be a shame. I played System Shock 2 a few years ago for the first time, loved every minute of it, and could definitely see where Deus Ex got a lot of its inspiration, and design elements from. Would like to see Nightdive fulfill the remake.

These three immediately came to mind.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't you still need the RT cores to render the image before it's processed through the Tensor cores? Otherwise, wouldn't that put the burden on the CUDA cores because I don't recall any of the Tegra chips have RT cores in them? Obviously, it's possible to render Ray-Tracing through software, but that's very intensive as it is, and same with the CUDA cores, which would mean less resources being dedicated for other work.

I can see that. For me, the Deck presents as a stop-gap between PC Gaming, and Console Gaming. We've already seen this occurring though with PC Gaming becoming more Console-Like, and Consoles becoming more PC-Like. For something like the Deck, the purpose is pick up, and play. Hit a button, select a game, and begin playing almost immediately. That's actually one of my favorite features of the Switch for example. If I have a game already suspended, I get get back into the game in less than 10 seconds. That's exactly what I want for the Deck, and Windows cannot do that (I do not know if the PS5, and Xbox Series can do that as I don't own those, but I know the Base PS4 takes a little time to boot up before you can get on with gaming).

Yeah, at this point, I doubt I'll ever install Windows on it. Sure, it can be done, and some will certainly do it, but overall, I think it's the antithesis of what the Deck was designed for. Quite frankly, I'm more interested in Linux gaming, and Linux in general now that the Deck exists. If I want Windows, that's what my work laptop, and my Windows Gaming desktop is for.

I have a love-hate relationship with AMD, and formerly ATI Radeon. Some of my first PC gaming experiences were done on ATI GPUs, but in the mid-2000s, AMD was lacking in the shaders department, so I dumped my X850XT (which had Shader Model 2.0), and went with an nVidia 7800GS (which had Shader model 3.0). On paper, they were both about the same in performance, but crucially, there were shader advantages the nVidia had, the AMD card did not, which many games at the time took advantage of. After that, I still have yet to go back to AMD when it comes to GPUs. I think AMD though have something good going in the console space for Microsoft, and Sony, and while nVidia only is in that pie via Nintendo, it's still a profitable endeavor for them. Call the Switch underpowered all you want, the Tegra X1 has shown the potential of nVidia in the mobile chipset realm, and their future. While things such as Ray-Tracing are highly unlikely to be used in the next Switch, Tensor cores for DLSS I have a firm belief they will.

DLSS gets all the rage right now, but wasn't it the case that DLSS 1.0 was rather dogshit, and it wasn't until 2.0 where DLSS finally hit its stride? Not saying the same will apply with FSR, but I'm cautiously optimistic this'll fit the bill for many. Even FSR 1.0 from what I've been told from a buddy of mine that FSR Ultra Quality for a game such as RE Village worked very well, and even the FSR Quality setting. The tech can only get better at this point, and this is good news for all.

Shit, man. I'm sorry to hear that about your Son, as well as Father, and FIL. I have no words really.

Core i7 6700k's look to be selling on ebay for around the 100 or so US dollar mark, and a 1080ti could easily net you 400 dollars or more, depending on condition. Not sure about Mobo + Ram though. There are websites out there that will take your old parts, and give you a quote, although there's no haggling for price. What you see it what you get. If you want the most money, then Ebay is your friend I think. If you decide to just upgrade the GPU, and go with a 3080, it'll likely bottleneck your CPU unless you game at higher resolutions. 6700k is certainly old, but not THAT slow, and it sounds like you're running DDR4 memory? One option is to upgrade your GPU, and hold onto the res of the build until maybe AMD Zen 4, and/or DDR5 are more mature. I guess the biggest question right now is how do you typically game? 1080p, 1440p, 4k? 16:9? 21:9? 30fps, 60fps, 120fps, or higher? The 1080 ti is still to this day a great card, and puts it at, or close to RTX 3060/3060ti horsepower.

Sorry to hear about the fire, but it sounds like everyone made it out safely? It sounds like you, your family, and your town are getting back on their feet?

*hides in corner with 1080p 16:9 60hz PC Gaming* Truth be told, I'd like to dive into 1440p gaming, specifically 21:9 1440p gaming as I feel that's a good balance in terms of resolution, and required horsepower, plus how it's being implemented in more games natively. 120hz gaming would also be nice, but again, horsepower requirements at 1440p ultrawide. One day maybe...

Dude, that's a baller PC imo. I wouldn't touch that thing for at least another 2 years, but I'm more of a mid-range PC Gamer, so preferences vary. Sounds like you game in 4k? You aim for 60fps, 120fps, or even higher?