PC Gaming

PewDiePie made a video on why he installed Linux and explained why everyone should do it too. Due to his number of followers, this might be the year of the Linux Desktop? Hooray?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/716490/EXAPUNKS/

EXAPUNKS is the latest open-ended puzzle game from Zachtronics, the creators of Opus Magnum, SHENZHEN I/O, TIS-100, and more.

I received it as a gift and started playing and ... I have questions. I am playing it on Ubuntu, and it's working great. I don't login anywhere else though so I'm hoping I can find people to talk to about it on Lemmy.

Cheers if you have played and can help. Sorry to bother otherwise.

Questions!

1. How does it know who my steam friends are? Is that just an api or something?

2. What are size, cycles and activity? It shows me these things but I can't find an explanation.

Thanks!

Let us assume there are 4 slots for RAM in a given motherboard A, B, C and D. Slot A and C form a dual-channel and B and D form another dual channel. (They are of same colour physically.)

Now I have 2 similar RAM sticks of 3000 MHz running in dual channel. I am buying 2 similar RAM sticks of 3200 MHz (only available option for me now)

What would be the best configuration to get most speed in games from these?

p - 2 sticks of 8 GB (3000 MHz)

q - 2 sticks of 16 GB in proper dual channel configuration

r - 2 sticks of 8 GB (3000 MHz) and 2 sticks of 16 GB (3200 MHz) inserted in the 2 dual channel configurations respectively.

For the uninitiated: it's a 2003 racing game which became more or less a meme, because every possible feature of the game just doesn't work.

I kinda feel the game is going to be released just because of the meme-status, so that people would notice the publisher's other games.

Either way, I appreciate making the game available, if just for laughs.

Much as I love the look of Quake RTX, it feels like it’s a barely there performance hog in modern games. You look at the benchmarks on the newer cards and so much is focused on ray tracing performance but I just don’t see that big a difference in Cyberpunk on an 3080 Ti unless I look really hard for it.

Am I alone in this? I’d much rather have 100+ non generated FPS at 4k over what raytracing is delivering in major titles. And by 4k I really mean my super modded Skyrim VR :)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2477290/HalfLife_2_RTX/

Seems to be just Ravenholm and Nova Prospekt for now

Half-Life 2 is $1.99 right now if you don't have a license.

I've been a subscriber to humble choice since day 1.

I went back through the last 2 years of bundles (average about 1.5 activations per month) and added games to my account.

Next time I get the urge to buy something "because it's on sale" I'll go back and add things I've already paid for.

So today I learned GoG has a "Dream List" where people can vote for and even post their thoughts on games they would like to see on GoG. I voted for Mass Effect Legendary Edition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4Q87HB6t7Y

I tested DLSS 4 on a 4070ti and saw a huge improvement in quality even in performance mode.

I just wanted to let you know that some people from r/Tribes created a community on lemmy at [email protected] 👋

NetEase Games has reportedly laid off the entire Seattle-based studio working on the game.

There are a lot of options in the Medieval City builder category. Manor Lords is the big one I think.

City Tales Medieval Era is a bit different. You can draw your own districts and watch them grow organically. Which is damn cool. The way the game deals with workers is different from anything I have seen. You send a companion to train the workers. Once they are trained the buildings operates on their own. The companion moves to the next building in need. No more juggling workers.

Game is not out yet, soon (tm) Worth a wishlist add or watch if you enjoy a good city builder.

Here is the link to the steam page and a vid: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3265070/City_Tales__Medieval_Era / https://youtu.be/4erPd23I1cI

I guess the most popular ones are Football Manager (FM) and Out of the Park baseball (OOTP) series. Have you played any other not so well known manager games and enjoyed them?

My first manager game was Championship Manager in the 90s. It was like a drug. We had a player group in school and shared some tactics and player transfer tips. I also played some OOTP maybe 15 years ago when I studied some baseball rules and watched often MLB.

Now I have played some FM (EGS giving them for free all the time), Football tactics and glory, We are football and I’m hoping for OOTP 25 sales before 26 arrives (That series has taken some graphical steps up and they also have MLB license).

I would also pay anything for a quality boxing manager game but I have never found a good one.

I'm looking for a set of gamepads to play local co-op games with my fiance. A while back I purchased an Xbox Elite controller expecting it to be sturdy since, it's Microsoft's premium controller targeted at both Xbox and PC. Shortly later, my bumper broke which appears to be because the bumpers are just a piece of plastic being bent over and over. It looks like they ported this same defect over to the Xbox Elite 2 controller without fixing it and at this point, I'm done.

I was looking at Sony controllers, I'm a little worried about there compatibility with PC (Windows and Linux) and also the fact that I have large hands.

Scuff also came up, but their prices are pretty high and IDkK how durable they are.

What do you suggest?

My daughter (5) loves to play games with me on my PC. Favorites of hers include Spyro Reignited, Untitled Goose Game, House Flipper, and Skyrim (she basically putts around whatever town I throw her in and steals from the locals' homes).

She is really into anything with simple mechanics, non-scary exploration, and minimal reading/menu navigation. Being able to go into various houses is a huge plus. She loves to snoop.

Tonight she was laughing her ass off while watching gameplay from a game called I Am Cat. I told her I'd get it for her, but unfortunately it's VR-only, and you can't strap those things to a little kid. I believe you have to be 12+ to use them safely without adverse effects on development and motor skills.

When asked just now for anything she'd like to add, she said, "Funny, happy, and beautiful!"

With all of that said, any recommendations?

https://youtu.be/sEu6k-MdZgc

Pretty disappointing. Sure it's a great GPU and the price is okay but it's not a generational leap forward. Steve at Gamer's Nexus pointed out that the 5090 is so much faster, with more of a performance difference between it and the X080 card than normal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA5lFiP3mrs

27% faster and 25% more expensive than the 4090 at 4K.

The review doesn't use DLSS 4 which will have a separate video