The PC gaming Thread. Steam/GOG/Origin/Etc. Game/Software/Hardware talk

if dx12 pushes everything and pascal is end of 2016 I have the strong desire to fuck shit up with Titan X sli

I had the first FEAR game on 360 and it was fun and all, but the host advantage was OD even by console standards.

So…is a Steam Summer Sale usually in June?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQou5h0Zh2k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G5oe-Cc994

“New nvidia drivers have been downloaded” Oh ok…I guess I’ll check if anything useful came out.
“Heroes of the Storm support added” Wait…that game isn’t out? I thought everybody had already panned it… Oh well, don’t care.
“GTX 980ti support added” Wait…what? I thought there was no release date?
…it is already out…well then. Guess I am behind the times.

I pre-purchased Arkham Knight with the 40% off code. Please don’t be broken at launch.

Ummm…am I the only one who got an icon to upgrade to Windows 10?

I did too, as did a few people I’ve talked to so far

No you are not, and that’s about the most blunderingly stupid thing I’ve ever seen an OS do in the history of blunderingly stupid things.

bingo:

FEAR 2 had more varied environments and gameplay. It was as repetitive as the first one however.

Yeah, because VRAM is a money-grabbing gimmick 99% of the time. Buy cards based on raw performance, not on a feature list thought up by a marketing team.

Vram is important for things that take advantage. Like shadows of mordor ultra texture pack.

Now a single 4gb gtx 960 is a waste unless you plan to sli in the future.

But now I want to sell my 980 to get a ti. … Even though for 1080p it wouldn’t be worth it at all.

VRAM size is almost always overkill. 4GB is plenty for everything except hi-rez supersampled textures. Even then, the bottleneck exists between the actual memory interface and the GPU’s handling of texture streaming, not texture caching.

Is windows 10 even worth it? I got windows 7 premium and I’m satisfied with it. Does upgrading windows 7> 10 still require you to wipe your harddrive clean?

Say… What? When have you had to wipe a hard drive to upgrade windows?

right now, Windows 10 is still in development (in my eyes, fuck the July release date), and there is still a lot of bugs that need to be dealt with (some big shit too, like needing a full reboot to restore lost wifi connectivity and sound):

when they get out the kinks, I think it will be worth the upgrade easily.

You shouldn’t need to format if you’re just doing a windows upgrade.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E_-2wIJIzQ

XCOM 2 announced…

I hope Xcom 2 remains like it’s tactics style but just more depth.
Xcom vill was fun, but lacking content. Enemy Within fix that right up, adding a shit loud of content.

Also, Hatred is out on Steam and is #1 seller at the moment.
The community forums is hilarious.