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    Star Citizen: Chris Robert`s new space sim (the Wing Commander guy)

    I agree that the experience is way more immersive with VR but honestly I don't see myself playing with an occulus for longer than an hour at a time especially in games like arena commander. TrackIR on the other hand doesn't add to fatigue at all so there's no way I'm getting rid of mine any...
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    Steam Summer Sale 2015 Official Whatcha Gonna Buy Thread

    The remastered versions are easier than the originals partly because the interface is improved and they added some quality of life updates like autoharvest. I'm biased but I think the difficulty is just enough to be engaging without being overly frustrating and yes, the single player campaign is...
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    Can We Do Toy Story Yet?

    I remember seeing a video of a siggraph presentation where the Pixar technical people had an indoors house scene from UP (which looks significantly better than Toy Story 1) rendered at close to real time at production quality using two GTX580s (don't quote me on that, my memory on the specific...
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    Cheesy "camera simulation realism" effects in modern game design

    The one thing aside from the overuse of DoF is the fake rain drops on the camera lens when it's in 3rd person. I see this happen in racing games and some 3rd person shooters and the first thing that goes through my mind is WHYYY?!
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    Elite Dangerous

    Honestly, do all the tutorials missions (except that last combat one with multiple waves which is pretty hard for most beginners), learn to use boost, flight assist off and wing mechanics and then practice for one day and you're pretty much good to go. Every ship handles differently so there's...
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    Nvidia GTX Titan X Owners Benchmark Thread

    Holy crap! Am I to understand that this is on the stock cooler? Edit: okay yeah I went over all the posts and this is impressive as hell. I've kind of dismissed the titan X after seeing all the reviews conclude 33% faster for 100% higher price but I didn't think they would overclock this well...
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    * -- ]] Unofficial Homeworld Remastered Thread [[ -- *

    Don't lose hope of seeing cataclysm just yet. There was a twitch interview with the people who made cataclysm from scratch and they basically said that the whole source code thing was just an excuse to delay it and see how well HWR would sell before adding more risk to the project. The former...
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    Elite Dangerous

    Everybody stutters like crazy when approaching planets and in some cases in supercruise. IIRC, the devs mentioned it a while back that it's because they added a bunch of telemetry tasks (your client a bunch of information dumps to their servers) to help them debug things and add data to prevent...
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    * -- ]] Unofficial Homeworld Remastered Thread [[ -- *

    There's a .big extraction tool available so you can get the remastered soundtrack yourself from the game files. I'd usually never advocate using something like this to go around the paywall for content from a game that I love so much but 7.99 for a soundtrack that's already in the game is not...
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    * -- ]] Unofficial Homeworld Remastered Thread [[ -- *

    This is what I'm telling myself but there were talks that the events in cataclysm weren't officially cannon. Most of the technologies and events in that game just pretty much poofed away which is a shame because there were some insanely cool stuff.
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    * -- ]] Unofficial Homeworld Remastered Thread [[ -- *

    Pre-emptive apology for the rant. All in all, it wasn't bad at all but it just didn't feel like it was the result of the labor of love that the first one was. YMMV
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    Elite Dangerous

    Honestly I'd be totally fine to drop new players a million credits of palladium so you can get started with a more efficient kit... A lot of people are at a point where there's not much else to do while waiting for the multiplayer enhancement patch and I'm just grinding for the elite title so...
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    Elite Dangerous

    Better to teach a man how to fish as they say. Use thrudd's trading tool in conjunction of your star map to find good trading lanes. Beware of old data because now that the supply is dynamic, a couple type-9s or tradacondas can easily dry up a lane in less than a day. That said, decent routes...
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    Elite Dangerous

    Okay, this is me in the prison yard taking my shirt off to show my flag. I love this game to death. If this game could cook, hold a conversation and metaphysically get pregnant, I'd marry it. I love the look, the freedom, the accurate universe modeled that makes that GTA 5 map satire gif look...
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    About Twitch Streamers...

    Pretty much. Kaceytron's whole act is a parody of women streamers except she takes it to an absurd level. Poe's law material right here.
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    Question for PC gamers...

    Skyrim looks vastly different on PC than on console to me. Personally, I have a PC because I need one to work on but it also happens to give me an excellent and unique gaming experience. Sure the graphics might not be as important as gameplay but with a console, I can't have a browser open with...
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    How does everyone feel about Valve pulling 'Hatred' from Greenlight?

    There's a difference between a store that usually carries games pulling a game as a white flag to outside political influence and stores not carrying items that thematically don't fit their audience group to begin with. Bowing to this kind of pressure is setting the kind of precedents that will...
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    How does everyone feel about Valve pulling 'Hatred' from Greenlight?

    Honestly, the violence doesn't appeal to me and the gameplay looked generic, unfun and completely uninspired. I found the trailer to be disturbing long before the gaming press had tried to tell me what to think. What I find awful is that relatively sane corporations like valve would bow to the...
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    Petition to remove Anita Sarkeesian from Mirror's Edge 2 development

    Thanks to you and BoberFett for sharing. I identify as a gamer as well. I'm an engineer, animator, kravmaga punching-bag and gun accessory nutjob. I've lived in 3 different continents for more than 6 years each and I've met some of my best friends in life through video games, a lot of them...
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    Star Citizen: Chris Robert`s new space sim (the Wing Commander guy)

    I'm nowhere close to being good at it but here's a few things I've learned if that's what you wanted: Turn off your G-force safety and learn to decouple and recouple. When your ship is decoupled, it will keep flying into the direction you were going the instant you decoupled but you can turn...
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    Conflict of interest in game journalism.

    Movements are seldom attacked for their actual cause. Detractors usually work around the clock to ignore the valid points they bring up and instead focus on the worst facets of the inevitably messy activities of people who borrow the name of the movement in order to troll/loot a store...etc then...
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    Haswell-E Cache/Ring OC

    I wouldn't say I have a golden chip but my 5690x can do 1:1 at 4.5ghz without too many issues. That said, it's not a huge difference in performance, probably in the low single digits, nor is it a huge difference in heat output to turn the ring voltage down. In short, you're not losing anything...
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    Huge temp spike with 5930K OC and H110

    My gigabyte board went down to a faulty bios that bricked it; no burning, no fireworks, nothing spectacular happened. I flashed it to the newest version at the time because the stock one that it shipped with was entirely unusable and would freeze after a few seconds no matter what I did. It...
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    Huge temp spike with 5930K OC and H110

    The extra pins that most x99 asus boards (at least the deluxe, ws and rve) have allow them to access some extra uncore/cache settings afaik. The pins were always there on the cpu, yet not in the final specifications of the socket but asus decided to tell their oem to leave them in and the asus...
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    Huge temp spike with 5930K OC and H110

    Here is ocn's haswell-e thread. I'm afraid there's no way I can remember which page exactly I saw the rigs being displayed but right off the bat you can check the updated configs like asg's custom loop using 3 480/360 radiators and munney's phase change build. Also, I found it worth it to read...
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    Huge temp spike with 5930K OC and H110

    Hello PromitR I'm running the 5960x with a swiftech h220-x on clu and I'm also stuck behind a thermal wall at 4.6ghz 1.33V where I'm also seeing a massive heat runaway a couple minutes into any stress test that I don't feel like playing chicken with. There's a pretty huge difference in...
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    *NEW UPDATED* Post Your Cinebench R11.5 Score

    Actually I did but I'm not going to submit that since I can't pass realtest's stresstest at this frequency. I could probably go even higher but the problem is, I can't control the temperature enough for my lack of gonads to run the full stress test through. When I see the temps suddenly spike...
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    Official Haswell-E thread

    I actually tried that too, reducing the rig to the bare minimum before trying anything else but it wouldn't do anything but throw a black screen at me. I ended up sending the board back and grabbing a asus x99 deluxe locally. I'm not too used to the way this one works yet but 4.5ghz at 1.3v...
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    Official Haswell-E thread

    Actually no, the bios flashes the splash screen briefly and then displays A9 before going into perma-black screen whether I solicitate to enter the bios or not, which effectively bricks the board. I first thought it might have been my bios being corrupted but the thing is it worked perfectly for...
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    Official Haswell-E thread

    Hey Adam, or anyone who has used the Gigabyte gaming G1, which revision of the bios are you using? I've had a nightmare of a time getting mine to do anything except fail at attempting to start the bios after updating to the latest F8c version. The backup bios still works with the stock F4...
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    CFL bulbs means Can FLame ?

    I've spent some mind-boggling amount of my time nerding over LEDs and everything that has to do with illumination so I hope I can provide a bit of insight. CFLs are ballasted. Meaning, they have a voltage regulation circuit that has to charge a capacitor and arc through the gas in the glass...
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    What things can Intel and AMD do to make the desktop a better value?

    Is there a solution integrated in a hard drive controller to pair a SSD with a regular HDD to make a hybrid drive kind of deal yet? I remember reading about something that would automatically profile the loading usage of your files and cache the relevant files from your HDD into the SSD which...
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    Which Z97 board?

    I also feel the urge to plug this board because I rarely see it mentioned anywhere; in fact, I can't comprehend why the more expensive black edition model with the quad 16x pcie lanes chip, embedded wifi and all those things most people don't care about gets all the attention while this one is...
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    Cryptocoin Mining?

    Export the private key and import it on a different machine. Bitcoins already "exist" entirely on the cloud of the blockchain. What your wallet does is manage the private keys that let you access the specific set of addresses where you coins reside. You can easily find guides explaining how to...
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    NVidia driver 337.50 beta released!

    Eso runs at a perfectly playable fps on my gtx 460 i5 2500k computer even when there were more than 100 players filling my screen during a castle siege. It's got a very short draw distance, sometimes is downright ugly and uses some pretty archaic rendering methods all around but saying that...
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    Cryptocoin Mining?

    Yep, actually probably more than that if you've been using QT for a long time. The prospect of having to explain how that works to someone untrained makes me feel very depressed.
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    Mining cards starting to hit the used market

    They tend to get better clocks than epilda ones. If you don't put too much expectations on overclocking, it ultimately doesn't mean much but in a sales pitch, it's just one more positive thing to mention in the list.
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    Cryptocoin Mining?

    Sorry for your loss but you can't say I didn't warn you guys about cryptorush 20 days ago... If it makes you feel any better, 10 bucks is an order of magnitude lower than what they took from me.
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    Cryptocoin Mining?

    Hah! I wonder if I can write off my losses in mt.gox going belly up...