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  • Depends on the game. For example, on the Xbox Series X or PS5, I often elect for better graphics (raytracing, 4K, etc) at 30fps, especially with third-person titles where you can really appreciate the scenery. God of War Ragnarok in 4K with raytracing is a sight to behold on a big OLED TV. But some games (most first person titles, racing games, and perhaps surprisingly Diablo 4) I prefer the higher framerate.

    If I were a squijillionaire, I’d have a 5090 and get both framerate and fidelity. But I am not. I am a humble console peasant taking his earliest steps in the PC gaming world.

  • although it also has a much higher display resolution.

    I was about to say 1920x1080 isn’t that much higher resolution than 1280x800, but it’s twice as many pixels! 🤯

    And 4K is 4x 1080p! No wonder 4K gaming makes graphics cards chug.

  • using Steam remote play to the deck

    I’m going to pass on some advice that a friend of mine gave me: get Apollo (a fork of Sunshine) on your computer and Moonlight on your Steam Deck. You can install Moonlight in Desktop Mode and add it to your Steam Library so you can access it in Steam mode.

    It’s far better at streaming than Steam’s own streaming system. Apollo treats it like a monitor on your desktop. I have it set up so that the Steam Deck is the ONLY monitor when I’m streaming to it. You can also specify resolution in Moonlight, so I tell it to give me 2560x1440 or 2560x1600. Because of the way chroma subsampling works, this looks much better when downscaled on the Deck’s screen than simply streaming the Deck’s resolution. Cyberpunk 2077 looks GORGEOUS on the Deck like this.

    (Note this is best if your PC is on a wired connection to a router with WiFi 6/6E/7 support.)

  • I forced myself to complete the Diablo 4 campaign because of them.

    That would be a lot easier now. The game improved enormously around season 4 I think. Whatever the Loot Reborn season was. And nearly every season has included some QoL improvements.

    I honestly love Diablo 4. It’s a great podcast/audiobook companion.

  • Good thing Sauber is becoming Audi next season. That’s a lot of money for a title sponsor to lose (and it sounds like they deserve to lose it).

  • This issue was great. It gave me an excuse to upgrade to a better SSD, which also gave me an excuse to try Linux for the first time in like a decade (other than the Steam Deck). Threw Nobara on the drive that Windows would murder. Haven’t had time to play around with it much, but I’m excited to try it.

  • Even if the headline weren’t misleading, I wouldn’t be shocked if they have a hard time getting telemetry reports from failed drives from users if the OS is installed on said drive.

    Then again, a modern OS should be able to phone home with a crash report as it crashes depending on what has failed, so I guess I’ve talked myself out of that hypothetical lack of shock.

    So…disregard this. 😅

  • It’s not that computationally intensive to upscale frames. TVs have been doing it algorithmically for ages and looking good doing it. Hell, nVidia graphics cards can do it for every single frame of high end games with DLSS. Calling it “AI” because the type of algorithm it’s using is just cashing in on the buzzword.

    (Unless I’m misunderstanding what’s going on.)

  • Stuff like slicing Austin and Houston into pieces that extend WAY out into the rural areas, to lump in sufficient red votes to drown out the blue of the cities.

  • Well yeah, they gotta make up for all the revenue a final season of Colbert is going to lose them!

  • I feel like that should’ve already been a given when the 13th and 14th gen Core processors permanently kneecap themselves if they feel like it. But that’s just me.

  • This is functionally how South Park operates.

    A twenty-ish minute story-driven cartoon is extremely far from a live sketch comedy show that runs over an hour. Totally different beast.

    Don’t get me wrong, South Park’s process is impressive. But you can’t really compare the two. Wildly different show formats.

  • You try writing a new sketch comedy show every week. Not every sketch will be good. Most won’t. But when the talent is good, you’ll get occasional gold.

    And SNL has provided some serious comedy gold over the years. And been the step between improv and fame for some amazing talent.

  • Welcome to the party, NYT. Better late than never I guess.

  • Me too!

  • Like that locked door in Jedi Fallen Order?

  • Spasmodic dysphonia has nothing to do with his batshittery. Let’s focus on the nonsense he says, not on his disability.

  • Oh I forgot about WiFi 6E. Suuuuuper good for streaming from your PC.