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  • My guess is this, which is way at the bottom of the support FAQ page (which can be found at the bottom of the posted FAQ section):

    “I cannot join a Steam Family”

    If you cannot join a Steam Family, it is likely for one of three reasons:

    • Your account activity does not show that you are part of the same household as the existing members.



  • Just wanna throw it out there that the Monster Hunter series is a perfect example of in game free content becoming microtransactions in just a few years.

    Old MH games had all cosmetic items as free event quest rewards, where you’d get a unique and fun battle to play, and a cosmetic reward for winning. No paid DLC even available to buy. MH Rise (the newest game) has 221 paid cosmetic items listed on their site. That number is not including bundles, soundtracks, character edit vouchers, or the expansion (Sunbreak) itself.

    $60 game, $40 expansion, and 200+ paid cosmetics that would instead be free in earlier games in the series.








  • I moved to towers for the same reason years ago, but I basically never do major component swaps like I thought I would.

    I’ve since realized that having a tower is really nice for other things though, namely maintenance and cleaning/airflow. My rtx 2060 seemed like it was on its way out a year ago (thermal throttling, even on way lower settings than it used to be able to run just fine), so I took it apart and replaced the thermal paste. Runs better than when I first got it. Got some new case fans recently as well and the whole thing runs cooler, quieter, and they use less power than my stock ones, which is nice.

    Obviously the thermal paste thing applies to laptops as well, but laptops can be very tough to get open and dig around in.


  • I run a heavily modded game on an rtx 2060, and the only crashes I have are VRAM related, and your experience sounds similar to my crashes. Crowd density, texture quality (main menu setting only), and dlss settings are the major factors for whether I crash on load or not.

    I also recall that ray tracing shadows or reflections helped with VRAM, but the FPS hit wasn’t worth it to me.

    Depending on your setup, and if you’re mod savvy, you might be interested in the FSR3 Frame Gen mod: https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/14726. Short version is that it replaces DLSSG with FSR3 and allows frame generation to be used with a ton of GPUs that can’t normally use it. Makes UI elements feel choppier, but the overall performance increase is nuts (helps CPU and GPU bottlenecks). Without it, I can’t reasonably play above low crowd density, and with it, I can play on high density pretty easily.