Just because you aren’t affected, this doesn’t mean the problem doesn’t exist.

https://www.windowslatest.com/2024/12/19/microsoft-confirms-windows-11-24h2-issue-is-breaking-games-yanks-update-for-more-pcs/

Reports of people having issues with various games crashing due to this update go back to August.

It’s not their fault, because they were blindsided by the update to Windows, just like everyone else. They are working on a patch, but this takes time.

There’s also Enderal, another total conversion based on Skyrim, with a completely original game world and mechanics. It’s free, yet better than many commercially released RPGs.

They switched from UE4 to UE5 during development, so make of that what you will.

Given that the core audience of the series is and always has been hardcore PC gamers and also considering that past entries had both high hardware requirements when they released and pushed technical boundaries, they’d probably be better advised to prioritize visual fidelity over low hardware requirements. Not to mention, this is kind of expected of a remake, since one of the main points of playing any remake over the original - apart from accessibility - is up to date visuals.

If you are a gamer, have a desktop PC and are living in the developed world in any economic situation other than having to worry about every single buck, there’s very little reason not to be playing on a dedicated GPU. Powerful, yet cheap used cards that can run literally every game in existence are very easy to come by. Meanwhile, in the console space, the Xbox Series S is an incredible bargain - and then there’s the Steam Deck, which is one of the cheapest PCs of sorts that can run the majority of games.

None of this excuses a lack of optimization, of course, but we have simply no idea about the technical state this game will have at release yet. This is one area where the developers would be well-advised to break with series tradition.

[Due to a Windows 11 update causing issues. ]

You can blame Ubisoft all you want, but 1) it’s not their fault and 2) this game isn’t considered terrible in any way.

You didn’t even read the entire title, did you?

Have you tried DS4Windows?

https://ds4-windows.com/

The fact of the matter is that xinput remains the standard for controllers on PC. Use any other type of controller and you will have to fiddle around. It’s the input equivalent to having an ultrawide display.

My conspiracy theory that at least one developer has covertly uploaded rule 34 content to boost their game.

I would argue that China is not a global superpower. It lacks both hard and soft power for this status. Their conventional force projection capabilities are pitiful and culturally, the increasingly nationalist and restrictive dictatorship is unable to exert more influence than many small nations.

I feel like I’ve read predictions like this one a million times since the 1990s…

I’ve seen some early demonstrations of this, like this one from three years ago that makes GTA V look photoreal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1IcaBn3ej0

The potential of this tech is enormous. Imagine an alternative to RTX Remix that turns any game into a near photoreal experience. Genres like simulations and racing games - which tend to attempt photorealism instead of creative art styles anyway, are primarily featuring inanimate objects (avoiding most of the uncanny valley that way) and could be transformed with models based on relatively limited training data - would be ideal at first.

That’s how new GPU generations have been pushed for as long as GPUs have existed.

And no there is no overengineering of GPUs. You don’t want stagnation or underwhelming to nonexistent jumps as with other tech products, like smartphones, do you?

Interesting. This is good news for modders though, because this means that combining cells (similar to mods for previous Bethesda games) should be straightforward, even on current hardware.

Because everyone likes a redemption ark. For as much as Pitchfork is a dick, his studio has plenty of good games under its belt. Dismissing them entirely because of one game you didn’t like is rather foolish.

I just wish the drivers were better.

Do your elderly family members belong to the aforementioned group of most basic users?

No, it can’t, because it is not even remotely as user friendly - and even if it was, the mere fact that its user experience is extremely different makes a switch quite difficult to anyone but the most basic users (who need little more than a web browser).

I was about to ask if any of them were any good. The last NASCAR game I’ve played was by Papyrus and featured cars consisting of huge squares (that could, rather impressively so, fly off in a collision).

No, it’s not. Communist East Germany also had higher suicide rates during holidays - but it was a state secret there, because suicides couldn’t possibly be happening in the perfect “workers’ and peasants’ paradise”. They had the highest suicide rate in Europe, ahead of every capitalist country. Even performing research on the topic was forbidden.

The East German suicide rate of 31 per 100k population would be the fourth highest in the world today. Compare it to modern-day capitalist Germany (8.3), USA (14.5) or even South Korea (21.2).

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