Quetzalcutlass
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- Comment on Microsoft is working to eliminate PC gaming's "compiling shaders" wait times 2 days ago:
It’s in Options - Downloads - Shader Pre-Caching.
Shader Pre-Caching allows Steam to download pre-compiled GPU shaders matching your system configuration. […] If enabled, Steam will collect shaders from your system when needed.
It’ll download shaders matching your card+driver and (if you’re the first with that specific config) upload your own compiled shaders for others to use.
- Comment on Microsoft is working to eliminate PC gaming's "compiling shaders" wait times 2 days ago:
Enshrouded, Grounded, and Abiotic Factor have been my favorite games of the past few years, and all are even better in co-op.
- Comment on Microsoft is working to eliminate PC gaming's "compiling shaders" wait times 2 days ago:
The developers know it’s bad, and the game’s next mega-patch is focused on fixing all the tech debt they’ve accrued during Early Access. You can already choose to play while the shaders are still compiling, but that slows down compilation multiple-fold and you’ll be missing features such as lighting until it’s finished so it’s barely playable (especially considering how ridiculously atmospheric the game is - there’s a reason the shader load is so heavy and it’s totally worth it).
It’s also probably nowhere near as bad a wait for most players. Shaders are compiled on the CPU and which shader paths are compiled is based on what your GPU supports. I have a relatively new GPU (4060) and a fifteen year old CPU, so it’s compiling the fanciest of shaders on an ancient four-threaded relic.
The game itself runs fine - 60 FPS at 1080p on my ancient machine. It’s just getting to play that’s annoying.
- Comment on Microsoft is working to eliminate PC gaming's "compiling shaders" wait times 3 days ago:
- Steam already does this and it rarely helps due to how every card + driver revision requires its own unique compilation. I think Steam’s is opt-in though and I doubt Microsoft will give you a choice, so maybe they’ll have more luck due to the sheer amount of data they’ll be able to harvest. Ugh.
- I still genuinely hope it works out. I’ve been playing Enshrouded lately, which takes forty minutes to compile shaders on my machine after every driver update.
- Comment on I'm home sick today. Stomach bug. Feel like shit. Cheer me up with memes please! 3 days ago:
- Comment on Rude 4 days ago:
Hence the idiom “canary in a coal mine” for early detection of a failure. Miners used to carry a caged bird with them to detect pockets of deadly gasses. If the canary suddenly drops dead, it’s time to get the hell out.
- Comment on Metal Gear is a stupid name for an ultimate weapon 5 days ago:
What a thrill…
- Comment on They Don’t Make CGI Quite like They Used To 5 days ago:
“‘Lurch backwards when kicked’. You mean walk like the character Lurch, right?”
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 5 days ago:
I just started my first playthrough of Horizon and a few hours in I’m finding it pretty easy on Hard. Does it get harder later, or should I just crank up the difficulty?
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 5 days ago:
Having played the series back on original hardware, I can confirm it was a nightmare. Save states make old games so much better.
- Comment on Harvest Moon: Echoes of Teradea Announced - RPGamer 5 days ago:
Obligatory “rights to the Harvest Moon name are owned by the publisher in America, who now slap it on their own farming games; the real successor to the original games is the Story of Seasons series”.
- Comment on Nuclear energy enjoyers vindicated again after the rise in oil and gas prices. 5 days ago:
Florida would be the first to fall.
~so~ ~yes~
- Comment on Come experience the original LucasArts vision for Star Wars Battlefront 3 in the leaked First Assault beta, finally playable on PC 5 days ago:
Didn’t the actual Battlefront 3 get leaked a few years ago? This seems more like a reboot before the reboot.
Still sucks that it got killed by the Disney buyout despite being complete and ready to ship. So many amazing projects have been canceled during changes in leadership, it’s infuriating.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 5 days ago:
Someone posted a great article about that game a while back. Was that what got you to try it?
How long does it take before everything clicks and you can play smoothly instead of constantly stopping to look things up? The core concept of a realistic investment simulator looks fun, but needing to know and follow all of the real life legal requirements and regulatory minutia from decades ago sounds like a nightmare for a new player.
- Comment on [TheGamer] Pokemon Pokopia Players Playing After Work Are Being Forced To Wake Pokemon For Hard Labour 6 days ago:
True. Though they do have the natural ability to summon meteors and lightning strikes even without being handed a weapon.
- Comment on [TheGamer] Pokemon Pokopia Players Playing After Work Are Being Forced To Wake Pokemon For Hard Labour 6 days ago:
One of the signature Pals is a giant grizzly bear with a minigun. Even the common rodents are often packing submachine guns and rocket launchers. If they actually hated the work, you’d know.
- Comment on Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii says English translations inevitably strip away a lot of a game's "flavor" 6 days ago:
(source is Awkward Zombie)
- Comment on Posting without context. Will not be taking questions. Bye. 1 week ago:
- Comment on 3.5 Stars 1 week ago:
Excuse me, that’s Doctor Wife. She didn’t spend all that time, effort, and money going through medical school to not have her name used to give weight to her idiot husband’s stupid statements.
- Comment on Is there a game that combines Civ with Sims? 1 week ago:
They showcase the combat because action looks better in previews. Your base does get raided occasionally, but most of your time is spent balancing all the tasks a colony needs done and maintaining the fragile mental states of your limited number of colonists.
You can also adjust the settings of the “storyteller” (the AI that makes events happen to shake up the gameplay) if you want a more peaceful community builder sort of experience.
- Comment on After listening to your complaints, Bungie is making it just a tad less annoying to buy cosmetics in Marathon 1 week ago:
As it currently stands, a runner skin will set you back 1120 LUX. Except you couldn’t get exactly 1120 LUX in the game’s store, you could only get 1100, which cost $10, and the next cheapest lot of LUX is $5 for 500 of the stuff.
You can take the Bungie from Microsoft, but you can’t take the Microsoft from Bungie.
- Comment on Is there a game that combines Civ with Sims? 1 week ago:
Your best bet is likely whatever you’d call the genre RimWorld is in. RimWorld itself could probably scratch that itch if you up the number of colonies you can have in the settings and add a few mods that expand the world map-level gameplay.
- Comment on thx for the diabeetus 1 week ago:
I have a feeling there’s a huge overlap between the people who complain about Chinese food and the people who raved about the Mississippi pot roast (which has two packets of MSG-loaded seasonings in it).
- Comment on Slay The Spire 2's placeholder art should be a lesson to all the developers caught up in AI-generated nonsense 1 week ago:
Perfection.
- Comment on thx for the diabeetus 1 week ago:
It’s psychosomatic. MSG is also in tomatoes, mushrooms, and tons of salted snacks such as Doritos. None of those tend to trigger the symptoms people claim to have after eating Chinese food.
- Comment on Arc Raiders was accidentally recording Discord conversations into an unencrypted local game file 1 week ago:
Not necessarily. You choose what permissions your token has when you register it with Discord. In this case the game asked for an auth token with all permissions, so the game connects to Discord with the same access levels as your actual login.
- Comment on Pragmata is releasing a whole week earlier than planned because who cares, it's got April all to itself 1 week ago:
Gamefly
Now there’s a name I haven’t heard in a long, long time.
- Comment on Hard drive space for all! Helldivers 2's slimmer install size is rolling out to everyone later this month 1 week ago:
It was already rolled out a while ago. All they’re doing is removing the option to use the old build.
- Comment on Ahead of Myrient's RAM crisis-linked demise, volunteers are working to archive its entire collection 1 week ago:
I hope Myrient is getting a massive spike in donations for this last month to match it suddenly going from relative obscurity to being repeatedly covered by major gaming news sites. If it cost $6000 per month to run when almost nobody knew about it, I can only imagine how bad it must be now that everyone and their dog is grabbing what they can before the deadline.
- Comment on Arabic document from 17th-century rubbish heap confirms existence of semi-legendary Nubian king 1 week ago:
Well duh, it’s also a starship!
