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The real way to play half life 2 again is in VR. Played the whole thing, and it was amazing. Every part of it seemed like it was made with VR in mind.

Anything to justify the upgrade other than a change of the default colour. If something is in rigorous development for 6 years, I expect to see results other than colour change and taskbar arrangement. Windows 7 was revolutionary in functionality and appearance, and Windows 10 provided a strong framework for app integration and virtual reality. I was expecting Windows 11 to lead the way in AI development and tooling but instead it's still focusing on needless features from 2009.

Pretty savage world right now, hard to tell the difference between governments and terrorists.

I think he was saying there's no noticeable difference or improvement upgrading from 10 to 11.

What sort of features are you expecting for/ from an Operating System?

Been using Windows 11 for over a year now and it's just so plain and boring, I don't think there's any feature that stands out. Only time anything pops into my head about it is when it's doing an updated on shutdown. Other than that, Microsoft may as well become the new Apple and release a new one every year for no reason.

yeah the options you have kinda suck now, you either stay with windows 10 without security patches and all that entails, pay for the extended support or move to linux and if you are playing comp games with kernel level anticheat or need specific software like adobe, office, autodesk etc you are out of luck

This game comes out in early access in about 10 days and is basically a realistic version of The Sims. It looks super ambitious and incredibly impressive at times. If they pull it off it could be absolutely massive

Yeah I have to lol when I remember they said Windows 10 would be the last one

Patch 1.3 has dropped this evening, it's massive so I'll just leave a link below. Lots of tweaks, re-balancing and fixes, including to A Life...I hope I get a few more frames too : ) https://www.stalker2.com/en/news/patch-1-3

I kind of have mixed feelings about this so far. At times the game looks great but the performance demands are needlessly insane. They've done a good job with improving the assets and a part of me wishes they left it at just that because the ray tracing is draining. The Nvidia slop of DLSS and Frame Gen helps with performance but degrades the image significantly and I wish developers would stop bailing themselves out with this shite. Not only is it an attempt at covering up poor optimisation but it cons the user into thinking they are running a game better than they are whilst unwittingly suffering from a poorer quality experience - like putting a band aid on a deep cut and pretending everything is fine. Developers need to operate within their means and this game is a prime example of them not. They've gone for RTX overkill and hoped that the Nvidia extras can cover this up. I don't know if Source is a good engine for ray tracing - Portal RTX was brutally demanding too but this isn't how things should be done. Doom Eternal is a prime example of how it should be.

Half Life 2 RTX Demo

I'm glad I run Linux. Windows sucks.

Brilliant performance from Newcastle today and a woeful week for Liverpool. Though Burn, Livramento and Joelinton were all exceptional and very happy for Newcastle to win something finally and deservedly so. Shocking display in all honesty from Liverpool - lethargic and never got going.

Looks promising

Giving this thread a nudge as it is going to be release in May. I have looked at some of the recent footage and though it looks a bit janky it is looking like it could be great fun. There are 3 zones, 1 which is kind of starter friendly, 1 which is then PvE and bigger in scope and then an end game one which then include's the PvP element. The discussion around the PvP area is that because it is a whole bunch of servers all meshed together you could potentially have up to 900 players in this larger end game area at any one time and it appears to take some influence from Battlefield and Planetside games. Definately one I will be giving a try I think.

Sounds good, I will be on earlyish I think if my wife goes out with the kids to her moms and then probably jump on again around 8 I would have thought so if you see me on just give me a nudge or jump in a game room and I'll join you 🙂

So, support from Microsoft for W10 will end in October and no further security updates. They're basically forcing everyone onto W11, at which point, once everyone has got it, they'll probably release W12 🙃 My mobo is from 2019 and won't support W11, so I'm pretty much screwed. I do need to upgrade my CPU and GPU too but it's all ridiculously expensive right now...

I'll probably be home tomorrow evening so I could be up for a wander 🙂 I do that myself, I hate rushing through these games, I like to soak up the atmosphere, and collect components for crafting.

One of the best games of all time imo, I remember getting the Orange box, first on Xbox 360, then on Origin. I recently installed HL2 on Steam as they updated the graphics and it's just waiting for me to need a break from Stalker. I can't do RTX with my 1080ti but I'm sure this will be excellent.

Demo coming on March 18th

I haven't been on too much but should be on tomorrow evening as my wife takes the kids over to her moms so will see how much I get through in a couple of hours. I am very much the sort to just wander and explore and probably not get much done on these sort's of games though 😄