While I don’t disagree that frame gen at high refresh rates does look pretty decent, I feel the need to correct the input latency part… In your 72fps example you actually have the latency of effectively 36fps because the GPU has to hold back a frame in order to have two frames to interpolate between. It doesn’t (currently?) do extrapolation so this holding back a frame is a hard limit and applies pretty much equally from 2x frame gen all the way up to 6x. This isn’t exactly catastrophic for single player or PVE multiplayer but I would steer clear in PVP

Nvidia reflex 2 should sorta kinda tackle this by taking the updated input => camera position and reprojecting the image before rendering but 1) this will require the game to support it (e.g. declaring UI, crosshairs etc to exclude) and 2) only serves to tackle the game feel portion of the problem - in pve you’ll still be working with old pixels and your response times will still suffer accordingly.

Again, great tech but worth knowing the limits!

As someone who has crossed over both and currently working in games, it’s actually kind of wild how different a mindset games are. It takes a very specific skillset even in software engineering and there are unique challenges to both sides of the fence. Crossing over is not quite as easily transferable as you’d think

Dunno where op was but in the UK at least it wasn’t possible for the longest time to get the Dreamcast to use a flat rate dial up because Sega did a deal with British Telecom. This made multiplayer pricey af… I know this because my dad was not amused at the £230 phone bill I racked up in the first month of PSO 😅

Oh it’s worse than that. It was never even legally binding, it was just a finger-in-the air - only after the fact was it treated like the cast iron democratic will of the people while over in the real world the Electoral Commission would’ve actually declared the whole thing void if it was a legally binding referendum because of illegal overspend by the grifters pushing it in the first place.

The whole thing is maddening to think about, honestly

I have just gotten into baldurs gate 3 and holy shit it has consumed my soul.

… Which is kinda fitting considering the themes of the game

Also nestle says hi

For all the invasive problems this feature causes, what the fuck does it actually do? The ability to ask an ai what website you were on last Thursday? Who needs this garbage

auto reported crashes

I just love pausing my zombie shooting game to make a card deck

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I would’ve absolutely paid more attention in maths if the learning material was this utterly contemptuous of “ordinary mathematicians” haha

also full Project Gutenberg text is here https://calculusmadeeasy.org/, thanks for sharing!

… I should get checked out 🙃

Yeah it’s just brutal even for the time and pretty agonising to watch. I don’t know how it even got past the concept stages tbh.

Fucking stupid timeline we’re trapped in

God right? That and profit and lace are absolutely awful

Probably because it’s mostly just a QoL update which also restricts people to one family group - which was always the intention but it closes a loophole where person A could share with person B and B could separately share their library with person C unless all three are in the same family group and geo location. Plus there’s now a year penalty to switch family group or refill a slot that has been vacated so you really have to commit to it. In many ways it’s more restrictive than before, albeit better for the intended use case.

I’m a little bit sad because I shared my library with my brother and niece in other countries in Europe and that’s no longer doable. Ah well

Finally getting around to playing Disco Elysium. I know I’m late to the party but holy cow what a trip

I’m the opposite because I’ve had nothing but bad luck with docker. I should really spend more time with it but ugh

Starfield. Such a sad shitstorm

YES, thank you! You saved me a lot of writing haha

This is spot on and the real advantage of ray tracing - when it becomes the norm it’ll look better, provide effects that are extremely difficult or impossible and do so with minimal dev pain.