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#1 Bond007uk
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@Litchie said:

Impressed? No. Ray tracing is too taxing for too little reward. Don't feel like spending 2000 dollars on a GPU to make my games slightly shinier.

It didn't cost me $2000. My RTX 4070Ti Super (yes, it's a mouthful lol) cost me about £750 - which is about $930 USD.

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#2  Edited By Bond007uk
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@last_lap I think I should have put a disclaimer on my post. I'm not really here to seriously argue, only to banter. I wouldn't take what I put here too seriously. I'm a nice British guy, honest.

I'm a retro gamer too. Unfortunately, I only own 2 retro machines, an Xbox 360 (is that Retro lol?) and an old PSP. because I lack space currently, I don't have much room for any other machines. I do most of my retro gaming via emulation. Also, like you, I play everything, from the Atari 2600 up to the PS3. Even use Shaders to try to make it look like I'm playing on old CRT.

In fact, sometime later this year I'm hoping to pick up an FPGA based system called the Mister Multisystem 2 which incorporates a DE10 Nano FPGA. I'm looking at a more authentic way of playing old systems, without the need to go out, buy and then try to maintain them.

On Friday I visited a local 'Barcade' filled with a number of old arcade cabinets. They also had some console's you could play for free. I played some of them, but avoided the N64 and PS1. Not because of the consoles look bad themselves, but because they were hooked up to modern TV's without any kind of scaler in-between. Short of playing such systems on CRT, these machines at the very least need a Framemiester or OSSC to look decent on a modern display.

Yes, I like nice graphics, but I'm not a graphics whore per-say. There would be a number of 4090 or even 4080 users who would scoff (and probably still do) at the very thought of 4K in Ultra Performance. I get a great of pleasure out of trying to optimise games on my PC.

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#3 Bond007uk
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Oh dear @xbox7204life what an epic fail lol.

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#4 Bond007uk
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@last_lap said:

As a console only gamer, I would like to say to the OP, playing a game is better than looking at it. Hermits always do things the wrong way 🤦‍♂️

But even as a console only gamer, you still go for the latest tech, the latest console, right? You don't just do this for the games, it's also done for the graphics and performance. You can't deny that. It's always been this way, since the first consoles.

If it was only about 'playing games', we would still be playing on 8-bit machines.

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@uitravioience said:

@BassMan: total bummer. Just goes to show that server outtages can happen to every game. PC is not immune

It isn't. But PC is not running off one system.

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Yeah, coz we all know it won't be a locked 60fps no matter what. Console games rarely do that...

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#7  Edited By Bond007uk
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I'm an old school Civ player. I cut my teeth on the original Civilisation (oh sorry, I mean 'CiviliZation'. North Americans eh lol) on an Amiga A500+ with 1Mb RAM.

Anyhoo. this thing about the game soft resetting when a new Era starts? I'm not sure I'm all for that. Hmmm...

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#8 Bond007uk
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Great pictures, don't you think. Plus, full path tracing. The funny thing is, this is in DLSS 'Ultra Performance Mode' upscaled to 4K. That's pretty much only rendering 720P!

I'm pretty chuffed with how this games looks and how it's now possible to play with PT on a RTX 4070Ti Super and have a decent enough Frame rate with DLSS and Frame Gen.

Are you impressed with DLSS 4 so far?

Console only gamers, jealous?

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#9 Bond007uk
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Yes, but probably only about 5-10 times a year. Lately I've getting movie tickets as part of a deal with my bank.

One thing I've noticed though is that I've got an OLED for my TV, and Cinema screens can't compete against those inky blacks.

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#10 Bond007uk
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It was never a huge failure on steam