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    Question What happened to Real Time Strategy Games?

    I think the RTS experience hit it's zenith with Forged Alliance in regards to scale and number of types of units to play with. I'm sure some could argue SC2 was closer to the roots, but I disliked how rigid the gameplay as it was balanced for competitive play. The spiritual successor to SupCom...
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    Question What happened to Real Time Strategy Games?

    Perhaps you are right, but even so AAA publishers don't like taking chances. They are like Disney. If they don't think they can make all their money back within the first week or two of sales they don't risk it at all. I think that if RTS games were as ripe for monetization as you say, they...
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    Question What happened to Real Time Strategy Games?

    It's hard to monetize RTS games in the same way you can a FPS. They are seen as less profitable and therefore not worth the effort.
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    Is it time for Call of Duty Vietnam, or Medal of Honor Korea?

    Honestly, if it would be anything like the last couple of Battlefield games or the Battlefront series they can keep it. I'm tired of the microtransactions. If they want to charge full price for the game and 30-40 every now and then for a full-featured DLC/expansion then i'm on board...
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    FreeNAS Questions

    It's the wrong argument. It's not about dependency, it's about best practices. Web servers aren't dependent on passwords or encryption, but that doesn't make it smart to run them without. I think the larger reason this topic even comes up is because Intel has screwed up things buy not...
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    FreeNAS Questions

    I agree. Avoid using RaidZ unless you use ECC. It's not that you can't, and you may never see a problem, but it does active correction in RAM unlike other solutions like MDRAID. It's very RAM intensive, moreso than MDRAID. That said, it will still do single drive sharing (1drive Raid 0) or...
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    Looking for a NAS with newbie-friendly GUI

    Linux will give you the most flexibility and is generally my first pick, BUT if you are confortable with Windows and building your own machine, Windows Pro is an option. You can run it headless and access it from another machine using RDP. Additionally, there are some solid pooling options...
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    How big is your gaming display?

    I run a 27" 4K LG monitor. I run a GTX 1070 and it's fine for playing most games at high or better settings. It can be lacking in some titles.
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    FreeNAS killing my hard drives?!

    I agree with those above. There is nothing inherently wrong with using RAID, but it is meant for uptime and depending on which level you use can stress them beyond what is considered normal for consumer drives. Physical stress is only part of it. Heat is another enemy that isn't generally an...
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    FreeNAS Questions

    I think people are attracted to it because it's free and relatively turnkey. Windows licenses cost money and many of the fit for purpose linux distros are still a pita to setup for people who don't know linux. If you aren't using RaidZ and instead mount drives as individual shares, FreeNAS can...
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    Why hasn't a common, open standard, game/app platform been created?

    Companies tend to make the most money when they control the method of delivery, and that includes codec standards such as DirectX and OpenGL/OpenAL. To me, the biggest irony of capitalism is that it feeds off monopoly. We won't allow companies to get so large that they can defacto control...
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    Has anyone played GOG's or Steam's TIE Fighter Special Edition?

    You'll need to find an original floppy or CD Collector's Edition if you want the reactive music. They are MIDI based and to "more recent" audiences, they won't sound as appealing as the actual movie soundtracks included in the SE. The SE also gutten most of the animated menus which is a...
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    GPU/SPU for GNU Linux

    Those links were useful. Thanks.
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    GPU/SPU for GNU Linux

    Target performance is basic desktop use with multimedia extensions for websites. On my 5820K, Noveau works pretty well at 1080P on my GTX1070, but there is huge amount of GPU power being left on the table. Maybe you are right that expectations for FOSS are pretty high, but if that is the case...
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    GPU/SPU for GNU Linux

    I've said in earlier posts, this is a test machine. I want to see how viable a FOSS machine would be with my own usage. That would exclude software like Chrome. I'm using Debian Mate right now with good success I appreciate the advice, but the practicality of using such a system was not part...
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    GPU/SPU for GNU Linux

    What hardware are you using? The machine I want to build is intended to be a test case for myself...i want to see if it's actually possible to exist within the GNU world and walk the walk. Using non-free drivers is the opposite of what I'm trying to achieve. I appreciate the advice in any case.
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    GPU/SPU for GNU Linux

    I'm building a new PC and my intent is to maximize compatibility with GNU/Linux. I'm trying to avoid using non-free software. I've seen the compatibility lists but one thing that it doesn't convey is how a various component, even if compatible, will perform using the open source drivers. For...
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    LUKS/LVM System Encryption

    I'm ironing on the methodology of full system encryption of a Debian server using LUKS/LVM with a passcode at boot. Does anyone know if I can successfully use this method on LVM group volumes containing multiple physical volumes (i.e. drive spanning)? My interests are partly just to see if I...
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    Planet Coaster

    Planet Coaster is great. If you were a big RCT3 fan, then you should be satisfied. To whomever compared Planet Coaster to SimCity 5 in regards to map size, it really isn't a fair comparison. There is enough space on the maps to build a theme park 3-4 times larger than some of the largest that...
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    PS4 Pro Review

    True. It's about the games. Quite literally the only games I care about on the PS4 right now is Dragon Quest Builders and Horizon Zero Dawn. Gran Turismo is dead to me (GT Sport? FU PD). Virtually everything else I care about is multi-platform or PC only. It's sad really. IMO the PS4 Pro...
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    PS4 Pro Review

    I agree. This is a big point of contention for me because of the divide between the subjective and the objective. Performance metrics can be objective, but what is used for baseline can be quite subjective. If a consistent 30/60 FPS is the goal, then the PS4 Pro objectively fails at least in...
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    PS4 Pro Review

    Still, it makes no sense to do involuntary supersampling for native 1080P titles. I live in a world where one of the most advertised features of the PS4 versus the XB1 was that games would run native 1080P and that running 900P and scaling to 1080P was considered cheating at best and false...
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    Tyranny by Obsidian

    Tyranny is great. I wish more developers would do what Obsidian is doing. Obsidian is diversifying their catalog with a mixture of expensive AAA titles and lower cost but quality titles and thus reducing risk. By lower cost, I'm not talking about mobile trash or cash shops. Some developers...
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    Banned from Origin forums, Lose Games

    The majority of Origin's issues were fixed within the first year. This is a necro thread. Most of the stuff included in the beginning of the thread wouldn't happen today. By your own admission you've never even posted, so you're opinion holds little weight here in that regard. I have used...
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    Here's a new level of ineptitude. GOW 4 is an 80GB download.

    BDXL would be the answer if optical were an option. The bottom line is that pure online digital distribution is the optimal method of controlling access with minimal cost to the development, so physical media is a pipe dream. I highly doubt even console gamers will see media much longer, no...
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    HDR Games on PS4?

    You may be right. However, as someone who uses HDR in photography and other media I have yet to come across a different form of it. All that varies from application to application is how dramatic the effect is. I guess we won't know until the first HDR enabled games are released.
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    HDR Games on PS4?

    I hope HDR doesn't do to console gaming what bloom/hdr did to PC gaming. I can't stand all that post-processing.
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    Here's a new level of ineptitude. GOW 4 is an 80GB download.

    1TB SSDs can be had for just over $300 now (Samsung 850 EVO 1TB ~ $313 on Newegg) but even then, SSDs are not a standing requirement for gaming. They are definitely life changing devices and improve load times considerably, but they aren't necessary.
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    Here's a new level of ineptitude. GOW 4 is an 80GB download.

    Same thing happened to me and I have 32GB RAM :D. I agree the game has cool game play but its tripping over its own tech. I hadn't seen a release that bad since I purchased Ultima IX Ascension on Day 1. That one was bad. It was so bad that Origin how to mail out new install media because you...
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    NVIDIA Geforce GTX 1070 Thread

    I agree. My problem with gaming monitors in general is that the vast majority of them are still based on older TN technology. As someone who does many different things (games, photo editing, movies, etc), non-IPS panels simply aren't an option. I think for competitive play very fast panels...
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    Here's a new level of ineptitude. GOW 4 is an 80GB download.

    You made Ark playable? If you can tell me how to make Ark playable without castrating the visuals I'm all ears. I realize it's still Early Access, but that has to be one of most unoptimized games graphically I have played in the past 10 years. :D
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    Here's a new level of ineptitude. GOW 4 is an 80GB download.

    4K panels have always been 60Hz. You are confusing the panel with the interface. DVI and HDMI 1.4 are only capable of 30 Hz at 4K whereas DisplayPort and HDMI 2.0 are capable of 60Hz. 4K PC monitors with display port have been available for a while now, at least as far back as 2013.
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    Windows 10 install - Do you even need to create a local account?

    The username is less important than a strong password if this is your admin account. That being said, I would avoid industry standard terms for superuser accounts like "root" or "admin". Since this is a local account, the username isn't all that important.
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    Here's a new level of ineptitude. GOW 4 is an 80GB download.

    You jest but many of these same people flip their sh*t when their AVR audio isn't bit-streamed. Anyways, audio is the least of our worries. I highly doubt there are many games running lossless audio; its mostly compressed lossy of one type or another. Even then, audio is a tiny part of the...
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    NVIDIA Geforce GTX 1070 Thread

    The 1070 does 4K no problem. I can max all but a select view games and still get close to 60 FPS. Even then, lowering or turning off AA and the performance drop is recovered. The only conversation in which the 1070 is weak at 4K is if you are looking for 60+ to 120 FPS with everything maxed...
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    ARMA 3 - how do you play it?

    My favorite part of Arma 2/3 is the mission builder. I sort of just use it as a sandbox to come up with crazy military scenerios, such as attacking an airbase in force with air power and chasing it with a bunch of helicopters loaded with troops. While I do like Arma 3 more from a technical...
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    Here's a new level of ineptitude. GOW 4 is an 80GB download.

    It's not only textures. Not all cinematics are rendered with the game engine in real time. It is common for games to have pre-rendered cutscenes which can take up huge amounts of space. Sure, you could render at a lower resolution that native, but that hurts production value and ultimately...
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    Here's a new level of ineptitude. GOW 4 is an 80GB download.

    GOW4 has 4K textures. This is the price we pay for being first. Doom (2016) was over 50GB if I remember correctly. At least PCs have some flexibility here with storage. I hope the PS4 Pro has BDXL capabilities in spite of not having 4K video support, otherwise we will see multi-disc games again.
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    Better Mid Gen HW Approach: Sony or MS?

    The average price for 55" 4K TVs is $750, with smaller screens much cheaper than that. LG has a 43" 4K panel for $450. 4K televisions are cheaper than 1080P was a few years ago. The premise that 4K is too expensive to adopt is false. HDMI 2.0 tvs will be slightly more expensive in the short...
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    Windows 10 install - Do you even need to create a local account?

    I see using a Microsoft Account instead of a local account as a potentially huge security hole. The only thing I see worse is storing your Bitlocker keys online with the same account. While it is not likely to happen, with a MS account which is also your admin account, MS could theoretically...
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