Hello everyone. Hope you all had good weekends. This week i finished The Outer Worlds 2. I quite liked it. Ive also been playing some more Stronghold Crusader remastered. Hope everyone has a good Thanksgiving week
My gaming PC is finally, finally working! Kinda, I need to reinstall steam, but I’ll do that later. For now, I can finally play Baldurs Gate 3 and not have the performance be dogshit
what issues is your PC giving you comrade?
It was just one thing after another.
So first my GPU wasn’t being recognized. I tried a lot of things, including trying to install windows before realizing I needed to pay 100 euro for a license, so fuck that. Then I tried resetting my BIOS by removing the CMOS battery, which worked, but then my computer wouldn’t boot. Then I reseated the hard drive and it booted, but only with the display plugged into the GPU. Then the mouse was really floaty and had input lag, so I changed to a wired connection, which did nothing, but then I went to BIOS settings and did nothing but somehow it fixed it. Now as far as I can tell, my hardware is all working, but when I launch steam, it seems like it keeps trying to launch but just doesn’t. It’s hard to explain, it’s like if I launch steam, nothing happens, but then after a few seconds the screen “jumps” as if a new window had been opened on top of what I was already doing, or like I’ve been tabbed into another window. I’ll reinstall steam tomorrow, because I assume it’s a software issue.
FWIW, 9 out of 10 times (mouse / keyboard / controller) input lag is actually (video) output lag. It can even be introduced by settings on the display itself (for instance, my TV if it is in “Cinema Mode”).
I made a very cute non-binary avatar. I like the character builder, especially since you actually get to see your character’s face so much when playing. But I wish it had more, I wish I could change the face and body shape. Also I wish I could give horns to a wood elf.
Then I made a big hunky guardian elf man to protect me
Still slowly making my way through BG3
I still haven’t made it past act 1 lol
i had like 60+ hours in act one my first playthrough lol
Just got off elder scrolls online to get ready for work and i will be returning to elder scrolls online immediately upon getting home
After showering… I haven’t gotten to that stage of being an ESO player yet
Reliving my tweens yet again with some Sega bangers, Virtua Fighter 4, Outtrigger, Outrun 2006 for PC
Did you install the fanmade patch for OutRun 2006? https://github.com/emoose/OutRun2006Tweaks
Yes I did! The game looks stunning in HD and runs so well it’s amazing.
It’s sad that Sega has a back catalog of the greatest arcade racers ever, including OutRun 2/2006, and pretty much none of them are available on modern systems without emulation. The only exceptions I can think of are Daytona USA 1 (360 version on Xbox backwards compatibility, the game has been delisted), Daytona USA2 (in some Yakuza/Like A Dragon games as Sega Racing Classic 2) and Motor Raid (also in Yakuza, although I don’t think it’s anywhere near Sega’s best).
Grinding through a few dozen maps in Path of Exile, trying to fund my next build. GGG is gonna be releasing the next Path of Exile 2 league mid December so I don’t even have that much time left.
Tried some more emulated Bloodborne after waiting a year, figuring performance would be much better, but it’s not. Still not even able to sustain 30fps at “1080p” (patch to run at 720p enabled) with a bunch of performance-increasing mods (reduced LOD/texture detail, reduced cloth physics, chromatic aberration and motion blur off). The latest release is allegedly a huge performance boost, even, but I see almost no difference from a year ago. My PC’s now 6 years old and not top of the line by any means, but it’s been able to run just about everything I want it to. A 2060, an i5-9600k, and 16GB of RAM apparently just doesn’t cut it
I did beat Bloodstarved Beast at like 20-30fps with a ton of frame drops at least.Got Vampire Survivors back up to 100% completion, some of the emerald diorama secret characters were bugged so I had to manually enter their codes which felt lame.
Did a few runs of Halls of Torment, not playing the DLC, just achievement hunting. It’s still pretty good but I have totally forgotten what equipment I used for builds or what the good stats are.
As always, played more Warframe. Got the Hildryn prime resurgence relics done, and with Shade Prime I’ve now finished the robotics tab! Finished my last Lich too, which on the one hand means I don’t need to do liches ever again, but on the other means that I am rapidly running out of things to boost MR that are remotely fun to do. Currently have 10 items available that aren’t vaulted primes. The future is infinite railjack, void armageddon (curse you Hespar), and ESO, with Duviri puzzles on the side.
Im gonna play soem Vampire Survivors in a bit in coop
Hell yeah
I finished dispatch. It was nice, I really enjoyed it.
Back to work trying to stomp then conqueror France as England in EU 5 during the hundred years war. Currently feeling pretty good with phase 2 of the war. Managed to secure alliances with Castille Spain, Portugal, Aragon, the Papal States, and Brabant. So I’m hoping when I can hop on next time I play I can tear some good chunks off of France for phase 2 and set up for an English victory in phase 3 then see how viable it is to make an English-Portuguese-Spanish-French-Aragonese-Austrian crown union Unification play.
I’ve been trying to consolidate Ireland and kick England out myself! It’s pretty rough!
found someone selling a PS3 slim for 50 bucks so i picked that up as a birthday present to myself. been playing thru Prototype 1. wanted to try this game for years but the PC port is fuckin garbage so i couldn’t. highly recommended to anyone who likes causing chaos.
edit: also playing runescape but my brain didn’t register that as a game im playing since im just always playing runescape
12·5 days agoI started playing Frostpunk again, and decided to 100% the achievements. Which has led to some weird things, like I said in the general mega I spent 14 days doing nothing but executing engineers.
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Yet more Hades! I just got the invitation quest for the Olympians, so nearing the epilogue. Still a great game, and I’m surprised to notice my skill/power keeping up with the heat as it rises. I did a full Extreme Measures run the other day and finished with death defiance left over! I’m sure a good portion is just pattern recognition
I will say an annoyance that’s become more apparent is how opaque some of the mechanics are, particularly how some boons (especially legendaries) are locked behind taking other boons first.
metroid prime 3 on steam deck :3
Like a dragon infinite wealth, love this game itchy balls is me fr
Tried to load a couple old saves in Cities: Skylines. Shit is impossible. Cloning the dinosaurs would be more simple. Little progress in WR:SR as I balance the idea of potentially starting a new map. Torn between “Kentuckygrad” (an extremely mountainous map where you’re basically limited to building in the narrow hollers of the appalachian mountains) and doing DPRK again (much more laid back in terms of buildable space and resources).
Bought a 9070 XT. Plugged it in, Linux already has drivers, good to go, vroom vroom. Played a 12 year old game at 300 FPS, as is tradition after an upgrade. Back on my Total War kick (I already have like 500 hours across all the different games), this time with some minimal mods, since I’ve never really used them. Deciding between Shogun 2 or Three Kingdoms for a campaign though. Might also start Outer Worlds 2 like OP. I clowned hard on the first one because it was the most aggressively average game I’ve ever played, but I’m hearing better feedback about the 2nd one and want that Bethesda/Obsidian style game rn.
new dwarf fortress now that the siege update is out
the siege update is out
oh shit!
yeah they have battering rams and pickaxes now, you can’t just hole up behind an indestructible raised bridge made out of talc or something.
