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Use supersampling. Either at the driver level (works with nearly all 3D games - enable the feature there, then select a higher than native resolution in-game) or directly in games that come with the feature (usually a resolution scaling option that goes beyond 100 percent). It's very heavy on your GPU depending on the title, but the resulting image quality of turning several rendered pixels into one is sublime. Thin objects like power lines, as well as transparent textures like foliage, hair and chain-link fences benefit the most from this.
Always keep the limits of your hardware in mind though. Running a game at 2.75 or even four times the native resolution will have a serious impact on performance, even with last-gen stuff.
Emulators often have this feature as well, by the way - and here, it tends to hardly matter, since emulation is usually more CPU-bound (except with very tricky to emulate systems). Render resolution and output resolution are often separate. I've played old console games at 5K resolution, for example. Even ancient titles look magnificent like that.
Also for decades, Linux has had awful drivers for graphics cards (among other things) and godawful usability. It's not like Linux would have taken over the desktop computer market in 1998. Have you ever tried installing a vintage distro? It's a nightmare.
It can mean that, but it's also possible that he already had psychological issues. While the entire thing stinks and my first instinct is to assume foul play as well, it's still important not to jump to conclusions. The reason is simple: If there's a real case of corporate murder, then people will take it less seriously due to past conspiracy theories.
Consider trying to change my mind with facts. None of you have so far. Instead, you demonstrated a lack of knowledge and understanding. You are emotional, not rational.
I'm not even American, but keep writing fan fiction about me.
"Will no one rid me of this meddlesome journalist..."
Him dying in prison at the age of 120 after decades of incarceration would be the funniest.
Honestly, this is the most insulting accusation you could make. Is my writing style really this awful?
I'm not. This user name is decades old. I think I first started using it around 2003-2005. If you're willing to dig, you can find things written under it aeons ago.
I have spent far more time on this topic. See my other answers if you don't believe me.
Not this one. Israel created a shell company that sold these particular pagers only to Hezbollah (reportedly at a profit). Neither did Hezbollah buy these in random shops nor were they ever distributed to random shops. The network they used was also exclusively created by and for Hezbollah, not any civilians, so even if civilians had wanted to use these devices, they would not have been able to. Hezbollah bought them in bulk and distributed them to their members, believing they would be a safe way to communicate without tracking, since most pagers are one-way devices.
Just pirate the game. She won't get a penny and you can play one of the better recent open world games. I've never particularly liked Harry Potter, even before the author showed her true colors, but I still enjoyed this game.
What exactly makes an attack on devices that were exclusively used by members of Hezbollah a war crime?
I mean, the pager attack was a masterstroke. Getting away with it is underselling it. Never before has a highly targeted attack like this been performed. I can't imagine a better way to attack a terrorist organization this deeply embedded within society. It certainly beats bombs and ground troops by every metric.
This is perhaps the one game in development right now that could release at any time this year, next year or the year after that and it would still perform incredibly well. It's pretty dead-set on being the largest entertainment launch in history. In other words: They can give it all the time it needs. The only worry from Rockstar's and Take 2's perspective is that they need to coordinate it with the behemoth of a marketing campaign that will be accompanying its release. There won't be a last-minute delay, but if it needs more time, they need to realize this months ahead. So far, it seems to be on track or else the CEO wouldn't release statements like these.
Since there is no PC release at launch and since it's only targeting four different hardware configurations for the time being (both variants of the current-gen PS and Xbox), they don't need to worry about making it run reliably on a wide variety of systems. Just like every other AAA developer, they are probably cursing Microsoft for releasing the cut-down Xbox Series S, but given what they have achieved in the past with hardware far less powerful, I doubt that Rockstar's tech wizards will have too much trouble with getting GTA VI to run on this affordable console.
You are right about crunch though. Rockstar is notorious for this, always has been. I hope they've learned their lesson by now, realized that all crunch does is make people burn themselves out for worse results, but who knows, given how secretive the firm is.
GTA V and RDR2 weren't broken upon release, so why assume the worst with this game?
52-year-old 'Super Mario' supermarket in Costa Rica wins unlikely victory against the Nintendo lawyers: "He is Don Mario, he's my dad"
Steam Brick: A DIY cut-down Steam Deck, sans input and screen
Modifying the Steam Deck into a compact, mobile, AR gaming device. Not endorsed or supported by Valve and is likely to brick your device... - crastinator-pro/steam-brick
How I Made A Laptop From Scratch - anyon_e
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Games That Don't Push The Limits of the NES (For Interesting Reasons)
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A surprisingly interesting video that taught me some new things about the NES and this era of gaming. Highly recommended!
Mecha Comet is a modular Linux handheld coming soon to Kickstarter for $159
Mecha Comet is a modular Linux handheld coming soon to Kickstarter for $159
The Lost Art of Fancy PC Game Installers
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"If only you could talk to these compositions."
The Path To Release (Skyblivion Roadmap 2024)
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An unofficial PC port of Star Fox 64 has arrived just in time for Christmas
In case people don't read the article: You need to supply the ROM yourself, so Nintendo's ninjas are powerless.
You're Emulating Retro Games Wrong (you need CRT Shaders)
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What are your favorite ROM hacks?
I recently came across a colorization that turns the original black and white/green version of Pokémon Red for the GameBoy into a proper GameBoy Color title. This sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole, but the sheer number of hacks that have been made over the course of several decades is slightly overwhelming, so I'd love to get a decent first selection by hearing which are your favorites that have improved or transformed console and handheld games in meaningful or entertaining ways.
Thanks in advance!
Python security developer-in-residence decries use of bots that 'cannot understand code'
Python security developer-in-residence decries use of bots that 'cannot understand code'
Software vulnerability submissions generated by AI models have ushered in a "new era of slop security reports for open source" – and the devs maintaining these projects wish bug hunters would rely less on results produced by machine learning assistants.
Seth Larson, security developer-in-residence at the Python Software Foundation, raised the issue in a blog post last week, urging those reporting bugs not to use AI systems for bug hunting.
"Recently I've noticed an uptick in extremely low-quality, spammy, and LLM-hallucinated security reports to open source projects," he wrote, pointing to similar findings from the Curl project in January. "These reports appear at first glance to be potentially legitimate and thus require time to refute."
Larson argued that low-quality reports should be treated as if they're malicious.
As if to underscore the persistence of these concerns, a Curl project bug r
Modern Vintage Gamer: The BEST Emulators of 2024
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Blessed are the shovel makers
Yes, I know, you knew already. Don't tell me - tell your friends and any politician, exec or other person not in the know who are still thinking of AI as the solution to all of our problems instead of for the limited number of applications it's actually good for.
How Self-Driving Cars will Destroy Cities (and what to do about it)
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Special counsel Jack Smith is in active talks with Justice Department leadership about how to end the federal cases against Trump
Hardware Unboxed: Ray Tracing in 36 Games, Geforce vs. Radeon - Is the Performance Hit worth it?
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Previous video comparing visual differences (with a screenshot of the summary table and a very good comment on the whole topic by coyotino):
https://beehaw.org/post/16695979
Radeon 7900 XTX performance cost of good RT configurations at 4K:
https://i.imgur.com/x1qpE92.png
Geforce 4090 performance cost of good RT configurations at 4K:
https://i.imgur.com/kVhNWiY.png
Comparison:
Three years ago, Ubisoft promised it would start making its own blockchain games. And now it appears to have done it, having stealth-launched a full-blown web3 game last week called "Champions Tactics: Grimoria Chronicles" on PC.
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It's called Champions Tactics and it sure looks like...something.
Three years ago, Ubisoft promised it would start making its own blockchain games. Now it appears to have done it, having stealth-launched a full-blown web3 game last week called Champions Tactics: Grimoria Chronicles on PC.
Champions Tactics is billed as a "PVP tactical RPG game on PC", and is both developed and published by Ubisoft. It involves collectible figurines of various warriors from the in-game fantasy world of Grimoria, which players assemble into squads of three and then battle in turn-based combat that looks oddly reminscent of Darkest Dungeon, of all things. It's not evident from the trailer that this is a web3 game at all, but a quick glance at the game's website or even its official X/Twitter page reveals this immediately.
The web3 comes into play as a method of collecting figurines to battle with. When you first start the game, you're given some temporary figurines to play with, but you
Adam Something: Tesla Cybercab: The Self-Driving Disaster Show
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"This fails the needs of citizens in favor of a weak sauce argument from the industry, and it's really disappointing"
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"This fails the needs of citizens in favor of a weak sauce argument from the industry, and it's really disappointing"
A three-year fight to help support game preservation has come to a sad end today. The US copyright office has denied a request for a DMCA exemption that would allow libraries to remotely share digital access to preserved video games.
"For the past three years, the Video Game History Foundation has been supporting with the Software Preservation Network (SPN) on a petition to allow libraries and archives to remotely share digital access to out-of-print video games in their collections," VGHF explains in its statement. "Under the current anti-circumvention rules in Section 1201 of the DMCA, libraries and archives are unable to break copy protection on games in order to make them remotely accessible to researchers."
Essentially, this exemption would open up the possibility of a digital library where historians and researchers could 'check out' dig