RADV will surpass AMDVLK ray tracing eventually. I have a 9070 and not enough ray tracing games to care. None that I play frequently. And with the way computer part prices are going, this is a 5+ year long GPU for me. Plenty of time for RADV ray tracing to mature

Looking through the thread, surprised that she’s silver 1 with that patient aim and good placement. Most people at silver 1 have a real spazzy aim. She moves the cursor better than silver and way more accurately. Looks like she can hard carry down there

I play a good amount of games from my Steam library on my Android phone. A Snapdragon 8 elite phone. Pretty much things start becoming viable for old indie games on the Snapdragon 865 and then for bigger PS4 era PC games, 8 Gen 2 is about where it becomes viable. Then 8 Elite and Elite Gen 5 , solid performance but not great compatibility because of immature graphics drivers

One thing is that small phone OLED displays look good at 540-720p. Real nice for games that support 21:9

With the rise of PC handhelds and cutting edge graphics not seeming like a great selling point anymore, I think you’ll be golden for about a decade like that 1060. Maybe more because of the rise of PC handhelds and the Switch 2 and future Switch 3

It’s really good. I can see the 9070 and the XT being GTX 970 and GTX 1060 levels of long term relevance in gaming PCs

Happy to hear. I hope the while fediverse can become a nice geeky hobbyist place someday too

When I learned you could run the old Yakuza games on a Steam Deck setting it the lowest power setting, I got excited for Android phones because I saw people running the Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk. Anything that played under like 8w on a Deck, certainly that could work on a recent flagship Android phone if you could get Cyberpunk running on those

I plan on trying remote network gaming through tailscale at some point. I don’t even care to play outside the home like that. I just want to see it work

My main way to play is streaming my PC to a phone over the local network. My phone’s OLED display is the nicest display I have. Gamehub, eventually I’ll be playing the Batman Arkham games and the old Yakuza games when on a long flight or train ride. I’ve seen online people have great success with all the devil may cry PC ports

Games from 2019 are certainly playable on relatively modern flagship phones. About the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is where it seems to me where Gamehub and Winlator start being viable for PS4 era AAA PC games. 8 Elite, 8 Elite Gen 5, Dimensity 9x00 and chips are held back by graphics drivers. Exynos with the AMD GPUs seem held back by thermals. Pixels Tensors, thermals and graphics drivers. All held back by immaturity of box64 and FEX and overall integration of those and other open source tools into a single streamlined application

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What does valve do to prevent itch and gog from having a fair shot at competiting if they scrounged up the investors to develop up a competing platform? They offer the features their customers expect and that customer base has so far proven to be a much smaller market

PC gaming emulation on Android and hopefully someday high end regular Linux phones are going to be a big inertial multiplier for PC gaming. Performance for games that work isn’t far off from a Steam Deck from my testing on high end mobile phones. Compatibility and streamlining is still not great though. But a few more years at this rate and anyone with a phone as strong as a Snapdragon 8 gen 3 will have a pocket Steam Deck. PC gaming is going to grow a lot because of that

AMD seems to be doing fine, Nvidia just doing finer. If this was 10 years ago, it’d be a lot more concerning but now AMD has a healthy home and server CPU business and GPU server business and they’re the standard for handheld PCs. Along with consoles, that’ll keep FSR relevant and their server stuff will keep funding for UDNA. Samsung uses AMD GPUs for their Exynos chips and that sounds like it may make it’s flagship return with the next Galaxy phones. They’re not drowning

Indie games reasonably start with more fleshed out and committed to ideas of what the game will look like in the end than AAA games. Constraints of money and less cooks in the kitchen

AAA games sound like it’s years of expensive pitches for gameplay and narrative, can be years of that even after publicly announcing the game, and then picking one and then deciding nevermind the markets hot on this so pivot. Rinse and repeat until cancellation or a stir fry of what’s about to expire in the fridge

Valve put together a good product this time compared to the first steam machines push. Most games work without fuss and it’s priced well. They didn’t start the handheld PC market but they sort of Apple’ed it by taking something other companies had been doing and streamlined it enough to get mainstream copycats, Lenovo/Asus/etc. Plus SteamOS/bug picture looks a lot better today than 10 years ago. So proven market/platform that can again try to undercut Windows machines in price because Linux is free and leverages the work of open source developers

ARM and x86 are both proprietary but ARM licenses ARM out willy nilly while x86 is Intel, AMD, and watever VIA does these days with their license.

Steam as an ARM store just means Valve built a version of Steam that runs on modern Mac machines which are all ARM processor based. So any game that releases natively for Steam on Mac now means the developer has support for building ARM versions of their video games

ARM companies. Qualcomm, Mediatek, Samsung, Xiaomi, Nvidia, Amazon, Alibaba, Broadcom, …, a bunch of companies

Budget PCs? Maybe. There’s a lot more ARM CPU vendors out there. Just if they decide it’s worth targeting the desktop/laptop/handheld PC market with proper software support. Your TV probably has an ARM chip in it.

I am interested in ARM handheld PCs to see what they can manage in the sub 10w TDP range. Past that I’m even more interested in RISC-V devices. It’ll be many years for solid support though. ARM for Linux has been around for decades and ARM for Windows since at least Windows 8. It’s been a slow grind for high end ARM on desktop/portable PCs. My impression is on Linux box64/86 and FEX are pretty good and the MS one for Windows seems solid. Linux Qualcomm said they’d be fast on support and they’re definitely not AMD/Intel/Nvidia fast to support Linux machines

I’m sure RISC-V vendors will be better with Linux. ARM ones, Qualcomm has been mediocre. Mediatek+Nvidia, at least Nvidia is well experienced with Linux deliverables for hardware drivers.

Last game was mediocre but over 20 years they’ve been very consistent. I wonder how stable Playground Games have been with Fable reboot. I wonder if they’ve managed being a 2 game pipeline studio or it’s all hands on deck for Fable. If it’s all hands on deck for Fable and no Forza Horizon game on the horizon as a studio silver lining regardless of Fable performance, the pressure there after the last couple of years of MS Xbox slashing must be heavy

Forza Motorsport being cut when it has been a pillar for 20 years is insane.State of Decay 3 so far dodging bad news year after year while being publicly absent

Not weird. It’s the main reason to play. For me it wasn’t even really about the main plot line, ended up not caring for the Wild Hunt or the White Frost at all but every tidbit about the conjunction of spheres, Heart of Stone, and the various non-Wild Hunt factions and quests were pretty captivating to me. The small quest lines were usually interesting. The Crones were a lot more interesting than the Wild Hunt

Cyberpunk is edgy mature. Even more so than the Witcher series. I’m not saying that disapprovingly. I like both but I don’t think they’re a far cry from the previous 15 years of mature video game stories. They’re still stories that need direct physical violence to work. They have a grand scale.

Some standouts I remember, of course all violent, from the past would be KOTOR 2, GTAIV, Eternal Sonata, Xenogears, StarCraft 1/Brood War, Persona series has been consistently interesting, Yakuza games and that reminded me of Shenmue, Dragon Age Origins, Dragon Age 2 is cool with the timespan of story in a single city, Bioshock games, the first 2 Fallout games, Planetscape Torment. There’s a lot. What makes Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk standout to me is primarily graphics and scale. A bunch of interesting questlines in single games. They’re all a bunch of violent games though.

Eternal Sonata I think was the most memorably unique of the games I listed and maybe across all the games I could remember that had high production values for the time. I wish that got a PC release/remaster

The reaction of diehards wasn’t close to golden. You had the lore-aficionados that found the game as whitewashed, the shippers thought every relationship was shallow and role players thinking it jumped the shark even more than previous games with anachronism. The game was stable. Not buggy. That is its elevator pitch for why it’s good