Aganim

Screw you all for having to upvote you. 😂 Merry Christmas! 🎄

The world would be even better if we just do away with oxidane!

Probably, connecting the dots was never his forte.

There are different kinds of tests, but this is an example: https://www.healthcare.uiowa.edu/familymedicine/fpinfo/Docs/MOCA/MoCA-8.1-English-Test-2020.pdf

I guess at this point in time too many people have got Antidepressants or Tolkien memorised? 😋

Skewed telemetry probably, as most users that are aware you can move the taskbar are also aware you can just disable the phone home crap and will therefore not show up in the statistics.

Yeah, RAM prices are crazy. When I built my current system I threw in 64GB so I could mess around with stuff like Kubernetes and virtual machines without worrying about memory shortage. Memory was cheap enough that it was a no-brainer. I feel like a millionaire when I look at how much that would set me back now. 😅

You'd be hard pressed to find a company that still allows/accepts manual payment here, for recurring payments it's basically mandatory to use direct debit. At the other hand, manually paying wouldn't save on any fees.

Are those 15 bucks a banking fee?

Ah, yeah, that's a design decision that sucks. Those games I'll pick up in few years when I have a card that's capable of RT at an acceptable framerate. I get that tech becomes mandatory at some point, the same has happened with OpenGL/DirectX and the various pixel shading versions back in the day. But in my opinion enforcing ray tracing came way too early, seeing how it eats performance.

More like the 26th here, that's when almost every company executes their direct debit. Manually paying bills is, with a rare exception, not a thing here anymore.

The 1st is the date I think off when I finally remember to turn over the birthday calendar around the 20th and have to decide whether or not I'm going to skip to the next month. 😋

It does depend on the game, Satisfactory for example uses UE5 (5.3.2) and runs perfectly fine for me without framegen at 5120x1440. Admittedly I run it on an RX 6900, so not an average card. But at the other hand it's already an older one and that resolution approaches 4K.

Unless something changed fairly recently the game also doesn't use Lumen by default, let alone raytracing. Was RT made mandatory in later UE5 versions? Because it's definitely not mandatory for every UE5 version.

UE5 is by no means a lightweight engine, but I do wonder how many of the issues are caused by lack of optimisation.

Yeah, that's definitely a concern. My first installation shredded its SD card in no time due to each request getting logged and stored on disk. Turning off long term query logging mitigated that issue, for my home network I don't care about that history anyway.