The game sucks because of the writing not because it runs on a different engine

I wish you were a cat too

I don’t remember ever being so unexcider about any GPU or CPU HW release for gaming.

New CPUs are hardly worth upgrading to from 5800X3D and my 2nd hand 6800 XT that I got 2y ago for €400 and overclocks like crazy (20% on air cooling) is still so damn good that new cards which match that lvl of performanve are still like €500-€600… So if 8000 series will actually be cheaper it may finally match my 6800 XT with €/performance… Wow! It only took several years!

Just to add as we are discussing mainly ARM vs x86 now… that is just a small part of the whole device. Just look at the SD OLED vs LCD. They managed to have OLED screen that is significantly better than the LCD one while using less power on AVG which is a huge deal to battery life and it either allows you to compensate with more power to SOC to achieve better performance at the same battery life or take the saving and go with higher battery life… and that’s just screen.

Then they optimized the PCB layout, PCB components, etc… to get both better cooling and efficiency.

I think that what is currently holding them back is both the SOC available and the actual efficiency of given parts combined. Getting improvement in both areas at once will lead to a significant change but one or the other alone will not tip the scales towards significant upgrade.

Yes it did not have Lunar Lake to which I said “Regrading their newest chips, I have no clue as of right now.” because we really don’t have any significant testing done at low power for these chips for gaming to compare with SD.

As was already mentioned, I’m not discussing ARM. ARM has its own issues with compatibility on top of the Windows to Linux compatibility.

Not sure what you mean by Intel. MSI Claw showed quite abysmal performance at low power vs SD. Regrading their newest chips, I have no clue as of right now.

Nothing yet surpassed Zen2 low power efficiency in the SD. And by low power I mean under 10W power/performance.

New chips scale quite a bit better above 10W though.

Also I’m not sure if that’s actually the HW limitation or just Valve tuning of the power behaviour. It’s possible they can throw in Zen5 and tune it to that efficiency level while getting significant performance uplift over Zen2 at the same power.

Regarding GPU we will need much faster memory support to get any significant advantages even with RDNA4 as most iGPUs are starved for memory bandwidth anyways, not saying that RDNA4 wouldn’t be an improvement, just that it won’t be as big as a leap as it could be with faster memory.

That’s why I said Photopea instead of GIMP

Or just use Photopea like a non-self abusive person

I’ve bought the game after Patch 7 and then refunded it as it was still really bad. I doubt the performance improved by much since then

Operation Flashpoint had IMO one of the best campaigns

But I can only buy whole software…

No, it’s isometric

No problem! I was interested in the performance so may as well share my findings :)

Also important to note. On Windows the game runs Lumen all the time on DX12 and only way to disable it is to run the game on DX11. I’m assuming on Vulkan via Proton the game does not run Lumen at all. And also the game seems to support Frame Generation but I haven’t tried it yet.

Yes, it’s the DLC.bdt file as already mentioned

I’m still at work ;( If I don’t forget I’ll let you know in few hours

I’m about to leave to work so can’t check but I had to add a file with the DLC name into the game folder and then it worked for me.

I still have my Steam Controller but I was itching for better Gyro after playing with Steam Deck so I picked up PS5 controller for PC after doing some research.

I like the PS5 one quite a lot, it does have nice upgrades over the Steam Controller like the adaptive triggers which work only in some games though and the haptics are sooo much better… But the battery life is a complete joke, it’s really annoying.

With SC I’ve just chucked in two AA batteries and was set for 3 months+ with PS5 controller I can barely get 10h with haptics and got around 15h without haptics… And it takes ages to charge too…

The only appeal of this new controller is the touch stick for gyro but other than that this seems quite lackluster imo.

I don’t like it. I think going from slightly slower vs 7800X3D at just 65W TDP is much better than doubling that just to match it or slightly beat it… And at the end of the day it will be the 9800X3D that’s supposed to compete with 7800X3D anyways.

To be fair the Part 1 port is fairly good now but the release was quite janky… But I haven’t bought it until it went on sale anyways so…