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STEAM | May 2016 - VAC to life, VAC to reality
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I got around it on my laptop by having the motherboard in a forced bios state without UEFI, which MS will actually point out needs to be upgraded. After a few months they stopped bugging me.
Than I built my new itx machine, realised that Windows 7 wouldn't even install due to a Intel Skylake drive being missing or something, so ended up dumping my Win 7 key into Windows 10.... they got me..
Windows 10's setup is painless, but you have to actually pay attention for all the times they attempt to get you to accept privacy terms or mislead you. Even switching everything off in all the settings I could find, there is still more that they don't let you switch off. I had to use Spybot Antibeacon to actually kill almost all the crap MS don't let you switch out. After that, things seem fine enough bar not being able to use half my audio gear, so I'll be dual booting Win 7 later on
Achievement unlocked:
Fuck you Ori. Fuck you so hard.
I was impressed for a bit there... until I realized that wasn't the achievement for beating the game without dying, but just one of the escape sequences.
I was impressed for a bit there... until I realized that wasn't the achievement for beating the game without dying, but just one of the escape sequences.
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That achievement is some crazy stuff. I barely managed to pull off the last escape sequence, let alone going through its entirety without dying once. Ori is a really great game, but boy it almost drove me crazy sometimes.I was impressed for a bit there... until I realized that wasn't the achievement for beating the game without dying, but just one of the escape sequences.
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derExperte
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Steam pls. Community still works, only shop is dead.
If you can get the 970 for 300 and find some fool who pays 250 for an 680 in 2016 you'd be an idiot not to do it.
Think about if you could cope with the 680 for several more months. Do you have problems running games at the moment? If you can cope, wait a little while for prices on the 1070 to drop and go for that.
I get the impression that the new consoles will lead to higher than expected VRAM needs, and the 970 is probably not going to be able to cut it for too long
jaundicejuice
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The pricing seems to be pretty obscene everywhere outside of the US, it's just a question of how obscenely expensive those cards are region by region. Brazil looks like it wins/loses. In Canada they're apparently overcharging by 220$ after a rough currency conversion for a 1080. They should be going for roughly $773, instead they're charging $999 before taxes.
But, honest question here, what is even driving the need for such cards? Star Citizen? VR? 4K video content? It could be because I'm already half-way out of this hobby, don't care about the vast majority of triple A games and have zero fucks to give about VR but there doesn't look like a whole lot of compelling software on the horizon that calls for such an investment in hardware. I can play Overwatch on my 760 right now and won't need to upgrade to play Legion.
CertifiedFP
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Whaaat is this shiiit, Steam?
Also, Steam website and such is real damn slow for me at the moment. DDOS going on or something?
Also, Steam website and such is real damn slow for me at the moment. DDOS going on or something?
no one's really a fool in this scenario with local prices
970 and 4 gigs of ram probably means 60fps on Deus Ex, Mirror's Edge, Dishonored 2.. so its tempting
680 gon crack
Once you've lived with the horror of 250kb/s download speeds, you start to have a real respect for even slight speed increases. Thank fuck I'm at 4.5MB/s these days with no limits, so download stuff like ID games at 50/60 GB is around about 3 hours long.
Whaaat is this shiiit, Steam?
Also, Steam website and such is real damn slow for me at the moment. DDOS going on or something?
that seems pretty weird unless it is a different dollar . I'd also check to see if paypal was doing the transaction correctly, refund the game and get it again - which steam is usually happy with
yea probably, that's a good deal i think
derExperte
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The one not upgrading from a 680 to a 970 for ~$50 would be.
It seems fine, the 1070/80 will not have remotely decent prices in SA in a few years and I doubt you'll get the 970 much cheaper till then.
You'll be to play everything at 1080p/60fps this gen, you'll just have to change a few settings in some games.
EDIT: Also, if you buy the 970 we will be able to finish DL without problems
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Tizoc
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I'd agree, but it all comes down to how much y'all want to spend for Y1+2 HD on Steam
Even if they did, it wouldn't have helped the game's sales on PS3 in the west.
Eh it's more that the series hasn't sold well in the west compared to Japan+Asia. Like Yakuza 0, 1 single game, sold more copies than the entire Western releases of the Yakuza games combined (before Y5's release at least).
BorntoPlay
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970 is a great card for DX11 games, not so much for DX12 but is still playable...
the_firewithin
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i have purchased goat simulator: waste of space.......and i dont know why
waste of steam grid space
So did I, because why the fuck not. Own the rest of the dlc, might as well have this one too.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
this is so bizarre. the game is like 10 years old and it's on gog, drm free (and thus can already be pirated)
Jawmuncher
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Gotta protect the legacy that is Two Worlds.
Phawx
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I managed to get a stable 70C with my fan at an inaudible level on my R9 290 at full load with some better TIM.
I still had to undervolt like a mad man though, but the only way I could keep it stable with a large undervolt was by lowering core/mem clock by 10%.
So I lost 10% performance but it is now completely silent. I am content for now as even with a 10% underclock, I can still run things fine at 1080p.
So long story short, I spent $10 and 30 mins of work to make my GPU not sound like a jet engine when I'm trying to record some Quick Looks. I can now also overclock! I can get a 15% increase in performance when I'm not recording. Though to dump the heat my fans are FULL BLAST.
I'm glad I can happily skip the Founder's Edition and just wait to hear about Vega10 at computex.
I still had to undervolt like a mad man though, but the only way I could keep it stable with a large undervolt was by lowering core/mem clock by 10%.
So I lost 10% performance but it is now completely silent. I am content for now as even with a 10% underclock, I can still run things fine at 1080p.
So long story short, I spent $10 and 30 mins of work to make my GPU not sound like a jet engine when I'm trying to record some Quick Looks. I can now also overclock! I can get a 15% increase in performance when I'm not recording. Though to dump the heat my fans are FULL BLAST.
I'm glad I can happily skip the Founder's Edition and just wait to hear about Vega10 at computex.
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texhnolyze
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Daaaamn. After the recent price drop amd today's 30% off, MGSV is like $12 now here. I feel like a fool bought it at full price last september. Even more so because I haven't finished it yet.
please let us know how it is
Black Soma
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Achievement unlocked:
Fuck you Ori. Fuck you so hard.
I'm also currently playing Ori on Hard, and well... it's hard. I believe I'm almost at the end of the game and I've already died more than 400 times. But exploration and finding power ups is more exciting and satisfying like this, because you feel they actually make a difference. Wouldn't have it any other way.
It's also on this bundle here:
https://www.gamebundle.com/gb/gamebundle/
Oh my god
https://twitter.com/humble/status/735915935278587904
i've been waiting 3 years for this day
and i don't want to buy a humble monthly for this
nnnnngh
https://twitter.com/humble/status/735915935278587904
i've been waiting 3 years for this day
and i don't want to buy a humble monthly for this
nnnnngh
someguyinahat
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Goosebumps 2 is finally happening, isn't it?
What is it? And keys from Humble Monthlies are generally pretty easy to get cheap in B/S/T if you don't want to buy the whole thing blind.
A few years ago, Wayforward made an april fools joke about a game called "Cat Girl without Salad" that was a ridiculous mishmash of genres, and a lot of people really wanted it to be real because it looked great. And three years later, it's becoming real. Though I don't know how the gameplay will be.
I was thinking of doing one but then I thought "I don't think much people remember this" so I decided against it. But go ahead
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