My wife and I have been playing a lot of the 2 player varient of The Crew this month. Works really well with the "Jarvis" third player and makes for a good quick game to reel through a few missions of.

My wife and I have been playing a lot of the 2 player varient of The Crew this month. Works really well with the "Jarvis" third player and makes for a good quick game to real through a few missions of.

At my age with my eyesight a little up-scaling is fine, especially as I've been having to spend the past few years playing newer games at half resolution sometimes to get decent frame-rates on the 1660 ;) I'll certainly be keeping an eye out for any price drops when the next series of cards come out. Hoping this build will be one I can tinker with better parts as the prices drop in the future.

The 7600 vs 7600X here in Denmark is only a 100 DKK difference, (About $14) so I figured, what the hell :)

Good point, the one i have flagged right now is CL36 so I'll have a look into the options there.

Yeah, I was thinking of going full AMD as I haven't for a long time, and nVidia are a little, shall we say, consumer unfriendly.. but like you say I'm not sure how well that will play with the AI stuff. I actually looked at getting a second hand 3060 just to save money so I could replace it sooner in the future but not a huge number of them out there locally, especially as I'm on a small island which further limits that route.

Just realised I never listed my monitor resolution, but I think either option will be good enough for 1440P?

Good info, thanks. I've certainly seen a few YT vids with people having issues with Expo, had hoped they would have been ironed out by now, but as you say not game ending stuff, just rather annoying I can imagine.

Model: AnalogMadness V6 LORA(s): Add Detail Steps 1-12 Euler (Normal) Steps 13-25: dpmpp_3m_sde (karras) Prompt: 35 year old English woman sitting in a library, facing away, wearing a dress and high heels, detailed skin, subsurface scattering, (wrinkles:0.5), (blemishes, folds, moles, skin imperfection, veins, freckles:0.3), muscular thigh, low angle, bookshelves,

(8k, uhd, full resolution, masterpiece, best quality, full resolution, ultra-detailed, velvia, iso 400, f/1.4, film grain, raw photo), sharp focused, bokeh, low angle

Love how, in this instance, the extra "toes" to the left of the picture actually add to the atmosphere of the creature.

Thanks, I'm spending a lot of time playing with all the skin 'imperfections' to try and avoid the "airbrushed model" look I seem to get by default. Which makes sense given the vat majority of content the AI has to work with I guess.

Prompt: shield-maiden, forest, dawn, mist detailed skin (wrinkles:1.3), (blemishes, folds, moles, veins, pores, skin imperfection, freckles:1,2), (8k, uhd, full resolution, masterpiece, best quality, full resolution, ultra-detailed, velvia, iso 400, f/1.4, film grain, raw photo), sharp focused, bokeh

Just started a run through of The Isle Tide Hotel on Steam, enjoyed the demo a while back and I'm a sucker for a bit of FMV.

I guess I always have it my head I'm the object I'm controlling rather than the camera following, so my brain defaults to more direct control? I do tend to favour "in-cockpit" / first person view.

Standard unless there's and flying involved, either in atmosphere or space, then I invert Y. Can't imagine ever inverting X, that just blows my kind. Been playing since before WASD was a thing, so I've seen most implementations I guess.

It's pretty dead for the main part, at least for discussions, but there does appear to have been an uptick in posts the past month or so.

"Manure, I hate manure!"

Maybe clean-up after the Enchantment Under the Sea dance?

Working for me in Windows 10 using a GTX 1660Ti om an aging Intel i5-3570 so anything from the last 10 years should be fine. My HDR monitor is running over Display Port rather than HDMI I should mention however.

I had the same issue with NVMe, but you can get 4x PCI-E cards to install them on. Wouldn't work as a boot drive but it's great for a games installation space. Just check installing another card doesn't drop your GFX from the 16x. My old ASUS Gene V had two 16x style slots and an extra 4x so I could manage to add one card without dropping the GFX to 8x.

My XBOX has the internal 1TB then 4TB of USB3 storage for 360/XBOX One games (or Series games I'm not currently playing). Main PC is 500GB SSD Raid 0 System drive, 1TB NVMe data drive and a 6TB HDD Storage Space. Then my NAS has 20TB (RAID 5) of space for everything else. (Including a full set of install files of any games I bought via GoG since you can keep their DRM free install files just in case GoG suddenly disappear)

Podcast wise: Rebel FM, though after all these years it's more just to catch up with them than the actual talking points, but always enjoyable.

For deep dives into specific games Cane & Rinse (full disclosure I have met and consider friends some of the guys involved).

For Indie Games, The Sausage Factory by Chris O'Regan, which these days is hosted by Cane And Rinse is a great way to hear directly from the game devs themselves.

You may feel a little prick.

You'd do it for Hedy Lamarr!