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[Warchild]

Another Power draw article for the 4090 cards

https://www.guru3d.com/story/16pin-power-connector-failure-with-rtx-4090-running-power/

This time, the user intentionally ran it at 75% yet still suffered melting.

 

[Damien c]

Epic Games has a "May the 4th Sale" going on.

Some pretty good discounts.

I just grabbed a triple bundle for £7.99 including:

Star Wars Squadrons
Jedi Fallen Order Deluxe Edition
Battlefront II Celebration Edition

 

[Excalabur50]

Star Citizen Alpha 4.0 has been added to the Roadmap
https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/19975-Roadmap-Roundup-May-15-2024

 

[Excalabur50]

This is a real problem!
https://www.guru3d.com/story/microsoft-reportedly-readies-billion-bid-to-acquire-valve-steam/

 

[Dicehunter]

Cloud Imperium Games just passed the 700 Million US dollar funding mark for Star Citizen from 5.2 Million people.

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/funding-goals

 

[Warchild]

700million and game still in alpha.

When they stop doing account resets maybe then ill invest time on it.

 

[Dicehunter]

God of War Ragnarök has been officially announced for PC, Coming out This September 19th.


https://www.pcgamer.com/games/actio...com&utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_medium=social

 

[Dicehunter]

The Last of Us 2 PC Port Has Been Ready for a While, Insider Claims


https://www.playstationlifestyle.ne...-us-2-pc-port-release-date-announcement-when/

 

[Excalabur50]

 

[Warchild]

https://www.kitguru.net/components/...er-overclocker-kingpin-is-now-working-at-pny/



Kingpin heading to PNY to develop extreme overclocking GPUs

 

[Dicehunter]

Seasonic may have leaked AMD's upcoming 7000 series refresh i.e 7950XTX, 7990XTX etc... basically slightly overclocked versions of the 7000 series akin to what AMD did with the 6000 series.

https://wccftech.com/seasonic-lists...adeon-rx-7000-gpus-7990-xtx-7950-xtx-7950-xt/

 

[NeverBackDown]

Activision did a secret study on Call of Duty players in regards to skill based match making (SBMM). They released a 25 page paper on it. Turns out the conclusion was everybody hated it.

SBMM has been a hot topic for a few years now. So it's nice to see a publisher try it out as a blind A/B test. Results were "more quitting, less playing, and more negative blowouts" Were recorded during this time.

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/ca...-matchmaking-and-turns-out-everyone-hated-it/

The paper is linked in the article as well.

 

[Dicehunter]

Warhammer 40K:Space Marine 2 has gone gold, Will launch September 9th -



https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2183900/view/432635429820779098

 

[Dicehunter]

Ghost of Tsushima Directors Cut on PC has been updated with AMD's Anti-Lag 2 aswell as various fixes -

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2215430/view/4354501666477786717

• Resolved an issue that prevented the Living Legends achievement from unlocking for some players
• Resolved an issue that prevented the Light the Way achievement from unlocking for some players
• Fixed an issue that could cause unintended light bloom effects on AMD Radeon GPUs
• Added support for AMD Radeon Anti-Lag 2
• Various improvements to cross-platform matchmaking in Legends mode

 

[WYP]

Ghost of Tsushima Directors Cut on PC has been updated with AMD's Anti-Lag 2 aswell as various fixes -

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2215430/view/4354501666477786717

• Resolved an issue that prevented the Living Legends achievement from unlocking for some players
• Resolved an issue that prevented the Light the Way achievement from unlocking for some players
• Fixed an issue that could cause unintended light bloom effects on AMD Radeon GPUs
• Added support for AMD Radeon Anti-Lag 2
• Various improvements to cross-platform matchmaking in Legends mode

Nice!

 

[Dicehunter]

The new Windows 11 24H2 build with optimized for AMD branch prediction code sees AMD's 7000 and 9000 CPU's get a pretty hefty performance boost in games. In some games the performance boost is impressively large.

 

[Dicehunter]

AMD confirms branch prediction optimizations are now available for Windows 11 23H2 boosting gaming performance through optional update KB5041587.

 

[Dicehunter]

AMD confirms branch prediction optimizations are now available for Windows 11 23H2 boosting gaming performance through optional Windows 11 update KB5041587.


https://wccftech.com/amd-branch-pre...zen-9000-7000-cpus-available-windows-11-23h2/

 

[Dawelio]

AMD confirms branch prediction optimizations are now available for Windows 11 23H2 boosting gaming performance through optional update KB5041587.

AMD confirms branch prediction optimizations are now available for Windows 11 23H2 boosting gaming performance through optional Windows 11 update KB5041587.


https://wccftech.com/amd-branch-pre...zen-9000-7000-cpus-available-windows-11-23h2/

Why double post bud? :huh:

 

[WYP]

Why double post bud? :huh:

I'm sure he probably found the extra info just after his first post. Big update seeing AMD draw attention to its availability after all.