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[Damien c]

Microsoft have been given the green light to buy Activision by the UK Regulator

The UK competition watchdog has joined other major regulators to give the go ahead after French gaming company Ubisoft agreed to buy Activision's cloud gaming rights.

https://news.sky.com/story/call-of-...ft-as-uk-regulator-gives-green-light-12983578

 

[Dicehunter]

Could be interesting if true, Frame Generation working on older 2000 and 3000 series cards in Portal Prelude RTX -

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterra..._3_frame_generation_working_on_20xx_and_30xx/

EDIT

Nvidia saw it and released a statement, TLDR, It does nothing, Just a bug.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforc...l-prelude-rtx-dlss-frame-generation-question/

We’ve noticed that some members of the PC gaming community, like Discord Communities before it, have encountered a bug in an old v1.0.1.0 DLSS DLL that falsely appears to generate frames on 20/30-series hardware. There is no DLSS Frame Generation occurring—just raw duplication of existing frames. Frame counters show a higher FPS, but there is no improvement in smoothness or experience. This can be verified by evaluating the duplicated frames using tools like NVIDIA ICAT, or viewing the error message in the Remix logs indicating an error with frame generation.


DLSS frame generation DLLs have since fixed this bug, and NVIDIA will be issuing an update to RTX Remix in the future to prevent further confusion when frame generation is behaving incorrectly.

 

[Dicehunter]

LukeFZ564 who released the free Frame Generation mods for Starfield and Lies of P has released another for Assassins Creed Mirage, Works nicely.

Get it here - https://www.nexusmods.com/assassinscreedmirage/mods/48?tab=description

Tested with a 4090.

4K before and after

No FG

FG

 

[Warchild]

Hogan needs to rework Mirage because the textures in that game look 10 years old. Those wooden planks and ropes :O very bland... at least FPS increase was nice.

 

[Dicehunter]

Hogan needs to rework Mirage because the textures in that game look 10 years old. Those wooden planks and ropes :O very bland... at least FPS increase was nice.

Would be nice but I highly doubt Hogan would bother with this as it's basically just a standalone DLC for Valhalla, He's too busy with updates to his Witcher 3, Starfield and Cyberpunk projects.

 

[Dicehunter]

Update 1.5 to Nvidia's RTX Super Resolution for video enhancement which is included in the new driver.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkKsamTPk7g


Game Ready Driver 545.84 is now out -


https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/geforce/drivers/results/212906/


Release notes - https://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/545.84/545.84-win11-win10-release-notes.pdf

Release Highlights​

Game Ready for NARAKA: BLADEPOINT and Warhammer: Vermintide 2

This new Game Ready Driver provides the best gaming experience for the latest new games supporting DLSS 3 technology including NARAKA: BLADEPOINT and Warhammer: Vermintide 2. Additionally, this Game Ready Driver introduces TensorRT acceleration for Stable Diffusion to increase performance by up to 2x.

Gaming Technology

• Introduces support for RTX Video Super Resolution v1.5

Fixed General Bugs

• Some monitors may display random black screen flicker when in Display Stream Compression mode [4034096]
• Monitor colors are incorrect after coming back from display sleep [3420257]

 

[Dicehunter]

New 3.5.10 dll for both DLSS and Frame Generation -

https://www.techpowerup.com/download/nvidia-dlss-3-frame-generation-dll/

https://www.techpowerup.com/download/nvidia-dlss-dll/

Release Notes

Streamline Plugin NVIDIA DLSS 3.5.10 SDK is now available through Streamline SDK 2.2+

DLSS Frame Generation

• New Distortion Map API
• Support for Dynamic Frame Generation which can intelligently enable/disable DLSS Frame Generation to help ensure positive performance scaling

DLSS Ray Reconstruction

• New Particle Layer API
• Please contact your NVIDIA account manager for early access, or sign up to be notified when its publicly available here: https://developer.nvidia.com/rtx/dlss/notify-me

Miscellaneous

• Bug Fixes & Stability Improvements

More info on Nvidia's Streamline Github - https://github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/Streamline/commit/7ac42e47c7dd55b5b6dd6176c0228048636541b2

 

[Dicehunter]

Intels new APO, Application Optimization, Can give a pretty substantial perf improvement on the 14900K in CPU bound scenarios, Considering the 13900K and 14900K are architecturally identical it's a bad look that Intel has locked this feature down to 14th gen.

https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-a...ivers-up-to-31-higher-fps-with-core-i9-14900k

Before and after in Rainbow Six Siege.

 

[Warchild]

They can lock what they want. If its going to cook my system as much as the 14900k does. Id still take a 13900k over 14th Gen.

 

[Dicehunter]

Nvidia's newest driver, 546.01, Includes a new option in the control panel to let an application use system memory if video memory runs out.

 

[Warchild]

System = physical mem and pagefile also?

 

[Dicehunter]

System = physical mem and pagefile also?

I think so yes.

 

[Dicehunter]

Bethesda are adding Nvidia's DLSS and Frame Generation along with HDR next week.

https://twitter.com/BethesdaStudios/status/1719782889414357000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1719782889414357000%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=

 

[Dicehunter]

For anyone who has Amazon Prime, Through Prime Gaming you can now get RAGE 2 for the Epic store for free.

 

[Damien c]

For anyone who has Amazon Prime, Through Prime Gaming you can now get RAGE 2 for the Epic store for free.

Nice, and it's the Deluxe Edition.

 

[Dicehunter]

Nice, and it's the Deluxe Edition.

An excuse to actually play it, I liked the first but it's not aged well.

 

[Dicehunter]

Assassins Creed:Mirage patch 1.05 will be available tomorrow -



https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/game/...M2La/ac-mirage-title-update-105-release-notes

Title update for Assassin’s Creed Mirage will be deployed on all supported platforms tomorrow, Nov 7 @ 1200 UTC / 1 PM UK / 7 AM ET / 4 AM PT.
Patch Sizes:

• Xbox Series X|S: ~3.54 GB
• Xbox One: B : ~3.02 GB
• PlayStation®5: ~2.83 GB
• PlayStation®4: ~5.79 GB
• PC: ~4.22 GB

Bug fixing

General

Addressed:

• Added an option to enable/disable Chromatic Aberration.
• Whilst wearing the Fire Demon outfit, players would not receive the correct number of shards after assassinating any ISU Hunter.
• Basim now has an equal chance to play any of his take down animations during front executions.
• Fixed issues with store rewards.
• Fire Eater enemies hitbox is now properly considering one shot kills with the throwing knife when breaking the oil jar on their back.

Quests

Addressed:

• “Speak with Ali” - Ali is no longer stuck.
• “Follow the Fiery Trail” - Removed blockers from investigation objective.
• “Nehal’s Calling” - Player can now access the final clue.

Graphics, UI and Animations

• Numerous visual improvements on environment, VFX and weapons.
• Fixed multiple NPC navigation, animation, and interaction issues.
• Fixed clothes corruption on NPCs.
• Various animation fixes, including unnatural leg movements for Basim.
• Fixed a FOV pop after a cinematic when FOV settings have been modified by the player.
• Fixed NPC rendering from short distance.
• Store page display improved.
• Reward notifications appear properly when opening medium chests.
• Key icon & quest objective now remains above the head of NPCs in Eagle Vision.
• Highlight on NPCs lasts for a shorter amount of time in Eagle Vision.
• Cinematics should now run properly after credits.

Audio

• Option added to enable/disable background music during call to prayer.
• Fixed animal sound effects.

Compatibility

• Improved OWO Haptic Suit support.
• Fixed number of active monitors for laptop players.

Stability

Addressed:

• Multiple stability improvements.

Misc

• Fixed time tracking for hours played on PS5.
• Offline achievements now transmit to 1st party.
• Fixed issue with Japanese PS5 button mapping.
• The refresh rate option in the settings now displays the correct value.
• Master Assassin Upgrade #1 and Master Assassin Upgrade #2 are now displayed in the in-game Store.
• Update to game credits.
• When loading into the game, the main menu music will no longer infinitely loop and will transition smoothly.

 

[Dicehunter]

Valve has announced an OLED upgrade for their steam Deck.

 

[Dicehunter]

The makers of the handy tool Process Lasso have come out with a fairly simple and free tool for Intel hybrid CPU's, CoreDirector. It lets you force certain processes to only use the P cores and avoid the E cores. It's basically a super lite simple version of Process Lasso.

https://bitsum.com/apps/coredirector/

 

[WYP]

The makers of the handy tool Process Lasso have come out with a fairly simple and free tool for Intel hybrid CPU's, CoreDirector. It lets you force certain processes to only use the P cores and avoid the E cores. It's basically a super lite simple version of Process Lasso.

https://bitsum.com/apps/coredirector/

That's a cool idea. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.