it's hard to play because it's a quarter eater from 1979. if by 'AI techniques' you mean 'they didn't fly in a straight line' then yeah. i think you might be giving it a little bit too much credit
Same, I'd like a new machine but my i7 4790 runs everything I want to play. It only struggles with modern (PS3) emulators which I think like more than 4 cores these days but that's a flimsy reason to spend $$$ on a new rig, I have enough of a backlog of games to last years without touching the one or two PS3 games I never got around to.
it's okay, ddr5 is kind of a meme and the appearance of progress is kind of an illusion
The iGPU in Zen 4 desktop CPUs and Rembrandt desktop APUs (that we assume will exist) should be capable of up to four display outputs, including DP 2.0 and HDMI 2.1:
Heh... don't hold your breath on that. AMD has already started to segment their motherboards even further than Zen 3.
It's always been like that, it's like shifting up a gear in a car. I think EDO to SDRAM was the largest jump in performance from day one. SDR to DDR looked pretty decent in synthetic benchmarks but it wasn't as pronounced in games due to crappy timings, DDR to DDR2 wasn't particularly impressive and so on. At the initial speeds/timings that is. When each new standard started picking up speed(so to say) they became vastly superior. Being an early adopter of new RAM should only be done out of necessity(if it's the only thing the platform supports) and not choice(it's the latest!) because that's stupid.
That is all entirely accidental and not the result of intelligence on my part but I'll take it.
Perhaps. I'm already bracing for the cost, as it'll effectively be a whole new system for me (mb, cpu, ram, cooler, ssd), so if it costs another couple of hundred dollars, that'll still be within my expected outlay, which I'm figuring will be easily around a grand. I just hope it's closer to $1000 than, say, $1500 since I won't be needing to bother with an already-overpriced gpu.
Royalty Free doesn't necessarily mean actually free. I honestly don't know much about the situation with AV1 but Android is "royalty free". Google are still able to abuse it to Hell and back to control the market place.
Official Xbone controller works great. It's compatible with almost everything without any messing around, and it's a solid controller.
I used a PS4 controller and DS4Windows which somehow made Steam less retarded about it.
If you don't like PS or Xbox controllers that have already been mentioned 8bitdo make some great controllers. I've been using an SN30 Pro+ for a while and its pretty great, can't complain.
Logitech F710. It's the Nokia 3310 of game controllers.
