[FullyLost] Xbox World magazine XBOX 720 jan’ 13 issue

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Submitted by ringu_666 | #Specialdealer Special Offer Online Shopping Store 2016

Nunca salio la xbox 720 😔

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Submitted by tattomeme2 | #Specialdealer Special Offer Online Shopping Store 2016

I REGRET BUYING SERIES S

I regret buying xbox series s i had choice to buy ps5 digital or series s i went with series s because of gamepass and Bethesda I'm big fan of Bethesda games also I thought there will be lot of good day one games so far day one games where shitty most games are indie I'm not big fan of indie games. The biggest problem i have with the console is 30fps only for lot games some games run at 720p like seriously they promised 1440 60 we should get atleast 900p 60 and starfield got delayed,don't know what happened to fable,state of decay 3. Now I feel like a 🤡 for buying xbox.

English is not my first language sorry for mistakes.

When i bought the series s series x was out of stock.

Guys just buy ps5 or xbox series x don't even consider buying series s i bought mine after watching youtuber's praising it how value for money the console is yes it's true for 300$ the loading speed quick resume etc you can't expect much for what your paying but the truth most games are blurry mess running at 720 to 900p dynamic res.

Submitted by Ok-Competition7752 | #Specialdealer Special Offer Online Shopping Store 2016

REGRET BUYING XBOX SERIES S

I regret buying xbox series s i had choice to buy ps5 digital or series s i went with series s because of gamepass and Bethesda I'm big fan of Bethesda games also I thought there will be lot of good day one games so far day one games where shitty most games are indie I'm not big fan of indie games. The biggest problem i have with the console is 30fps only for lot games some games run at 720p like seriously they promised 1440 60 we should get atleast 900p 60 and starfield got delayed,don't know what happened to fable,state of decay 3. Now I feel like a 🤡 for buying xbox.

English is not my first language sorry for mistakes.

When i bought the series s series x was out of stock.

Guys just buy series x or if you can afford good pc go for it don't even consider buying series s i bought mine after watching youtuber's praising it how value for money the console is yes it's true for 300$ the loading speed quick resume etc you can't expect much for what your paying but the truth most games are blurry mess running at 720 to 900p dynamic res.

Submitted by Ok-Competition7752 | #Specialdealer Special Offer Online Shopping Store 2016

Help! Green tint to screen!

My sons Xbox series S has a green tint to the screen and we can’t figure it out. We’ve tried a new HDMI cable and read a post on Reddit to try adjusting display settings back and forth from 720 back to 4k. That worked for about 5minutes and then went back to the green tint. This ONLY happens on Xbox, any other time the tv appears normal. Open to any suggestions at all!?

Submitted by kmc24077 | #Specialdealer Special Offer Online Shopping Store 2016

any other games to fill that niche

Keep in mind I've been playing a 720 p 60hz TV as my mode of experience.

Oh hi I'm supposed to get a pc very soon like in a month or two but I want to already start getting some games to take advantage of sales...

But I've been playing games on Xbox previously for the past 8ish years.

Games I found on steam that interest me are

Neccesse - bought it on sale too but seemed fun ESO - seemed cool too it was on sale and its eso. I got the game Hover because the art style looked poppy futuristic and cool and I dig high tec looks so I copped the sale again. Then I got State of mind because it seemed really cool and I enjoyed reading a cyberpunk book(snowcrash) and I like stories too so it seemed worth it.

I've really enjoyed

The original need for speed most wanted. It just felt cool and serious. Skate 2 cause the atmosphere was this orangey tint and a gritty mood but the setup together was a good package. Minecraft of course cause art style nice, but most importantly was the blocky sandbox element but it got boring. I also really liked the Original Kotor one and two. Going through the stories was like a slow adventure but I still have to finish the second one. It was mystical. I really enjoyed the original Battlefronts but I like the artstyle in battlefront 1 more than two going a bit more complex. - I tried to pick up both modern battlefronts but they just felt top grindy to get into or commit. Oh and then the campaign in the Original Spiderman 2. It was just so cool.

Now I've enjoyed indie games too before but on Xbox when I've bought them, because I had no friends that had them or would I wanted to refund a few because I ended up not liking them even though I thought I would... including

Hotshot Racing <a regret> It did seem really cool I followed their Twitter page and I had friends I played it with who had gamepass but it just got boring playing alone. Forza Horizon 4 <even though I had a friend who liked it, for me it felt kind of stale and so I got a little bored of what the point was> Descenders <because it was cool at first going with a friend but after a while it didn't feel like there was much to go through> I enjoyed the Crew 2 to an extent but after a while the grind felt boring and so did the pay wall or battlepass felt like nothing much. I did thoroughly enjoy Warframe to but the monetization in it felt annoying after a while having to pay for having room that weapon and the repititiveness.

But I do really like open world games and the idea of exploration.

Games I'm stuck with

No man's sky was cool too I really liked going to all the different planets but I didn't see much endgame to it that confused me and the complexity in the building system was a step too hard for me. So I kinda dropped it cause I wasn't sure what to do in it.

Then I kind of like Pacer too and it was cool and fun but after a while it felt a bit generic or wanna be. I thought it was cool and high tech but a but hard on Xbox.

I also really enjoyed Splitgate too. I thought it was really fun. It just was so cool going through the portals for trick shots or action. But then after a while I gave it a rest and i haven't felt much of a calling.

So games I put on my wishlist Postal 4 because I just love the thought of having fun in an "at ease" kick back kinda world getting to do whatever and it's vibe but it doesn't seem quote polish and it bums me there's no co op but I can't judge.

Lego SW Skywalker Saga. Seems really cool. I like the Star Wars games that were either casual or easy to get into...I played commando. Was fun and liked it.

Shredders (I'm a bit of a skier so it seems 😎cool) Terraria because it looks like it doesn't tell you to do much, I like the delivery with the pixel style and 2dness and exploring.

Planetside 2 and Garry's mod both seem like fun.

I put Borderlands 2 on there too but I'm skeptical.

And like yeah I do enjoy playing games. I'd just like an interesting one that offers me something or a perspective or artstyle in combo with something other games don't. Like original art. Do you guys have any suggestions?

Submitted by SsweevV | #Specialdealer Special Offer Online Shopping Store 2016

remember the buildup to the release of the PS4 and Xbox One? How we thought it was gonna be called the xbox 720 and there were all these weird concept designs people were making? I felt we never really got that with the ps5 and xbox series X.

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Submitted by Kkprincxess | #Specialdealer Special Offer Online Shopping Store 2016

OBS now causing performance/video playback stutters

So OBS use to run flawless for me while recording....i noticed no performance hits and while watching the videos they seemed to play fine......then one day i noticed my video was stuttering to hell even though recording was a breeze....now its affecting PC performce (ex i just ried to play rocket league to get an OBS log file and the whole time the audio was stuttering and game FPS wise was running a tad shitty ...

(NOTE: i do have the windows/xbox gamebar always running in the background for when i need to capture something but i have always used that and never had any issues with OBS until as of late-also i had my facecam running and it was frozen until the game started...my screen capture wasnt freezing at all though)

03:41:58.885: CPU Name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-9400F CPU @ 2.90GHz

03:41:58.885: CPU Speed: 2904MHz

03:41:58.885: Physical Cores: 6, Logical Cores: 6

03:41:58.885: Physical Memory: 16239MB Total, 10402MB Free

03:41:58.885: Windows Version: 10.0 Build 19043 (release: 2009; revision: 1645; 64-bit)

03:41:58.885: Running as administrator: false

03:41:58.885: Aero is Enabled (Aero is always on for windows 8 and above)

03:41:58.885: Windows 10 Gaming Features:

03:41:58.885: Game Bar: On

03:41:58.885: Game DVR: On

03:41:58.885: Game DVR Background Recording: On

03:41:58.887: Sec. Software Status:

03:41:58.888: McAfee VirusScan: disabled (AV)

03:41:58.888: Microsoft Defender Antivirus: enabled (AV)

03:41:58.888: McAfee Firewall: disabled (FW)

03:41:58.888: Windows Firewall: enabled (FW)

03:41:58.889: Current Date/Time: 2022-05-11, 03:41:58

03:41:58.889: Browser Hardware Acceleration: true

03:41:58.889: Portable mode: false

03:41:59.214: OBS 27.0.1 (64-bit, windows)

03:41:59.214: ---------------------------------

03:41:59.214: ---------------------------------

03:41:59.214: audio settings reset:

03:41:59.214: samples per sec: 48000

03:41:59.214: speakers: 2

03:41:59.216: ---------------------------------

03:41:59.216: Initializing D3D11...

03:41:59.216: Available Video Adapters:

03:41:59.218: Adapter 0: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

03:41:59.218: Dedicated VRAM: 1988100096

03:41:59.218: Shared VRAM: 4218955776

03:41:59.218: PCI ID: 10de:2184

03:41:59.218: Driver Version: 30.0.15.1165

03:41:59.218: output 0: pos={0, 0}, size={1920, 1080}, attached=true, refresh=60, name=GSV2K6 DEMO

03:41:59.222: Loading up D3D11 on adapter NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 (0)

03:41:59.299: D3D11 loaded successfully, feature level used: b000

03:41:59.299: DXGI increase maximum frame latency success

03:41:59.299: D3D11 GPU priority setup failed (not admin?)

03:41:59.720: ---------------------------------

03:41:59.720: video settings reset:

03:41:59.720: base resolution: 1920x1080

03:41:59.720: output resolution: 1920x1080

03:41:59.720: downscale filter: Bicubic

03:41:59.720: fps: 60/1

03:41:59.720: format: NV12

03:41:59.720: YUV mode: 709/Partial

03:41:59.720: NV12 texture support enabled

03:41:59.721: Audio monitoring device:

03:41:59.721: name: Default

03:41:59.721: id: default

03:41:59.723: ---------------------------------

03:41:59.724: Skipping module '../../obs-plugins/64bit/chrome_elf.dll', not an OBS plugin

03:41:59.727: [CoreAudio encoder]: CoreAudio AAC encoder not installed on the system or couldn't be loaded

03:41:59.728: Failed to load 'en-US' text for module: 'decklink-captions.dll'

03:41:59.729: Failed to load 'en-US' text for module: 'decklink-ouput-ui.dll'

03:41:59.730: Skipping module '../../obs-plugins/64bit/DirectML.dll', not an OBS plugin

03:41:59.759: [AMF] Unable to load 'amfrt64.dll', error code 126.

03:41:59.760: [AMF] AMF Test failed due to one or more errors.

03:41:59.760: Failed to initialize module 'enc-amf.dll'

03:41:59.768: Skipping module '../../obs-plugins/64bit/libcef.dll', not an OBS plugin

03:41:59.773: Skipping module '../../obs-plugins/64bit/libEGL.dll', not an OBS plugin

03:41:59.774: Skipping module '../../obs-plugins/64bit/libGLESv2.dll', not an OBS plugin

03:41:59.782: Failed to load 'en-US' text for module: 'obs-backgroundremoval.dll'

03:41:59.782: [obs-backgroundremoval] plugin loaded successfully (version 0.4.0)

03:41:59.783: [obs-browser]: Version 2.14.3

03:41:59.783: [obs-browser]: CEF Version 75.1.16+g16a67c4+chromium-75.0.3770.100

03:41:59.787: NVENC supported

03:41:59.788: [noise suppress: Nvidia RTX denoiser disabled, redistributable not found]

03:41:59.859: Skipping module '../../obs-plugins/64bit/onnxruntime.dll', not an OBS plugin

03:41:59.863: Failed to load 'en-US' text for module: 'StreamDeckPlugin.dll'

03:41:59.863: <StreamDeck> [Server] Listening on '127.0.0.1:28186'.

03:41:59.864: Failed to load 'en-US' text for module: 'StreamDeckPlugin1.dll'

03:41:59.870: VLC found, VLC video source enabled

03:41:59.877: A DeckLink iterator could not be created. The DeckLink drivers may not be installed

03:41:59.878: No blackmagic support

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03:41:59.884: Loaded Modules:

03:41:59.884: win-wasapi.dll

03:41:59.884: win-mf.dll

03:41:59.884: win-dshow.dll

03:41:59.884: win-decklink.dll

03:41:59.884: win-capture.dll

03:41:59.884: vlc-video.dll

03:41:59.884: text-freetype2.dll

03:41:59.884: StreamDeckPlugin1.dll

03:41:59.884: StreamDeckPlugin.dll

03:41:59.884: rtmp-services.dll

03:41:59.884: obs-x264.dll

03:41:59.884: obs-vst.dll

03:41:59.884: obs-transitions.dll

03:41:59.884: obs-text.dll

03:41:59.884: obs-qsv11.dll

03:41:59.884: obs-outputs.dll

03:41:59.884: obs-filters.dll

03:41:59.884: obs-ffmpeg.dll

03:41:59.884: obs-browser.dll

03:41:59.884: obs-backgroundremoval.dll

03:41:59.884: logi_obs_plugin_x64.dll

03:41:59.884: image-source.dll

03:41:59.884: frontend-tools.dll

03:41:59.884: enc-amf.dll

03:41:59.884: decklink-ouput-ui.dll

03:41:59.884: decklink-captions.dll

03:41:59.884: coreaudio-encoder.dll

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03:41:59.890: ==== Startup complete ===============================================

03:41:59.897: All scene data cleared

03:41:59.897: ------------------------------------------------

03:41:59.956: WASAPI: Device 'Speakers (3- USB Audio CODEC )' [48000 Hz] initialized

03:41:59.956: [Loaded global audio device]: 'Desktop Audio'

03:41:59.984: WASAPI: Device 'Microphone (3- USB Audio CODEC )' [48000 Hz] initialized

03:41:59.984: [Loaded global audio device]: 'Mic/Aux'

03:41:59.993: c615: data.GetDevice failed

03:41:59.993: c615: Video configuration failed

03:41:59.998: [obs-backgroundremoval] Destroy scalers.

03:42:00.036: adding 21 milliseconds of audio buffering, total audio buffering is now 21 milliseconds (source: Mic/Aux)

03:42:00.036:

03:42:00.126: [obs-backgroundremoval] Model rvm_mobilenetv3_fp32.onnx input 0: name src shape (4 dim) 1 x 3 x 192 x 192

03:42:00.126: [obs-backgroundremoval] Model rvm_mobilenetv3_fp32.onnx input 1: name r1i shape (4 dim) 1 x 16 x 96 x 96

03:42:00.126: [obs-backgroundremoval] Model rvm_mobilenetv3_fp32.onnx input 2: name r2i shape (4 dim) 1 x 20 x 48 x 48

03:42:00.126: [obs-backgroundremoval] Model rvm_mobilenetv3_fp32.onnx input 3: name r3i shape (4 dim) 1 x 40 x 24 x 24

03:42:00.126: [obs-backgroundremoval] Model rvm_mobilenetv3_fp32.onnx input 4: name r4i shape (4 dim) 1 x 64 x 12 x 12

03:42:00.126: [obs-backgroundremoval] Model rvm_mobilenetv3_fp32.onnx input 5: name downsample_ratio shape (1 dim) 1 x 0 x 0 x 0

03:42:00.126: [obs-backgroundremoval] Model rvm_mobilenetv3_fp32.onnx output 0: name pha shape (4 dim) 1 x 1 x 192 x 192

03:42:00.126: [obs-backgroundremoval] Model rvm_mobilenetv3_fp32.onnx output 1: name r1o shape (4 dim) 1 x 16 x 96 x 96

03:42:00.126: [obs-backgroundremoval] Model rvm_mobilenetv3_fp32.onnx output 2: name r2o shape (4 dim) 1 x 20 x 48 x 48

03:42:00.126: [obs-backgroundremoval] Model rvm_mobilenetv3_fp32.onnx output 3: name r3o shape (4 dim) 1 x 40 x 24 x 24

03:42:00.126: [obs-backgroundremoval] Model rvm_mobilenetv3_fp32.onnx output 4: name r4o shape (4 dim) 1 x 64 x 12 x 12

03:42:00.126: [obs-backgroundremoval] Allocated 110592 sized float-array for input 0

03:42:00.126: [obs-backgroundremoval] Allocated 147456 sized float-array for input 1

03:42:00.126: [obs-backgroundremoval] Allocated 46080 sized float-array for input 2

03:42:00.126: [obs-backgroundremoval] Allocated 23040 sized float-array for input 3

03:42:00.126: [obs-backgroundremoval] Allocated 9216 sized float-array for input 4

03:42:00.126: [obs-backgroundremoval] Allocated 1 sized float-array for input 5

03:42:00.126: [obs-backgroundremoval] Allocated 36864 sized float-array for output 0

03:42:00.126: [obs-backgroundremoval] Allocated 147456 sized float-array for output 1

03:42:00.126: [obs-backgroundremoval] Allocated 46080 sized float-array for output 2

03:42:00.126: [obs-backgroundremoval] Allocated 23040 sized float-array for output 3

03:42:00.126: [obs-backgroundremoval] Allocated 9216 sized float-array for output 4

03:42:00.155: [duplicator-monitor-capture: 'Display Capture'] update settings:

03:42:00.155: display: 1 (1920x1080)

03:42:00.155: cursor: true

03:42:00.155: method: DXGI

03:42:00.155: Switched to scene 'cam'

03:42:00.158: ------------------------------------------------

03:42:00.158: Loaded scenes:

03:42:00.158: - scene 'cam':

03:42:00.158: - source: 'Display Capture' (monitor_capture)

03:42:00.158: - source: 'c615' (dshow_input)

03:42:00.158: - filter: 'Background Removal' (background_removal)

03:42:00.158: - filter: 'Color Correction' (color_filter_v2)

03:42:00.158: - filter: 'Chroma Key' (chroma_key_filter_v2)

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Submitted by MessyAsian | #Specialdealer Special Offer Online Shopping Store 2016

Anybody else got a crazy strong Wizard? If you do, what are your specs/stats?

So, I’ve got a level 70; Paragon 34 Wizard. It’s primary attributes are:

Strength: 619 Dexterity: 77 Intelligence: 5518 Vitality: 3610 Armor: 7564 Damage: 302,799.28

Offense

Damage increases by intelligence: 5518% Damage increased by skills: 10% Bonus damage to elites: 0.00% Attacks per second: 1.17 Attack speed increase: 1.60% Critical hit chance: 18% Critical hit damage: +101% Area damage: 24% Cool down reduction: 0% Fire damage increase: 19% Arcane damage increase: 20% Electrocute damage increase: 13% Arcane orb damage increase: 8%

Defense

Block amount: 0-0 Block chance: 0% Damage reduction: 68.37% Physical resistance: 1194 Cold resistance: 810 Fire resistance: 1081 Lightning resistance: 931 Poison resistance: 810 Arcane/Holy resistance: 942 Crown control reduction: 25.98% Missile damage reduction: 0% Melee damage reduction: 0% Thorns: 0.00

Life

Maximum life: 408,287 Total life bonus: +13% Life per second: 24,513.73 Life steal: 0.00% Life per kill: 20,960 Life per hit: 12,720 Health globe healing bonus: 12,706 Bonus to gold/globe radius: 2.00

Resource

Maximum arcane power: 120 Arcane regeneration/second: 13.90 Arcane power cost reduction: 0%

Adventure

Moving speed: +0% Gold find: +947% Magic find: +0% Experience: 23,225,717 Bonus experience: 0% Bonus experience per kill: 396.40

Sorry for this being such a long stats board. But if you wanna see all of the detailed stats like that, go to the menu, use left bumper or click over onto inventory, and if you have a ps4 you press 🔲, if you’re on Xbox press the x button (not the home button) go ahead and compare them to mine I’d love to read them

Submitted by Financial-Fee-5461 | #Specialdealer Special Offer Online Shopping Store 2016

[USA-LA] [H] Acer Aspire 7 17.3" Laptop (A717-72G-700J) and Xbox Accessories [W] PayPal or Local

Hey, looking to sell my Acer laptop & some Xbox accessories:

Acer Aspire 7 (A717-72G-700J) (purchased new November 2018), $540 shipped, $500 local

• 17.3" 60 Hz IPS 1920 x 1080 Full HD Display
• Intel 8th Gen Core i7-8750H (2.20 GHz) 6-core Coffee Lake
• NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5
• Crucial 8GBx2 (16GB RAM) CT2K8G4SFS824A (purchased new & installed March 2021)
• Crucial P5 1TB PCIe M.2 2280SS SSD CT1000P5SSD8 (purchased new & installed March 2021)
• Gigabit LAN 10/100/1000Mbps
• WLAN 802.11ac Wi-Fi featuring 2x2 MU-MIMO technology (Dual-Band 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz)
• Bluetooth 4.1
• 1 x HDMI 2.0
• 1 x USB 3.1 Gen 1 Type-C (up to 5 Gbps)
• 1 x USB 3.0 (with Power-off Charging)
• 2 x USB 2.0
• 1 x Headphone/Microphone Combo Jack
• Fingerprint Reader
• Optimized Dolby Audio Premium sound enhancement
• Acer TrueHarmony Sound System
• Built-in Dual Digital Microphone
• Two Built-in Stereo Speakers
• HD Webcam (1280 x 720) supporting High Dynamic Range (HDR)
• Secure Digital (SD) Card Reader
• Dedicated Numeric Keypad
• Media Control Keys
• Backlit Keyboard
• 4-cell Li-Ion (3220 mAh) Battery
• Windows 11 Home
• Original OEM power adapter included
• Samsonite Laptop Sleeve included

Xbox Accessories, $75 shipped, $60 local

• LVLUP Pro Gaming Headset with Foldable Mic (New/Sealed)
• Armor 3 Dual Controller Rechargeable Battery Station (New/Sealed)
• Surge Gripz, Controller Skin & Thumb Grips (New/Sealed)
• Amazon Basics Xbox One Wired Controller, White (B07D12RPHX)
• Xbox Live Gold, 3 Months
• Xbox Game Pass 14 Day Trial EXPIRED

Timestamp

Local, 70124

Thanks for looking!

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Option for 720/1080 not showing up in XBMC

Hello everyone,

I just got an Xbox 1.6 that seems hardmodded with Aladdin chip (SST 49LF020A), Evox M8 Plus BIOS and XBMC (v. 1.1.0) dashboard. My only concern is that there isn't any "video hardware" option in the Settings/System menu so I can't select between 480/720/1080 resolutions. I know that for doing this I have to switch to NTSC via Enigmah (that I can't find in the applications) otherwise they are grey. If I go to Settings/Programs /General tab there is an option "For games that support 60Hz" and I can select "Use NTSC-M and NTSC-J" instead of "PAL 60Hz". My question is : maybe the XBMC version is too old and doesn't have this option listed ? Can I try to install Enigmah and see if after switching to NTSC it pop up something new in the menu ? Thanks!

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05/06/22 Dailies, Weeklies & Information

XBOX CURRENTLY DEALING WITH AN OUTAGE! WILL UPDATE WHEN POSSIBLE.

ALIENS HAVE LANDED IN APPALACHIA UNTIL MAY 10TH!!!

Atomic Shop

• FREE: ___
• FREE: Smudge Face Paint
• Fallout 1st FREE: Hawaiian Pants Outfit
• Daily Discounted Item: ___ (on sale for __ atoms)
• Discounted Item (Fallout 1st?): Bucking Brahmin Bundle (on sale for 720 atoms)

Dailies (change over daily at 12 pm EST)

• [S.C.O.R.E. 250]
• [S.C.O.R.E. 250]
• Complete a Daily Operation! (1) [S.C.O.R.E. 250]
• Complete an Event while Well Fed (1) [S.C.O.R.E. 250]
• Complete the Event: "Invaders From Beyond" (1) [S.C.O.R.E. 250]
• [S.C.O.R.E. 250]
• Gold Star: Complete Daily Challenges (5) [S.C.O.R.E. 250]
• [S.C.O.R.E. 250]
• Level Up! (1) [S.C.O.R.E. 500]
• Take a Camera Picture of an Alien ___ (1) [S.C.O.R.E. 250]

Weeklies (change over on Tuesdays at 12pm eastern)

• Claim a Workshop (5) [S.C.O.R.E. 1000]
• Complete Daily Operations! (5) [S.C.O.R.E. 1000]
• Complete an Gold Star Daily Challenge! (1) [S.C.O.R.E. 1500]
• Complete an Event (10) [S.C.O.R.E. 1000]
• Complete an Event while Well Fed (3) [S.C.O.R.E. 1000]
• Complete the "Invaders From Beyond" Daily Challenge (5) [S.C.O.R.E. 1000]
• Complete the Event: "Invaders From Beyond" (3) [S.C.O.R.E. 1000]
• Craft or Scrap Clothing, Armor or a Weapon (10)
• Harvest a Wild Plant or Fungi (25) [S.C.O.R.E. 1000]
• Kill a Creature while Well Fed (30) [S.C.O.R.E. 1000]
• Kill a Legendary Enemy (15) [S.C.O.R.E. 1000]
• Level Up! (3) [S.C.O.R.E. 1500]
• REPEATABLE (under rank 100): Gain XP (10000) [S.C.O.R.E. 100]

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Submitted by SeveriaVici | #Specialdealer Special Offer Online Shopping Store 2016

I need help making the most of the monitor I was given

I was given this monitor from work as it was used for 2 years before being replaced with an upgrade.

Link to monitor and specs

I use two devices on this monitor:

A 2017 15" MBP with an eGPU

An Xbox Series S

I game on both and so I was wondering what settings on both devices would yield the best results for gaming.

For the Series S, I know it's possible to change resolution in the Settings menu to 4K, 1440, 1080, 720, etc. I wanted to know if tinkering with those settings does anything good or bad, in regards to performance or if I should leave it at the 4K setting on my Xbox and assume it's going to give the best performance? I understand only a handful of games run at 4K on the S so I don't know if there's a setting that takes that in to account or if I need to be manually switching depending on the game

As for my MBP, I have read the Dell display can be overclocked to be higher than the 60hz? I wanted to know if that would be something worth looking in to and how to go about doing it. I took a brief look online at some guides and it seems the program to do this is Windows-only. I have an old Windows notebook I could use to download the app and do the process of OCing but do those settings remain saved on the monitor or will those settings only stick if I use the Windows machine I used to OC it?

Submitted by smackythefrog | #Specialdealer Special Offer Online Shopping Store 2016

Magic Leap 2 Is Equipped With The Same Architecture That Powers The Sony Playstation 5 & The Microsoft Xbox Series S and X | AMD Mero & Magic Leap Demophon | Details Leak as a Part Of GPU Benchmark on Basemark | An RDNA 2 Powered Beast is Incoming

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• TWEET: https://twitter.com/_rogame/status/1520521116086849544
• ARTICLE: https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-mero-low-power-zen2-rdna2-apu-has-spotted-running-android-os-for-magic-leap-ar-headset

AMD Mero powers Augmented Reality headset

It has been a while since we heard about Mero, AMD’s low-power APU with RDNA2 graphics.

The APU has been discovered by @_rogame running Magic Leap Demophon Augmented Reality headset. It was using Android 10 operating system and 720×920 resolution (for one eye).

AMD Mero has been usually referred to as a silicon copy of Van Gogh, which ended up in Valve Steam Deck handheld gaming console. Both are quad-core Zen2-based low-power APUs equipped with integrated RDNA2 graphics. Rumors about Mero have emerged around 2019 and in most cases it shared Device ID and root complex with Van Gogh.

However, Mero and Van Gogh are not identical chips, Locuza, better known for his die shot analysis, claims that Van Gogh has more IP blocks enabled, such as Compute Vision hardware or the fact it has more PCIe lanes. In that sense, Mero could be a custom version of Van Gogh.

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However, Mero and Van Gogh are not identical chips, Locuza, better known for his die shot analysis, claims that Van Gogh has more IP blocks enabled, such as Computer Vision hardware or the fact it has more PCIe lanes. In that sense, Mero could be a custom version of Van Gogh.

The APU was tested with BaseMark GPU test on Android 10 operating system with OpenGL ES 3.1 and Vulkan APIs. According to BaseMark PowerBoard ranking, it is indeed faster than AMD Renoir APU (Ryzen 4000 with Vega iGPU), but only because it was running a custom resolution of 720×920.

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AMD Mero in BaseMark database, Source: BaseMark/Rogame

AMD has not officially acknowledged its Mero APU yet. We have only seen an implementation of its sibling for Steam Deck known as Van Gogh or Aerith. The Magic Leap device that has been discovered in BaseMark database is probably a prototype that is not yet available for sale.

Source: Basemark via @_rogame

These are the results of a specific system benchmarked with Basemark GPU. This results page shows lists all submitted benchmark runs made on this system. The different benchmarks that where run can be clicked on to a page with more information including a chart.

• https://powerboard.basemark.com/system-details/504473
• https://www.amd.com/en/technologies/rdna-2

AMD RDNA™ 2 architecture is the foundation for next-generation PC gaming graphics, the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S and X consoles. The groundbreaking RDNA architecture was first introduced at E3 2019, and since then has continuously evolved to spearhead the next generation of high performance gaming. It’s the DNA that powers your games, the DNA that brings your games to life, the DNA that keeps evolving.

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Submitted by TheGoldenLeaper | #Specialdealer Special Offer Online Shopping Store 2016

What exactly does “Unsupported” really mean? My findings so far

I got my Steam Deck a week ago today and like many people I’ve been wondering for months just what “unsupported” means. So far there appear to be three basic categories of unsupported games: VR games that will never work, multiplayer games that use an anti-cheat system that is totally out of Valve’s hands and is up to developers to add support, and a mysterious third category only described as “Valve is still working on adding support for this game”. Pretty much all of my games in the unsupported list fall into this catch-all category, since I don’t play multiplayer games.

I wasn’t really in any hurry to investigate this yet, due to how many supported and untested games I wanted to try first and the fact that there isn’t much free space on my 64GB Steam Deck. But then when redeeming some old Humble Bundle keys I accidentally installed a game without realizing it was unsupported, so I figured that since it was already installed I might as well try it and find out. It launched and played, so then I decided to start investigating further and try out some other unsupported games to see what’s causing them to be considered unsupported.

• Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon: The Ubisoft launcher hangs during the “searching for patches” step and never actually launches the game. From what I’ve found online this is the case with many Ubisoft games, including most of the Far Cry games, they all have the same issue with the launcher but the games probably run fine if you can get past that. But as it turns out it’s actually possible, just super tedious and annoying, to get it to work (and it sounds like this trick may work for most Ubisoft games with this issue). First, force Proton version 6.3-8 (I have no clue if this step is actually necessary, but I saw complaints that the next step stopped working at some point so I rolled it back just to be safe). Set the launch option to “PROTON_NO_FSYNC=1 %command%”, this will allow Ubisoft Connect to push past the “looking for patches” error, though in my case it still hung on the first try, I had to quit and restart but then it worked. But when I finally got it all set up and it launched Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon the game instantly crashed with some kind of error related to Wine. So just to eliminate any possibilities I went back and reset it to not force Proton 6.3-8 and that seemed to fix it. Now the game launches and plays great. This is one I was most looking forward to playing on the Steam Deck since I’ve never had a computer capable of playing it well. It sure thinks it’s a modern AAA game, only running at 40-50fps at ultra settings, but that’s the reason I’ve never actually been able to play it for as long as I owned it, it’s way more resource intensive than most games of the era.

• System Shock Enhanced Edition: This one I can’t quite figure out. It launches and runs great, it even uses a Steam Controller profile that’s been heavily customized for the game, everything works and I get 60fps, but then sometimes the frame rate just tanks. I first noticed this when trying to calibrate the right analog stick, it will hesitate for a moment any time I push it (in joystick mouse mode) while using the trackpad or gyro to control the mouse works perfectly with no hiccups. This issue doesn’t make any sense to me, because the game shouldn’t care how the mouse input is created, you’d think it would respond to all mouse inputs equally regardless of how they’re generated. But then if I try to change it to a true joystick (as the game seems to support game pads natively) the whole game just freaks out and will freeze (sound and all) for a second or more any time I attempt any kind of movement or input. I can’t figure out if this is related to the Steam Deck or Proton and that’s why it’s unsupported or if this is some weird glitch where the game doesn’t like mouse and gamepad inputs simultaneously, but if I set it back to joystick mouse and avoid using the analog stick (which is fine for me because I prefer trackpad anyway) it seems to work fine so far. The only other issue, and maybe this is the reason that it’s unsupported but I’m pretty sure the same issue would exist on Windows, is that there’s no music. At least I assume there’s supposed to be background music, I’ve never played the game before, but it’s just silent apart from sound effects and dialog. This game uses MIDI for music like most early ‘90s games, and I’m guessing there’s something going wrong there, the Steam Deck doesn’t have any way to interpret that MIDI signal. There are settings for music but no matter what MIDI setting I select there’s no music anywhere. I’ve seen posts saying you should run a MIDI decoder in the background to get music but I’m not sure how to set that up on the Steam Deck.

• Snake Pass: This game just plays perfectly. Full stop. I don’t know if there was some issue with a previous version of Proton and they just haven’t managed to retest it yet or if there’s some problem I haven’t come across yet, but it runs better than some Verified games and looks fantastic (it’s an Unreal Engine 4 game so performance isn’t incredible, around 40fps at max graphics and it will eat up battery life, but it still looks and runs way better than when I played it on Xbox One). The only issue I’ve noticed is some rare sound/music glitches that occasionally happen after waking from sleep mode, but I’ve seen that issue pop up on all kinds of games including Verified ones.

• Thomas Was Alone: This one also plays perfectly, for the most part. One noticeable issue is that every time you launch the game antialiasing is somehow off (despite it defaulting to ultra settings and not having an option for it), fiddling with the graphics settings (not actually changing them, just switching them around to get the game to reset) seems to bring back antialiasing. Another weird thing is that sometimes the music will overlap, like the music from the previous level will continue in the background of the next level, but I have no idea if this is a Steam/Proton issue or just a bug in the game. Apart from that it runs at a locked 60fps at max visuals and battery is estimated at about 6 hours, as you’d expect for a decade-old 2D platformer. The only other thing I’d point out is that it‘s letterboxed, it doesn’t fill the whole screen, but I think this might be an aesthetic choice since the settings clearly recognize that the resolution is set to 1280x800, not 720, and the letterboxing looks a bit thicker than what I’d expect from 16:9 (maybe it’s running at a more cinematic 1.85:1).

• Risk of Rain: As far as I can tell the only issue with this one is that gamepad compatibility is turned off by default and the Steam Deck defaults to being a gamepad so the game doesn’t respond to controls. Just use the touch screen to enable gamepad support, and it seems to run perfectly fine (you might as well reset the trackpad to act as a mouse with mouse click since the menu is mouse-based and using the analog stick or D-pad just controls a mouse cursor, which is slow and annoying).

• Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast: This one has two major problems. The first is that it needs a custom controller profile, it doesn’t respond to anything when you boot it up. This may be as simple as Risk of Rain above where you just need a mouse to navigate menus, but I don’t know, it says it has partial controller support on the Steam page. The second and much bigger issue is that when I click to start the game it just shows a full screen image that appears to be some kind of texture map for a lightsaber. I can hear the game happening in the background, it will even react when I press a face button which makes me think maybe it does work with controllers, but all I see is the unwrapped lightsaber texture, the game is totally unplayable. The first and so far only game I’ve come across where “unsupported” means that it literally won’t run at all, though maybe like Far Cry there is some workaround I don’t know about. I’ve seen reports of people running it on Proton or even the Steam Deck, but even if I roll back to 6.3-8 which supposedly works fine I still get the random texture taking up the screen.

• HROT: This is a retro Quake throwback that launches and runs, but the frame rate is abysmal at maybe 10-15fps at the very best. Rolling back to older versions of Proton can boost the frame rate to around 25 but then you lose sound (there’s a workaround posted online but that didn’t work for me). I still think there’s something really wrong here because there’s no reason such a simplistic game should run so poorly, and in the options the lowest frame rate limiter is 120fps, so the game is clearly assuming you’re getting Quake-like frame rates, not sub-30fps. This one I’d almost call unplayable, except that 15fps is pretty true to the original mid-‘90s Quake experience...

I think I should probably go ahead and wrap this up for now. I still have several other games in my “unsupported” list that I plan to try, and I can make another post like this detailing what I’ve found if anyone’s interested, but for now I’m low on SSD space and most of the other games are much larger installs that won’t fit on my Steam Deck until I delete some other games or get an SD card.

But the bottom line TL;DR is that, from my admittedly very small sample size, “unsupported” almost never means truly unplayable. Almost all of these games can be made to launch and run, many of them work perfectly with no obvious issues at all and others have some very minor setup required to get things working right. Obviously this doesn’t apply to VR games or multiplayer games that use an incompatible anti-cheat, but if you’ve been wanting to try one of the many games that still says Valve is working on adding support go ahead and try it, chances are it will work at least in some capacity.

I honestly think Valve should make a new category for games that can be fully playable but will require tinkering to get them working and will run fine after that, because it feels wrong to call a game unsupported when it literally only takes five seconds of changing the default control scheme to get it working perfectly. But then again the kind of person willing to spend some time tinkering isn’t going to be deterred by “Unsupported”. But especially with larger games it would be nice to know for sure whether a game just has minor solvable issues or is truly a lost cause that won’t be playable at all before spending all the time and bandwidth downloading it.

Submitted by SFArtAndDesigns | #Specialdealer Special Offer Online Shopping Store 2016