I mean, I agree but what are you going to do about it? Even if they didn’t add features, itd be “supply chain issues” or some other made up excuse. Whatever it takes to get Jensen a shinier jacket. But I personally would rather have new features I may or may not use compared to no features for the same price.

Blaming GPU manufacturers for poorly optimized games is a bit like blaming forks for people being obese.

Yes, games should be optimized. Thats a given. But its not NVidias fault for making better, more performant graphics cards with new features each generation. Its the game developer’s fault for being lazy, not knowing how to use their game engine, and not optimizing their game. GPU makers could drop the most advanced card known to man and that would make no difference for developers. Its still on them to optimize their game.

The artifacting is way down compared to before. AI isn’t going anywhere, and I only see it improving with less artifacts in the future. In some videos I have seen some issues but its really unfair since to show them on YouTube they have to record at only 120 fps and slow the game to 50% speed, and even then they also get slapped with YouTube compression. I don’t know if the artifacts will even really be very visible or noticeable outside of some edge cases.

I am more curious to see if MFG can be used for games that have a forced framerate cap, or emulators.

No, you dont need it, but it wouldn’t hurt to have a smoother picture. A smoother picture of course would give a perceived performance increase. So while the card might only be an 8% increase, it could feel like more particularly for games that don’t require MFG to be turned off.

I mean, obviously the 5080 isn’t really worth the price if you already have a 4080, but still. No 50 series is worth the price if you already have a 40 series. Nobody in their right mind buys a new GPU every generation.

I wonder if MFG can be utilized for games with a game engine hard-cap on framerate, or with emulators to give a smoother experience without having to modify the game files.

Is that with or without multiframe generation? I am assuming without?

For competitive or fast action games you should have MFG off, but for games that aren’t so fast I could easily see MFG giving a very clearly smoother presentation, and that is only available on the 50 series cards.

Who is this game even for?

Obviously not me, but still.

They might not keep a game from going to a platform like Sony does, by literally preventing it from being ported, but thay doesnt mean they have to port the game. I don’t see what this is supposed to mean other than saying they don’t specifically prevent games from being ported (such as exclusivity deals).

Turns out when you stop selling something and close the stores people could buy them in, they dont sell as much.

Manufactured decrease in demand.

My point was simply to illustrate how unfair of a comparison it was, not to comment on the hardware capabilities of those two systems.

The thing is, with FM sythesizers you always know it is an FM synthesizer. Nothing you can do will mask the sound of it. However, with a sampler it is significantly harder to know for sure a sampler is being used just from the sound.

Yes, I am aware. Again, I was merely illustrating that the comparison was not a fair one. But my point remains, FM synthesizer music is very prone to ear piercing shrieking, whereas the SNES tends to produce a softer, warmer sound. Yes, it can still shriek, but you really have to try with the correct note and sample combinations to do that. Even though the Genesis can output a better range of notes, it is easier for the notes to clash as well. Mostly you will find games from those times had the audio crunched into the midtones, and this is probably because CRT speakers werent very good and pushing the audio into the midtones produced a better sound.

If you are guilty of a crime, then certainly being truthful and cooperative with police can lead the Judge to be more lenient with sentencing than if you had been a problem. It also can directly lead to you being treated less roughly (or “normally”) by police, and less additional charges ontop of your existing charge. Obviously it depends on the severity of the crime, but it is not entirely a myth. Judges usually have within their discretion a range of time for sentencing, and I have seen multiple times where a Judge takes the Defendant’s cooperation and truthfulness into account, giving the lowest possible sentencing.

My personal opinion is to just be truthful and own your actions. Be accountable. If you broke the law you broke the law, you know? Yes, a lawyer can help lower your sentence, and its really never advisable to not speak to a lawyer, but its just my opinion of “If you cannot do the time, then do not do the crime.” Yes, sometimes following the law can be a hassle, and yes there are laws I think are stupid and I do not agree with. But they are still the laws of the land and if I want to live here, then I am obligated to follow the law to the best of my ability.

THIS IS NOT LEGAL ADVISE BY THE WAY

Be polite, be respectful. Kinda like bees. If you don’t mess with them, usually the bees aren’t going to mess with you. If you don’t give police a reason to interact with you, unless you were a witness to a crime or something they will usually leave you alone, where I live at least. I am over 30 and that is the only interaction with police I have ever had where I would consider myself as a suspect. Also, I feel obligated to mention that I am a Mexican American, and a legal citizen.

I had police called on me once. I was working for a homeowner while they were out of the country, and one of their neighbors called the police to report me being in the homeowners backyard.

I was watering their plants, by the way. But their neighbors might not have known or seen that since the backyard is behind the house and a fence.

Anyways, police showed up and took a few steps up the driveway to the side of the house where I was working and asked me if I was the homeowner. I politely said “No, I am not the homeowner.” The officer gave me a look, to which I elaborated “I work for the homeowner, they are currently on vacation in [country name], and they asked me to water their plants for them.” I was holding the water hose in my hand and the plants were wet on the side of the house he could see.

He was also polite, asked me for my ID which I presented, he took a picture of it on his phone and then took some notes. He asked me to hang out around the front of the home a bit because I think he may have been relaying information to dispatch, but then he came back and shook my hand and said “Thank you for being cooperative, I was on a call with the dispatch who told me the person who reported you said the homeowner was on vacation in [country name]. I don’t want to take any more of your time, but hope you have a nice day and I already let dispatch know if anyone else calls about it to let them know you work for the homeowner.” And that was that.

Be polite and respectful. Don’t lie or be untruthful. You might not like the police, but they are still humans, treat them like humans. Purposefully making their job harder will never, ever end well for you.

Every citizen can choose for themselves if they wish to remain silent, and if you choose to do so you must say specifically that you exercise your right to remain silent. If you have to speak to the police for whatever reason after you said you exercise your right to remain silent, you are legally obligated to say you will continue to exercise your right to remain silent if you choose to continue to do so.

Its obviously not a fair comparison, lol.

“If you connect a Nintendo Wii to a surround system and play a game that supports surround, it sounds way better than an Xbox Series X connected to a 1981 portable radio tv with a mono speaker.” Yeah, of course it will. But when considering the output capabilities of the audio systems of each, absolutely nobody is talking about this kind of scenario.

The comparison is assuming all things are equal, which includes the skill or knowledge of the sound programmer, speaker quality, etc. The Genesis can sound more crisp, but at the cost of being only capable of FM synthesizer music, which is extremely prone to sounding piercing or tinny. High pitch notes especially are susceptible to this. The Genesis is vastly easier to make it sound worse than the SNES, specifically because of the ability to have 8 channels of samples.

I am not sitting here saying that this sounds so much worse than this because its obvious. That is also not a fair comparison.

Again, don’t get me wrong. I love FM synthesizer music, Ryu Umemoto was a god on the PC98, not a single one of his entire composed library sounded bad. But in comparison to hardware capable of sample playback, that is already an unfair comparison right from the beginning.

Being debt free one of the few status symbols you cannot see. At that point, is it a status symbol if other people cannot see it?

I mean, I still agree though. Be debt free, seriously.

This is cool but the title of this article could not be more wrong.

The Genesis SPU is not capable of recreating the output of the SNES APU. The Genesis SPU was a programmable FM synthesizer, which is a completely different technology that is significantly more limited than the programmable sampler-like SNES APU. It is impossible for the Genesis to “perfectly recreate” anything from the SNES, unless the SNES soundtrack used samples of an FM synthesizer, in which case the other way around would be more accurate: that the SNES is recreating the Genesis. This did happen in some multiplat games that were made for the Genesis first. Even if somehow one could program the Genesis SPU to use only samples, there is only one channel capable of sample playback on the Genesis, whereas on the SNES, ALL 8 channels were capable of sample playback.

While it does not sound bad, in comparison to the SNES, the Genesis will lose every time. Its like comparing the NES to the SNES, the capability of the SNES APU (which was actually only slightly modified and then used for the PlayStation 1 SPU, both chips were designed by the same person, fun fact) just vastly outshines it.

Don’t get me wrong, I love FM synthesizer music. Games from the PC98 just sound wrong to me when played through generic MIDI or the Roland SC-88 Pro. But to say that the Genesis is perfectly recreating the music from a SNES game is just incorrect.

Not a good sign.

That’s pretty bad for something as big as Dragon Age.