General gaming discussion

Amazon have a great bargain at the moment for all you Days Gone fans:

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As they said with Borderlands 4, you need to suffer through ~15 minutes of bad stuttering and mini freezes, then it gets better. Async shader compilation won't work without some sort of a pre-caching mechanism.

Something can be implemented in the Nvidia / AMD driver app, and hook into the installed games to compile shaders even without starting the game or it's DRM / launcher - something needs to be done, and I'm surprised neither Epic nor Nvidia isn't driving anything, as this really make PC gaming look very bad.

Are shaders compiled on demand ... when needed for a scene or before the game is played at all. I would have a assumed the latter, but looks like it's dynamic.

Supermarket Simulator has come to Game Pass. Will any of you be check it out?

I'm not sure a shader compiler that runs on GPU is a viable option, as in faster than on CPU, compilers being such complex code with lots of states and branches. And as you said compiling shaders is nothing new, so it's more a UE5 problem than anything else.

I don't know, what kind of freak plays power wash simulator when they can simply go outside and power wash … everything?

Facing which way?

I had to figure out which post you meant. It's Yennifer for those who didn't figure it out.

Your link was dead but in my quoted post it shows the correct link.

I gave cloud streaming a retry on game pass to see if the upgrades are any good. Gave cyberpunk a go, it's actually pretty good. Very smooth, no pixelation like there used to be and although there is every so slight lag, you forget about it after about 10 seconds. I'm actually impressed. The only issue is you're playing a Series S game. I would expect if they are saying its now out of Beta it would need to be at least Series X quality, but really they need to start offering PC specs like nVidia to make it worthwhile. Because no matter how good it is, Series S is not going to stop me simply installing the game.

I spotted The Ascent on the list. I love that game. Think I'm getting sucked into to a 2nd playthrough 😄 This is the type of game where you don't need to bother installing it. Especially now with the bitrate, resolution and fps improvements. I'd say its probably as good as it would be if I were to install it.

Some positive signs. But still a bit to go to make streaming a worthwhile consideration in the game pass tiers.