Final Fantasy XV has been installed.
Started Multiplayer and the Game was like you should play single player are you sure you want to countiue? yes. Made Character.
Character Creator is decent.
Was really shocked when the game was like oh here is a story for you just in multiplayer…
Neat.
Yes I made a female character. I’ve been writing female lead stories so long it is default for me. My character needs a shower. I figure that’ll happen as I play the quest.
What do I think so far?
I’ve only played for an hour. It runs smoothly. No disconnects to the server during the time I was playing online. Battles are a light show but easy to understand. I like it so far.
the only difference that i can tell is that there is a tiny, tiny bit less stuttering.
otherwise it’s margin of error.
the only time setting it higher actually matters is if certain games check for min specs, in which case the 2gb usually lets the game be OK with it but theres basically no games that do that so
If given the option in a game I almost always play as a female character because if I’m going to be staring at a butt all game it might as well be a cute girl’s.
hmm, 1550 mhz is fairly stable. at a max of around 70C under gaming load.
took Holdfast from barely playable 25ish FPS to 30-33 FPS for example.
Other interesting thing is that when gaming the CPU sits around 3.9 ghz on all cores, sometimes boosting past 4ghz in single threaded. unlike previous CPUs that sit between 3.5-3.6ghz under gaming load. and are random in single core.
temps sit around 60-70C under gaming load (sometimes 75C) and that’s just with a wraith Spire cooler. so really not bad at all. Under synthetic load of both the CPU+ GPU maxed at 90C but thats a fairly unrealistic max as it was a stress test so.
I may put on a Noctua U12S or something to see how far it could go under even better cooling.
CPU is stock but it turbos to 3.9ghz on all cores when gaming anyway so meh?
Too bad they never figured out how to do it right on both ends (manufacturers and game devs).
On the other hand: good. I’m sick of all the times total_biscuit said “there’s no reason not to get SLI/CF. if a game doesn’t support it just turn the other GPU off”. aka spend double the money to get some more fps in a few games. Fucking terrible price to performance ratio.
oh manufactuers have been doing it fairly well. it’s the game devs not giving a damn that ruined it this time.
they cant even optimize games half the time, let alone make multi GPU work… or work well.
for a time it was nvidia/AMD’s job and the Xfire/SLI went well (basically … some of Dx11) but now with DX12 they are trying to make the devs do the work and that won’t happen so yeah
Its going to take as long as DX11 did to be a thing lol but atm “DX12” titles are just poorly made ports of the DX11 ones. Except in rare circumstances.
If/when games are made that actually use it then we might see some really interesting performance and a massive increase in visual quality of games at the same time.
