It's again time to get nostalgic for the PS1 with Giant Bomb user borgmaster as they look at the games that came out for the PS1 during August 1996!
Do any of you remember playing The Hive, Triple Play '97, Worms, or NFL Full Contact?
User Blog: https://www.giantbomb.com/playstation/3045-22/forums/all-ps1-games-in-order-part-030-1921039/
Looking for some PC advice:
Last night my PC hard-rebooted while I was playing Starfield for the first time since the big performance patch. Wasn't sure why, but I suspect the CPU or GPU overheated due to load, as my PC tower was quite a bit hotter than normal to the touch in the aftermath.
I'm trying to diagnose the issue by running the game again with some performance monitors on to see if I can turn down settings, cap framerate, or do other things to not have that happen again, but different monitors seem to be giving me different readouts.
The statistics readout from the Xbox Game Bar overlay and the one Nvidia's software can put up give me relatively reasonable numbers for what I'd expect out of my hardware trying to run starfield (Core i7-9700F + RTX 3070 + 32GB RAM), but meanwhile the corsair icue software's sensors seem to paint a more dire picture, with high CPU temps and 90%-100% CPU load.
I'm not sure which to believe. Given the crash and the relative heat my PC starts to spit out when I run starfield, I'm sort of inclined to assume icue is being more truthful, but on the other hand, its readings don't update in real-time when I'm playing the game, only when I tab out to check the window, so that could be a problem as well.
After a bit of research I noticed a lot of reports from launch era of starfield specifically causing weird, sudden reboots on PC without any particular signs of thermal throttling or overheat, so the issue could be software specific.
No obvious solution presented itself, but at least it's slightly reassuring to think that this is Todd's fault rather than a sign I may need to move up my PC upgrade timeline.
On the advice of @wantonviolins I picked up MSI afterburner and tried another test session last night, instead tried using some more optimized settings based on some hardware test vids as opposed to the GeForce "optimize" button settings.
Got a pretty decent frame rate, though both afterburner and the Ms game bar reported relatively high, but not dangerous temp and CPU load, and overall it seemed stable. Perhaps the stories of starfield just causing weird CPU hiccups are true.
Next I'll try manually capping the fps to 60 (something I need to do to get fallout 4 to work, anyway, so I will willingly become a "humans can't see past 60fps" guy for this) and see if I can get the PC to play a bit cooler with Todd's folly
I might be speaking too soon but it looks like I fixed all of my (current) performance issues by going into the Geforce settings app and manually capping Starfield's framerate to 60fps.
Now the computer is running so cool it's barely warmer than browsing temperatures, even with browser tabs open in the 2nd monitor and DLSS off.
(high refresh rate monitors were a mistake, 4k was a mistake, gsync was a mistake)
Some time has passed but what do we all make of Summer Game Fest 2024 after one week? Moderator Gamer_152 penned their thoughts about the current state of "Not-E3" and the various showcases the biggest names in games had.
Read on Giant Bomb!
User Blog: https://www.giantbomb.com/profile/gamer_152/blog/not-e3-2024-the-great-video-game-roundup/277353/
ever notice that no one makes half life 3 jokes anymore?
in fact, this post is the first one with the #half life 3 tag! funniest possible milestone.
They're still there, but really small in comparasion. Everyone just tired, and everyone kind of accepted the new status of Valve.
