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    Gaming deals, half price caplets

    Amazon Luna has Total War: Rome II - Emperor Edition as the giveaway + a few other games. Total War: Rome II - Emperor Edition
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    Gaming thoughts, bite-size chewables - new orange flavor!

    I finally had about 7 hours in the Marathon Sever Slam before it closed. The environments are too bright and I had trouble figuring out which objects I could interact. The limited weapons were OK and were pleasing to use like in Destiny 2. The UESC enemies were rather tough. It felt like...
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    Gaming thoughts, bite-size chewables - new orange flavor!

    Anyone tried Bungie's Marathon Server Slam ? Opinions ?
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    Gaming deals, half price caplets

    GOG has some new total war games. If you go to one of the newly added game's store page, there is a button to add 8 total war games in the series for $29.45. Shogun, Medieval, Rome and Medieval 2 seems to be full versions. Attila, Rome 2, Three Kingdoms and Pharaoh seem to be base version with...
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    Next GPU releases: 2025 edition

    I am going to hold on to my RX6600 for now. The 8GB AMD card prices have not moved up or down. In normal times, they would have come down after an year. The RX7600 is slightly down but I am more interested in RX9060 16GB. The 16 GB cards are close to 200% of what they were 2 months ago. The...
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    GESC Racing: The perpetual all things virtual cars thread. (includes GT6,Forza 5,etc)

    https://www.humblebundle.com/games/nacon-racing-collection Any opinion on the games in that collection? I have a controller and a brand new beginner steering wheel, I am getting to grips with, in FH4.
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    Forza Horizon 6

    I hope the Forzathon Live will be similar to FH4 than FH5. FH4 still gets 10+ players for a hourly event after the game has been de-listed. When I played FH5, there were events every 15 minutes but it was rare if another player joined you. It was mostly solo.
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    Next GPU releases: 2025 edition

    I am looking to upgrade my RX6600. I see that 9060 XT 8GB prices have not moved up. However the 16GB variant is very rarely available and wildly expensive. It's price increased 40-50 % in one month. RTX 5060 is expensive than 8GB 9060 XT. The Ti variants have shot up in price. The 5060Ti 16GB...
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    Next GPU releases: 2025 edition

    The issue I have with all the fast iGPUs from both CPU makers is that, they are only available at the top end. It is usually much cheaper to get a laptop with rtx 4050 (60W) + a normal Intel or AMD cpu than the one with the monster iGPU. I find Lunar Lake laptops with iGPU costing about 150 to...
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    OLED vs Mini-LED

    In my regular LED HDR monitor, if I turn on HDR under windows, it locks the OSD HDR brightness to 100 and games looks washed out. If I don't enable HDR in windows, I can adjust brightness using monitor OSD (I keep it at 50).
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    GESC Racing: The perpetual all things virtual cars thread. (includes GT6,Forza 5,etc)

    I have been playing FH4, FH5 and ETS2/ATS using my XBox controller from XBox Series S bought in 2021. The console is dead but the controller is working with a USB cable. I use it both in Windows and MacOS. Now some of the triggers are not always registering among other problems. Sony has...
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    GESC Racing: The perpetual all things virtual cars thread. (includes GT6,Forza 5,etc)

    Only UK is different in ETS2. Everywhere else you drive on the right, which is an adjustment to me. I have both, but I prefer ETS2 since the roads are vaguely similar to local conditions. ATS roads are too wide everywhere and the UI is not to my taste -- leaning too much on the trucker vibe...
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    Gaming deals, half price caplets

    Humble Bundle has a Games under 5 hours bundle. https://www.humblebundle.com/games/games-under-5-hours-bundle Currently $14.16 for 10 games. Both monument valley games are excellent. No idea about others.
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    GESC Racing: The perpetual all things virtual cars thread. (includes GT6,Forza 5,etc)

    Both games have a driving academy. https://blog.scssoft.com/2024/10/driving-academy-release.html There is a youtube video describing the functionality in that page.
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    Gaming thoughts, bite-size chewables - new orange flavor!

    Is the Total War Warhammer 40K different from the Total War Warhammer? I have that on my wishlist for a long time since I liked Total War and Dawn of War.
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    Buy your RAM (and SSDs) now.

    I have a DDR4 2666MHz 16GB x 2 set I had bought in March 2021. Checked the upgrade cost to 3200MHz 32GB x 2 set. Only individual 32GB sticks are available and each of them is around 30% costly than the the set I had bought before. During May 2025, a 64GB kit was only 60% of the 2021 32GB kit price.
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    Wifi glitch with a malfunctioning desktop

    Not looking for old cards. Also no 8GB cards for AI/ML. So 12 or 16GB cards - Intel is not available, AMD has 6700XT, 7700XT and 9060xt 16GB, NVIDIA has 3060, 4060ti and 5060ti 16GB. A 3060 is just slightly faster then 6600 but it used up 180W+ when compared to the 100W limit for my 6600. Both...
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    Wifi glitch with a malfunctioning desktop

    The whole thing is complete now. Lenovo refunded me the full purchase price of the machine after I shipped the system to them. It took a month for the money to come to my bank account but it did arrive, I am not sure how it makes sense for them economically. I am not too mad since I have...
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    24" Monitor Recommendations

    Isn't that 24 inch 4k LG, a very old model ? Brightness seems a bit low. I found BenQ RD240. 16:10, usbc 90w and 300nit. Not sure if it is available everywhere or about BenQ quality.
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    The free game Thread

    OpenRA Combined Arms A standalone games made using OpenRA engine.