I recently shared this with some users in the gog subreddit and got enough reception that I thought I should make a post here.

But if you didn't know this, each month if you have an Amazon prime account. You can get free gog games every month.

Right now doom 1+2 as well as doom 2016 are all free this month for prime users.

With the whole disk thing from Sony and people looking into gog, this is great way to build that library up slowly over time. Especially if money is tight or if you live in a country where prices are high for gog games. This can be used to help out.

Look up prime gaming.

I've finally done it, I've crossed the Rubicon. I've upgraded my gtx 1060 6GB after it finally died a week ago (RIP King) after almost 9 years of use, I also upgraded my old 1080p 74hz monitor with a 1440p 240hz OLED monitor.

I'm so excited to finally play my old games with High settings (Witcher 3, Metro Exodus, and total Warhammer) and try the games I barely can run smoothly before (BG3 and KCD).

Do you guys have any game recommendations that can make me appreciate these upgrades? Because so far I've only tried wardogs and even that blows me away with how smooth things are with max settings when previously I can barely hit 40 fps on low settings XD.

>Things changed since October 8 and the release of the big Frozen Trail update, though. That Steam concurrent number flew past 125,000 on the first day of the patch, and this past weekend, went even higher, reaching 185,443 yesterday according to SteamDB.

>Sharing a screenshot of Arc Raiders' concurrent player count on Steam when it hit 150,000 again, Embark full-stack engineer Leon San José Larsson writes on Twitter: "It won't last forever, of course, but it's great seeing so many people back again after almost a year." As one player suggests that perhaps the number could go higher when Embark implements PvE – it's testing a matchmaking toggle for this for a week starting tomorrow – the dev says: "One can always hope."

Finally finished my wife’s setup. Now on to mine 😎

SPOILERS BELOW.

I just got back from Guarma Island and the game was just singing. That whole battle on the island, the ride back to the gang with the song playing.. The fight back at Lagras, Sadie ordering me around and knowing she saved everyone, so hot. I caught this glimpse of what GTA 6 is gonna be like and it's just so exciting you know? Holy fuck boys.

Honestly I don't think I'm gonna be able to wait for the PC release. I might be playing early.

Dudes, I am sure I am in for the roller coaster of my life in this last half of the game

I'm gonna disable replies for now. See ya.

My dad bought me my first PC when I was a kid. About 12 years, four GPUs, and three generations of RAM later, I've finally built my own PC with money I've earned myself. Figured I'd share the journey.

It had an i5-3450, an Intel motherboard (yes, Intel used to make motherboards, and I genuinely can't remember which model it was), 8GB (2x4GB) of DDR3 1333MHz RAM, an MSI GTX 560, and a Huntkey 550W PSU.

That GTX 560 was my baby. I absolutely milked the shit out of it until 2018, when I finally upgraded to a GTX 1050 Ti. And somehow, that old Huntkey PSU is STILL working to this day. I have no explanation for this thing's survival.

I was so interested in PCs that I actually worked part-time as a kid at a local PC repair and parts shop. I loved being around the hardware, learning about different components, and just figuring things out. Eventually, studying took over, and I kinda drifted away from PC building for a while.

After finishing high school, I got back into it. I'd spend time at cybercafes playing League of Legends and tilting all day, but I was getting just as interested in what was going on behind the scenes as I was in the games themselves. I started wondering how hardware and software actually worked together, and why some games struggled to run smoothly even when the PC should've been capable of handling them.

GTA IV, in particular, drove me fucking crazy. Why couldn't I get 60 FPS when my PC seemed perfectly capable of it on paper?

That curiosity eventually played a part in choosing Computer Science as my major. I wanted to understand more about what was happening under the hood, beyond just putting parts together and playing games. Looking back, I guess the hobby that started with my dad buying me my first PC ended up influencing what I wanted to study, too.

Fast forward about 12 years from that first PC, and I finally built one with money from my own paycheck.

My first build had a Ryzen 5 3600, a GTX 1660 Ti, 32GB of DDR4 3200MHz RAM, and a Corsair RM750x. Later, I upgraded to a Ryzen 7 5800X3D and an XFX RX 9070 XT QuickSilver.

Going from 8GB of DDR3 to 32GB of DDR4 felt like a massive jump back then. And now I'm on DDR5. Three generations of RAM, four GPUs, multiple CPUs, and a whole lot of tinkering later, here we are.

I've recently moved to a new platform, and this is the build I'm hoping to stick with for the next five years.

Current build:

• CPU: Intel Core i5-14600KF
• Cooler: Thermaltake 360mm AIO
• Motherboard: ASUS ROG Strix Z790-H Gaming WiFi
• GPU: XFX RX 9070 XT QuickSilver
• RAM: 32GB G.Skill Trident Z DDR5 6000MHz CL30
• Storage: 2x Samsung 990 PRO 2TB + Crucial T500 1TB
• PSU: MSI MAG A850GL 850W Gold+
• Case: Thermaltake View 380 XL TG ARGB
• Fans: Lian Li UNI FAN SL-Infinity 120mm

It's not the craziest build on this subreddit, but I'm honestly pretty happy with it. I get to enjoy the hobby I grew up with, keep learning, and mess around with hardware that younger me could only dream of owning.

And that old Huntkey PSU? Still kicking. Some things never change.

*Note: if you still want to experience GTA IV use fusion fix mod =).

What's the first PC you guys had, and what are you running these days? (I am genuinely interested in hearing from others and their stories)

Pc 9800x3d w a 5070 costco pre build usually build but not in this economy lmfao.

He just turned 8 and is into Minecraft and whatnot. The laptop i gave him has my Microsoft account as the my Steam account on it. I see that Windows has a family account thing. Should I just wipe the PC and make a MS account for him and his own Steam/Xbox thing?

Edit: Thanks for the opinions... the main purpose of him having this was for beginner typing and monitored gameplay. After seeing one "free" little racing game from the Microsoft store with a million microtransactions in it... I am scared

He's a nighmare for Denuvo.

Now that the dust has settled around HWiNFO adding back the ASIC Quality metric (calculated from the fused SPEEDO value), it’d be interesting to see actual numbers across different tiers and AIB models.

If you're running the beta (v8.55-6093 or newer):

• Launch HWiNFO in full mode (uncheck Sensors-only).
• Check under Video Adapter -> [Your GPU] for the ASIC Quality field.

Drop your numbers below so we can get an idea of the spread:

• GPU Model & AIB: (e.g. RTX 4080 FE, MSI GeForce RTX 5070 12G GAMING TRIO OC)
• ASIC Quality: (%)
• Undervolt/OC behavior: (if you tested whether a high/low score actually made a difference for your curve)

Its amazing how well this game runs. If you want to see the full video Its right here. Build used in video description as well. PS5 Emulation- KytyPS5 - Astro's Playroom Cool Springs Stage

Is anyone else a bit worried about where AI reverse engineering is going?

I’ve been seeing more posts about people using AI to reverse engineer games and apps and release them for free. Part of me loves it. I get why people are happy to see companies like Adobe challenged, and I’m tired of overpriced software and pointless restrictions too.

But if years of work can be copied and given away almost immediately, at what point does creating something original stop being worth it?

Take GTA. I’m also annoyed that there will be no physical release, but if a company spends over a decade and billions of dollars making something, surely it gets to decide how to sell it. I can dislike that decision, but ultimately my choice is whether I’m willing to buy it on those terms. I can accept those terms or not buy it. Personally, I’m interested enough to accept that compromise.

People say “some guy with AI will just make something better.” For some apps, sure. But something on the scale of GTA 6 involves more than code and realistic graphics. There’s research, studying real places, and countless details that people spend years getting right. Being able to reproduce the result doesn’t mean AI can replace everything that went into creating it.

What worries me is that we could gradually lose the incentive to do that original work. A few years down the line, we might have endless cheaply made AI games and apps, but fewer ambitious projects worth copying in the first place.

Obviously, there’s a much better version of this future too. AI could help a smaller team make a GTA-sized game in a fraction of the time, or let someone build genuinely useful software without needing a huge budget. I’d love that. But even then, if their work can immediately be copied and released for free, will enough people still be willing to put the time and money into it?

I’m excited too. I just don’t think “these companies were greedy, so this can only be good” answers that question. Am I missing something?

If the AI R&D had happened in a slower rate, I think a lot of issues we face now won't happen, or happens in a weaker scale compared to now. Take for instance, the pricing of PC components that uses memory, such as RAM, graphics card, SSD, and even HDD to some extent has been affected. But also other non-PC hardware things such as land usage for data centres, energy consumption, government regulations etc.

I just want to say ... THIS IS GIB!!!

Sorry about the mouse cursor... I didn't notice it.

I'm sad that this workhorse died. Was honorable, an Intel Core i7 2.8Ghz quad core, 2 core turbo boosted machine, 16GB LPDDR3, discrete GPU, AMD Radeon Pro 555 2GB VRAM ... my just enough Dota 2 machine. I'm gonna try to get it fixed, but should I be worried about these lithium batteries? They are puffed up, not hot at all, but full of air...

pretty easy build just had to stuff my cables and tie down a bunch so they don’t hit the fans.

Hello gamers,

Just posting as I’ve seen the gavastar keyboards and fallen in love, so I think it’s time for an upgrade (depending on research) from my several year old hyperx fps rgb alloy that I got of Facebook market place with the cling film still in the box for £40.

It begs the question though, why have you decided on a smaller keyboard? I like the idea of a smaller keyboard, it just makes sense right? But ive started streaming and find a coined term for the full sized keyboard being “budget stream deck” as I use the num pad, a completely different and unused section for useful hot keys.

Do you ever worry about needing a few more keys? I just don’t see the point of getting a smaller keyboard to them get a stream deck to be honest.

Edit: future commenters, please don’t comment 100% if you use the numpad for your day job!

Thanks!