What can a high quality TAAU do for you, even in a portable power budget (ie not using the full desktop-grade DLSS model that's the gold standard for TAAU)? Well let's compare Pokémon between a "raw" NoAA presentation on Switch 1 and using very similar internal resolutions but with TAAU at play (using Switch 2 raw rendering uplift to hit 60 rather than a wavering 20-30fps): https://youtu.be/YWRt-PiOzlI

@Lacey When I purchased a new monitor, I thought they might be a nice perk for getting me a discounted little gaming accessory or maybe a new network card for my PC using the "reward money". I can't remember the exact details but it seemed like I had to spend many many dollars in actual cash before I was allowed to actually use my time-limited reward credits towards any of the items they had (making it totally pointless to do so). Actively makes me think less of a future Dell purchase.

The Switch 2 display is not HDR.
It may be able to read an HDR10 signal and maybe even uses FRC to get 10-bit gradation but this is a 0.5nits floor and 450nits peak "FakeHDR" panel with not even the fig leaf of edge/local dimming. No one would accept this sort of monitor on PC as being an actual HDR experience and anyone making games for the Switch 2, using the hardware itself as a reference for the HDR, will have no chance of doing HDR justice. Not helped by the docked HDR config being poor.

This is before we even consider the huge number of brand new games that still target very low end systems (scaling all the way down to literal phones in many cases, along with the standard phone price of "try for free and maybe buy something in the store later or subscribe to the battle pass"), including a lot of (pay once) indie titles with demos you can test to ensure your 10+ year old system can run it acceptably once configured to lower end settings.
Never been a better time to game.

Imagine claiming to be all about loving classic games and harkening back to an era of unlimited classic titles but then you spend all your time online getting really mad that modern games require modern hardware to run well? Feels like people are redirecting that old "console wars" anger.
GOG are currently running a summer sale with hundreds of all-time classics, DRM-free and tweaked to work on modern systems, for as little as $1. The only thing you have to lose is your free time.

@puttycad I wonder if this is happenstance (the game was on Humble Choice recently, usually meaning the price is good for buying a lot of copies at discount) or part of Amazon starting to spin up the PR machine for that franchise (they still are basically paying for the new AAA Tomb Raider game to be made as well as bringing a show to Prime, right)?

@YoSoyFreeman It makes a lot more sense with TAAU because you're selecting a "real" resolution (ideally your monitor native) and then tweaking internal res based on your fps needs and tolerance to upscaling.
Far worse to me is when you get SSAA options at 25% increments so 50/75/100/125/150/175/200% and they use a bilinear rescale to really just ruin the pixels rendered (which likely don't have high quality AA applied before the rescale either). 125% lowers fps and can actually increase shimmer.

@Professor_Stevens I believe there is a major push for even more kit from the military to be "handed down" to police. Can't spend >10x what most comparable nations do on a military force without ending up with a lot of surplus that's actually totally serviceable.

@pforpond 51st State time, once again. Because even an overt fascist in charge of the US isn't too far for people like Starmer (still obsessed with our "special relationship" even when it comes to this bill and blocking our own domestic copyright interests vs allowing US tech to do whatever they want - no surprise from someone who signed Trump's trade deal that means the US has final say in who is allowed to invest in the UK now). 🤮

Given what happened to the Jusant team*, I don't really understand why Dontnod expect a positive reception to this new game announcement (which seems heavily built on the work of that former team). https://youtu.be/RZs_IthEb2s
* https://www.stjv.fr/en/2024/10/at-dont-nod-the-only-plans-for-the-future-are-layoffs/

A sign that Nintendo/Switch 2 variant of DLSS is so cheap, you can SR to 4K at 60fps and render the rest of the game too (both PC CNN & Transformer SR models, on the perf level of the Switch 2, would simply not even be able to run the tensor workload to hit that scan-out, let alone also render the game - DLSS cost is linear on output pixel count so 4K SR costs 4x 1080p).
Also really abusing SR to start at ~600p to get to 2160p - don't do this with TAAU! https://youtu.be/JJUn7Kc3W3A

Test your renderer with an many hardware combos as you can throw together, as often as possible. Get everyone you know to at least run your game a bit and ideally share a video capture of the results with you (if you have "demo" support so can do a standard flyby that includes lots of different content, all the better). If you are working with a publisher, make sure to get them to budget for either their test team or an external contractor to test with far more hardware than you have access to.

I'm not sure I've been this hooked on optimising my turn-based teams and doing the tweaks required to ensure speed tuning is correct (because resources are always tight and difficulty ramps very quickly, at least with the roster I have access to - as that's all RNG). An hour can go by just tweaking teams and seeing how they run (as a server game, you can quit the client and leave it automating 10 runs then return to see how you did). https://etheria.xd.com/

@psychicparrot42 Honestly, given previous history, it's shocking that everyone is alive and a hostage and not shot in the head or drowned after a missile impacted the ship.

@danil This is like buying a Series 50 nVidia GPU and getting a Turing 2080. Whatever crimes have happened with renaming your lower end stuff in the past, I don't think this flies today where, at most, you have a low end that has some lest-gen arch designs. You could get Zen 2, 3, 4, or 5 CPU cores depending on what the qualifier is after the "AMD Ryzen Z2" name here. This seems like too much.

AMD, you can't just call everything a Z2. This is five models of APU (one of which is just not disabling the NPU block on one of the original three models) that span four different CPU arch and three different GPU arch. https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-announces-ryzen-ai-z2-extreme-and-ryzen-z2-a-apus-for-gaming-handhelds

@dotstdy Fair. I'm interested by both getting better.

@dotstdy @MouseByTheSea NVK doesn't seem mature yet and I'm yet to hear of someone installing one of the SteamOS forks on their personal machine with non-AMD hardware who loved the experience. People are expecting Steam Deck style "zero hassle, everything that gets a tick in the Steam store works perfectly and even better than on Windows".

@MouseByTheSea Would certainly help if I wanted to game on the go on my laptop, which has a 5800H but also a 3050 dGPU. Presumably we eventually get nVidia Arm chips in laptops/handhelds like the Qualcomm stuff and I'm not sure SteamOS will be amazing there (given Linux hatred of nVidia and Valve unlikely to leave AMD for official Deck products).