I would wait at least one more generation unless you can offload the 6800xt at a good price. Also make sure dlss actually solves your issue and doesn’t bother you. Don’t fall victim to fomo and upgradeitis, just because something is better doesn’t mean it’s good enough and worth the money.
Hopefully this makes more games take full advantage of Steam Input. This has been one of my pet peeves lately and I’ve been on a mini-crusade trying to get games to support it better. XBox controllers aren’t the default on PC anymore, and Steam Input makes it easy for games to query the type of controller used, and even get the glyphs if the game doesn’t have its own glyphs. Full Steam Input support where the game exposes the game actions directly and allows Steam Input to bind them to any arbitrary control is even better.
They’re not going to release a new Steam Machine. The closest we get is a general release of Steam OS 3 with OEMs giving you the option of pre-loading it on your mini-PC, handheld or pre-built gaming PC instead of Windows. Valve isn’t the type of company to do something other companies are already doing.
To me this looks like it’s too early to make any definite conclusions on APO. I get that it’s tempting to conclude that they only support 14th gen CPUs as some sort of planned obsolescence scheme, but given that it also only works in two games really weakens that idea and makes the early release idea fit much better. So don’t judge them on the current state of APO, they may provide support for older gens in the future, but also don’t give them credit for it and factor it into the value of the product until APO becomes useful in practice, not just as a tech demo. This discussion is rather pointless at the moment. The technical details of how it works are much more interesting to discuss.
Honestly I don’t care about CRPGs. Well, I do, they’re one of my favorite genres and BG3 is by far my game of the year. But I don’t hope the lesson other studios take away from BG3 is that they should make more CRPGs, because although I would like that I don’t think that’s the important lesson they should be focusing on.
The important lesson I hope they all learn is that it doesn’t compromise on what it’s supposed to be. BG3 is a whole-ass CRPG, not some watered down flavorless action-adventure-RPG hybrid. It goes hard on its core elements and doesn’t include anything that doesn’t belong. It goes deep on story/lore, characters and the game ruleset. It doesn’t have any mechanical skill expression.
It’s a great example of making something that people like because it’s great, not because it appeals to them. It’s not that it doesn’t try to appeal to a wide audience, it’s that it doesn’t sacrifice anything in order to do so.
One of my big hopes for the new console generation was better animations, so hopefully this heralds something of a new direction in gaming overall. I feel like currently there’s a huge discrepancy between graphical fidelity and animation quality when it comes to a realistic art style and visuals. We have high resolution textures, physics based rendering and ray traced lighting, but animations still feel floaty and symbolic and not like they’re reacting to the environment around them. That, and more physics simulations.
I don’t think Intel supports anything other than 8x/8x on 12th gen and newer on any MB. AMD should support 4x/4x/4x/4x and 8x/4x/4x on the primary slot on any AM5 CPU and I think most AM4 CPUs too regardless of MB. Although I guess the MB manufacturer could disable that functionality if they really wanted.
Most people use RADV instead. I’m not entirely sure why AMD keeps the AMDVLK driver around but I’m sure there’s good reason for it.
This isn’t a direct capture of the VR footage. You can tell because real VR captures are really shaky and the aspect ratio is close to a square. It’s not unusual to render a third “flat” camera with motion smoothing if you want to capture or display VR footage. But honestly this looks like it wasn’t played in VR in the first place. Everything is way too smooth and the animations look canned all the way through.