Oh, what was that thing called, ndiswrapper or similar, where you downloaded the windows versions of the drivers and then wrapped them up and hoped they worked, and good luck with power saving or resume from sleep.
Don’t get me wrong; amazing that it worked even as well as it did, but glad we’ve got native drivers now. A small step forward every day and soon you’ll have gone a long way.
I’ve found that the real problem is having a television to plug them in to. Still got my old NES and SNES from when I was a kid. But no modern TV has the RF input to connect them to, they’re all digital only. Emulation is much easier.
PC version is incredibly hard to get working on modern computers, fwiw. SecuROM servers are all closed down; I’ve got the SKIDROW patches but have never managed to get them to start up. Emulating the 360 or PS3 might be easier…?
Zero remote exploits since it was released. That’s what divinely-inspired coding looks like, everyone.
Fill up a jerry can or two with petrol next time you fill up your car, and save the vodka for making martinis.
I had Kodi installed for a few weeks as my television media front-end, but it has:
It may well have a huge amount of functionality, but configuring and using it is the exact opposite of slick. Have uninstalled in favour of KDE with VLC installed, and manipulated via the KDE Connect mobile app, which is somehow a much better big-screen experience.
Just bind update/shutdown to a key you don’t press often, like keypad insert.
yay --noconfirm ; sudo shutdown now
Any problems with update, computer is put straight out of its misery. Bang.
It’s its trick mode. You can convert it without dropping your attack ‘combo’ on odd-numbered hits, so you can rush up to an enemy, quickly ‘cane hit’ twice to stun, then ‘whip hit’ until you’ve killed it with a bit of AoE coverage that stops any other enemy in front of you from sneaking in. Works great when you need to clear out a large number of mooks; the whip is a bit slow when you’re fighting single high-difficulty enemies.
In fact, might bust Bloodborne out again after I’ve finished Mina, always something more to learn about that game…
Ah, but that’s the joy of it. You don’t need a new PC for this; a very old one will still run it absolutely perfectly. And I agree with OP; great game, although I’m still only 2/3rds through it.
Enjoying it greatly so far - the difficulty level seems calibrated to ‘brutal’ but everything about it scream polish and perfection.
I find it hard to believe that some of the platforming sections are intended to be as difficult as they are. If there’s nothing to attack, you can’t heal, and you take a tonne of damage from falling off. Even with the life ring accessory, it’s still wicked in places. Not so bad once you’re able to equip a few more items and have some extra sparks, but at the beginning of the game, oof.
Some of the bosses having very random attacks is a bit unpleasant, too. If they keep busting out screen-fillers that are very hard to avoid, there’s not much you can do, especially as some of them can finish you in a couple of hits.
Oh yeah, was just watching Hard Target the other day. Terrible film, but he’s great in it.
I’d like to think that the bag is step 1. Step 2 is to balance an old car tire on top, and set it on fire.
It’s very much a CPU-bound program requiring single-core performance; I get about 50 fps at any resolution including 4K with a Ryzen 9 5900 XT and an RX 6700 XT. Ryzens are multi-thread beasts but their single-core isn’t the best, it’s not the ideal CPU for ShadPS4. You can turn up the amount of “GPU memory” in your emulated PS4, and need about 10GB for 4K.
Of course, Bloodborne originally ran at 30 fps, so that’s more than enough frames and it looks amazing; didn’t have any problems playing it all the way through. I will obviously not be upgrading my PC any further with prices the way they are, too.
It’s extremely easy to fuck up cryptography code; you require both extraordinary mathematical insight and the programming skills to defend against every known and future side-channel attack. I would suggest instead trusting software where you can read the source yourself, and which has been openly reviewed by a selection of experts in the field.
“Also, be sure not to hallucinate and don’t make any mistakes.”
Completely perfect as it was, no? Stallone and Snipes having a great time chewing the scenery and playing off each other, Bullock perfect as the ingénue that’s down to cyber; lots of iconic ratburgers, sea shells and Taco Bell. Admittedly, the far off year of 2032 doesn’t seem that far off any more.
If we’re going to be remaking action movies from 1993, then I’m voting for Hard Target. JCVD is amazing at kicking things but terrible at anything that does not involve kicking things; don’t mind some dumb stylish action but you don’t have to be stupid.
Man alive, that’s gutting. I also haven’t bought a Bethesda game since F4. Was hoping they might have doubled-down on the improvements between F3 and F:NV, but what they came out with was no kind of RPG at all, a shocking disappointment.
Means I missed out on F76 and Starfield, which is no kind of hardship at all. And I’m whatever the opposite of “hyped” is for ES6 - looking forward more to booting up Morrowind again.
Our forever-DM is all-in on AI generation of stuff. Which I understand; it’s a role that requires a lot of thankless prep, and he wants all of the in-game maps and character artwork to look fancy. But on the other hand, I play D+D for the human interaction of it, and actually prefer the ‘theatre of the mind’ way of playing it. Dry-wipe pens on a whiteboard, there’s your adventure map. Now get roleplaying. If I wanted to play a computer game, then I’d play a computer game.
Lots of options and you’ll need to spend some time RTFM. But if you already know how you want to partition your disks, then the basic installation (with a network controller!) takes about two minutes.
Then you can restart into the cli, and the real questions - what else am I going to install? - can begin.