And I see AMD's desktop GPU market share continue to slip and think to myself "maybe this is not a coincidence."

So Friday was Pac-Man's 35th Anniversary. ArcadeHeroes did a cool writeup on Pac-Man arcade games through the ages. Personally, I'm more of a fan of the cool Pac-Man merch that came out where we got stuff like this

Or This

Why we needed an official Pac-Man joke book, no one will ever know

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As old as time itself, a new major game comes out and AMD is back to whining about how their cards aren't good enough and they can't build drivers worth a damn. This right here is a good beatdown on AMD being AMD.

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News

• Arrowhead is very sorry that their Gauntlet game is a big steaming pile of excrement and they're going to revamp it.

• Rememeber Lizard Squad? Yeah, one of those shit stains plead guilty to 23 counts of swatting people online.

• Here is EA's teaser of a teaser to a Need For Speed reboot. I'm okay with more Underground

• Well, Casey Hudson is back in the news as he has taken a job at MS to be the creative director for Hololens games. Outside of the ending to Mass Effect 3, that's a very interesting hire IMO.

• Konami: Mobile Is gaming's future. Konami a little slow on the uptake.

• Koji Igarashi: The the shift to mobile is inevitable.

• During their quarterly report, Take Two announced that they're going to shift more to mobile.

• I don't have a link but IDC is forecasting 115m consoles sold by end of the generation which would be a 60% contraction compared to last gen. I personally think that's a little optimistic (I always said about 100m) but they're the gold standard that everyone uses.

Cue the crying like a 6 year old with a skinned knee about how you're going to leave gaming because you're too old or that there will always be consoles because magic.

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NEW RELEASES

Splatoon (WiiU) - Well, after 3 months of nothingness, WiiU owners finally get another game to play on their consoles and from the impressions from the betas, it's a good game hampered by the lack of voice chat. This is the type of game Nintendo should have been making the last decade for the western market.

Magica 2 (PC, PS4) - I really didn't like the first game, it was shallow with the only fun being on accidentally killing your teammates which frankly isn't something that lasts longer than a half hour. Thankfully this isn't being made by Arrowhead buy rather the dev team behind the Leviathan: Warships game, a game with good marketing but was mediocre. This also the first game part of the exclusivity deal that Sony and Paradox announced last year at E3. I would be lying if I didn't say I'm curious in if the price on the PC drops like a rock like the first game (it was in pretty much every bargin bin bundle on the planet).

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1 Huh now that I think about it, I should totally paint the 'ette in training's stroller to look like pac-man....

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) rogue bioethicst at May 24, 2015 03:08 PM (s92xH)

2 Is this the Kaboom thread?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 24, 2015 03:09 PM (Dytos)

3 Pac-Man, after all the Gaming threads, a game I actually played or even knew about.

Posted by: lowandslow at May 24, 2015 03:11 PM (dItuC)

4 I would eat that babe with a knife and a Fork...

Posted by: No Bob Here at May 24, 2015 03:11 PM (/WmRg)

5 Example #363 in why you don't let your 11 year old have your credit card

http://tinyurl.com/ks8won7

Posted by: The Dude at May 24, 2015 03:13 PM (SyKbw)

6 There was a Pac-Man Christmas special in '84 (give or take a year). It was something - less meaningful than "Rudolph" but less horrific than "Frosty" -

I don't know what my point is.

Posted by: FireHorse at May 24, 2015 03:14 PM (r+LOT)

7 wish Don Bluth's Pac-Man game wasn't cancelled

http://tinyurl.com/klajs2a

Posted by: The Dude at May 24, 2015 03:15 PM (SyKbw)

8 Ricardo Kill @ 2: "Is this the Kaboom thread?"
________

It could be. Pac-Man cereal was a General Mills product.

Posted by: FireHorse at May 24, 2015 03:16 PM (r+LOT)

9 Great Caeser's ghost! How'd she smuggle those melons through customs?!

Posted by: Snoodling World Champion 1997 at May 24, 2015 03:16 PM (Q819Q)

10 "
I would eat that babe with a knife and a Fork..."

Like, totally.

Posted by: J Dahmer at May 24, 2015 03:18 PM (Dytos)

11 "Pac-Man cereal was a General Mills product."

How about that name? We have some mills, generally. And do some stuff. So, yeah. Totally trust us.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 24, 2015 03:20 PM (Dytos)

12 Kellogg's had nice cartoon spokesmen - Tony the Tiger comes to mind. Nice wholesome persona, the kind of folks my parents wanted me to hang around.

But those General Mills characters - the Trix rabbit, trying to steal cereal from children - the children, trying to steal Lucky Charms from the leprechaun - don' even get me started on the Cocoa Puffs cuckoo - yeah, I was more drawn to them.

Posted by: FireHorse at May 24, 2015 03:20 PM (r+LOT)

13 Cue the crying like a 6 year old with a skinned knee about how you're
going to leave gaming because you're too old or that there will always
be consoles because magic.

I last played a console game on a PS2 (or was it a PS/2?). I really though that mobile and console would converge and the PS3/Wii (did MS make a console? I don't care, actually, they're shit and their consoles were shit too) would be the last generation of pure, sit-down, plug into the TeeVee stuff.

Posted by: Snoodling World Champion 1997 at May 24, 2015 03:21 PM (Q819Q)

14 Intel sucks. They support feminist frequency.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at May 24, 2015 03:21 PM (tRVhE)

15 I understand this is about GPUs, but my experience is this: I had trouble with a bunch of Opteron processors years ago and have not touched AMD stuff ever since. Some people love AMD CPUs because "they're not Intel," the same way some people like anything that is not Microsoft. To each his / her own. I like stuff that quietly gets the job done. When I want religion, I go to church.

Posted by: M. Murcek at May 24, 2015 03:22 PM (GJUgF)

16 "How about that name? We have some mills, generally. And do some stuff. So, yeah. Totally trust us."

What would you like for dinner? You can have fried chicken, mashed potatoes with gravy and coleslaw, or you can have pink hearts, yellow moons and green clovers?

Forget I asked. General Mills outranks Colonel Sanders. You're having cereal.

Posted by: FireHorse at May 24, 2015 03:23 PM (r+LOT)

17 "Intel sucks. They support feminist frequency."

Crap. I look at the stickers on the netty and they say "Intel."

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 24, 2015 03:25 PM (Dytos)

18
Posted by: Snoodling World Champion 1997 at May 24, 2015 03:21 PM (Q819Q)

I guess the 8 bit gen would be the last "pure" gaming gen as NEC had the TV tuner for the TG-16 and the SNES and Genesis branched away later in their life span

Posted by: The Dude at May 24, 2015 03:25 PM (SyKbw)

19 Kellogg's had nice cartoon spokesmen - Tony the Tiger comes to mind. Nice wholesome persona, the kind of folks my parents wanted me to hang around.

But those General Mills characters - the Trix rabbit, trying to steal cereal from children - the children, trying to steal Lucky Charms from the leprechaun - don' even get me started on the Cocoa Puffs cuckoo - yeah, I was more drawn to them.

You want Sonny the Cuckoo Bird.
You'll settle for Tony the Tiger.
You'll get the Kaboom clown.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, by the Pale Moon light at May 24, 2015 03:25 PM (m9V0o)

20 is this the gaming thread?

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at May 24, 2015 03:25 PM (Cq0oW)

21 They're shocking pink and white.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at May 24, 2015 03:25 PM (W5DcG)

22 Fried chicken sounds good.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 24, 2015 03:26 PM (Dytos)

23 why they always gotta be white?

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at May 24, 2015 03:27 PM (Cq0oW)

24
Posted by: M. Murcek at May 24, 2015 03:22 PM (GJUgF)

It went down hill faster when AMD bought ATI but trajectory wise, this is/was inevitable

Posted by: The Dude at May 24, 2015 03:27 PM (SyKbw)

25 "
is this the gaming thread?"

Yes. And cereal.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 24, 2015 03:28 PM (Dytos)

26 I never understood why Pac-Man ate keys.

I don't want to understand why Pac-Man eats marshmallows that look like Ms. Pac-Man.

Posted by: FireHorse at May 24, 2015 03:28 PM (r+LOT)

27 sorry about last week. my lower back wasn't doing so hot and I fell asleep right after using my foam roller

Posted by: The Dude at May 24, 2015 03:29 PM (SyKbw)

28 I guess the 8 bit gen would be the last "pure" gaming gen as NEC had the
TV tuner for the TG-16 and the SNES and Genesis branched away later in
their life span

I liked the 2600/5200 the Activision was pretty sweet. Yar's Revenge, dagnabit.

Posted by: Snoodling World Champion 1997 at May 24, 2015 03:30 PM (Q819Q)

29 "sorry about last week"

Who are you apologizing to?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 24, 2015 03:31 PM (Dytos)

30
In honor of PacMan, I give you a true dive-for-the-dashboard tune. Hideous, yet appropriate:

"Pac Man Fever" Buckner and Garcia 1981

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0r1WkGEXDM

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 24, 2015 03:31 PM (St6BJ)

31 I loved the first Magicka, but I'm not sure what to make of Magicka 2. It doesn't seem to be doing anything that the first one didn't already do. Except maybe not crash to desktop as much.

Posted by: Stingyhat at May 24, 2015 03:32 PM (fsTl5)

32 Pac-Man cereal was rebranded Kaboom.

Posted by: rickl at May 24, 2015 03:33 PM (sdi6R)

33 #3sugarcookielivesmatter

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at May 24, 2015 03:33 PM (Cq0oW)

34 General Mills was just another cog in the Military Industrial Complex man.

Posted by: 70's Dopehead/Conspiracy Theorist at May 24, 2015 03:33 PM (+Fae7)

35 Splatoon is my kind of game.

The gameplay came first. The rest followed naturally. I have played it, and it is fun.

Posted by: meekle at May 24, 2015 03:33 PM (94iKh)

36 Bill Buckner and Jerry Garcia?

Posted by: rickl at May 24, 2015 03:33 PM (sdi6R)

37 wish there was voice chat for Splatoon

Posted by: The Dude at May 24, 2015 03:34 PM (SyKbw)

38 Today is Bob Dylan's birthday. Happy birthday, Bob!

-
Hey, Bob. How many roads must a man walk down before you can call him a geezer?

Posted by: The Great White Snark at May 24, 2015 03:35 PM (LImiJ)

39 Well, Casey Hudson is back in the news as he has taken a job at MS to be the creative director for Hololens games.

-----

Good to know, sounds like the Rift is the one to get.

Posted by: rosignol at May 24, 2015 03:35 PM (B7FlU)

40 "General Mills was just another cog in the Military Industrial Complex man."

Word.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill with a bandana at May 24, 2015 03:36 PM (Dytos)

41 Back in the day, those cereal makers had cereal out and ready to go whenever the latest fad hit.

Nowadays? Nothing. Those bastards missed out on a marketing goldmine by not having a "Twilight" themed cereal.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, Team Jacob at May 24, 2015 03:36 PM (+Fae7)

42 41 Back in the day, those cereal makers had cereal out and ready to go whenever the latest fad hit.

Nowadays? Nothing. Those bastards missed out on a marketing goldmine by not having a "Twilight" themed cereal.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, Team Jacob at May 24, 2015 03:36 PM (+Fae7)

"How Ma Ass Taste?" From Degenerate Thrills.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 24, 2015 03:38 PM (St6BJ)

43
"Sandra Fluke O's"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 24, 2015 03:39 PM (St6BJ)

44

Wait. "Fluke Flakes."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 24, 2015 03:40 PM (St6BJ)

45 "How Ma Ass Taste?" From Degenerate Thrills.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 24, 2015 03:38 PM (St6BJ)

"Steve Kroft's Champagne and Cocoa Marshmallows"

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, Team Jacob at May 24, 2015 03:43 PM (+Fae7)

46 Those bastards missed out on a marketing goldmine by not having a "Twilight" themed cereal.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, Team Jacob at May 24, 2015 03:36 PM
________

First of all, General Mills offered perfectly good monster cereals. If you wanted a vampire, there was Count Chocula; if you wanted a werewolf, there was Frute Brute.

Secondly, "Twilight" was too stupid to warrant a breakfast cereal. Sure, they could have made a quick buck but it was a brief, passing fad. No one gives any thought to the Twilight stories any more.

And third, Edward loved Bella way more than Jacob did.

Posted by: FireHorse at May 24, 2015 03:43 PM (r+LOT)

47 John Bohener's "Bawling Bits" Cereal,

New, from Orange Mills!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at May 24, 2015 03:46 PM (RzZOc)

48 Doesn't that show "Battle Creek" have a character named Milton?

And wasn't Milton the spokesman for Kellogg's Pop Tarts?

And isn't Kellogg's headquartered in Battle Creek?

It's a conspiracy, maaan.

Posted by: FireHorse at May 24, 2015 03:50 PM (r+LOT)

49 Good to know firehorse is team Edward. (Although I have no idea why anyone would be team Jacob).

Topic? Um... I have a wii?

They do need more themed cereals! I don't eat cereal or anything but that stuff is fun.

Posted by: Lea at May 24, 2015 03:52 PM (vmMMi)

50 what, no Pixels trailer?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAHprLW48no

Posted by: Kindltot at May 24, 2015 03:52 PM (t//F+)

51 the less seen of Pixels the better

Posted by: The Dude at May 24, 2015 03:55 PM (SyKbw)

52 Just beat the spectre knight in Shovel Knight.

*twitch*

This game pretty much *is* how I remember those NES games.

*eye tic*

I think I'll lie down for a bit

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at May 24, 2015 03:55 PM (AVEe1)

53 Still waiting on news about The Last Guardian. And Grimoire.

Posted by: An Inanimate Carbon Rod at May 24, 2015 03:55 PM (FohCt)

54 Pick me up a box of Trannies while you're at the store. Can't wait to see which icon they have on the box.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at May 24, 2015 03:57 PM (XAFOu)

55 I totally forgot about Grimoire. Pretty sure that is and was always meant to be vaporware

Posted by: The Dude at May 24, 2015 03:58 PM (SyKbw)

56 C< . . . . . .

Posted by: Dr. Varno at May 24, 2015 03:58 PM (TF10X)

57 Pick me up a box of Trannies while you're at the store.

For use on the ONT?

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at May 24, 2015 03:59 PM (AVEe1)

58 And don't forget about the hit song Pac Man Fever.

http://tinyurl.com/abz6xb

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at May 24, 2015 04:00 PM (XAFOu)

59
49 Good to know firehorse is team Edward. (Although I have no idea why anyone would be team Jacob). Topic? Um... I have a wii? They do need more themed cereals! I don't eat cereal or anything but that stuff is fun.
Posted by: Lea at May 24, 2015 03:52 PM (vmMMi

Well he does have a thing for a young girl...

Posted by: Jeffrey Epstein. at May 24, 2015 04:02 PM (zt+N6)

60 30
In honor of PacMan, I give you a true dive-for-the-dashboard tune. Hideous, yet appropriate:

"Pac Man Fever" Buckner and Garcia 1981

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0r1WkGEXDM

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 24, 2015 03:31 PM (St6BJ)

Dang, you beat me to it. I actually bought that 45 RPM single back when I was 6. Yeah, I know that's no excuse...

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at May 24, 2015 04:03 PM (l3LvV)

61 Guess I should read the thread.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at May 24, 2015 04:05 PM (XAFOu)

62 41 Back in the day, those cereal makers had cereal out and ready to go whenever the latest fad hit.

Nowadays? Nothing. Those bastards missed out on a marketing goldmine by not having a "Twilight" themed cereal.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, Team Jacob at May 24, 2015 03:36 PM (+Fae7)

Need an "adult" themed tie-in cereal. Maybe, "Fifty Shades of Grain?"

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at May 24, 2015 04:05 PM (l3LvV)

63 Do kids even eat cereal?

Cherry Potter fruit pies, maybe?

Posted by: Snoodling World Champion 1997 at May 24, 2015 04:07 PM (Q819Q)

64 considering the cereal isle has gotten bigger over the years, I would that yes, kids still eat cereal

Posted by: The Dude at May 24, 2015 04:08 PM (SyKbw)

65
Ms Pac-Man > Pac-Man

Significantly improved game.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at May 24, 2015 04:08 PM (kdS6q)

66 always perfered Baby Pac-Man with it's before it's time of mashing pinball with the videogame. Released about 15 years too early

Posted by: The Dude at May 24, 2015 04:11 PM (SyKbw)

67 Ms Pac-Man had cut-scenes if you beat a level. Those were teh awesome.

Aaaand now we've got another hailstorm here.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at May 24, 2015 04:11 PM (AVEe1)

68 Happy Birthday Bob! Can't believe he's survived the music scene so long.

Got Witcher 3 but it's waiting for (1) the completion of a second play through of DAI, and (2) an upcoming patch for consoles. It's funny reading online rage that graphics aren't as good as they were in a 2-year-old trailer. Someone will probably sue over their disappointment.

Posted by: waelse1 at May 24, 2015 04:12 PM (aqVfU)

69 From the article:

AMD's last Catalyst WQHL driver was 161 days ago, and the company hasn't announced one on the horizon.

Okay, that's pretty bad--maybe even worse than my cereal pun. I've had a pretty good run with my current AMD Phenom II-based gaming system and I'm not looking to upgrade the CPU/mainboard for a while longer. But, stuff like this keeps me away from their GPUs. And, that's a shame as competition is a good thing. They can't keep crapping the bed forever, though.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at May 24, 2015 04:13 PM (l3LvV)

70
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at May 24, 2015 04:13 PM (l3LvV)

to be fair to AMD, their thing is to roll out beta drivers in perpetuity with 1 stamped by the WQHL every 6 months or so

Posted by: The Dude at May 24, 2015 04:15 PM (SyKbw)

71
68 Happy Birthday Bob! Can't believe he's survived the music scene so long. Got Witcher 3 but it's waiting for (1) the completion of a second play through of DAI, and (2) an upcoming patch for consoles. It's funny reading online rage that graphics aren't as good as they were in a 2-year-old trailer. Someone will probably sue over their disappointment.
Posted by: waelse1 at May 24, 2015 04:12 PM (aqVfU)

I'd still love to see a lawsuit filed against Ubisoft for Assassin's Creed Unity. That was bullshit and Ubisoft has basically admitted they fucked up and has given up on fixing the game.

Posted by: buzzion at May 24, 2015 04:17 PM (zt+N6)

72 Geebus.

The last themed cereal that was out was in 2008....

'High School Musical' themed

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at May 24, 2015 04:19 PM (XAFOu)

73 Maybe a Mad Max themed cereal?

"Augh! This tastes like pig shit!"

"Well, guess what, kids!"

Posted by: Snoodling World Champion 1997 at May 24, 2015 04:23 PM (Q819Q)

74 Franken Berry, Sonny the Cuckoo, the Trix rabbit, the Kaboom clown. Who ever would have thought that the weirdest character to grace a box of General Mills cereal would be Bruce Jenner?

Posted by: FireHorse at May 24, 2015 04:24 PM (r+LOT)

75 I'll say it again. If you have a 3DS you should get BoxBoy! Great little puzzler and for me it was 8 hours of gameplay for $5.

Also grabbed Stretchmo. I have liked that entire series so I didn't even look at a preview. Great puzzlers

Posted by: Zakn at May 24, 2015 04:25 PM (ec1Ol)

76 Maybe a Mad Max themed cereal?

If it was a raisin / bran mix, the commercials would loudly tout all the yummy raisins in it and there's be exactly one raisin in the box.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at May 24, 2015 04:28 PM (AVEe1)

77 Magica is "Pay What You Want" right now in Humble's Paradox Bundle:
https://www.humblebundle.com

Posted by: BananaDream at May 24, 2015 04:33 PM (vLk7c)

78 That was bullshit and Ubisoft has basically admitted they fucked up and has given up on fixing the game.

Same happened with that last Ultima, "Ascension". What a buggy POS.

I give the Gauntlet devs a lot of credit for going back and fixing everything. The first airing of "Witcher" was buggy too, and their developer put out a public apology and a fixed game. Actually I thought it was so cool that the developer had owned up to his mistakes that I bought that "enhanced" version of the game (I'd barely noticed the release earlier).

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at May 24, 2015 04:34 PM (AVEe1)

79 The last themed cereal that was out was in 2008....

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at May 24, 2015 04:19 PM
________

How about a cereal with bright red United States-shaped marshmallows - call them Ruby-O's?

Posted by: FireHorse at May 24, 2015 04:43 PM (aQssP)

80 79 How about a cereal with bright red United States-shaped marshmallows - call them Ruby-O's?
Posted by: FireHorse at May 24, 2015 04:43 PM (aQssP

With wisps of comb-over hair.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 24, 2015 04:54 PM (St6BJ)

81 80 79 How about a cereal with bright red United States-shaped marshmallows - call them Ruby-O's?
Posted by: FireHorse at May 24, 2015 04:43 PM (aQssP

With wisps of comb-over hair.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 24, 2015 04:54 PM (St6BJ)

And you don't need milk, just water for them.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, Team Jacob at May 24, 2015 04:57 PM (+Fae7)

82 I totally forgot about Grimoire.

Posted by: The Dude at May 24, 2015 03:58 PM (SyKbw)
The RPG Codex hasn't. The creator of Grimoire still posts about the game there occasionally.

Posted by: An Inanimate Carbon Rod at May 24, 2015 05:05 PM (FohCt)

83 Just beat the spectre knight in Shovel Knight.

*twitch*

This game pretty much *is* how I remember those NES games.

*eye tic*

I think I'll lie down for a bit

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at May 24, 2015 03:55 PM (AVEe1)

It's revealing of the general weakness of the video-gaming industry that a retro-game harking back to the NES era was probably the best game of 2014.

Posted by: An Inanimate Carbon Rod at May 24, 2015 05:11 PM (FohCt)

84 @14 Intel sucks. They support feminist frequency.
------------------------

Don't know anything about that. But they supported the gamer side of Gamergate by pulling a big online advertising campaign.

Posted by: junior at May 24, 2015 05:12 PM (nlPsL)

85 Shovel Knight was my 2014 GOTY

Posted by: Zakn at May 24, 2015 05:38 PM (ec1Ol)

86 I was addicted to this all day yesterday Agar.io

Have Fun!

Posted by: Zakn at May 24, 2015 05:39 PM (ec1Ol)

87 Sandwiches and a sandwich maker with impressive hooters!

I can only dream...

Posted by: Al Bundy at May 24, 2015 06:16 PM (dZyJw)

88 It would be bad for everybody if AMD goes tango uniform...Intel already way overcharges for their products.

I have an AMD 6 core...I'm happy with it...I don't play games on it though.

Posted by: CanaDave at May 24, 2015 06:25 PM (bL5n0)

89 Since my last post, I looked up some more information regarding the AMD/NVIDIA/Witcher 3 brouhaha and have found that NVIDIA cards using the Kepler (previous gen) architecture have atrocious W3 performance. Yesterday, NVIDIA acknowledged that there will be a driver update to fix Kepler issues:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd8EPeMUaEs

I don't have W3, but I do have an affected card (GTX 770) which I purchased *last year*.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at May 24, 2015 07:45 PM (l3LvV)

90 I have an AMD 6 core...I'm happy with it...I don't play games on it though.

This machine's AMD. The graphics freeze up on such intensive works of software as "Microsoft Live Mail". It is also unable to handle "American McGee's Alice" half the time and "Dungeon Siege" all the time.

The sweet-spot for it choking on games seems to be the early 32-bit era; it can handle 16-bits like "Alien Legacy" just fine (on a DOSBOX emulator), and it also managed "Mass Effect 2".

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at May 24, 2015 07:55 PM (AVEe1)

91 haven't been playing too many games of late. might play some magicka now that you mention it, as I only played an hour or two of it and it struck me as decent. gotten on an FTL kick of late, and finally beat it on hard a couple times (had only ever tried hard a few times, and hadn't played in several months after beating it on normal with every ship). my LMB is going to crap, so that's adding quite a bit of challenge to any gaming (or even internet browsing) until I go get a new mouse

Posted by: tintex at May 24, 2015 08:11 PM (OQy+b)

92 Looking forward to Splatoon, I enjoyed the demos. The drought of games has been pretty bad this year, when I thought 2014 wasn't too hot.

Even though I grew up in the 80s, I can't remember much in the way of Pac-Man merchandise. I distinctly remember eating ET cereal on the day my family moved to a new house; I can also remember eating the Nintendo cereals circa 1988 or so. Good times.

Sad to see AMD headed where they are. If this keeps up, the GPU market will end up like the pinball market from 2000-2014 (no competition and thus no innovation)

Posted by: Arcadehero at May 24, 2015 11:38 PM (eWYNS)

93 also, lol @ "they're shocking pink and white!"

Posted by: tintex at May 24, 2015 11:38 PM (OQy+b)

94 also, lol @ "they're shocking pink and white!"

Posted by: tintex at May 24, 2015 11:38 PM (OQy+b)

95 also also, Ms. Pac-man is Best Pac-man

Posted by: tintex at May 24, 2015 11:40 PM (OQy+b)

96 Update to the dead thread:

Many in various forums have reported performance increases on their Kepler-based cards by downgrading to driver 347.88. I found a ~5% performance increase in Dragon Age: Inquisition and no increase on Hitman: Absolution by doing so. I figured that those two are the most demanding games in my inventory.

Interestingly, the performance for H:A is virtually the same regardless of running at 1080 vs. 720.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at May 25, 2015 02:56 PM (l3LvV)

97 As always, if you're looking for a moron approved MMO come to EVE, we have a channel called AoSHQ.

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