Video game thread

@Azure Fang  
in that case ill see you on internet court this friday, sir

@TeamBlueplant  
This’ll certainly be a more protracted battle than Epic Games v. Apple.
 
Now on topic, has anybody tried Popup Dungeon? I almost impulse bought it simply for the fact that John de Lancie is the narrator, but I’m trying to curb my bad purchasing habits and I never wholly trust Steam reviews. Scratch that. Just found out they’ve locked workshop browsing to in-game only. Immediately lost interest.

@Azure Fang  
Nah. It’s a legitimate assumption that I’d forget again, though I actually just finished downloading it about 20 minutes ago. Already got the EaW mods downloaded.
 
This game, uh… this game is certainly complex. I have absolutely no god damn idea what I’m doing. At all.

@Officer Hotpants  
Don’t worry, in about 20 hours of gameplay you’ll have a 10th of an idea of what you’re doing.

Speaking of complex, Factorio has been left early access!

@Jomok0  
I don’t even understand what most of the buttons do. Or the numbers mean.
 
 
@Havoc  
I saw that. I’ve been wanting to play it. Been waiting for it to go on sale for ages but at this point I think I may just have to pay full price.

@Officer Hotpants  
It’s worth it. I got it ages ago and spent 300 hours playing on a single world without getting bored.

@Officer Hotpants  
Hasn’t gone on sale once, and raised its price in 2018. So I’d say 1:1 odds they’ll go on sale this winter or they’ll pull a Call of Duty and never go on sale ever.

@Azure Fang  
Almost like the game was in early access or something.

@Havoc  
I’m aware, but it’s relatively uncommon, even for early access games, to never go on sale once for such a long period. Which actually reminds me that I need to grab Rogue Legacy 2 since it just started its early access.

@Havoc  
I might have bought it full price before now but until a week ago I couldn’t have actually played it. At the time I was only buying games I couldn’t yet play if they went on mega sale.
 
Also I think I figured out my green screen issue. I think it’s my HDMI cable. I got the green screen again while I was playing Hearts of Iron. Noticed that it was seemingly having trouble keeping the visuals updated (in the form of “waves” of visual updates every few seconds when the time was unpaused). Looked it up a saw a few other people having the same issue with older cables. Mine’s a good 10 years old. Probably time to buy a new one regardless.

Man, I’m about ready to give up on this new PC. I can’t figure out what’s causing the green screen crashes. Even dialing everything back in the games I play, sometimes it just says “nah, fuck you” and crashes. I don’t even know if it’s the video card or the motherboard or the CPU, and while I’ve found a handful of other people experiencing seemingly the same thing, nobody seems to have found a solution.
 
I knew building my own was a mistake.

@Officer Hotpants  
Building your own is never a mistake. I’m seeing some discussion about this a few months back, so I’m just gonna toss a few questions your way (sorry if these seem basic or overdone, just covering all bases):
 
Have you removed and reinserted the card?  
Have you tried replacing the cord yet?  
Have you tried a different display port?  
Have you tried a different display/TV?  
Have you tried under-clocking the card? (AMD’s notorious for factory-clocking over what their cores should run at with stock cooling)  
Have you run DDU to purge all drivers before performing a no-network reinstall?
 
EDIT: Also, this may be of interest to you: https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/eaeb2l/please_disable_enhanced_sync_if_you_are/  
8 months old, but I’m still seeing discussions this year leading back to the same setting with numerous 5700 iterations, including the thicc III ultra.

@Azure Fang  
I got a new cord just today and I’m using a different port, and I turned off the enhanced sync a few days. I don’t have access to another TV/monitor, I’m afraid. Though for reference, the screen goes green and the system freezes & crashes. That seems like something that would be on the PC’s end rather than the TV’s, though I’m hardly an expert. I’ll try the remove & reinsert thing next, I suppose.
 
How would I go about doing the under-clocking and no-network reinstall, exactly? All of this shit is brand new to me.

@Officer Hotpants  
First try the setting in my edit and see if that does it for you.
 
For underclocking, that iunno. It would be software-based, and I’m a fanatical AMD hater; I’m extremely unfamiliar with their software solutions, but there’s probably a universal dash somewhere to try that.
 
For a no-network total driver reinstall, follow the following (this assumes you’re running a modern Windows machine, please correct me if I’m wrong):  
1: Download DDU (current version as of this post is 18.0.2.8)  
2: Unpack DDU wherever you like and forget about it for now (C:\DDU\ works just as well as dumping it into your downloads folder, I’ve done both).  
3: Download the most recent Radeon software for your OS (this link is pre-tuned to 5700 XT line).  
4: Disconnect your PC from your network. If using a wireless dongle, disconnect and remove the dongle; if wired just unplug.  
5: This step is up to your preference. If you want, reboot into safe mode. I personally haven’t found the need to, but it just makes some feel better when DDU screams at you about being in safe mode.  
6: Run DDU from wherever you’ve unpacked it.  
7: There are two drop boxes on the right of the DDU window: set “–select device type–” to GPU and “–select device–” to AMD (if it didn’t automatically).  
8: Hit “Clean and restart (Highly recommended)”.  
9: Go make a sammich.  
10: After sammich time, DDU should have restarted your PC. If Windows brings up any prompts to look for drivers, cancel them.  
11: Go to the driver package you downloaded in step #3 and install it. If prompted, select “advanced install” followed by “clean install” if given the option.  
12: Once done, restart and reconnect to your network.  
13: ???  
14: PROFIT
 
Remember this step-by-step. Thanks to how shitty driver packages are from both AMD and Nvidia, and Microsoft’s unfortunate habit of pushing their iterations of the official drivers if they see fit, you should follow this pattern any time you need to update video drivers.

@Officer Hotpants  
I had plenty of troubles with mine back in march. But I worked it all out. It might take a bit, but it’s SO WORTH IT!

@Azure Fang  
Thanks. I disabled the sync days ago. I just got done re-connecting the card. If I get the crash again, I’ll try the clean install process you walked me through. If that doesn’t work… I don’t know. I can’t go back to the old PC because it get screwed up while we were pulling the hard drive out. I guess I’ll content myself with an extremely expensive YouTube machine and break out my old Playstation.

@Officer Hotpants  
If that bag of chips doesn’t work, I’d lean toward some of the comments I’ve seen and return the 5700 and get a (I’m just guessing what you paid) Geforce RTX 2070 flavor and see if that works out better for you.

@Havoc  
Yeah. When it works it’s great. It’s just getting to work that’s driving me mad. The worst part is that this was a gift. So I REALLY don’t want to have to say “yeah, sorry. Shit doesn’t work”.
 
@Azure Fang  
I might have to. I wanted to go Intel & Nvidia but the person who helped us pick out the parts & put this thing together assured us that AMD works great.

@Officer Hotpants  
They weren’t necessarily wrong. My hatred for AMD mostly falls back to the years (over a decade ago) where their processors were susceptible to floating point errors and especially cranky driver software, but they have lines that are just as solid as their competitors in both markets. But Intel has never done me wrong (outside of the first Celerons - who thought a cartridge-style processor was a good idea!?), and Nvidia same outside of some bad driver releases, so I’m entrenched in my preferences.

@Officer Hotpants  
Mine was also gift. From my amazing grandmother. I love her so much.

Getting real tired of these Nintendo “directs” that show absolutely nothing of value.

Buggy as hell (what else is new), but I’m actually loving the content of Warframe’s latest content update. Daughter is absolute body-horror-waifu material.

@Azure Fang  
i played warframe for like 3 days a month ago or so after a year’s hiatus and then uninstalled again because everything was still the same
 
but i always loved the infected aesthetic, and i enjoyed un-fortuna and plains of idle-on, so is it worth re-visiting?

@TeamBlueplant  
Well, if you like infested then this update is for you, since it’s the infested open world, with new infested kavat and kubrow pets and infested NPCs. But, in true DE fashion, everything’s kinda broken right now. Give it a week or so before you dive in.