It works great connected to my stupid Mac laptop that can't run any cool games
xp
― lukas, Thursday, 12 November 2020 22:29 (three years ago) link
sounds like it might work for me then! i'm on the wrong thread for asking about displays (because i have a mac mini in mind)
― @oneposter(✔️) (Karl Malone), Thursday, 12 November 2020 22:36 (three years ago) link
4k sucks for computing though, its really a tv spec. theres a reason why everyone gets 1440p for their pc monitor
― ciderpress, Thursday, November 12, 2020 4:19 PM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
4k or higher are excellent for non-gaming. the pixel doubling or proportional scaling, like what Apple has been doing on their high res displays for a long time, makes text much smoother and imo much easier on the eyes
― mh, Friday, 13 November 2020 04:28 (three years ago) link
oh i guess if theres software to handle it properly now. wasn't the case yet a few years ago at least on pc
― ciderpress, Friday, 13 November 2020 05:12 (three years ago) link
might just be an apple thing still?
Windows 10 works well, although not all older apps scale properly and look a little blurry. I use a 4k monitor for work with everything not doubled but scaled to 125/150% and it’s nice for all the things I use
― mh, Friday, 13 November 2020 13:31 (three years ago) link
Windows 10 works well, although not all older apps scale properly and look a little blurry.
I stopped paying attention to PC gaming/graphics specs a while back and mainly game on PS4, but I noticed my win10 laptop the other day had a toggle on it asking me if I wanted to try to make apps look less blurry. Like why the fuck would I _want_ them blurry? Just unblur the thing by default, Bill, you tit.
― ALAB (onimo), Friday, 13 November 2020 13:46 (three years ago) link
I have a 4K UHD 2160p monitor for my macbook air & it's excellent
― All cars are bad (Euler), Friday, 13 November 2020 13:58 (three years ago) link
PonyStation 5
― calstars, Friday, 13 November 2020 17:50 (three years ago) link
piss5
― redalph, lord xyzzzz__ (||||||||), Friday, 13 November 2020 18:04 (three years ago) link
after seeing the "difference" between the 60fps performance mode and 30fps fidelity mode in demons souls i feel confident in declaring that any game this upcoming gen that doesn't let you run it at 60fps is a scam
― ciderpress, Friday, 13 November 2020 18:50 (three years ago) link
we're getting into audiophile snake oil territory of what extra detail you get running the game at 30
― ciderpress, Friday, 13 November 2020 18:52 (three years ago) link
Hmm, it depends. Ray tracing seems expensive computationally. I could see things like draw distance, texture detail and other such things being a lot better at 30fps.
― Nhex, Friday, 13 November 2020 18:54 (three years ago) link
The audiophile snake oil is surely in the "you really notice the 120 fps" direction?
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 13 November 2020 19:00 (three years ago) link
xp sure, i just don't think you can justify not including the performance mode as an option anymore now that the games aren't cpu-bound
1440p checkerboard looks pretty much identical to native 4k at tv viewing distance whereas 30 vs 60fps is a massively felt difference in action games
― ciderpress, Friday, 13 November 2020 19:12 (three years ago) link
https://kotaku.com/two-weeks-with-my-ps5-1845670823
more info on the "cards" and jumping right into quests. looks like new Spider-Man supports it!
― mh, Sunday, 15 November 2020 18:04 (three years ago) link
I adore weird-looking consoles, chief among them, the purple GameCube, so I like that the PS5 looks like a giant, high-tech eclair.
― ciderpress, Monday, 16 November 2020 01:56 (three years ago) link
I should measure but my dated tv console has a shelf wide enough for a ps4 plus a stack of disc boxes on the side. I think I relocate the boxes and I’m good
― mh, Monday, 16 November 2020 03:28 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy7VILMeN28
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 17 November 2020 01:27 (three years ago) link
*checks wario64 again*
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 17:18 (three years ago) link
If eating Bugsnax turns you into a Bugsnax, is the only way to turn back into a Grumpus eating other Grumpuses?
― I want to luhbahguh babum gum (Leee), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 21:22 (three years ago) link
15000 people ahead of me in the online queue in Curry's this morning was enough to convince me not be be an early adopter.
― Clean-up on ILX (onimo), Thursday, 19 November 2020 13:01 (three years ago) link
the ps5 looks like a new expensive campus performing arts center that replaced three academic arts departments and cost $60 million dollars pic.twitter.com/mLwL921kRs— matt (@matthiasellis) June 11, 2020
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 19:19 (three years ago) link
anybody got one of these yet and wanna rep for it?
I just spent an hour getting FF7 remake on my ps4 and i wouldn't be mad at something that loads faster.
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 19:21 (three years ago) link
i'm waiting for it to have real games
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 19:24 (three years ago) link
my buddy has one and he's enjoying playing ps4 games on it, lol
apparently there's drift problems with the controller so i know im waiting a while before i take the plunge
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 19:25 (three years ago) link
same. even a single must-have game will probably be enough for me. and, i guess, trying to find a ps5, if they're still hard to find at that point
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 19:33 (three years ago) link
i don't think there's even anything in my zone announced yet besides FF16 and who knows how long that will take to show up
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 19:44 (three years ago) link
my sense was that the appeal is the ability to play ps4 games without loadtimes. and bugsnax.
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 20:07 (three years ago) link
thats not enough for the price of early adoption!
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 20:35 (three years ago) link
i agree! but some of you have more money than me.
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 20:52 (three years ago) link
Idc about load times, so I'm not even gonna think about it until Elden Ring. Even then, I wish I could never buy a new system, but I have to imagine that it will be optimized for PS5.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 20:56 (three years ago) link
I've tried to get it a bunch of times when I see it pop up on wario64 but I've never managed to get one in my cart before the bots get there.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 21:15 (three years ago) link
We have one, have only been playing the 4K versions of existing games that have it for now, like Destiny and No Mans Sky - everything loads real fast and looks really good. Fan can be hella loud when it has to kick in tho.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 2 March 2021 22:34 (three years ago) link
I have been using a PS5 controller with my PC and pretending
It's a good controller imo
― mh, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 02:17 (three years ago) link
can pc games access the fancy haptics features like the trigger tension?
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 02:39 (three years ago) link
not as of yet
― mh, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 02:46 (three years ago) link
basically feels like a nicer PS4 controller overall, only no one has spilled coca-cola in my ps5 controller
― mh, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 02:47 (three years ago) link
Oh do the PS5 controllers work with Steam controller maps same as PS4 do?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 04:14 (three years ago) link
Fan can be hella loud when it has to kick in tho.
nooooooooo i thought this was the whole point of making it a meter wide, to avoid this!
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 21:02 (three years ago) link
i am disappointed sony
yeah iirc all the first impressions were like "its so much quieter than the ps4" but maybe it doesnt hold up over time
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 21:41 (three years ago) link
I should caveat what I said - most of the time theres no fan noise! but when it kicks in, its not so much that its loud, but its ... distinct? Quite enginey-sounding, like a 2stroke mower in the distance.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 4 March 2021 23:22 (three years ago) link
Playstation getting its own Hades: https://kotaku.com/returnal-feels-like-an-actual-ps5-game-1846735864
― Tahini Coates (Leee), Thursday, 22 April 2021 15:27 (three years ago) link
I was up late watching streams of this. A complete stunner of a game. Just awesome.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Sunday, 2 May 2021 18:32 (two years ago) link
That game looks pretty neat, and/or a future cult classic. I have no idea what thought goes into these rollouts but it's wild the PS5 came out with next to no bench. Then again, as I understand it, the early days of PS4 were light on must-play games, too. Which of course begs the question, if it takes a couple of years for a system to get going, then why buy one at all in the early days? I suppose that problem was accidentally solved this year through scarcity, but still.
Anyway, this reminds me that I have Hades but haven't played it yet!
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 3 May 2021 12:10 (two years ago) link
PS5 still has more and better exclusives than Xbox does.
Also, the PS5 is apparently the fastest-selling console in history so the scarcity isn't hurting too much.
PS4 at launch didn't have PS Now or backwards compatibility so those mediocre launch titles were basically the only games you could play on it.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 3 May 2021 22:51 (two years ago) link
new sells
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 03:03 (two years ago) link
ps5 releasing during a pandemic when a lot of people are sitting around bored and have entertainment money to spend can't be ignored as a factor
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 4 May 2021 03:27 (two years ago) link
didn’t the first batch of PS4s have backwards compatibility, and then they removed it? am i dreaming that?
― One Of The Bad Guys (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 07:10 (two years ago) link