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On 4/17/2024 at 6:49 AM, 05032-Mendicant-Bias said:

 

 

 

Ideally the most advantageous thing to do given the realities of actual driving is variable displacement technology i would think, assuming the technology eventually becomes practical and reliable 

I drive two dual displacement vehicles a 3.9L V6 than can operate as a 1.95L 3 cylinder and a 6.0L V8 than can operate as a 3.0 4cyl

The technology involved in GMs variable displacement tech relies on engines being of a Cam In Block design, which is a type of engine that isn't really utilized anymore. In those designs function  depends on completely disabling the valves of the "off" cylinders. Engines that feature dual or single overhead cams don't generally have the space to do this.

The other type of variable displacement is a design infiniti has been working on where the connecting rod length is varied. An interesting concept but I'm unsure if this will be ready for prime time. This design can be combined with variable valve profile to significantly reduce the stroke of a engine, live, on a load and rpm and boost basis

Just some neat stuff.

On 4/17/2024 at 7:41 AM, Needfuldoer said:

I can usually get 120 MPGe (just under 4 miles per kilowatt-hour) or 40 MPG mixed city/highway out of my Chevy Volt, and I'm not a diligent hypermiler. 

 

Just city, I've seen it touch 150 MPGe (almost 5 miles per kilowatt-hour), reading almost 70 miles on the EV range guess-o-meter.

 

My worst tank ever was about 34 MPG combined, but that was in the dead of winter and running the engine to defrost in the driveway a lot.

 

I have the dash set so I get a total power rating of how much is going into and coming back from the wheels (regen), and I treat that like a vacuum gauge. The gamified "efficiency score" screen seems to be happiest when I keep that between +30kW and -30kW, but that might just be an arbitrary goalpost in the programming.

 

On the highway, if I'm careful to just maintain speed but not accelerate, the power output reading is something like 15 kilowatts.

 

Even in "Hold" mode (which maintains the state of charge read when it's engaged) or "Mountain" mode (which stores an extra buffer above "empty"), the ECU is still in complete control of the engine's speed. No matter what, there's no direct correlation between the position of your foot and the position of the butterfly valve in the throttle body. I've never plugged an OBD2 scanner in to read it, but anecdotally it seems like the controller tries to keep the engine at a fast idle on average, or at least within the range of an ICE car at cruising speed, and it will run lower longer instead of working as hard as possible to minimize run time.  I don't know if that's what's actually required, or if it was done for "emulate an ICE car" purposes (like transmission creep), or if it was just for NVH.

 

What year is your Volt? I was under the impression that the engines just stayed At About 3000rpm when in generator mode and never really fluctuates. At least in the first gen a lot of reviews talked of this 

28 minutes ago, IkeaGnome said:

They never said gas. They were talking about ICE in general. The only time they said gas they used it as the word “Fuel”. 

 

 

That isn't what my comment was about. Motors have Specific Efficiency curves, a gasoline motors suffer much more than a diesel in part throttle operation, there still is an advantage to being on the throttle in a diesel,  also  only if gearing permits 

The vehicles I drive for example, "elongate" half the cylinders under "medium loads" in order to advance the throttle,  example : 3 cylinders and half throttle open, instead of 6 cylinders at 1/4 throttle, by disabling the valves on one bank of the v6

On 4/11/2024 at 2:50 PM, wONKEyeYEs said:

"Your unpopular (non-political, non-offensive) opinions!"

There are too many people getting offended, get some perspective and stop taking yourself so seriously.

 

 

 

I'm offended that you're offended about the offence I've taken 

8 hours ago, IkeaGnome said:

Really?

 

Also not always true. Just as an example it's been found that the 5.9 Cummins does best at 1300-1500 RPM. Your logic says I should drive it much closer to the 2500 rpm it's governed to...

Not OP but,I think there's some technical simplifications that might make the point here hard to track 

For one Diesel motors do not have a restriction based throttle and that is the primary efficiency loss that OPs post is talking about the nature of.

On a gasoline engine if you're accelerating at 20% throttle, you will incur pretty significant efficiency losses as a fraction of the power the engine is producing is used to pull air by the throttle plates.

If you were instead in 3rd gear at 1500rpm and full throttle, there are other issues involved, but you would not suffer from efficiency losses resulting from the throttle plate 

The actual RPM that is absolute most efficient is the torque maximum if you could have infinitely adjustable gearing as that is the RPM that the most energy is extracted from a single stroke. But that's only if the engine is held at full throttle and the load and gearing is sufficient to not let the engine accelerate 

In a purely mechanical sense you're correct OP. Having an open throttle reduces suction losses in the engine, but given the realities of vehicle design and automatic transmission software things are much more complicated 

It also has to be taken into account that in real every day driving slow acceleration can be much more efficient due to the simple nature than if the person in front of you is going to stop eventually it's more efficient to never reach your target speed 

pretty unlikely for 5 years of use to affect a monitor in that way 

I have 15-20 year old lcds that are still functional and don't have issues with modern hardware and games 

On 3/17/2024 at 6:17 PM, MarkPol88 said:

Full agree with that statement - people should not "agree" with person, we should agree with ideas and visions (or disagree of course).

Isn't it a core problem today, btw? That most people will disagree with someone just because they do not like them, not because they are talking nonsense?

I guess my point to make was more that, with the level of "bad people" that any project of this scale will be introduced to, simply due to its scale, it shouldn't be expected of the audience to spend days trying to decide about the morality of every purchase. The words I used were to specifically say  "there isn't a reason to *not * seperate art from artist" to suggest that the end audience member should carry the final choice of if Death of The Artist is an idea that's meaningful to them. Not to suggest that people should look at the ideas of people individually, not unilaterally. I think there's plenty of people who I don't respect the odd time they say something reasonable after years of being terrible.

some people feel the value in  vetting the morality of their purchases though, and both those positions I think are reasonable.

Now it's still my belief that Hogwarts Legacy directly pays cheques to a really shitty person who uses that money and influence to try to sway the political atmosphere of today, but the same could be said of all big companies, but Rowling has held a spot in the pop culture for over a decade with her public comments and actions. So for many people it seems she is a figurehead of an anti trans movement.

EDIT : updated some formatting to make my meaning clearer 

14 minutes ago, Motifator said:

You won't, you'll have fisheye effect. Normal monitors suck when rolled into ultrawide FOV's.

Also, you want an aggressive curve in certain games like Siege, they give you a different level of immersion.

All first hand experience.

I'm not trying to say that you are wrong about your first hand experience and your opinions, you're allowed to believe what you want ,and it can be true to the way you your games.

When I was talking about my friends monitors I wasn't talking about 2nd hand information, I've used both 21:9 32:9 and 48:9 eyefinity/surround. I don't see them as worth it. I occasionally use my oled tv to do an ultrawide in the centre, haven't really felt any need to buy one.

My only point is I think it's a incorrect generalization saying that all users want ultrawide, it's nice but it's not objectively superior in my eyes.

On the other hand I do not really believe in immersion, that's not the way I play games 

5 hours ago, Kisai said:

That's literately saying "pirate old games"

 

Abandonware is not "Free games"

 

The lesson you teach your kids when you do not buy the software is "you can steal this." Always. That's a great way to attach zero value to software.

 

The correct answer here was "Buy games on GOG that explicitly do not have monetization features"

 

Otherwise, buy used game consoles before the Wii U.

Might as well teach kids how to properly find and access abandonware /old games so when they do try to do it they don't get virus' or scammed by people with those premade emulator boxes.

My dad made me an eBay account when I was 9 and showed me how to not get scammed on it and I've used eBay for 20 years since then, never been ripped off 

1 hour ago, Motifator said:

Not really since UW makes its thing:

On a standard monitor,if you increase FOV to 100 you'll probably have the same wide view. 

Ultrawides are not bad, but I have not seen anything to make me think they are the Superior monitor format. I just think it's weird to say 

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Put that on gaming context, you still want an ultrawide monitor

By best friend has a 34x14 screen and another friend has a 52x14 screen and I will take my 16:10 and 16:9 monitors over them every day. 

Edit: changed one word 

On 3/14/2024 at 1:10 AM, Motifator said:

FPS is a meaningless metric without full context.

Say you're sailing on a boat, you want navigation / sonars up. You're sailing globally, you want a curved screen not a flat. The mKart system is your friend. You can hook it up, and use it as a global chartpilotter.

Put that on gaming context, you still want an ultrawide monitor just because you get to see more to the edges.

Weird to use ultrawide as the metaphor, and not just higher FOV, I use a taller than standard monitor for the most part, it doesn't limit how much I can see 

Why use leaded solder in this application to begin with?

29 minutes ago, Blazepoint5 said:

1%lows and .1%lows diffrence? I know 1%lows but idk the .1

 

So do you want error per second to be a thing added on softwares like MSI AB

.1% lows are just a more precise show of worst case scenario frame drops. It isn't uncommon to see them in benchmarks.

The video is talking about making a new measurement for msi AB yeah, afterburner uses Intel's open source Presentmon function internally and Intel is adding new features that will basically tell you "average smoothness error" which I'm sure will take time to educate the audience in but it will give users more ability to diagnose issues with their games.

On 3/4/2024 at 6:29 PM, RareFactor said:

I will confirm and thank you for letting me know about the wrong topic first time posting. 

Did you ever get the chance to check that windows is installed on your ssd and not the HDD?

Yep I watched this 

Feels like they are talking about developing tools to measure standard deviation in presentation of smooth animation. Makes sense to move to more defined measurements as we are able to more closely measure things.

I have the same issue. Been using a video output set to 480p for audio and I just moved the display so it would be above my monitor so it's rare that software gets put in it 

If anyone has a solution it would be great 

On 3/10/2024 at 9:54 PM, blaker36 said:

Oh my, so which aio should I go with? Any suggestions, price is not a factor.

Most people use hwinfo64 to monitor info on pc. a more up to date software.

As for cooler, what are you doing in your pc to get 95 celcius?. You could lower your TDP in bios until you can get a better cooler.

Is it mostly a gaming system or are you doing multithreaded work like rendering?

58 minutes ago, Stahlmann said:

I've seen ways to actually get 60 fps in this game, but only with the PS4 Pro and you need to modify both the PS firmware, aswell as a physical copy of the game disc, meaning you also need a blu-ray burner, etc. It's just too much hassle tbh, but shows the lack of commitment from Sony and/or FromSoft to deliver on the technical side. FromSoft games are still on another level gameplay wise, but techincally they're pretty bad.

That's also what I'm referring to. Ps5 can do locked 60 ps4 pro can do mostly 60 but it's at 720p instead of 1080p. But yeah you need modded firmware and modded game 

On 3/11/2024 at 8:54 AM, Stahlmann said:

These videos have really opened my eyes. I recently started playing Bloodborne on my PS4 and even though the fps are capped at 30 and the PS4 doesn't have any of these latency reducing features, I was amazed at how responsive the game still felt. With this new knowledge, I'll probably make more use of frame caps in the future.

Bloodborn famously is the posterchild for bad frame times, I wish I didn't have to use custom firmware to remove the frame rate cap because From is terrible at programming frame rate limits and I don't want to cfw my ps4 yet 

On 3/7/2024 at 8:27 AM, Stahlmann said:

I think most people have no problem separating the art from the artist. JK Rowling wasn't even involved in the development or decision-making of the game afaik. She just owns the rights to the Harry Potter brand.

 

The problem these days is that Twitter and Reddit have a way of allowing a few very vocal individuals to make their personal problems seem much bigger than they are.

Even though I've never seen such a huge shitstorm around a game launch, it was still the bestselling game of 2023, which shows that the outcry and real harassment that occurred during this whole debacle was actually for nothing, and most normal people just don't care. They just want to play a good game, and from what I've seen, that's what Hogwarts Legacy was.

 

In my personal experience, the people who demand inclusivity and diversity are often the most racist and hateful people, but they lack the self-awareness to see it. And to be clear, I have no problem with natural diversity. I, like most people who just want to enjoy games, just don't want it to be forced, because it often comes at the expense of the integrity or authenticity of the medium.

 

Recent reports about the work Sweet Baby Inc. is doing and the type of people who work at these consultation studios are what's really frightening, not a book author who doesn't have anything to do with games.

 

Case in point, tell my how people like these have the moral authority to tell me what's right or wrong in society or the way games are presented:

(These are actual quotes from employees, and even the CEO of that company...)

 

The obvious answer is: They don't. And that's why shitstorms like the one around the game release just doesn't hold water. And in the end nothing matters more than simply making a good game.

The critisism on SBI are more silly than the the critisism of JKR in relation to hogwarts legacy.

JKR uses her platform and money as one of the most culturally significant authors today to heave attacks at lgbt people. 

The CEO of sweet baby Inc is no JKR and has no where near the money or influence. 

Plenty of people with actual experience in the games industry have refuted the arguments that SBI goes in with a knife and has significant influence on the trajectory of AAA games. 

Now none of this is to say that either of these campaigns are particularly important. I didn't pay HL, but it had more to do with it being an open world game 

Now the way I see art-artist seperation is kinda tough and on a case by case basis. Especially in games to boil down the concept of a game being the creative vision of a single man or woman is naive to be sure.

But for example I see buying and playing Hideo Kojima's games to be a statement in favour of Kojima's beliefs and choices. On the other hand I'd like to say watching Roman Polanski films isn't a statement in favour of statutory rape, and I think the majority of people wouldn't see it that way, I've seen many people critical of actors working with the on the run criminal and showering him with praise over the years. I think there's plenty of legitimate reason to not listen Chris Brown and express that for example 

The music industry is inundated with some of the most prolific abusers of other people. In Elvis, the Eagles, The Rolling Stones, Beatles, Phil Specie, Marilyn Mansion, the grunge scene,Michael Jackson, the majority of the pop punk scene from the early 2000s, and countless other Acts, we see some examples of decades of different kinds of abusive dogshit people, who happen to be some of the most influential drivers of pop culture in the modern world. To not seperate the art from the artist opens the audience up to what is effectively no end to moral challenges of what to some is just enjoying some art.

In the end of it I don't think there is a neccisary reason to not seperate the art from the artist. An end user can't be required to research the choices and actions of every member of every part of an artistic project before they decide to interact with a single peice of art

3 hours ago, starsmine said:

It takes zero effort to look up in the thread or look up tropic haze LLC to find out it’s an LLC

 

I know my tone is blunt, but you don’t have to speculate when you literally don’t have to speculate.

the filling is also openly available 

No stress. The simple answer is, based on the previous post I was saying the same thing as you said in the comment im replying to now.

Mihle or whatever the above posters name is asked if they were a company and I replied with "[you] could look up the filing [and find out for yourself]"

My meaning was the same as yours, that finding the info is trivial. I just don't actually care if they are an LLC and I don't care what their name is. So it wasn't something I was going to look up for the other poster.

19 minutes ago, Mihle said:

Are the individual people liable for it or just yuzu as a company? Are they even a true company?

Very good question 

Would have to look in the filing. I've heard it referenced there is a name for the organization, not sure if it's a corporation 

1 minute ago, Mark Kaine said:

that's the problem,  they've doing all the time apparently, so "monetization" accusations are well deserved (imho)

 

nintendo unintentionally the good guy?

I don't think monetization is the issue here. I don't think that really plays into it 

3 hours ago, MarkPol88 said:

 

Probably they will file for bankruptcy? Or do you think they really sit on 2.4 mil?

I don't know how bankruptcy plays here but if I was to guess these people would have to take out massive long term loans, like remortgaging the house(if they own one)