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It would be nice if you could debug that. Something in your setup must be VERY different to other people testing this. I mean,... cherry blues don't get picked up at all. Leafblowers, Sirens, Server Fans, Vacuums,... Finding out what makes it work so badly for you, would certainly help others (and NVidia to improve it). Certainly seems odd.

Sure enough. Yet I fail to see a reason to make TB more like USB, if USB is already there. Right now TB has "something" over USB, but that is exactly the part you need to remove to make it secure. Apples way of doing this is just as dumb as most things apple does. Or let me rephrase that: It is not dumb, it is just a shiny distraction so people that don't look into it can feel better. Basically they shove their chip in between, and THEY decide which devices can pass and which can not. If they automate this according to some form of metric,... bad actors would just copy that metric to look legit. So they have to work with white / blacklists and call it "advanced AI based super chip that deflects potential attacks. The most advanced security ever made!" - we all know their marketing,... To get back to the open door example: Apple is putting a security guy next to the door. You have to pay him (resources, power, latency) and he has a big list of people that are allowed to enter your living room. People looking like pirates are just blocked. Pirates that dress up like a nice person, may pass. Don't get me wrong: I am all in for securing TB, if it remains TB after that. But there is no magic way to do this, without going (much) closer to the USB spec and working like USB. The moment TB is as secure as USB, it actually IS USB. Both ways of data transfer are valid in their own scenarios. You don't always need security and you don't always need speed. Pick the right tool for the job and don't change a perfectly working tool, because you actually want another tool but insist on not using it. Edit: The same thing, 180degree the other way, applies to USB(4) using the same vulnerabilities. Making USB more like TB is just as silly. Just have both for the correct job and make people understand what each is for.

So the fix to the open door feature is to shut the door and only let people look trough the window? Doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose? Why use a port that gets huge speed in both directions without a limitation, if you don't actually want to use a port like that? Changing how it works, just changes what the port can do. Obviously you can make this secure, but it won't be the same after that. You can just as well use USB if you limit thunderbolt enough to be secure.

So,.. a hardware port that bypasses all security options MS has... is somehow fixable by MS? Care to elaborate? If you order a new house being build, with the front door being open, without an actual door and without a lock.... how is the builder supposed to make it secure? Remember: People can just freely walk into your living room, without ever opening a door and without needing electricity.... so security cams won't do you any good. And You won't even be able to fire lasers at random people coming trough that open door, since you can't check who is coming in. If you fire lasers at all people coming in, it no longer serves the purpose of an open door to your living room. So basically: Make up your mind. Do you want all people getting free access to your living room, or not? Do you want that security hole in your hardware, or not?

To be honest here: It does say, right on the option for output, that a performance hit is suspected and you should not use it, unless you have to. So it is hard for me to care about it,... but I can see that some people may see the INCOMING noise reduction as more important. Personally I only use the outgoing thing. I don't care much about others noise, I just don't want to be "that" person myself haha Just finished watching Tech Jesus. The big takeaway for me seems to be: Don't do this with GTX GPUs at this time. Much worse sounding voice. Also he seems to have both input and output turned on. I can't reproduce a performance hit, unless I turn on both. Just using "Microphone on" seems to be flat out amazing, without any noticeable impact on anything but noise. All other setups seem to do worse tho.

I don't notice the performance OR power increases on a 2080ti. Maybe those two areas are the reason NVidia tries to make it RTX only. Getting amazing publicity sure rocks, but performance and power consumption are two negatives that would offset some or most of the amazingness. I would not be surprised if it does indeed run on Tensor cores, unless you comment out those three lines and it falls back to the less efficient cuda solution. So it does work on GTX, but is way better on RTX. Just a possibility, not claiming to know it or anything. Just noticing that my power consumption does not change at all, neither does my fps in games drop at all.

Well, the premium hearing aids use some sort of filtering already. My mom has some 6k expensive aids, which allow app settings to adjust hearing cones. Allowing to block noise from some directions, boosting others (for busy meetings and talking to the person just infront etc.). They do work okish, but nowhere near what RTX Voice seems to be able to do. Think about RTX Voice, with adjustable listening cones... settings that allow you to filter noise type X, but not Y etc.. There is a gold mine full of potential here. Out of the almost 10 people installing this today, just because of calls with me,... 2 actually use AMD GPUs and went ahead and ordered an RTX GPU for this, just for this single feature. As was said before: Business calls are a huge part of our life, not just right now. Always. And making sure those calls go smoothly is worth real money in some cases. Really been a while since I have been so hyped about any software (And I am a software developer ffs). I hope AMD can put up like this as well, so everyone gets to enjoy it. #silenceTheBlues

Well. There are hearing aids with Bluetooth already. My mother has some and is using them for phone calls all the time. Using them as RTX Voice Output is actually doable today. Nothing stopping it, apart from the very limited Bluetooth range of hearing aids (for obvious reasons... they are right at your brain after all!)

Another voice call, another 3 converted people right here. People are simply amazed at how easy and perfect this is working. NVidia sure did improve our daily video calls by a landslide. Most people use Nvidia GPUs anyways, so this can easily be widespread. Tho. I do hope AMD follows suit, or NVidia opens this up (I doubt it tho, since it does make people want to buy RTX lol)

Indeed. The Server fan got me. But getting the Siren out was flat out amazing. Sure, with all turned on the Voice was bad, but who would vacuum in front of a siren, inside a server room, while streaming?

Just got off another call. After I showed how it worked, half a dozen people instantly installed this software. I had a text file open and mashed my keyboard, without RTX Voice. Then showed them the same thing with slider turned right. "It's not perfect" may be correct, but if I have ever seen noise cancellation come close to perfection, this is it.

Short, but important info. You can indeed block OTHER peoples keyboards as well with this little magic trick. I rarely get excited about software nowadays, but this little gem is just amazing and works flawlessly (in my limited testing obviously). It simply does what it claims and it does it easily and perfectly. If you have an RTX GPU (or can be bothered to comment out the 3 lines needed to make it not RTX only), get it. It is worth your time, if you are on voice calls a lot.

Well. It does. Simple as that. I could not believe it, but when I recorded a Test Video Call from myself.... there was ZERO key presses in the playback. Not "quite silent", but seriously: They where gone. It was my voice only and nothing else. It kind of feelt like a little bit of magic, so I am gonna keep using it for sure.

So, we will finally see that the Noctua NH-D15 is the best CPU cooler? ? On a more serious note: Yeah, if 80 bucks for the best CPU cooler is too much for a budget, it will be great to have a resource to look up cheaper coolers. Amazing!

Uhm, it is 30 dollars and not 60. Considering how much voice-overs in several languages alone cost, it is actually pretty cheap. If those voice-overs are of value to every buyer is another question tho. ?

Yeah, I really can't see it, even after watching several videos of people crying bloody murder. All I hear is "I wanted it different!"... Guess I am easy to please when it comes to remastered games and don't lose my shit because I don't get a candy I saw in a promotional video 1.5 years ago. Don't get me wrong. You can be as upset about Blizzard as you like. I don't care at all. I just don't agree on the basis of what people say and show. It is a remaster after all and not a new game or redo (since people also cried bloody murder when Blizzard wanted to redo the game...). Good luck with your refunds. I hear a ticket usually does the trick if issued within 48 hours.

Can you post a comparison that shows how the graphics are worse? Whatever I find only has other camera angles and zoom values. (You quoted a comparison i posted right there!) They did change the models to use in-engine models, but that has been known for a year and also because of player demand. Can you show which kind of UI they promised? I never noticed that when waiting. ? That may also fall under the "people bashed them for suggesting it" kinda deal tho. I have seen quite a few remastered games and people seem to be all jacked up for everything that is not 100% true to the original. Graphics only is what some people "demand". Even sounds are frowned upon by some, due to changing the atmosphere. I do enjoy the updated audio in WC3R tho. They even translated it, written and spoken! Game cut-scenes are exactly as promised. Changes to modding rules are in line with what every company does nowadays. I understand people not liking it, but those rules hardly make the game any better or worse, right? It is a new release that usually also gets updated rules. It is their game, so their rules. Don't like them, don't use mods. Pretty easy actually. The comparison videos you are talking about do not show anything missing or anything not advertised a year ago. If you find one that does, please post it here. I am honestly interested in finding one. Right now it just feels like people saw something at Blizzcon, then ignored everything advertised since then. Now people are mad because stuff changed between initial showing and now? That is... kind of... how games always work?! If they had a finished product back then, they would have released it back then. I get that people may have liked the original plan better, but other people may like the current plan better. I don't care either way, but lean on liking the current way (remaster, not redo) better. What annoys me more is all the badmouthing for stuff that has been known for a year or close to it. If people don't follow a game for a year and buy it without checking if anything changed, it is on them. But oh well. People seem to love to hate on this one. Fine by me. Not gonna load it up again once I finish the campaign anyways, so I don't care if others flood the chats with fury and flames haha. I do urge people to just ignore those folks and enjoy the game tho. It is quite fun to play after playing the original a week ago. It has the same feel, yet it looks and plays so much nicer.

I play WOW every few years with my wife. Not for long, usually pushing an expansion, enjoying the story and then quickly getting tired of the raiding game nowadays. But whenever we try a different MMO, we quit within 2 days tops. So again: It may not be a great experience in WOW, but it still is "the best". I understand that is sad, but true (for us) anyways. I would enjoy the old quality Blizzard used to deliver, no question asked.

Can anyone here elaborate on what exactly is missing that was advertised? I literally tried finding out, since everyone and their dog claims that about everything is missing. But no one seems to name even a single thing. The changed campaign was scrapped (a year ago) after fans demanded a "true to the original" remaster over a changed game with the old name. Which,... is kind of expected, no? If you remaster a game, people expect better graphics, sounds and maybe convenience, but the same game nonetheless. But now people are claiming they promised the thing they removed to due fan feedback and did not deliver? Strange logic. It was known for about a year or so. They basically got an outrage (kind of like now) for even suggesting they would change something lol. Now they get the same outrage again, for listening? Damn. ? The MP issues were down to servers smoking due to everyone bashing them at once. Something that happens with about every new game and is already resolved. There may be more, but I don't play MP myself and I can't find a single bashing person naming the actual problems. What else is there that was "promised" and did not get delivered? Edit for a comparison: Old cut scene vs new cut scene If they had used even shinier graphics, people would have bitched about it not being true to the original (we have had that for several remasters in the past years). On that front, they can't win. If they do more, people cry. If they do less, people cry. If they do what they do, people cry. Watch those two cut scenes and tell me what is wrong with the new version please. It is improved by a lot AND even twice as long. Also, they not only remastered english voiceovers, but more languages. That is a hell of a lot of work done right there. Please don't think I am badly trying to defend Blizzard here. I am really not sure what the problem seems to be. I want to understand. All the people saying "it's bad!" are not helping that much. ?

I agree. Larian Studio is pretty nice as well. I would not blindly buy any game from them tho, while I do that for CDPR. Used to do that with all Blizzard and Ubisoft titles, but Ubisoft went bad quite a while ago and Blizzard... oh well. Just being worse than they used to, but still much higher quality than almost anyone else. Been reading the blizzard forums for WC3R for a while now. People seem to be pissed about it being an old game mostly. The rose colored glasses remembered a better game for the most part. Like 9/10 people just say: "I dislike the game!" or "I feel let down!". Hard to find someone being specific as to what is actually the problem. The people having FPS drops are also 100% Ryzen users, which is exactly why I switched back to Intel for the time being. (I did not read every fps topic, only the first 7, so don't bash me if there is an intel user hidden somewhere, ha!)

The sad part about Blizzard: They are still making the best games out there (with very few exceptions like Witcher obviously), despite being MUCH worse than they used to. Yeah, they went downhill bad, but compare them to EA, Ubisoft and the like and you see what the market has become. CD project Red is the new shining star on the horizon, for now. Let's all hope they don't go the way of the Blizzard. (Hell, even Ubisoft was amazing, way back then,... so sad)

I checked this comparison: On YouTube They do look slightly different, I agree. But they are now closer to the original feeling. The Blizzcon version kind of changed the feeling. So, while I see the difference, I also am sure that plenty of other people would have bitched about the other cut scenes, because they changed too much and where not true to the original game. I personally don't mind either version tbh. The Blizzcon one does look slightly newer, while the current ones do seem to use the engine itself and look more like an improved version of the original compared to changing it all together. The differences are basically zoomed in and camera movement related and maybe a few extra pixels or so. Still nothing I would go all mad about tho. ? People seem to hate it for some reason. But I just have a good time with the campaign now and am happy. The Starcraft remake was much worse in my eyes, so I guess I did not expect some kind of miracle here. At the very least I don't see why we need to light the torches THAT bad right now. Remakes always polarize people, due to the many approaches a remake can choose. Staying close to the original is the worst for some, while others strongly demand it /shrug. The same people that are mad about some missing tournament features are also mad about cut scenes not changing the original enough. Hypocrisy at its best. ?

But they delivered redone cut scenes,... I may be dull here, forgive me, but people seem to be outraged about stuff that is just not true at all. Just because I think a cut scene should be redone in some other way, does not mean it is not as advertised. No matter how they redo it, there will always be people claiming it was "the wrong way". A player base like the one for blizzard games is so huge that you will always get a huge group of pissed people. Look, I dislike Activision as much as everyone else. I just dislike bashing things that are false even more. We get that plenty in politics, don't bring that to gaming as well. Bash them for stuff that is valid and true, don't make up stuff that can be proven wrong by just starting up the game and opening your eyes.

I get that, but I still feel like the outrage is a little extreme. Most of the points mentioned around the web are flat out wrong after all. You just need to fire up the game and look at it to verify,... that is why I am strongly skeptical about what is happening here. Kind of expect a MP loving gang of people review bombing here TBH. As I said: I did not look into that and don't plan to. The game itself, the campaign, is done better than expected. By far actually. You can even pick to run the original game and compare,... they reworked about everything, including sound, videos and voiceover. Crying about not having animated loading screens seems kind of,... extreme, no? Especially since I am just now looking at an animated loading screen. ?

Meanwhile, I am having a blast and zero issues with the game. Did not check out the MP part, but honestly never got interested in that anyways. (Hell, I don't even remember it having MP originally,...) Did not run into any graphical bugs, performance issues, crashes or letdowns. It is just basically the old game with slightly shinier pictures, sounds and videos. Got all I expected to get tbh. Not quite sure what people expected it to be. A new game? They would have called it Warcraft IV then.