Ayush008

For what?
 
Vr games?
 
Like basicallt everyone gets motion sick using them as big desktop screens let alone the discomfort of wearing them for a long time, massive eye strain, headaches, sweat, heat, unsharp image (yes even on the best ones), rgb fringing,...
 
its fine for like an hour doing vr games but sitting still using it as a screen is very motion sickness inducing for most people.
 
Unless you feel like training your body to handle it (this takes a year or so with a good bit of use) it's not worth it much.
 
Its a niche that is fun to use from time to time or you commit to going vr usage heavily.

That is up to you.
 
I wouldn't spend a lot of money replacing a REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY good tv like the one you have. The only upgrade is size. You already have high refresh rate and a REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY GOOD oled tv. In terms of image quality and such there is NO UPGRADE. The only thing you can do is just buy a bigger tv which will cost a lot of money.
 
Other than size there isn't any worthwhile upgrade you'll get from getting a different tv. You have pretty much a as good as it gets oled for gaming.

Hello guys 
 
I hope u all r doing well
Please stay safe and healthy 
 
I know many of you have quite depth knowledge regarding display stuffs, so I thought to take advise from you guys.
 
I m thinking to increase the size of tv in order to make gaming experience better by adding another 4k tv of same model 
 
Does it worth it or not 

Hey guys hope you all are doing well
 
Stay safe and healthy 
 
Remember your opinions are quite valuable for me.
 
As we all know that there are very few games, that have achieved game of the year award..however I'm lil bit dicey about this one....
 
Is this kind of strategy type of rpg game like age of empires n all...
 
Because I thought it might be witcher types of masterpiece rpg n bla bla bla...but when I saw some screenshots and I found that it's similar to strategy types of game like mobile statergy games n all....
 
Change my opinion please if I'm wrong 

I mean
 
Have a game downloaded
 
Open the emulator
 
Turn on vulkan in gpu settings
 
Open the game
 
Let it run for a minute to build shaders
 
Play and when you take a break just leave it paused or something to build shaders. Shaders are copyrighted so they are built on the fly for your pc.
 
the end

According to all the rumors, there will be a new switch in the second half of this year. It will, however, be a bit more expensive ~$400 to $450. At least according to the rumors. They might hit $350, but that remains to be seen.
 
If you just want to play a few switch games, the way to go currently is just getting a steam deck and then emulate the switch games. That way you can play a lot of great PC games, as well as switch games in higher fidelity than the switch allows. If you like, you can even do this morally correct by buying the actual switch games, before you get the rom files from somewhere else.
 
You will have to deal with the hassle of emulating, if you go this route though. Some games won't work as well as on the real hardware, and sometimes you get some visual bugs. For example in the latest Zelda game, the switch is able to sort the "objects" it draws to your screen in a certain way, that allows for some very efficient transparency effects. PC GPUs don't have calls for this, so the "objects" are drawn at random, and you see some flickering. In that game, specifically whenever there is lava.
But most games work well enough, mostly better than on the switch itself and there is a large community for people emulating switch games on the steam deck. So you are likely to find answers to any problems you encounter fairly quickly.

Man, I clicked on this hoping it would be about the first trailer of the Fallout show or something actually interesting. Vague thread title much?
 
Anyway, I'm sure GTA6 will break new ground in giving GTA fans more of whatever it is people who play GTA like about it, and also new ground in the science of generating long term revenue through microtransactions.
 
Personally I've never played a minute of a GTA game and I have no plans to change that.

Going back to Vice City baby!  Oh hell yeah!

I remember playing the first GTA game on an old Toshiba Penium laptop all night long the first day I got it and going to school to sleep.  
 

I never pay attention to ratings, too many games and movies I loved had bad ratings, they are by their nature subjective.  You have no idea if the reviewer has the same taste as you do.
 
Reviews aren't pointless overall, you just need to pay attention to the actual game play is like, not the rating.

We don't know, its not out yet.
 
Basing anything on reviews is pointless as they are all comparing it to 1 rather than on its own merits.
 
Also given 2 is able to be bigger due to the work already done on the assets in 1 (even though they clearly re-worked them all), I'd be surprised if it isn't better than the first game.  It certainly looks like a more convincing alive world with so much more details and cars/pedestrians and bigger map.

You mean they have lied to us...? Ooh my God what will I do now ?
 
Ooh sweet Jesus 

EY 2028 xbox future console info, official 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

EY 2028 xbox future console info, official 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Which one is better in terms of backward compatibility?

the ps5 and xbox do have data on the disk, but its a simple fact of disk storage that the bluray disks for the consoles dont hold enough data. the switch can have a huge nand chip in the carts.

Well, do you play it or is it gathering dust? If you use it, its not wasted. 

Windows has indefinite backwards compatibility, just a question of how much you want to work for it.
 
All DOS/16-bit era games can be run on 32-bit and-64bit windows under certain conditions. Under 32-bit windows, MOST DOS games work, but require a special sound driver installed into the NTVDM, 64-bit, ZERO 16-bit games work. That's where Dosbox, or PCEM works. Most DOS era games in the S3Virge-3DFX-TNT2 era of 1993-1996 as well as early Windows 95/98 games are entirely unplayable as well as ALL Win3.x games are unplayable on 64-bit Windows, as well as 32-bit windows.
 
That said, Windows compatibility for Directdraw/Direct3D up to DX7 is somewhat of a clusterf*ck, most games work, but to make them work on Windows XP and later without being recompiled usually requires:
- not running in 256 colors and not in 15bit/16-bit color mode (because no control over the GPU Palette)
- not running full screen (because they have no control over the GPU palette)
- not using DirectPlay, DirectMusic (Games using either of these, will either not work, or have errors trying to initialize)
 
To make games that aren't 32-bit color and might be full screen work, you need the "DX Windower" software, which basically just wraps calls to the functions that would switch it into full screen. Likewise 3DFX Glide wrappers exist as well (and was largely a result of trying to get early N64/PSX emulators to run on non-3DFX hardware, their use with native PC games only came after the demise of 3DFX.)
 
Now compare that to game consoles:
NES - original model, does not work on HDMI-only systems. Upscalers exist, but that's an expense and not one anyone short of a speedrunner needs. Alternative is the NT Mini and AVS. Both of these solve the problem with needing HDMI output, work with the original cartridges, or can have firmware unlocked to just play (YOUR)  games off SD cards. Super NT, and Mega SG accomplish the same for the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis/Master System/GameGear respectively.
SNES - most original model SNES/SFC's are dead. Period. The only way to play original carts is with late-model SNES's before the 1-chip model and or with the Super NT as stated above.
Sega Master System, Genesis(Megadrive), SegaCD, and 32X - The Master System/SG3000 exists in a power base converter for the Genesis, likewise the SegaCD and 32X require a real genesis to work. The MegaSG above can work with the real accessories, but it's a bit more complicated due to how the devices interface with each other. Suffice it to say, software emulation on a PC is probably the better option for "SEGA" titles such as as the SEGA collections available on Steam.
 
Other 8-bit and 16-bit consoles/computers: Many original model gameboy/gameboy advance and DS units still work. Atari, Amiga, Apple, various Japanese computers, and so forth... There is presently no existing way to play any ATARI, Amiga, Apple, or Japanese computers without the original hardware, other than a handful of Atari (2600) first party games that have been ported to other platforms. Next to no Amiga or Apple (Apple II, IIgs, and 68K Mac) exclusive games have ever been ported to the PC, and usually those that did, were inferior, or performed worse on the PC due to the lack of sound hardware.
 
In fact there is somewhat of a void of games that were released for Apple II computers and early Macintosh's due to the inability to read the flippy diskettes by PC's. Amiga computers could read PC diskettes but not the other way around. Yet more C64 and Amiga games have been preserved, and some Apple II software has been preserved, but rarely any of this stuff got ported to PC.
 
Playstation 1, 2,3,4,5. So backwards compatibility with the playstation was a bit of a "Depends on what version you have". Early PS2's had PS1 hardware in them. Early PS3's had PS2 hardware in them. Later models do not. PS4 and PS5's can not run PS3 games due to not having the hardware and can't recompile the software on the fly like a PC PS3 emulator can. PS5's have no excuse to not play PS4 titles.
 
Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, etc, Likewise, because Microsoft changed the CPU between the original Xbox and the 360, and then again with the One, pretty much no Xbox game has ever been completely backwards compatible. 
 
GameCube, Wii and WiiU are pretty much the same hardware, and other than the change to the optical drive, and omission of GC ports on the WiiU, there was really nothing stopping the WiiU from playing GC games.
The Switch uses an ARM chip, which is the same as the 3DS, DSi, DS, and GBA. There is no reason why any of these game are not running on the Switch. Nintendo could make them work and they choose not to.
 
In terms of backwards compatibility, Nintendo has had the longest running compatibility with the WiiU. Pity they decided to go in another direction and chose the "you will own nothing" model.
 
Which brings us back again to the PC.
 
The PC can play anything, depending on how bad you want to play it. No game console has a survivability rating high enough to ever justify "buying legacy console and games", because most of these legacy games on mask-ROM still work, but the majority of affordable legacy console games you find on eBay are counterfeit flashROM copies. The game developers already made their money on the physical cartridges and CD/DVD/BD games, and most of the optical media doesn't survive being handled and shipped.
 
So as much as I argue that the only reason PC emulators exist is to play pirated games, that IS true, but it's true because the developers choose to leave money on the table and not recompile their games for each new OS/Console that comes out. I can see why not to bother recompiling a PS2 era title for a PS5, you're unlikely to make the money back converting it. But porting it to the PC? Free money. Just do it, or encourage the fan community around the game to port it for you. Just give them the source code to the game engine and tell them to go nuts. Keep selling the game in a downloadable format for that effort.
 
Like in my opinion the success of Wolfenstien, Doom and Quake is owed to the original developers releasing the source code for the game engines. This spawned many 3D engines like Valve's "Source" engine. Even Unreal engine was developed because of seeing DOOM.
 
So if we talk about specific game titles only. The oldest PC games that can still be played, on a 64-bit version of Windows, would be versions of Wolfenstein and Doom that were recompiled for Windows.
 
There are of course other ways to get there, ScummVM will also play games going back to the 80's on Windows/MacOS but these are re-implementations of the game engines, and tend to always fall just a little bit short of what emulating the game would offer. (Sometimes you just want to play games the way they were intended, and ScummVM falls short for titles that were intended to be played with MT-32 or General Midi due to requiring additional third party copyrighted materials to be present that aren't easy to setup.)
 
So for most PC games, it largely depends on the effort you want to make. If you just want to go to Steam and hit install, most of the games in STEAM will install, and require no tinkering. If you go to GOG, most of the games require tinkering, sometimes quite a bit if they use dosbox or scummvm, as usually the out-of-the-box experience always falls short for the reason I mention above.  If a game was originally released on Windows 95, or 98, then often DXWindower or Glide wrappers are included or required to be installed/updated to make the game work at all.
 
But Backwards compatibility on Playstation, Xbox and Nintendo is extremely lackluster, and it shows a lack of care and a push towards "You will own nothing, you will rent access, and you will be happy with that" type of rent seeking of entertainment instead of buying games and playing them on your own terms. 
 
The correct way to keep selling games on new platforms is to recompile the game to operate natively, write a wrapper if necessary to support the new API, just don't shelve games that were working on previous consoles. But more to the point, don't punish people for refusing to buy a new version that just wraps the previous version. I've pointed out before that the game ROM's for the SEGA collection, are literately in the game directory and you could just use any master system/genesis emulator you wanted to, including the MegaSG. Likewise, SEGA itself has implemented emulators inside the Yakuza games to play several of the arcade versions of their games. We might not see any more of that since SEGA no longer owns the arcade business, but the arcades games in Yakuza were "period accurate" more or less, or parodies of games that actually existed in SEGA arcades.
 
At any rate there is no reason to exclude "emulation" if you can obtain a game legally from the developer. As we've seen... even developers seem to think it's okay to pirate games. Thus making the argument about media shifting more legitimate, as long as you have a physical copy, it doesn't matter how you got the digital one.
 

Not to forget the tiny little part where most of the time you will need a PC to run emulators on consoles.
 
And seriously, without emulators we are talking about a media machine that can run whatever the manufacturer in their high and mighty gracious let's you run on it vs. a thing that just runs anything it can. Modern consoles have ZERO backwards compatibility, that you can download and run digital versions of older generation console games isn't backwards compatibility, that is emulation. As in, we aren't talking about taking PS1 game disc and stuffing it into PS2 and the console doesn't even care and just runs the game, that's backwards compatibility, that you can download old game to your console is emulation and that is exactly what Xbox Series X does with old games (when you insert original Xbox game into it and it prompts to install the game, it really downloads the game and emulator from Microsoft and runs that, the disc is only used to validate you have the game).
 
Strictly with that Xbox Series X has zero backwards compatibility while PC has probably around 20 years of direct backwards compatibility (I would think you can just install Morrowind on Windows 11 and it doesn't even care that the game is now 21 years old). With emulation without any modding included Xbox Series X goes as far as Original Xbox while PC goes all the way to the dawn of computer games. With modding you get the SeriesX to go Retroarch and get the old consoles outside of Microsoft emulated ones but you are still far from running 1971 The Oregon Trail made for HP 2100 on SeriesX but your Ultimate Cyber Dick 5,000,000 with all the bells and whistles and the extremely needed dual RTX 4090's will happily run it, if you can find it, but you can easily run the 1975 Apple II Oregon Trail on your browser (the 1971 is a bit hard to find since it was never really published outside of the source code released in 1978, and if we are nitpicky the 1975 is also just a port on Apple II published in 1978).

Not sure why you are excluding emulators. But with modern front ends to "emulate" dos and scumm with dosbox and scummVM (not emulaters per se), you have most of the entire back PC catalog playable on modern machines. 

Are you counting 32bit mode windows as emulation rather then just compatibility layers?
 
scroll through GOG for just a fraction of old games you can play today

Also apparently scummVM is working on getting the first version of nancy drew engines to work. the developers just said screw that and remade the game because of how impossible it was to run on modern machines

Which one is better in terms of backward compatibility?

No it's not. They want you to buy new games. They have to spend time and money making the games work on the new system. They've done the bare minimum so they can say they have "backwards compatibility." Personally, I don't consider it backwards compatible at all. It barely plays any of my 360 or Xbox library. 
 
They don't want to waste resources on this.

Honestly if what you want is to play 360 and OG Xbox titles I'd really just recommend picking up a Xbox 360, they're much cheaper and support way more than newer platforms, the 360 Model S or E are the best.
If you want streaming or the minor upgrades in visual performance I'd grab a Xbox One X as everything the Series X can do (for backwards comp) the One X can.
But if you want backwards compat, with streaming, and have any interest in newer games or game pass, I'd wait a month or two and grab a Series X 

It's only great for back to the 360 as there's only 63 OG xbox titles in the xbox one/series backward compatibility list while the backward compatibility list in the 360 has 462 games playable from the 996 games that were released.

i mean.. emulators are a solid solution

Depends what you mean by "great" in terms in backward compatibility. Do you just plan on playing Xbox One games? Then maybe that statement is ok. Do you want to play Xbox 360 or Xbox games, then not so much. I know personally I have over 150 360 title in my collection. Most of my collection I would consider to be "popular" are known titles, and very few are playable on an Xbox series X.