I've finally given in to temptation ...
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... and bought a new graphics card. About a month before Herself broke her humerus I had to stop playing GTA V because some change at Rockstar had made it use a tiny little bit more video memory that previously, which was causing my venerable GTX660Ti to run out of memory* Which meant I could play for minutes only before the sound started to stutter, and if I ignored that then it would randomly crash to the desktop. The only solution to this was to drop the game resolution from 1920x1080 to ... 800x600. Which was solid but ugly as hell and unplayable in the real world. So I didn't play. And I've missed it. No more! I have bought a new card - RTX4060 - which should be fine for a few years of life when GTA VI finally comes out** It'll be here tomorrow (along with the Displayport to HDMI adapters I'll need) - I'm looking forward to this! * I suspect that my triple monitor setup contributed to this, but I've been running that fine for years. ** Currently expected next year? The financial projections from Take-Two Interactive predicted a massive increase in sales in its upcoming 2025 fiscal year which starts in April 2024.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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... and bought a new graphics card. About a month before Herself broke her humerus I had to stop playing GTA V because some change at Rockstar had made it use a tiny little bit more video memory that previously, which was causing my venerable GTX660Ti to run out of memory* Which meant I could play for minutes only before the sound started to stutter, and if I ignored that then it would randomly crash to the desktop. The only solution to this was to drop the game resolution from 1920x1080 to ... 800x600. Which was solid but ugly as hell and unplayable in the real world. So I didn't play. And I've missed it. No more! I have bought a new card - RTX4060 - which should be fine for a few years of life when GTA VI finally comes out** It'll be here tomorrow (along with the Displayport to HDMI adapters I'll need) - I'm looking forward to this! * I suspect that my triple monitor setup contributed to this, but I've been running that fine for years. ** Currently expected next year? The financial projections from Take-Two Interactive predicted a massive increase in sales in its upcoming 2025 fiscal year which starts in April 2024.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
I also look forward to buying Nvidia Geforce RTX 4060 but it is to update my [Bring Your Animations to H264/HEVC Video](https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/5161187/Bring-Your-Animations-to-H264-HEVC-Video) article to support AV1 encoding. Unless one of my users wants to sponsor me a 4060 for me to test AV1 video encoding... I do not play PC games.
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I also look forward to buying Nvidia Geforce RTX 4060 but it is to update my [Bring Your Animations to H264/HEVC Video](https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/5161187/Bring-Your-Animations-to-H264-HEVC-Video) article to support AV1 encoding. Unless one of my users wants to sponsor me a 4060 for me to test AV1 video encoding... I do not play PC games.
Shao Voon Wong wrote:
I do not play PC games.
Well, there's your problem then! :laugh:
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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... and bought a new graphics card. About a month before Herself broke her humerus I had to stop playing GTA V because some change at Rockstar had made it use a tiny little bit more video memory that previously, which was causing my venerable GTX660Ti to run out of memory* Which meant I could play for minutes only before the sound started to stutter, and if I ignored that then it would randomly crash to the desktop. The only solution to this was to drop the game resolution from 1920x1080 to ... 800x600. Which was solid but ugly as hell and unplayable in the real world. So I didn't play. And I've missed it. No more! I have bought a new card - RTX4060 - which should be fine for a few years of life when GTA VI finally comes out** It'll be here tomorrow (along with the Displayport to HDMI adapters I'll need) - I'm looking forward to this! * I suspect that my triple monitor setup contributed to this, but I've been running that fine for years. ** Currently expected next year? The financial projections from Take-Two Interactive predicted a massive increase in sales in its upcoming 2025 fiscal year which starts in April 2024.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
Sadly I'm just about done with GTA V. I've played it for years, my online character has over $2B, and I was down to just following a daily routine...I've accomplished pretty much everything there is to do in the game, including some personal goals I had set for myself (including surpassing my crew leader in terms of RPs). After I started playing Red Dead Redemption 2, GTA quickly fell to the wayside. These days if I launch the game, I get bored within 5 minutes.
