God I want an official way to get PS2 games ok my TV via HDMI wtf Sony come on
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play excitebike
create your own track
make a long level with nothing, make it as long as you want to relax
finish the track
selection b
put on some good music
CUT OFF AND TRIP OTHER MOTORCYCLISTS WITH YOUR OWN BIKE FOREVER
also i know you said no road rash but in road rash 64 you can wield a giant banana. it feels great
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motor raid
motorcross maniacs and its sequels
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omg extreme g
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it seems to me that laptops just generally show way worse in-game performace than desktop computers. even with comparable hardware, like the guts of this or that laptop stack up similarly to a desktop machine that, while not specially powerful, should prove enough for the task at hand a laptop always struggles more intensely. this sounds fundamentally wrong in my head, because if hardware was truly comparable then there shouldnât be this discrepancy or else theyâre not actually comparable. but i swear that my laptop from the year 2018 cannot play the same games i was managing to play at lowest settings on a desktop in 2006 and i donât get it. heck, even a laptop i had back then - which i donât think was any kind of gamer laptop - still managed to run the burning crusade better than what i have right now.
can anyone rationalize this?
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1 - laptops will throttle thermally under many circumstances where desktops wonât, and theyâre inconsistent about constraining the CPU vs the GPU in some cases at that, which will make your on-paper performance numbers dive
2 - lots of games that are still being maintained after a decade ship with more complicated shaders than they used to
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ahhh i hadnât considered shader updates, and other things like that, as a possibility.
Wattage and heat dissipation are way worse on laptops. Because of that mobile devices can sometimes approach desktop performance during temporary peaks but then performance is quickly throttled to avoid overheating or running the battery down too quickly. Games have relatively consistent high demands on the hardware, unlike productivity apps
More generally, compactness, quietness and battery life are in tension with actually fully utilizing the CPU/GPU. Thatâs why proper âgamer laptopsâ with a chance of playing games released this year remain giant, noisy, gotta-keep-it-plugged-in beasts
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Yeah my gaming laptop which is 7 years old has been mostly tethered to a wall socket in all that time, and it runs hot and loud. I have a fan on my desk that I sometimes just point right at it to keep it happy
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The laptop it replaced was hotter and louder, tho
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I have one of the Dell XPS 15âs (Macbook Pro-alikes) and when the GPU and CPU are running it throttles from the VRMs, and the CPU clocks down to 800mhz. Which is definitively worse than the laptop I bought 7 years earlier. If it was smarter about throttling both chips could run slower but it throttles in the most catastrophic way.
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my advice to everyone in this department is that ARM macbooks are going to kick the shit out of everything and while you should really have a windows desktop at the same time, do not fight Buying A Mac
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I will Handle It like I handle purchasing a phone
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it is a weird feeling actually being excited for a Mac upgrade, rather than going âugh, I guess Intel finally dropped a chip revision fast enough to warrant the upgrade, maybe this time itâll be able to encode 1080p video in realtime in OBSâ (spoiler: it was not able)
I guess it helps that my iPad Pro is very clearly leaps and bounds more powerful than my current MacBook, especially in the GPU department
âŚhmm, is this how people felt typing into forums on their PowerBooks G4 back in 2005? 
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OBS is very good about hardware encoding these days on windows but I admittedly havenât tried it on Mac, the last time I tried using a Mac for hardware encoding rather than decoding I found that the quality from its âVideoToolboxâ API was terrible (at least in ffmpeg) compared to using the same Intel GPUs under Windows, though of course you really should be using Nvidia for that, and AppleâŚ
honestly there is almost no limit to the number of currently stagnating things on the Mac platform that could all be an excuse for them to bring up their own chipsets so stay tuned I guess!
a streamer friend recently went down a big rabbit hole, and not even buying an eGPU helped. OBS still dropped frames constantly while trying to stream, even though the same computer can, when asked to nicely by FFmpeg, encode the same sort of 8bpc 1080p4:2:2 video at like 8x realtime using the Intel QuickSync die via VideoToolbox. I have a hunch that OBSâ implementation is busted, or theyâre doing something weird between input and output that kills the Mac
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is there a (good?) way to play jackbox games that you own on ps4 with friends remotely and on video chat that doesnât involve the significant delays of streaming via twitch and youtube? regretting not buying this shit on pc.
Iâve done it very happily by doing PS4 remote play and feeding that window into zoom, you need a good home network setup though
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tbqh I tend to think of any platform that doesnât have access to nvidia as broken for any hwenc purposes, hwdec is at least viable but I donât like to ask more of them
I havenât seen too much fussing about ffmpeg/premiere support for apple silicon macs but Iâm assuming that someone is looking into it, most of the digipres people I know are in the middle of a full revolt to linux again whereas Iâm pumped to get off of intel
yeah they really shot themselves in the foot with it, I donât quite understand what political nonsense is keeping nvidia chips out of Macs, but oh well
I suspect given how decent the hardware encoding is on iPads and iPhones already that the ARM transition will be a net benefit for this, but I guess weâll have to wait for ARM builds of OBS to truly find out, eh?