In my opinion, Final Fantasy XIII is hot garbage in its default state on PC/Steam. Even without installing any graphical mods, the game often surpasses the 2GB VRAM limit and crashes when running game resolutions 1080p and above; Square-Enix never fixed this, and 3rd party mods are still required to fix it till this day. […]
A few days ago, Nvidia unveiled demos of DLSS 5, their next generation of AI image enhancement and upscaling technology. Aside from the controversy about what DLSS 5 did to art/aesthetics of games, it was very disingenuous or out-of-touch that Nvidia would use an RTX 5090, let alone two of those to present the new […]
Today upon walking into the Covington Walmart, I was extremely surprised to see an almost full assortment of PC parts to build a PC. There weren’t any PC cases stocked probably because of the amount of storage space required relative to the selling prices, but CPUs, motherboards, AIO CPU coolers, RAM, video cards, SSDs, hard […]
Since I am somewhat of a diehard fan of the Final Fantasy series, especially games related to 7, I wanted to test how well Crisis Core Final Fantasy 7 Reunion worked out-of-the-box on Arch Linux with a non-LTS kernel installed and possibly lots of unstable packages; to my amusement, I didn’t encounter any speed bumps […]
After a few months from hearing about repurposing Nvidia Tesla Datacenter/AI computation cards for PC gaming, I finally decided to buy an Nvidia Tesla M40. Technically the item is e-waste, but still is very useful for my everyday use-cases. The experience wasn’t without some bumps along the way, but was still relatively easy in setting […]
As one can imagine during this Covid-19 pandemic, a significantly larger amount of people are staying at home and not venturing out which has directly led to a huge spike in demand for electronic gaming. In addition, huge demand for more laptops, desktop computers, and other electronic devices for remote work has drove a silicon/semi-conductor […]
This was an iBuypower gaming PC that I saw for sale at the Covington Walmart today and I thought it was terrible value overall. For that price range, the gaming PC had only two RAM slots instead of four which prevents expanding RAM capacity without taking the current ones and replacing them with higher capacity […]