Film grain, motion blur and depth of field - always off for me. My eyes are bad enough.
My current fav is Derail Valley for a quick hour of fun. Come along really nice with the simulator update. Runs well and looks sexy. That is if trains interest you, has VR too.
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Is there any crouch or lean in this Starfield 
dang it NOPE
Ok it does crouch, my bad.
I LOVED Derail Valley! I got lost in it for like 50 hours at one point. I discovered it right before I got my new glasses, too, so I haven’t had a chance to play with it in VR but it looks like a lot of fun.
My favourite engine is for sure the big diesel-electric one. Traction motors are fun, and being able to link the two engines together to get up the big hills was awesome too!
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Have you tried DV since the big update to simulator on July 1st? If not definitely go revisit. Much more content now and optimizations.
Last play I got all my licenses, hooked the slug up to the DE6 and hauled 2 nuke waste jobs, made 600 grand in one haul Had a play around in the revised steam loco and the new little ones. DH4 and S06 steam, that was pretty fun hauling logs in the new sections of the map. Cab details are pretty awesome. 
I tried Railroads Online not long after it came out and it was fun as you can do track building which is cool and liked it as was beta stage so few problems. But I just had a go at it the other day as they have been updating it fairly regulary now to UE5, I had a play on it and my 60fps is gone barely pulls 10fps now. Alot of complaints about it I read. I can’t be bothered fiddling with it just play DV instead
The scenery is amazing in DV, I usually jump out of the Cab on the DE6 and stand on the roof and check the lakes out as you go over the bridges. Looks SO COOL. Then you miss a turn or something BOOM massive explosions if your carrying hazourdous
Another hour of Starfield last night. It’s growing on me. Space combat is quite a bit deeper than I thought. Rpg elements are different enough from other games that elicited an audible “Oh! Ok I get it now!”.
Daughter pointed to a planet in another system, we went there, discovered some stuff. Pretty cool.
Picked a bounty mission. Killed everything, got a legendary drop.
Didn’t touch the main quest at all.
Have been excitied for starfield for a good while, back in the day spents many hours in skyrim and fallout 3/4. Was a bit annoyed its microsoft exculsive as i have a ps5. Seeing reviews are generally positive might be about time to get the xbox.
You should play Baldur’s Gate 3 then! It’s running DnD 5th edition as its ruleset, and it has an epic winding story, with all kinds of cool little moments of “I can’t believe the DM let me do that!”
For example, I’m playing a Drow druid, but drow are almost always evil. So when I came across the main evil Goblin camp, they confused me for one of their evil captains. I tricked them for hours, until I was deeeeep inside their lair, and found the hostage I was trying to rescue.
Then the hostage was really angry at the goblins for kidnapping him, so we killed the lot of them. I still feel a little bad for killing the goblin kids, though.
Good game, should totally get it if you love DnD ^^
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It’s on PC gamepass too, if you have a decent Windows rig.
Your not the first to try and convince me of a pc rig. I dabbled using a pc when i played the old republic but prefer console for ease. Have bought both consoles in the past, but have not got around to xbox yet as it has not had any exculsive games i really wanted to play. Usally its gears of war and halo that forces the purchase but those have both been ordinary after the original trilogy imo.
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Yeah, that’s fair. PCs are quiiite a bit more complicated to make sure they’re running well. Sure there’s mod support, but like.
I spent 2 hours fucking around with my FAN SPEED to ensure my cooling was up to par, once. Consoles are much better when you want to just slap a disk in and play.
As for exclusives, I think Xbox has a few good ones on the horizon. STALKER 2 is coming out really soon, and if it’s anything like the first three games, it’s gonna be absolutely amazing. Well worth buying another console.
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Damn it’s already hot enough to have flies again - just smacked a pregnant one the wife let in. Gonna be a gross couple of days.
First snake of the season in the backyard today, guess the warm weather’s bringing them out of hybernation.
Birds do a pretty good job of letting us know, and it was only a little green tree snake… but if they’re around the brown boys probably will be too before long. 
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Yea consoles have their place for ease of plug and play. So I thought.
I bought into the PS1 when it launched $800, 6 months later I realized I could not play the games I really wanted to play like any of Tom Clancy’s titles, anything COD.
Then the PS2 launched and I said f this is going to be a continual money grab with consoles running outdated hardware that is not upgradable.
Some 20 years later I still have the og ATX Antec case I bought and just flip through my common markets for cheap upgrades rather than buying the top dollar latest and greatest. Like I upgraded to the top CPU my mobo will handle earlier this year. $70, thanks see ya in 2025.
Plays all the latest titles that are optimized at 1080p HD no problem with graphics whacked to flatout.
Start chasing 4K expect to spend thousands on top shelf items. The hardware is just not there yet for common folk like me to 4k game yet at an affordable price. Why should I spend 5 grand on monitors to support 4k in my setup then another 5 grand on a atm unobotanium 4090 or 7900xtx with a 13900k and ram plus overpriced $800 motherboard to run all that which is all barely going PCIe5 and not all the way there yet and proven.
That’s where your console wins, but if you have a fine eye for detail, the graphics are not what you can get on PC. It’s programmed differently. Oh yea you might be 4k gaming on your XBox or whatever, but have a look at it. They take a heap of shit out to make it run on lower end hardware, that is why it does run ok. Same as turning some graphics settings off on PC.
I learnt how to build my own PC’s in the PS1-PS2 era. It’s piss easy. Self taught through research, all plug and play. You’ll kick yourself once it clicks. Probably hardest part is matching everything up so it works together. Even easier now as there are PC builders that can help you with this instead of researching and understanding what jives.
I get the convenience of a console. But can your console do DCS, DOOM, Starfield, Bass statements, pay bills, watch TV, watch movies, read this internet, email, skype, facetime err probly something I left out… all in one for under a grand… I rest my case your honour…
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My current PC is a piecemeal build, too. They’re honestly more enjoyable that way, imo. More of project, and less of a product.
My hard drives are almost 10 years old at this point, they used to be my media server’s storage drives, before I left my last ex. Took them with me, 'cos they had all my memories and stuff on them. Didn’t want them to go to waste. CPU and motherboard were bought together, because my last one was again about a decade old, and mama wanted to play The Witcher 3. Picked up my graphics card right before the COVID lockdowns hit, and the 2080 series just launched. I jumped on ebay and found a 1080 ti for under 300 bucks, which was a STEAL at the time.
And only now is my rig starting to show its age, with CPU intensive games like Starfield. Might do my mobo/CPU next.
I was also mostly self taught, put together an absolute dinosaur of a rig (like…even at the time it was ancient) out of pieces my school had dumped. But it was enough to play the original Half Life on the sly, so it was enough for me.
…Actually funnily enough, the Half Life series has basically driven all my PC builds. Half Life 2 taught me how to upgrade laptop RAM. Garry’s Mod (a mod for Half Life 2) was what made me build my first PC as an adult. Half Life: Alyx was the game that made me upgrade my rig to being VR ready.
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Cool see, anyone can do it and tailor it to suit yourself. That’s is the beauty, don’t buy shit you don’t want or need.
Sry to be a knacker but Starfield is GPU bound not CPU bound. Maxes out an oc’d 4090 to 98% while CPU is barely 20-30%. Not the the other way around.
But that is on top end gear so maybe you are depends on your setup which I have NFI what that is. My 3770 hardly gets used while my super GPU is flat chat.
1080Ti was a real gen leap and still relevant today at 1080p, nothing wrong with those. I used to run GTX8800 in SLi because I could… never again
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I’m completely sure it’s my CPU, as I’m copping it the other way around on low graphics 
CPU is getting worryingly hot while my GPU is fine. My CPU is pretty old, a 9600KF. So I’m four whole generations behind the current one, and CPUs develop slower than GPUs.
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Na your CPU is fine. Better than mine. What resolution you trying to Starfield in?
How you keep an eye on temps. MSI afterburner is the best to see what’s going on while playing. Works on all AMD NVidia Intel.
1080p and low settings, I’ve got no interest in 4k gaming either lol.
Yeah all the online stuff is saying that it’s CPU heavy, too. I think you’ve just got some good farm air feeding your system
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