Playing devil’s advocate, could it have been used to avoid persecution of these people now that the Emperor has returned and the crazies think they have mandate to “hunt”? There’s a non negligible chance that whoever decided this, lives in California, and thinks of themselves as quite liberal, they’re just too greedy to quit the job at Meta because that 6-7 figure income is worth it even when it means being complicit to the 4th Reich.
The United States of America, being a former European colony, has completed its transformation into an African plutocracy lead by a strong man figure, just like other European former colonies.
Also, completing the perfect profile for the average US American, it hasn’t realised the country is in North America, a completely separate continent to Africa, so the transition to an African styled plutocracy of the XX century, was quite unnecessary.
Install lmstudio
Profit
*If you want to use the NPU
Apply for beta branch (3.6.x) at lmstudio
Install lmstudio beta
Profit
Edit: Almost forgot, the AMD drivers (under review) for the latest NPU containing CPUs (7xxx and upward) should come with the spring kernel update to 6.3, fingers crossed. It’s been two years, they took their sweet time. Windows support was available on release…
Both video and DLSS use(d) diffusion to upscale images (DLSS has allegedly ttransitioned to a transformer model). AFAIK there’s no simple way to run diffusion on an NPU as of today.
Regarding local running LLMs, well, I’ll take an NPU with 32-64 gigs of Ram over an anemic llama 1-3B model run on the GPU. And that’s before considering people using Windows and taking advantage of MS Olive. Llama3.3 70B, which has similar performance to Llama3.2 405B will run on 64GB of ram, ezpz, forget about ever running it on local PC with an NVIDIA card.
My eyes are set on the strix halo 128GB variant, I’m going to put that through its paces.
BTW, most of the interesting models will fail to run locally due to NVIDIA’s shit VRAM allowance, if nvidia were giving people a minimum of 16GB of VRAM I’m sure MS would happily certify it.
When Nintendo does this “genius game design”, when Ubi does it, well, the coment section above. We’ve lost the plot. If the game is good it should be lauded, if it’s bad, it should fail. Regardless of who are the main characters…
I don’t understand this post. A desktop 4070 has 1:1 FP16 which results in less than 30TOPs. MS requires a minimum of 45TOPs for a device to be co-pilot certified, that’s why they’re not certified. Worse, the limited memory pool make any NV laptop card apart from a 4090 a difficult sell.
Graphic card sizes and power requirements are inversely proportional to the size of their customer’s encephalon. As gaming became mainstream, the core audience of the 80s, 90s and 2000s was left behind in favour of fools that are easily parted with their money.
5090 -> Gen Z’s Fermi. Change my mind!
I just want this with modern security updates, unlocked bootloader and enough performance. That’s it. Small screen FTW!
Or, hear me out, flip a bird to both NV and AMD and let them keep their shitty GPUs. Buy second hand.
Stardew Valley doesn’t need the latest and greatest GPU, plus the games that need the latest and greatest GPUs are mostly trash. Other than helldivers, that pretty much runs on anything, (runs well on the deck so far), I can’t think of a good AAA game from 2024 that is hard to run.
Edit: also would appear that retailers don’t want AMD to enter price competition with NVIDIA because that results in lower margins. Fun times head.
Oh wow, this is looking good. Cautiously optimistic, may actually be the first one I pick up since syndicate.
I had forgotten about EA. What has gaming become…
Can we cut the transatlantic data cables please. Tired of these culture wars spreading everywhere. They have guns, just shoot at each other and leave the rest of the world alone.
I hope it’s good, especially the writing and progression systems. The art will be not to my taste, as usual, Obsidian is into garish colorful shit to detach themselves from other brands, which makes it right at home in Grounded, but in a fantasy RPG… nevertheless, if the gameplay and writing are good, it’s definitely a play.
I call BS on this. This is only true if you include gambling proceeds like CS skins, etc.
Removed by mod
MIT in my heart is Nr.1!
… In making students commit suicide for frivolous IP lawsuits…
Otherwise is like baseball world series. “American exceptionalism”
Translation: We were successful into bribing our way into the development scene to have games be unoptimised, driving sales and margins up, thus pleasing shareholders. We’re still shit at making server blades and connectors though, as seen by the thousands of cancelled blackwell server orders in favour of the older Hopper, given blackwell is a fire hazard. Thank you regarded gamers for buying our low VRAM trash so we will never be made to pay for our fuck ups.
Edit: added sauces
Please don’t rewrite history: Always online -> Microsoft started that trend with GFWL et al
DRM -> Industry standard, at least they don’t persecute people like Nintendo does
DLC -> No clue, patient gamer, buy the complete edition years later. I was however, under the impression that’s actually a Bethesda special, horse armour and all.
Buggy games -> Let me introduce you to Cyberpunk77
Writing -> Jap, it’s shit, like 90% of the games today because writers are expensive so “we use AI”
Open World -> BOTW is worse than contemporaneous Ubi games, 0 complaints. To this day, The Division 1 is a top 3 atmospheric and designed open worlds ever to release.
Launchers -> Rockstar, Epic, Origin/EA, BattleNet, GoG-Galaxy, Bethesda, XboxApp, Bedrock Edition, et al.
Access removal -> Pasmophobia, Destiny 2, GTAIV, any non cracked GFWL game, basically any digital purchase is not owned. The worse is really GFWL, I have a library of over 30 physical disks that I cannot play legally because reverse engineering a game’s copy protection is against the law. I have the physical copy that I paid for! Actual consequences to MS? 0 At least now we have a campaign to stop that from happening thanks to Ubi’s stupid the crew move.
Basically Ubi is not better or worse than current publishers, shit, ActiBlizz and EA are far far worse but…
Ubisoft just gets flack because Microsoft wants to buy them on the cheap. They allegedly helped stage an attempted hostile takeover in 2018 but it failed and Ubi ended up enlisting investments from Tencent. Since then MS has allegedly spent quite strongly to acquire the embattled publisher’s catalog on the cheap.