@FibreFart Fixed!

@River_Jones I'm glad someone noticed and appreciated the choice of display

@GemDog669 Digital Foundry historically hasn't given out review scores, but you can always ask! I'd give these 5/5 if price isn't part of the conversation, but based on current UK pricing, I would have them at 4/5 - they're great but not great value.

@ramu-chan The G502 and Basilisk have been around for ages, 2014 and 2017 respectively! The Basilisk has a distinct design and features, though I'm sure it was inspired by the success of the G502: https://www.eloshapes.com/mouse/compare?p=logitech-g502-x-lightspeed-vs.-razer-basilisk-v3-pro-35k-vs.-razer-basilisk-v4-pro

@Granadico I guess it's another solution to the same problem, but open back earphones should offer significantly better audio quality and might be a bit more comfortable as they don't need to clamp on.

@themightyant Eh, it kind of works as a concept. But yes, it's 16 hours per battery at 8K, or 60 hours per battery at 1K polling.

@Ed64 I've moved onto the Aeon Pro tbf! Haven't tested the Raikiri 2 on Linux, unfortunately, but will do for future controller reviews

@EvilRacer329 The text is (mostly) from me but the video is from Oliver!

@TheBrainninja Not my shots - the game uses an optional letterbox

@FibreFart I recently sold my Logitech Z-5500 speakers after owning them for like 20 years - so I empathise with your heretofore-un-hammered G560s!

@ts9tHekgpb6CaG Yup, good catch! Fixed, thank you

@themightyant It was just a quick test to see it in optimum conditions, and it's not any more annoying than playing it plugged into the wall - and WiFi 7 ought to offer faster than gigabit speeds too! So, definitely not the new default, but perhaps more broadly useful than you're thinking.

@MattGPT Wish I still had my Steam Link (or an Android-based TV)! If you have the time to test it, feel free to email me some notes and I can write them up

@Someguyperson 1Gbps is totally fine, so any wired connection from the past decade should work!

@JJtheTexan I looked at the speeds of similar SSDs on Amazon UK to make my "predictions", you can get similar 1TB models for around £150 and ones that are twice as fast for £170. MicroSD Express is kind of a different kettle of fish, as they're still quite new and are a much smaller form factor, so they come at more of a premium. But yeah, I would expect this to be quite expensive, especially as storage in general continues to get pricier as time goes on!

@marsmage I think Valve's solution here is that a lot of non-VR games are also quite playable and enjoyable on Frame, but yeah I see your point. Standalone Alyx is definitely something though! I guess if you already have a great VR headset, it's hard to justify another one; presumably the market is more "people interested in VR" and "people that like VR but don't have a modern/standalone headset" so that the Frame is offering that big upgrade that makes it worthwhile.

@TheBrainninja Haha. There's also apparently a bug in Steam where it sometimes shows the full size rather than the download size, but I could just be misreading a number off a screen tbf!

@JiRo Weirdly, I swear it said 10GB for me! Just checking now to see if I can recreate it...

@themightyant Yup! Absolutely - this is probably why Nvidia aren't selling it as a PhysX-style thing that benefits from a second card, and why this is just a mod that someone has made as an experiment. But it's interesting!

@MattGPT I don't think we've done latency testing specifically, but the cost is around 8-12ms of rendering time so frame-rates tend to just about halve - with a corresponding increase in latency. It seems like, under Nvidia-intended conditions, it's essentially a flat cost that applies to the final rendered frame, so I'm not sure what performance improvements by developers are possible - but Nvidia themselves are able to find perf improvements and have hinted at a future 7x speed-up vs the initial showing.

@Pesky_wabbit John seemed to have a good time in his retro testing, but yeah there's a definite limit to the tech.

@Nuwa Having bigger pixels for my old, tired eyes is no bad thing Plus, it means you can lean back and play console games!

@TheBrainninja Hahaha. It looks less sketchy when it's not fully extended to get a photo! And the monitor weighs less than 8kg without the stand, amazingly, which is less than the 9kg quoted ability of the monitor arm (the same Ollin I've had for a while - https://fave.co/4gAC8zs)

@stoper Nice, those look so good. Did you ever run into an issue where 21:9 was supported but 32:9 wasn't? Or is it generally the case that games that support one support both?

@stoper I haven't tried one in ages! Maybe Samsung will be nice enough to send me their latest 32:9 giant. What model are you using?

@Rhalgr Great question.

@adorablebob Already available in the US, "coming soon" to the UK - will update with a UK link when it's live, likely September.

@Granadico Ha. Have stolen your joke, thank you!

@JJtheTexan Fair enough, I'm probably thinking with my SEO brain too much - it's generally good to match what people are typing, but I take the point. Will amend!

@MartinAshford Modern Warfare 4? It ought to with those specs.

@filreed Sadly OOS now it looks like, but if it was available I hope someone grabbed one!

@Obsidian76 yeah that's fine, just a little long-winded - hence "decimated" ;p

I appreciate the grammar chat!

@Obsidian76 Would it be better if I said it was "animated on twos"? I generally prefer decimated as a descriptor because it offers the possibility of 60/30 and 60/15 and 120/15 rather than saying "it's only ever half-rate".

@Obsidian76 You're a prescriptivist I see!

@TheBrainninja I honestly think that's fair - older games feel so much more readable to me! There's certainly a balance to be struck, and I don't think modern graphics necessarily need to suffer in this way.

@Wba84 For Steam Machine circa performance, 8GB is manageable. Assuming we're going AMD current-gen for the Linux support, the next tier up is the 9070 GRE at £500 or full-fat 9070 at £550 💀 I guess the 7700 XT is also there, but £438 for worse RT perf and more power is hard to swallow!

@PolArbequina Yeah, fair. I've been fairly lucky - I've had multiple OSes on the same drive for the last four or five years and only had one borked boot loader, which was fixable with some Googling, but it is definitely some extra grief. With SSD prices what they are though, it's a bit harder to justify the multiple drives!

@Eruanno fully agree! I don't mind 30fps cutscenes in 30fps game, but the whiplash from gameplay to cutscenes is really annoying.

@Hustler_One I'll see if we can do a quick check for Direct - but most likely the changes won't be significant enough for us to have much (if anything) to report!

@Titntin Yeah but nostalgia innit? I used to have a mini PC with a handle and I did use it quite frequently for taking it to LAN parties and moving it between the living room and my office!

@Jimbojones @Obsidian76 I've only used Heroic on my Steam Deck a while ago, so apologies if things have moved on, but it was a little more janky than GOG is on Windows, some features weren't present/working (eg cloud save sync) and the program in general required a lot of fiddling to get it working how I wanted.

@MartinAshford Haha, the mouse mat has to be prioritised. Thankfully, another mouse I tested recently came with about 100 little dot skates, so I think a transplant is in order! Thanks for the kind words.

@Ed64 Honestly, it's the most comfortable chair I've ever used - and I've tested probably about a dozen long-term at this stage? I feel like I'm less likely to slouch while sitting in it, and I like that it fits under a desk because the back is low and the arms drop all the way down. And I feel like it's still in great condition five years after the review!

https://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfoundry-2021-01-21-herman-miller-x-logitech-g-embody-gaming-chair-nevi-desk-ollin-arm-review

@sits It's pretty flexible, so it should get better if the chair is sitting flush against your back rather than being straight up/down

@Frosh okay, I respect the mindset.

@Frosh ¿por qué no los dos?

@orionpsg1 Yeah, fair enough - I've definitely had that before with older Windows/Linux versions, but thankfully not in the past few years. Also, thanks for reminding me that we're well into the second half of the year 💀

@GCGorusu Nice! I've only used Bazzite on a handheld, but I was very impressed with it there too. Might need to do a proper Bazzite vs CachyOS vs SteamOS article at some stage!

@Claw Nice, have fun! The one thing I'd say in addition is that you may have to pay import duty on stuff, I believe on goods over £135, so worth keeping that in mind.

@Max_the_German I can only guess that the latest-gen manufacturing processes are being maximised by the AI industry, so older stuff like Zen 4 is easier to produce (at sane prices or at all) than Zen 5 or Zen 6. And, if you assume that a certain percentage of parts intended to be 7800X3D processors fall below AMD's standards, eventually you have enough CPUs to rebrand as a whole new SKU with lower specs. I assume that we haven't yet reached that stage with the newer 9800X3D!