I had dial-up through my Mom’s work’s VPN at the time and couldn’t even sign in to Steam with it, so I had to use an AOL 30-day trial just to be able to play the game.
When both the trial and Steam’s Offline mode timing ran out, I had sufficient motivation to learn how to crack WEP so I could borrow the neighbor’s WiFi
In terms of storyline, it doesn’t really matter too much.
I still think you should play through the first one. If you need something that feels less 1998, Black Mesa is a remake of the original Half Life and it is very fun.
The touchpads, virtual menus, layers / action sets, and overall control customizability really make the Steam Deck shine. PC Games with complicated keyboard-centric control schemes can be adapted to the Steam Deck so easily.
A handheld without that is going to be a hard sell for me no matter how well it performs. As a secondary device to a Gaming PC with a strong internet connection, cloud gaming makes my Deck handle whatever I can throw at it.
Steam
Windows Centric
You do realize what platform/company we’re talking about, right?
Both, three rotations after the threads catch.
One or none bears the risk of the connector coming out crooked and bending the pins, causing a potential alignment issue on the next connection and bending them further.
It never seems to be the people who have actually used the mouse complaining about the port location.
A brief 1-2 minute charge nets you hours of use, it’s really not a big deal.
After you power the system on, does pressing the capslock key cause the corresponding light on the keyboard to change states?
Once the system is powered on, does the monitor and its backlight stay on? Or does it fall back to a “no signal” mode?
I’d be looking at a used 2070/Super or 3060/Ti in your situation.
If you’re on Windows, consider that you have a year of support left with Windows 10. You can buy further security updates from Microsoft, from 0patch, or with an “unsupported” Windows 11 upgrade. There’s also Linux if the games you want to play are supported :)
With that in mind, you can consider the alternative of limping along with what you’ve got and saving for the next year to do a more substantial upgrade / overhaul.
Even at the top end (RTX 4090) performance difference between PCI 3.0 and 4.0 is pretty negligible.
I’m sure it’ll vary from person to person since our eyes are all going to be varying distances from the display.
Estimated FOV for the Quest3 is 110 horizontal / 96 vertical so I would start somewhere in that range and tweak it to what feels right for you.
What framerate are you targeting?
I find it highly unusual that your CPU is reaching 100% in TF2 of all games.
Your system also shouldn’t be “unresponsive in general use” with these specifications.
Based on paper specifications alone, I’d be leaning towards the 3060/3070 as the most meaningful upgrade in gaming performance. However, I suspect there may be an issue with your software environment or an undiagnosed hardware issue.
Bit surprised to hear that, they were able to repair a customized / engraved Wave that I’ve had for 14 years.
It saw heavy (ab)use, locking mechanism for the knife blade got stuck/damaged after I used a baton to split wood.
With Windows 10 support ending in a matter of days, that leaves the latest Microsoft OS as the only real option for gamers right now
Windows 10 support ends in 2025. Linux is a very real option for the majority of games.
Given the idiocy in this article, I wouldn’t be surprised if it didn’t occur to them to delete Windows.old from an external software environment. Ultimately, that’s something you want to keep around for a while because it’s what lets you roll back the upgrade if there turns out to out to be problems.
Might be cozy because of the nostalgia more than anything else, but I’ve been cruising through the Turok remasters
Just create a second focus that’s on a schedule for that time window and disables notifications for the camera app.
Is there any way to find out whether it supports SSD storage?
Have a look at the notch in the slot. SSDs will have either M key, B+M key, or very rarely just B key.
WiFi modules are A, E, or A+E
Can’t actually buy MacOS, you have to buy their hardware. For the time being connecting with an Apple Account is still fully optional.
France too
Mainstream supermarkets have adult sized DBZ briefs, there are still little coin-op machines that dispense DBZ figurunies
As far as releasing these manuals and making parts available is concerned, we already have these laws going into effect in the US
At least the mod didn’t break as a result, had me worried for a second there.