Glass blocks UVA pretty well but not UVB.

The tinting I have on my windows produces a very noticeable difference as to how much the window sill heats up. Without blocking too much visible light.

Have you added a UV filter to your glass? They can significantly limit how much the sun heats up your house.

I undervolted my 5800X3D and 9800X3D and that helped with temps a lot.

I never undervolted my GPU, I generally go the other way with it. My 4080 lost the silicon lottery, couldn’t get any more out of it. Not sure if I won it with my 5080 because a lot of people seem to be having large gains, but I got my boost clock to to a little over 3 GHz and a +1GHz to the memory.

So I have a reason to sell my 4080 to my friend at the discount friend price. They got a 4080 for $700 and I got a 5080 for ~$700.

Newegg has gotten some 5080 stock around 4:30 PST the past few days. They’re only in stock for a few minutes so mash F5 and buy whatever is in stock and figure out the rest after checkout. Most are bundled with a PSU, but the ones I’ve seen aren’t crap PSUs they’re trying to get rid of like the 40 launch. https://www.nowinstock.net/computers/videocards/nvidia/rtx5080/full_history/

I manage to get a 5080 at launch with a bundled PSU, then sold the PSU and my old 4080.

I have 2,500 hours in Ark.

The thing is Ark isn’t a dino game, it’s a scifi survival/exploration game. You start from nothing and work towards conquering the island and discovering it’s secrets.

I really hope you like it. To me it is best played with friends on a private server, or a server with good rules and active admins.

This was EXACTLY my experience.

I’m currently playing Mercenaries Blaze. It’s very similar to FFT, but heavy on combat and light on stories. Between each fight there is a 2-5 minute cut scene to push the story forward, but nothing ridiculous. The game has some balance issues, but if the main story quests are too difficulty, you can run a few training missions and level up and get caught up in no time.

Triangle Strategy. It’s basically a visual novel with 5 minutes of combat every hour or so.

Here’s my goto search engine for coop games: https://www.co-optimus.com/games.php

Just heads up the ‘review score’ is trash. Not enough users review, so it’s easy for people to review bomb because they personally have a grudge or something.

Not the one I was thinking.

Trying to be spoiler free

There is at least one fight where it starts after a cut scene so you do not have an opportunity to adjust position. The character who started the scene gets placed such that they are easy to push and instakill. There are multiple enemies that have the opportunity to do so. If you don’t have a good initiative/athletics you’re pretty boned. It feels really cheap.

If Larian sets the price at £50, they make £35 per sale. If Larian sets the price at £70, they make £49 per sale.

Larian cares, because Larian wants to make money.

It’s not that simple. This article is from 2021, so the numbers may be a different now, but the point remains. Steam takes about the same cut as Sony to start, but Steam reduces the percent the more the game sales. Given the 5 million+ units sold on steam, Larian made an additional $25 million+ because of the reduced rates.

https://www.theverge.com/21445923/platform-fees-apps-games-business-marketplace-apple-google

So what?

They sold consoles at a loss to begin with, they overcharge for games to make up for it and people ‘happily’ paid it. Just because they cost less now, they still need to make up for the loss they accrued when they were selling at a loss. When they truly break even on the costs, why would they lower the price? If people have been paying $70 for new games, why would they drop the price when their costs go down.

Sony takes a cut of all game sales, not just first party. Larian probably got a better deal with Steam and GoG than Sony and are passing the costs onto console players.

I believe it’s $70 USD on PS5 not $80, However it’s $60 on Steam and GoG for PC. Keep in mind PS5’s, and consoles in general are sold at a loss and make up for it from game sales.

Wait for a sale.

I’m not sure. I saw some one comment that they were running split screen on Windows, but I can’t personally verify that. Based on what I know of software development, it’s likely part of every version of it but not necessarily easily accessible. For example DoS2 has split screen coop on PC, but you wouldn’t know it by looking at it. You have to plug in 2 controllers and do some extra steps but it works.

Maybe if you plug in a second controller on steam deck you can?

EDIT: missed an ly on likely

And with PC, there is only one view point at one time. You can have characters all over the map, but it only needs to render one at a time. Worst case it loads and unloads assets as you switch back and forth. With split screen console, gotta have both loaded at the same time.

The problem is the memory usage for split screen multi player. Steam Deck doesn’t do split screen.

The Series S is basically an X with a weaker GPU

If it was just a GPU difference, you’d be right it should be easy to just run it less pretty. But the memory limitations are the real issue. The X has 16 GB of memory and the S has 10 GB. And worse, the memory performance is drastically different. The X has 10 GB that runs at 560 GB/s and 6 that runs at 336 GB/s, where as the S has 8 GB at 224 GB/s and 2 GB at 56GB/s. (I did not miss a zero on the last value)