The Still New What Did You Last Do Thread

[Graf Zahl]

If you guys make the decorate/acs/zscript part thread friendly I'd be happy with my emulated raiycast being faster

No idea what you want but the playsim needs to be single threaded.

Unfortunately also a lot harder to do. What's worse, having some frames take 5-6 ms longer than other frames can create nasty micro-stuttering effects.

Guess why I mentioned it. Try playing ZDCMP2 and you'll notice that it is not really smooth.

[Hellsmith1]

Who here saw the new Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Men Tell No Tales?

I seen it in IMAX 3D and it was pretty awesome it was better than the 4 one I think.

If I would grade this one I'll give it a B+ but that's my opinion.

[Trance]

Pirates of the Caribbean 5: Johnny Depp Needs Your Money Again

[adamaH_oriH]

Summer has commenced.

[DoomKrakken]

Pirates of the Carribean 5: OMG JUST STOP NOW XD

[Nash]

Just for fun, I tried to run GZDoom 3.1.0 on my digital audio workstation. It's a pretty good machine... but with a shit graphics card.

Intel i7 4770 3.40 GHz
Asus Z87
16 GB DDR3
nvidia 610 GT (!!!)

The reason why it has such a crappy graphics card is because I don't need it for audio work.

The result? The game had trouble maintaining even 60 FPS on stock settings running just Doom.wad. It was averaging around 50'ish. I also haven't updated the nvidia driver in probably 1.5 years (again, it's a work machine) so perhaps updating the drivers might help. Or it might not; I don't know.

Then of course as I turned on the various graphics candy stuff, the framerate got worse and worse. It's strange how I take this stuff for granted on my gaming machine and I just go to town with the graphics options... which is a MUCH older machine (built in 2010!):

i7 950 3.05 GHz
Asus Rampage 2 Extreme
15 GB DDR3
nvidia GTX 960

I need the CPU processing power of the former machine for audio work though, so this doesn't really bother me. It's just interesting to see how GZDoom actually runs on weaker graphics cards and I can sort of understand what some users experience.

On the audio machine, however - probably due to the strong CPU - the TC software renderer runs blazing fast... faster than my gaming machine. Not surprised.

[dpJudas]

The result? The game had trouble maintaining even 60 FPS on stock settings running just Doom.wad. It was averaging around 50'ish. I also haven't updated the nvidia driver in probably 1.5 years (again, it's a work machine) so perhaps updating the drivers might help. Or it might not; I don't know.

A NV 610 card is the lowest possible tier card money can buy, plus the fact that it is 5 years old. You didn't mention the resolution you ran it at, but with such a low end thing I wouldn't be surprised if the integrated GPU on the i7 is faster. In short: what a shit card.

A more typical card for a low end user would be a 650, or an Intel iGPU. In both those cases you'd see a much more reasonable OpenGL performance.

[Kostov]

What's up with the new changelog, anyway? It seems like you need to look at every commit since the last release, instead of having a neat summary like on the old DRDTeam page.

[Dancso]

Isn't it awesome being a knowledgable adult sometimes?

I got my second ever migraine (at least, second one preceded by an "aura" (slight blindness / scintillating vision in one eye)), and admittedly I had to google what to do but I recognized the symptoms before the headache kicked in.
Although my sense of responsibility could do with some work as I had no second thoughts about drinking coffee at 9 PM as an attempt to reduce the incoming headache lol

Scalp massages can work wonders though, not just for migraine headaches.

[Kostov]

Guess I'll try a scalp massage next time I get a headache, then. Thanks

[Captain Ventris]

The Shadow Among the Stars is over 82,000 words now. Phew!

[SouthernLion]

Just got done watching the new Rammstein: Paris Blu-Ray(/DVD/CD). The audio is phenomenal, and Rammstein's actual performance is fantastic as always (for fans of the band, it's from the "Made In Germany Tour" that spanned many continents in 2012), but I'm not a fan of how Jonas Åkerlund cut some of the videos. Their previous 3 live DVDs show Rammstein's natural theatrical performance uncut, where as Jonas cut some of the songs as if they were music videos. It was overall enjoyable, I just preferred the directing style of the previous 3 releases more. Again, though, the audio is just fucking incredible. Listen to the guitar for this live version of Mutter (for those of you that don't speak German, the song is about a test tube baby that is crying out for not having a mother) -

[Oberron]

I got my hands on Tekken 3 again... for the longest time I was able to beat the game once.

[Enjay]

Tekkens 2 & 3 were my favourites. I played them to death over and over and over. Loved those games.

[Captain J]

Aaah, good ol' classic tekken series. Tekken 3 is still running at little store near at the elementary school.