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26 votes
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Should I use third party firewall or antivirus on Windows (or elsewhere)? Which one?
It's seems to have been common sense for a while now that Windows has good-enough security software that you don't need 3rd party tools but is it actually the case now? Is there anything to lose...
It's seems to have been common sense for a while now that Windows has good-enough security software that you don't need 3rd party tools but is it actually the case now? Is there anything to lose or gain from trusting 3rd party with this stuff?
20 votes -
Humble Choice - September 2023
September's Humble Choice is now available with the following eight Steam games: Steam Page Opencritic Steam Recent/All Operating Systems Steam Deck ProtonDB Tiny Tina's Wonderlands Chaotic Great...
September's Humble Choice is now available with the following eight Steam games:
Steam Page Opencritic Steam Recent/All Operating Systems Steam Deck ProtonDB Tiny Tina's Wonderlands Chaotic Great Edition 78 72/76 Win Verified Platinum Deceive Inc. 72 80/86 Win Verified Gold The Forgotten City 84 93/96 Win Verified Platinum Aces & Adventures TBC 97/91 Win Playable Platinum Patch Quest 81 100/95 Win Verified Gold Foretales 75 88 Win Playable Platinum Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus 76 73 Win Mac Verified TBC Autonauts vs Piratebots TBC 84 Win Playable Platinum Does anyone have experience with any of the games and, if so, would you recommend them? Is there anything in here that you're particularly excited to play?
19 votes -
Steam's oldest user accounts turn 20, Valve celebrates with special digital badges
46 votes -
Bomb Rush Cyberfunk release topic
Developer: Team Reptile (Megabyte Punch, Lethal League, Lethal League Blaze) Platforms: Steam, GOG, Nintendo Switch (August 18) PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, Xbox One (September 1) Trailers:...
Developer:
- Team Reptile (Megabyte Punch, Lethal League, Lethal League Blaze)
Platforms:
- Steam, GOG, Nintendo Switch (August 18)
- PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, Xbox One (September 1)
Trailers:
Reviews:
Description:
Team Reptile brings you Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, a future world from the mind of Dion Koster where self-styled graffiti crews equipped with personal boostpacks are battling each other for control of the streets. Start your own cypher and dance, paint graffiti, collect beats, combo your tricks and face off with the cops to stake your claim to the sprawling metropolis of New Amsterdam.
(What the official description won’t say is that this game is an unofficial love letter to Jet Set Radio on the Dreamcast and Jet Set Radio Future on the Xbox. Hideki Naganuma even contributed new songs to the soundtrack.)
33 votes -
App or workflow suggestion for viewing and selecting photos on PC
As an amateur photographer, I'm looking for recommendations to improve my process for reviewing and selecting the best photos from my albums. Currently, it goes something like this: (after I copy...
As an amateur photographer, I'm looking for recommendations to improve my process for reviewing and selecting the best photos from my albums.
Currently, it goes something like this:
- (after I copy the photos to my PC) I open the folder containing the album
- I open the first photo and start looking at the pictures using the default photo viewing app
- I note mentally, on paper, or in a digital notepad the names of the files that I like the most
- manually select the files that I noted down
My ideal workflow would be something like:
- open the folder, open first photo, look through them all
- each time I see a picture that I like, hit space or some other simple shortcut, which adds the picture to the current selection
- after I am done viewing, I have all the files that I want already selected to do with as I please
I have tried multiple apps over the years but I haven't come across anything that had something similar, or I was too stupid to figure out how to do it. The workflow I described is using windows/linux, on macOS it's even more cumbersome (since one needs to select all photos in a folder before previewing them).
Do you have any recommendations for an app that has functionality like this, or if not, on how I can make my workflow better?
Thanks
5 votes -
“Gaming Chromebooks” with Nvidia GPUs apparently killed with little fanfare
11 votes -
Humble Choice - August 2023
August's Humble Choice is now available with the following eight Steam games: Steam Page Opencritic Steam Recent/All Operating Systems Steam Deck ProtonDB Disco Elysium – The Final Cut 89 93/93...
August's Humble Choice is now available with the following eight Steam games:
Steam Page Opencritic Steam Recent/All Operating Systems Steam Deck ProtonDB Disco Elysium – The Final Cut 89 93/93 Win Mac Verified Gold Chivalry 2 82 81/82 Win Unsupported* Silver Trek to Yomi 72 70/71 Win Playable Platinum Road 96 78 92/91 Win Verified Platinum Arcade Paradise 76 90/89 Win Verified Platinum SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator N/A 100/98 Win Verified Platinum Tin Can TBC 87 Win Playable Platinum Hot Brass TBC 82 Win Unsupported* Platinum *Both games that are marked as unsupported on Steam Deck on Steam itself are reported as working on Linux on ProtonDB.
Does anyone have experience with any of the games and, if so, would you recommend them? Is there anything in here that you're particularly excited to play?
27 votes -
Blizzard’s bringing its PC games to Steam, starting with Overwatch 2
37 votes -
Intel discontinuing NUC manufacturing
39 votes -
US review of the Ideapad Duet 5i
4 votes -
Humble Choice - July 2023
July's Humble Choice is now available with the following eight Steam games: Steam Page Opencritic Steam Recent/All Operating Systems Steam Deck ProtonDB The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition...
July's Humble Choice is now available with the following eight Steam games:
Steam Page Opencritic Steam Recent/All Operating Systems Steam Deck ProtonDB The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition 80 68/43 Win Playable Silver TemTem 75 51/84 Win Verified Platinum Yakuza 4 Remastered 77 92/92 Win Unsupported Gold Roadwarden 83 95/96 Win Mac Lin Playable Native/Gold Kraken Academy!! 73 93/93 Win Mac Lin Verified Native/TBC Merchant Of The Skies TBC 87/87 Win Mac Lin Verified Native/TBC Ozymandias: Bronze Age Empire Sim N/A 93/91 Win Mac Playable Platinum Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate TBC 94/93 Win Verified Platinum Does anyone have experience with any of the games and, if so, would you recommend them? Is there anything in here that you're particularly excited to play?
34 votes -
Japanese Steam user number reaches record high in June
19 votes -
What game encouraged you to make your new PC, or upgrade?
Since the minimum and recommended specs for Starfield have come out, I've been budgeting to do a big upgrade on my PC with an AMD 6800 xt and a fancy new 1 TB SSD (which is the first game I've...
Since the minimum and recommended specs for Starfield have come out, I've been budgeting to do a big upgrade on my PC with an AMD 6800 xt and a fancy new 1 TB SSD (which is the first game I've ever seen that requires an SSD) just so I can run the game in all it's space epicness.
What was the game that you were so excited for that you made the jump to upgrade your PC to the next gen of hardware? New or old!
41 votes -
Going deep with the Book 8088, the brand-new laptop that approximates the specs of the original IBM PC 5150 from 1981
12 votes -
New motherboard likely has corrupted BIOS, USBs have no power
14 votes -
Baldur's Gate 3 release is pushed earlier to August 3rd (for PC)
42 votes -
Steam Summer Sale 2023: Hidden gems
For every big Steam sale r/gamedealsmeta does a Hidden Gems topic which is always one of my favorites to browse through. Given that the July 1 reddit fallout is upcoming though, I figure it's...
For every big Steam sale r/gamedealsmeta does a Hidden Gems topic which is always one of my favorites to browse through. Given that the July 1 reddit fallout is upcoming though, I figure it's worth trying to roll our own version here too.
The purpose of this thread is for game discovery: surfacing games that are hard to find about elsewhere. As such, try to recommend things that are less well-known.
For general game recommendations of all popularities, use this thread. For general Steam Sale discussion, use this thread.
93 votes -
The Steam Summer Sale has begun (June 29th - July 13th)
84 votes -
Microsoft wants to move Windows fully to the cloud
72 votes -
What's the first thing you do when you get a new computer?
Just got a new laptop. Downloaded firefox plus a few extensions, found a thing that fixes Windows 11's weird task bar, deleted the bundled McAfee, installed steam, GOG, and Epic and switched...
Just got a new laptop. Downloaded firefox plus a few extensions, found a thing that fixes Windows 11's weird task bar, deleted the bundled McAfee, installed steam, GOG, and Epic and switched everything to dark mode. I feel like I'm forgetting a ton of things, but I'm not sure what.
What do you include as part of the standard setup anyone should do with a new computer?
61 votes -
Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 1 | Releases October 24 (PS5, Xbox Series, Switch, and PC)
27 votes -
Low/no latency wireless headphones for PC - Recommendations
I need to replace my Logitech G935s, the plastic on the top broke on me. Ideally I would replace with something with: more battery life better sound stage well built/premium feel It's very hard to...
I need to replace my Logitech G935s, the plastic on the top broke on me. Ideally I would replace with something with:
- more battery life
- better sound stage
- well built/premium feel
It's very hard to tell what is good out there - with so many options, and my concern is if I just buy any bluetooth enabled headset it will introduce audio latency which isn't something I can live with in games. But I cannot stand having a cord attached that gets all twisted up.
I'm not tied to it having an attached mic, as I can buy one separately but its a plus.
Anyone out there have any good recommendations? What does everyone else use?
19 votes -
Star Citizen 3.19.1 ... actually mostly works?!
Suddenly, inventory mostly works. NPCs sit on chairs (!!!) but also move and fight worth a damn. There's less lag. The game hasn't crashed for me 2 days in a row! I've run more missions than I...
Suddenly, inventory mostly works. NPCs sit on chairs (!!!) but also move and fight worth a damn. There's less lag. The game hasn't crashed for me 2 days in a row! I've run more missions than I ever have!
It can't last, right? I just jinxed it?
31 votes -
Pour one out for HDDs because PC games are starting to require SSDs
59 votes -
Six Days in Fallujah
7 votes -
Steam Next Fest - Demos and livestreams for upcoming games, running June 19-26
17 votes -
What are some of the best games for low-spec PC?
My Lenovo laptop and Dell desktop have subpar specs on them, so playing a AAA game from the last decade is out of the question. They struggle to run Team Fortress 2, BioShock, and Minecraft at 30...
My Lenovo laptop and Dell desktop have subpar specs on them, so playing a AAA game from the last decade is out of the question. They struggle to run Team Fortress 2, BioShock, and Minecraft at 30 FPS, but 1990's boomer shooters and some indie titles play fairly smoothly. Here are some of the games that they can run:
- Doom (1993 to Final)
- Quake (1-3)
- Deus Ex (2000)
- Max Payne 2
- Half-Life 2 and its episodes
- Portal series
- Batman: Arkham City
- Celeste
- Hue
- The Stanley Parable
- Borderlands 2
Any suggested games would be greatly appreciated.
43 votes -
Diablo 4 is a great PC port - except you need a 16GB graphics card to match PS5
13 votes -
The best adventure games on PC in 2023
22 votes -
Alan Wake II will launch for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC via Epic Games Store in October, according to Alan Wake voice actor Matthew Porretta
10 votes -
Watercooling PCs & modding computer cases?
I tried looking around a bit but couldn't find anyone that was interested in this. For me it had been on my radar for years through various forums, but I only built my first watercooled PC in...
I tried looking around a bit but couldn't find anyone that was interested in this. For me it had been on my radar for years through various forums, but I only built my first watercooled PC in 2020. For that I designed and manufactured my own case and now I am working on a second one! It's become a fun hobby that's taught me CAD and more about manufacturing in general.
So I was curious if anyone else is into the same thing here? It's probably a bit more niche than the mechanical keyboard thread I saw!
3 votes -
Project Zomboid: The Timeline As Seen On TV (Mostly AI Video)
10 votes -
Piezoelectric fan to potentially replace all traditional fans in electronics
20 votes -
WW1 horror Amnesia: The Bunker delayed again, but only by a week – now due to release for PC on 23rd May
5 votes -
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead (A open source survival RPG) is now on steam with the money from the sales going to fund one of the developers
7 votes -
Fanless x86 mini PCs are getting absurdly fast and cheap
Pretty much what the title says - I’ve been looking for something small and not too expensive to run a few VMs on recently, and I’m just genuinely amazed at where the tiny SBC space is at right...
Pretty much what the title says - I’ve been looking for something small and not too expensive to run a few VMs on recently, and I’m just genuinely amazed at where the tiny SBC space is at right now.
The Celeron N5105 seems to be the go to choice at the moment. You can get an entire machine running that CPU that’s slightly smaller than an old double CD jewel case, for $150. Less than $200 if you want 16GB RAM and a fast NVMe SSD in there too. Four decent quality 2.5GbE NICs thrown in as a bonus. And it’s not that much slower than my expensive full size desktop from late 2020.
Part of me thinks I’m just getting old - phones have been plenty of people’s primary computer for years now, after all - but there’s something about having a real standalone x86 PC that size for literally 1/5th the price of a flagship phone that just blows my mind.
7 votes -
Returnal, the PS5 hit, is a master class in porting a console game to PC
4 votes -
Pacific Drive | Gameplay trailer
5 votes -
After a ten-year wait, one-person project Radio The Universe is almost here. Here's the trailer.
9 votes -
Upgraded to Windows 10, what do I need to do to optimize?
I finally got around to upgrading my mom’s computer (an Asus laptop from 2015) from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10. I’ve already deleted a few apps she won’t use (e.g., Xbox) and disabled/stopped some...
I finally got around to upgrading my mom’s computer (an Asus laptop from 2015) from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10. I’ve already deleted a few apps she won’t use (e.g., Xbox) and disabled/stopped some unneeded services. What else can I do to keep her computer fast? Particularly interesting in more services I can disable and the best browser/ad blocker combo. Thanks y’all!
10 votes -
Super Adventure Hand! | Trailer
1 vote -
Triple screen portable computer build
4 votes -
Bionic Bay | Official demo trailer
3 votes -
Defective vapor chamber may be causing RX 7900 XTX overheating issue. A recall could be on the horizon.
9 votes -
Steam Winter Sale recommendations
19 votes -
These are my old PC spare parts. I wanna build a new PC. What's the best I can do with those? (details in the post)
So I disassembled my old PC, and there are a few spare parts that I believe are still good. According to the technician, the motherboard is fried. I have no way to test this, so I'm believing him...
So I disassembled my old PC, and there are a few spare parts that I believe are still good. According to the technician, the motherboard is fried. I have no way to test this, so I'm believing him for now.
I wish to use those parts on a new desktop PC, but I have no idea where to begin... what do I need to buy new? Of what kind/brand/specification/pricepoint?
So here's what I got:
- AMD Ryzen 5 2400G processor
- with the AMD cooler that came with it
- 1TB 7200RPM non-SSD hard-drive
- 1 Ballistix by Micron 16GB 2400MHz RAM stick
- 1 240GB WD Green Sata SSD M.2 2280
I may have access to another 8GB RAM stick of unknown origins from my partner's old PC, but she's a bit protective of those things so I'll way for her to be home to open it in front of her :P
There's a power source attached to the case, which reads
ATX-600W
. Image1, image2.The computer case itself is a little beat up but I don't care about looks at all. Its external dimensions are 34.5cm by 35cm, with a width of 16cm. Here's how it looks (Xbox controller for scale).
I wanna build a new machine with the goals of:
- video editing
- so Adobe Premiere, Adobe After Effects, some audio work, and maybe streaming.
- gaming
- nothing super high-end, I'll probably get one or two 1080p 24" monitors because 4K reduces my options quite a bit. But here are some of the games I'm looking forward to playing (all MMOs): World of Warcraft Classic and Retail, FFXIV, Guild Wars 2, and the upcoming Ashes of Creation (which I believe is an Unreal 5 game).
My budget (including the monitor or monitors) is roughly 1400 US dollars. I understand that is not a lot of money for the majority of Tildes users, but that is just my reality. My 1400 US dollars PC is very much a luxury around here.
If needed for budget purposes I can get just one monitor now, and another down the road.
So, what's the best I can do?
Thanks! ;)
10 votes - AMD Ryzen 5 2400G processor
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World of Horror will exit early access and launch in Summer 2023
@Ysbryd Games: Cosmic horror RPG #WORLDOFHORROR from @panstasz will exit Early Access and launch in Summer 2023 for:* PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4* Switch * PC via Steam, GOG, Microsoft Store, and https://t.co/L8aU7LyQ58 Who is ready to go to Shiokawa? 🐙 pic.twitter.com/2CIoAG1Sqr
5 votes -
Dwarf Fortress is available on Steam right now
16 votes -
Transporting a desktop PC
So, next year, I will spend two 3-month periods at a place that is 1400km away from my home. Because of my somewhat large, superfast dog, with a tendency to run away and topple people, I will have...
So, next year, I will spend two 3-month periods at a place that is 1400km away from my home. Because of my somewhat large, superfast dog, with a tendency to run away and topple people, I will have to go by car, dog in hand (don't worry, I won't be driving :P). Each roundtrip amounts to 42 hours on the road.
At the same time, I'm budgeting for a new desktop workstation for gaming and video editing (so both fun and work). I could get a much inferior gamer laptop with the money, but I wanna have a good machine for things like Adobe After Effects, and the inferior part bothers me quite a bit.
Hence the question: how can I safely transport a desktop PC plus monitor for an 84-hour car trip? Should I take it "whole"? Disassembled? Or not at all? I really don't wanna screw up my brand-new PC!
6 votes