The Computer/Console Gaming Thread

[philby]

I know it's a long shot but does anyone here either have a contact they could ask or just straight up knows when the GTX 1080 is going on sale globally (as in preortder not the release date)? I really want one for my gaming PC and Oculus Rift but when I ask the big Aussie PC parts stores they tell me they don't know when I'll be able to order one. Since it is expected to be in short supply I really want to make my preorder as soon as it goes on sale.

did you get one?

[DELTAprime]

did you get one?

Still don't have one. I'm holding out for a good board partner card. I'm either going to get the EVGA GTX 1080 FTW because of EVGA's great customer service or the Asus GTX 1080 Strix OC because of it's ability to boost up to 2050mhz without an overclock. That said overclocking a video card is super easy so I'm sure I'll have the EVGA running over 2000mhz with little effort.

[1AZRAEL1]

For gamers of old FPS, GOG has Doom, Doom 2, Final Doom, all 3 Quakes, Wolfenstein 3D and SOD, and Return to Castle Wolfenstein, all for about $25. I'll be buying them on Friday

[DELTAprime]

For gamers of old FPS, GOG has Doom, Doom 2, Final Doom, all 3 Quakes, Wolfenstein 3D and SOD, and Return to Castle Wolfenstein, all for about $25. I'll be buying them on Friday

It might be a sign that I'm lazy or that all the various launchers are just overwhelming. Even tho I hate Valve as an entity I just prefer to buy my PC games on Steam and tend to skip GoG releases. It would be great to have my Uplay, Origin, Battle.net, GoG and Windows Store games all in Steam.

[DELTAprime]

Any of the day -1 announcements from E3 get anyone here excited? I was underwhelmed by most of it, tho Titanfall 2 looks cool and Dishonoured 2 looks great but not my type of game. Hopefully tomorrows announcements from Microsoft, Ubisoft and Sony will be more exciting.

On a personal level I bet Microsoft's will be good for me since their franchises really appeal to me, but there's going to be tons of crap thrown at them because they have up to 5 hardware related announcements to make and people seem to hate Microsoft hardware announcements.

For those not following the industry as close as me they are expected to announce an Xbox Chromecast competitor, an Xbox Apple TV competitor, an Xbox One slim, a next generation Xbox One currently codenamed Scorpio and possibly Xbox games (as in the actual Xbox version not a port) running on PC as part of Project Helix.

Sony has said they will not talk about the PS4 Neo so no new hardware from Sony other than the already announced PSVR so they will hopefully have tons of first party games coming this year because I was disappointed how few they released last year.

[Gutsman Heavy]

Any of the day -1 announcements from E3 get anyone here excited? I was underwhelmed by most of it, tho Titanfall 2 looks cool and Dishonoured 2 looks great but not my type of game. Hopefully tomorrows announcements from Microsoft, Ubisoft and Sony will be more exciting.

On a personal level I bet Microsoft's will be good for me since their franchises really appeal to me, but there's going to be tons of crap thrown at them because they have up to 5 hardware related announcements to make and people seem to hate Microsoft hardware announcements.

For those not following the industry as close as me they are expected to announce an Xbox Chromecast competitor, an Xbox Apple TV competitor, an Xbox One slim, a next generation Xbox One currently codenamed Scorpio and possibly Xbox games (as in the actual Xbox version not a port) running on PC as part of Project Helix.

Sony has said they will not talk about the PS4 Neo so no new hardware from Sony other than the already announced PSVR so they will hopefully have tons of first party games coming this year because I was disappointed how few they released last year.

Massive meh, the only thing I like so far is the Berserk Musou. Making a Prey game that isn't a sequel to the first really pisses me off.

[kurdt_the_goat]

I think this will be a pretty boring E3. Not even really excited for Zelda anymore. All i'm really looking forward to is a release date for Tekken 7.

Anyone else into fighters much? The King of Fighters XIV comes out in a few months and is shaping up pretty nicely. I whipped up a quick website with the characters' moves so i can reference them on mobile while playing instead of going into the menus: http://the-king-of-fighters-xiv.aust...postcodes.com/ Will have a new domain name for it soon, that's just one i had floating around doing nothing

[DELTAprime]

did you get one?

Got my 1080 finally. Not going 100% smoothly. Got some graphics corruption earlier today, but an uninstall of the Nvidia drivers and reinstall seems to have fixed it. Got some odd slowdown in GTA V. The map screen on GTA V has never loaded 100% smoothly on console or PC, but the map screen really seems to chugging now. Also areas of the game world that really chug on other platforms seem to be an issue on the 1080. It's really funny to go from 100+fps down to a momentary 0.

Doom runs silky smooth sometimes hitting the 165fps limit of my monitor.

That's all I've tested properly so far, but did try a little Overwatch and it seemed silky smooth also.

It will take a couple of months for Nvidia to squash every bug the can in the drivers and then devs might still have to patch their games on top of that depending on the issue. That's what you have to put up with on the bleeding edge of PC hardware.

[Gutsman Heavy]

Doom runs silky smooth sometimes hitting the 165fps limit of my monitor.

Noice, what res are you running at?

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

Dahmn son. That would of killed me. I've never had a game before the console

I bought Sonic The Hedgehog the movie on DVD before I had a DVD player....

I currently own three PS4 games (including the most recent Arkham game and the latest TF game) but do not have a PS4

I remember buying my ps3 so I could play Arkham Asylum. I think I bought a PS3 with it as a free game. Ha ha ha.

Looking very closely at buying a PS4, but wifey says no PS4 unless I get rid of the PS3. But then how do I play Okami???? And many other PS3 games I like to dabble in occasionally.