u/Beneficial-Ranger238

I bought a 7900xtx from microcenter for $699 a year or so ago after the 9070xt released. It’s an Asrock phantom and I never messed with settings because it had a nasty hotspot problem. I ended up doing a ptm upgrade which fixed it but never dug into tweaking it after that.

This pc is strictly for my sim rig and that’s the main reason I went xtx over 9070xt, figuring the extra memory would help with running triples and some videos benchmarking it vs the 5070ti and 9070xt on various racing sims showed it ahead most of the time.

I ran a time spy run this January and it scored right around the 9070xt. My cpu, a 7900x, gets walloped by my 12900k,but all my amd chips score low compared to intel. I have a 7600 and 14400 system and the 14400 out scores the 7600 while passmark has it the other way around so it seems 3dmark doesn’t like amd much on the cpu side.

Anyway, I got back in the sim last night and decided to do some admin and maintenance on the pc today since it had been off for months, I had an Achilles issue and couldn’t sim race for a while.

I decided to look up some conservative settings and test them out.

Holy difference!

I did not expect a 5k jump in graphics score and 3k overall.

As you see, hot spot is well under control,it used to hit 110-115.

I still need to game and confirm it’s stable of course.

This was the case in fh5 too and it disappointed me then, and continues today. The best features of these cars and their little brother 500s is the incredible stock exhaust. There is a guy who drives a 124 near my work and every time I am outside when he drives by I will stop and enjoy all the pops and bangs as he lifts going by.

The only way to get this in the game is to use the anti lag turbo, which is just ridiculously overcooked.

I’m sure most of the cars aren’t right, but it’s not like I see a bunch of lambos driving by every day so I can’t say. I remember being behind an Urus one day and really enjoyed the exhaust on it.

I sent the free dude from Chaos to West Point, not a bad group of traits. I just accept what I get and make things work. I don’t think I’ve got any other pilots with 3 yellow traits.

This was a war zone with merc opfor drop. Ryanna bugged out when I finished off the mercs and as I was fighting the first wave I noticed a green circle as I was turning. Once things cooled off, I go and look and our drop ship was hovering over the lz. I avoided it because I didn’t want to abandon the mission.

When we finished the mission, a new second ring opened up with the drop ship symbol but the leopard stayed put at the original.

I entered the original lz at this point just to see, it did nothing.

We eventually bugged out via the empty lz after getting 1.1m bonus.

One bright side of this bug is Ryanna was spamming mechs, armor, and vtols the whole mission, helping us out.

I was thinking about trying the Viper as a medium demolition mech instead of the venerable Arrow, but I ended up putting the Viper back in storage because it had not been upgraded yet.

They’re very close in specs, each having advantages over each other.

BJ-A advantages-

Large laser givens significantly more range

Extra weight means more armor

VPR-P Advantages-

Speed advantage (or disadvantage? I have had trouble with not taking all wall sections down on fast mechs)

Jump jets

2 more machine guns

Thoughts? Is anyone running the Viper? Is the Puma close enough to replace both? (I do run a puma)

All the weapon delete panels make me laugh.

I just found this thing in Marik space and immediately knew my demolition mauler was obsolete trash. The damage output of this thing is mind boggling, buildings just disappear.

My updated loadout-

12 c hmg
6 c srm4
3 c er large laser
2 c er small lasers that I forget I have

This thing was worth every bit of the 38m it cost (I think that was the price)

I did a couple demos, both with merc drops and on one of them, the only damage I took was from the merc dropship pinging me with a large laser.

I wanted to run 8 sxp but I don’t have enough and no tier 5 yet. I put a heavy large in for the main weapon.

It’s practically the hero but with missiles. I am liking the x pulse, never running out of lasers is awesome and if you find a cockpit it is an easy headshot kill.

Sorry for the crappy screenshot, on vacation and this is easier.

Just found the night gyr D with lrm art Iv 20x4!!

I switched to 2 er medium instead of the large and medium pulse and gave it 6 more heat sinks to keep the missiles flying.

This is silly firepower in the heavy range.

Just got my first EBJ so had to take it for a spin with the boys.

It came to me this morning that the LAC’s weight savings might allow me to up the dakka over my 6 lb2x build.

Yup, had to drop a little ammo, went from 1800rds to 1200rds but now have 8x LAC2.

It’s pretty stupid.

I mean, I don’t hate it….

What I like:

It’s fast

Decent armor

Moderately ok load outs

What I don’t like:

I mean,can you miss it if you shoot in the same zip code?

I think it’s good specifically for Chaos Reign with the lower tonnage limits. I have a couple variants, one has replaced my dragon sidewinder.

Just did the quest where you get the Sunder at the end. I run max damage cost so in the first mission I ended up with two out of the three for free.

Also finally got a linebacker after killing at least 6 of the bastards.