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Particularly the last episode, S02E08. Every scene lasts for like 30 seconds, then cuts to another scene, then to another, then back to the first scene, where the same thing is happening on screen, like it did not need a cut away at all. It just feels lazy, and it makes it feel like nothing ever happens.

My specs: : Ryzen 5 5600 / 32 GB DDR4 / PowerColor RX 6700 XT Hellhound 12 GB / ASUS Prime A520M-K / Samsung Odyssey G50D 1440p 180 Hz.

I've been getting fine grainy/shimmering flickering, plus noticeable distant-object/shadow pop-in in games.

Things I've tried

Completely reset Windows / fresh Windows installation.

Wiped the other drive as well.

Reset BIOS to optimized defaults.

Installed fresh AMD chipset drivers.

Installed current AMD Adrenalin GPU driver (26.7.1).

Previously used DDU and tested multiple older AMD drivers — no improvement.

Cleared AMD shader cache, then allowed shaders to rebuild — no improvement.

Tested FSR on/off:

FSR makes the fine shimmering worse.

Turning FSR off does not completely eliminate it.

Tested XeSS — slightly reduces shimmering but doesn't fix it.

Tested VSync on/off — no meaningful improvement.

Tested 180 Hz vs 60 Hz — no improvement.

Tested fullscreen vs borderless — no improvement to the actual visual issue.

Confirmed HDR is off in both Windows and Cyberpunk.

Tested Cyberpunk's shadow, LOD, reflection, contact-shadow, volumetric and other relevant graphics settings individually — no meaningful change to the pop-in.

Crowd density is already Low.

Turning Ambient Occlusion OFF semi fixes the fine shimmering, but does not fix the shadow/object pop-in.

Tested Elden Ring: it also has the distant-object/shadow pop-in, but not the same fine shimmering.

Tested Fallout 4 and discovered it also has a weird borderless-resolution problem where games can sometimes launch at 720p or display a zoomed-in quarter of the screen.

Checked Windows display settings: 2560×1440 / 180 Hz / recommended scaling.

Checked AMD Adrenalin: essentially all settings are stock/default.

Checked GPU-Z:

GPU ~2520 MHz under load

VRAM ~1988 MHz

~97% GPU load

~58°C GPU / ~79°C hotspot

PCIe 3.0 x16, which is normal for the A520M-K

Resizable BAR/SAM enabled

VBIOS appears correct for the PowerColor Hellhound

Ran GPU stress testing previously with no errors.

CPU while gaming is around 70% total, with no individual thread/core pinned at 100%.

Enabled DOCP/XMP, but the problem existed before enabling it, so that's unlikely to be responsible.

Tried a Draw Distance Boost mod, which slightly reduced the pop-in.

Tried the newer Draw Distance ReImagined mod, which didn't help.

Removed the mod(s).

Checked Cyberpunk's rendering.ini; it's essentially vanilla and doesn't contain anything explaining the general pop-in.

Checked Windows HAGS registry setting — HwSchMode isn't present.

Windows Game Mode is OFF.

The GPU appears healthy, the problem survives a completely fresh Windows installation and multiple driver/cache resets, and the pop-in occurs across multiple games.

The Cyberpunk shimmer appears to be a separate issue from the pop-in because AO disables the shimmer but leaves the pop-in unchanged.

The biggest unresolved question is why the system has unusually noticeable distant-object/shadow pop-in across multiple games despite normal hardware/driver behaviour.

My specs: : Ryzen 5 5600 / 32 GB DDR4 / PowerColor RX 6700 XT Hellhound 12 GB / ASUS Prime A520M-K / Samsung Odyssey G50D 1440p 180 Hz.

I've been getting fine grainy/shimmering flickering, plus noticeable distant-object/shadow pop-in in games.

Things I've tried

Completely reset Windows / fresh Windows installation.

Wiped the other drive as well.

Reset BIOS to optimized defaults.

Installed fresh AMD chipset drivers.

Installed current AMD Adrenalin GPU driver (26.7.1).

Previously used DDU and tested multiple older AMD drivers — no improvement.

Cleared AMD shader cache, then allowed shaders to rebuild — no improvement.

Tested FSR on/off:

FSR makes the fine shimmering worse.

Turning FSR off does not completely eliminate it.

Tested XeSS — slightly reduces shimmering but doesn't fix it.

Tested VSync on/off — no meaningful improvement.

Tested 180 Hz vs 60 Hz — no improvement.

Tested fullscreen vs borderless — no improvement to the actual visual issue.

Confirmed HDR is off in both Windows and Cyberpunk.

Tested Cyberpunk's shadow, LOD, reflection, contact-shadow, volumetric and other relevant graphics settings individually — no meaningful change to the pop-in.

Crowd density is already Low.

Turning Ambient Occlusion OFF semi fixes the fine shimmering, but does not fix the shadow/object pop-in.

Tested Elden Ring: it also has the distant-object/shadow pop-in, but not the same fine shimmering.

Tested Fallout 4 and discovered it also has a weird borderless-resolution problem where games can sometimes launch at 720p or display a zoomed-in quarter of the screen.

Checked Windows display settings: 2560×1440 / 180 Hz / recommended scaling.

Checked AMD Adrenalin: essentially all settings are stock/default.

Checked GPU-Z:

GPU ~2520 MHz under load

VRAM ~1988 MHz

~97% GPU load

~58°C GPU / ~79°C hotspot

PCIe 3.0 x16, which is normal for the A520M-K

Resizable BAR/SAM enabled

VBIOS appears correct for the PowerColor Hellhound

Ran GPU stress testing previously with no errors.

CPU while gaming is around 70% total, with no individual thread/core pinned at 100%.

Enabled DOCP/XMP, but the problem existed before enabling it, so that's unlikely to be responsible.

Tried a Draw Distance Boost mod, which slightly reduced the pop-in.

Tried the newer Draw Distance ReImagined mod, which didn't help.

Removed the mod(s).

Checked Cyberpunk's rendering.ini; it's essentially vanilla and doesn't contain anything explaining the general pop-in.

Checked Windows HAGS registry setting — HwSchMode isn't present.

Windows Game Mode is OFF.

The GPU appears healthy, the problem survives a completely fresh Windows installation and multiple driver/cache resets, and the pop-in occurs across multiple games.

The Cyberpunk shimmer appears to be a separate issue from the pop-in because AO disables the shimmer but leaves the pop-in unchanged.

The biggest unresolved question is why the system has unusually noticeable distant-object/shadow pop-in across multiple games despite normal hardware/driver behaviour.

I recently bought a new 6700xt card. Ever since installing it, I am getting insane shadow pop in, and pop in in general. I have spent like 60 hours trying to fix this.

I have tried turning on rebar, disabling hags, vsync/g sync,/no vsync, different monitor, HDMI vs DP, different graphics drivers, different windows updates, plus so much more.

I have a 12gb Vrsm card, 32gb of ram and up to date cpu, on an ssd.

Any suggestions?

I've wanted to play music with other people for ages, and I don't have any friends that play any instruments.

I am a somewhat competent piano player. I'm kind of self conscious about it, and have never played with other people before. I'm not looking to go professional, it just seems like it would be fun to get together with another amateur musician and fuck around a bit. I don't care if we sound terrible, or if it goes nowhere. It just seems like it would be a fun use of my time, compared to watching tv or playing video games.

I'd mainly be interested in improvising and writing our own songs. That sounds a little intimidating, but I seriously want to stress that it's a low stakes-fuck around situation. I'm currently learning about DAWs, so we could even walk away with our very own recorded masterpiece!

If you play music at all, please reach out! Even if we just do it once to get some experience, that's still okay. I like a lot of styles of music, I mainly listen to indie rock, and other rock subgenres. Some of the bands I've been listening to recently are Maruja, Man/Woman/Chainsaw, the Voidz, Opus Kink, bar Italia, and Viagra Boys. But I am very open to any kind of music. I'm 32M if that makes any difference to you.

I am far from completing all exotics, even the ones he sells. Is this a glitch? It's from a variety of activities. The exotic is Nezarecs Sin if that matters.

I was cautiously excited, the apple rater does not miss

At least he doesn't have powerful 50/50 approach tools and safe counter hits out the wazoo

Like they clearly show that they understand what the concept of an elevator is in ep 3. It feels like they have the capability of creating an elevator. It's really bothering me, why isn't everyone talking about how they should build an elevator 24/7

Christopher Nolan is a true auteur

"We need to support the movie industry, Netflix slop, yadayadayada"

Who thought this was a good idea lmao like 95 percent of people physically won't see half of this movie

I.e the job holding the stop/go sign. I'm aware that it is night time hours, with long periods of standing on your feet in the freezing cold. I think I can handle all of that. Is there anything else I should be aware of before doing the training?

Edit: I didn't ask for your opinion about me being on Centrelink. I have a job and I'm not a dole bludger, I'm not on Jobseeker.

FML man

I have searched around and found no mods, etc that fix it.

I'm not commenting on Kunimitsu, both her effectiveness and her gameplay. A lot would argue she is a "scrub" character because of the stance mix ups, but I think once the community gets to know her a bit more, she isn't that busted.

What I'm referring to is the playerbase not knowing how to deal with a new character. I'm not shaming them, it's natural to not know how to beat a new character, but this is exactly what happens in nearly every game.

1. Try to throw out their flow charts like normal. I know their character, they don't know mine, so this doesn't work for them.

2. They start spamming heat smash/burst/rage art/stage interactions/character specific tricks/throws.

Some of that is fine, like throws and character specific tricks are in all fighting games, but jfc, the amount of spamming of beginner friendly mechanics, and the effectiveness of them, is just dumb. I don't actually dislike Tekken 8 as much as others, but this is the shit that makes me log off for the night. Bryan doing a throw on a floor bounce stage resulting in a 80 damage combo into wall oki, and if he wants to engage heat in that combo, you are now fucked. Heat smashes being magnetic and uninterruptible. Rage arts after hopkick, because it is the best thing to do if you are one hp in that situation.

Like, rather than take a few Ls and learning the match up, people are just losing all kind of personal integrity and spamming broken shit. I'm not complaining about them, it's in the game, it's a fair mechanic, but it has been eye opening how much of a crutch these mechanics are.

My coworker came to work sick. My manager was completely cool with it. Fast forward 3 days, 5 other people are now sick.

This means,

A) anyone who is sick now also has to make the choice of whether they lose pay/sick days, or get further coworkers sick, or have to work sick.

B) anyone who had time off is now relegated to doing nothing for 3-4 days. All of their plans are cancelled.

C) there are not enough staff to do the work, so the lucky people who aren't sick have to cover all the work that the sick people should be doing.

D) it poses a health risk to the less fortunate. I have told my manager and coworkers that my partners mum is immunocompromised. I now don't get to see my partner for as long as the coworker comes to work sick, and as long as I am sick. Obviously, my manager and coworker don't care.

Seriously, 5 casual staff have lost hundreds of dollars of pay because of the selfishness of one coworker. This shit should be publicly shamed.

I specifically didn't say the phrase "is there any moral reason to not be a vegan", as it opens up a whole can of worms about moral subjectivity.

I am not a vegan, this isn't some weird shame fueled post, but I have noticed in the online arguments I have read about veganism, there are few to no logical claims that refute veganism. The only exceptions being "I have to eat meat for my health", or "I am very poor and it is cheaper for me to reach an appropriate amount of calories via McDonald's Cheeseburgers", which is dubious in itself.

I genuinely think, outside of that, that the strongest claim is that "I like the taste and convenience, and I don't care about the killing of animals." This is where the subjectivity of morals comes into play, and would probably be too complex to talk about here.

Here are the reasons that I can't find any logical reasons outside of this:

1. It is extremely bad for the environment. The 90/10 rule of food chains means that we are using a lot more resources to create meat. We could be using the soy, etc, to feed people, and avoid greenhouse gasses, help world hunger, etc.

2. We are killing beings that don't need to be killed. For the most part, humans don't need meat to survive.

I don't know what to believe anymore. I'm in Australia, if that changes anything.