u/extrvnced

Aiming feels horrible on controller, Gnasher hit reg makes little to no sense some times, the sliding meta feels like COD Warzone 2021, I guess I’m just feeling like it may not be for me.

For reference, I grew up on the original trilogy and my all time favorite multiplayer is Gears 4. Gears 5 lost me by taking movement speed too far and ruining the aesthetics

Planning to swap the NVMe with a spare 2tb I have but interested to see how easy/hard the job will be. Has anyone done a teardown to see what the jobs like?

I find the bandwidth savings benefits of AV1 are often vastly overshadowed by the worsened latency from higher encode and decode times. Also, the lack of widespread AV1 support across many popular devices is also a huge headache when trying to find a good client device.

Quite frankly H265 is more than efficient enough when it comes to quality at a given bitrate for the vast majority of people and virtually every available device supports it. It looks absolutely great at reasonable and realistic bitrates. Home networking and on device WiFi receivers are also plenty powerful enough to handle higher (100mbps+) bitrates at reasonable distances. If someone’s wireless networking environment is not stable enough for 100mbps+ HEVC then I’m sorry but it’s going to be a bad experience streaming no matter what due to ping and packet loss issues from a weak signal.

Ive tried H264, H265, and AV1 extensively. I use a host 4090 pc and client devices such as a 13th gen Intel laptop, Legion Go S with Z1E, Legion Go 2 with Z2E, Nvidia Shield, Xbox Series X, iPhone 17, and Quest 3. I’ve found with every device that supports AV1, it’s consistently the worst codec to use in my opinion simply because the latency cost is not worth the minor quality improvement.

I will concede any scenario where you are severely bandwidth limited (less than ~30mbps) on an otherwise stable network. This means that for remote streaming I can understand the appeal, and im sure there are a few other edge cases where it could be helpful.

Ultimately, my point is H264 and H265 are what 99% of people should be using for local streaming and you shouldn’t feel the need to pass on an otherwise perfect client device just because it doesn’t support AV1. For those that are after the best quality, you’ll want to Ethernet anyway where 500mbps will be no problem.

Wondering if any later firmwares are more stable

Favorite: tools - garden, power, hand, etc. Tend to be pretty straightforward interactions with no nonsense people. Low ticket average but moves fast. Typically try to sell in sets of multiples.

Least favorite: split between iPhones and gaming PC’s. iPhones bring out obscene amounts of lowballing flippers and time wasters while gaming PC’s attract lowballing flippers as well as know-it-alls

They’re starting to infest my feed and I have no interest in them

PC will sometimes stay running indefinitely and I dont catch it for days resulting in unnecessary power draw. When this happens, PC does not register any mouse input until I CTRl+ALT+DEL