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We took a short break earlier this week after an onslaught of reviews lately! Now we're back, starting with Hardware News to talk about the latest accusations in the Wall Street Journal about NVIDIA's AI practices, GeForce Now with ads, AMD dropping the price of the 7700 XT (and other GPUs joining), Sony laying off 900 people, Nintendo suing the Yuzu team, and more. Oh, and our Legion Go review is done now -- good timing for the MSI Claw news!
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11:26 - Sony Lays Off 900 from Game Divisions
15:04 - Nintendo Sues Maker of Yuzu Emulator
17:06 - Latest Intel Arc Driver Boosts Up to 155%
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You guys are normally spot on but your reporting on the Switch Emulation is off base. 1. There was a lawsuit by Bleem! vs Sony and Bleem! was a commercially sold product. While the cost of fighting it put them out of business Bleem! won the case and it is Fair Use Law Case Law in the USA ever since.
2. No actual case involving emulators has gone to court since then minus one that included Nintendo roms with the emulator. This is the first such case. So saying these cases normally favor Nintendo is false. In fact all Nintendo did in the case with Dolphin on Steam was send a letter to stop the Steam version. Dolphin still exists and Nintendo didn't proceed further. It should be noted that Dolphin actually did use real Nintendo keys. So it was a worse offender and even then Nintendo didn't pursue it. Which in court will be a strike against them.
This lawsuit is nothing more than a few of the Japanese board members upset about Tears of the Kingdom being leaked early and trying to intimidate people.
What is really going to happen is Nintendo is going to lose and then anger the rest of the gaming Devs and console makers as we will then see the widespread use of emulators on Mobile devices, phones, tablets, and Valve will no longer fear hosting them on Steam. Nintendo is rolling the dice on behalf of everyone in their business because they are upset their game got leaked and are reacting like children.
In the USA case law is highly leaned on and considered. Which is why emulators haven't been sued since Bleem!. In that case it was an actual commercial product you had to purchase a physical disk for. This on the other hand is just donations.
@@jonny4036" because they are upset their game got leaked and are reacting like children."
To be fair I'm positive you'd be complaining as well if you lost $70million in sales because a game was leaked.
@@ThomasFarmer21 I mean even if you could prove that there had actually been 1 million downloads of the game prove that all of them didn't purchase the game. I know a bunch of people that tried it they also had a pre-order which they kept since the day the game was announced. It being available to download and play better on an emulator then in its intended platform didn't keep me from picking my pre-order up on day 1.
We are talking about a company that has sold 70 million copies of a re-release of a Wii U game in Mario Kart 8 that is 10 years old.
Perhaps if Nintendo hadn't rushed the Switch out and used 3 year old Nvidia Shield tablet off the shelf tech that already had custom android roms on XDA and was running over 3 year old Arm chips it would be emulated so easily. Now that tech is over 10 years old. If Nintendo didn't want this to happen they could of always done what everyone else does and have a new console out. Normally a console gen last 6-8 years which Nintendo is within. The difference is most consoles use Custom SOC's that are way more powerful.
Copy protection isn't just at a software and hardware level, but at the level of technology used. If PS4 would of used a similar Arm Chip everyone would be running emulators for it as well.
@@ThomasFarmer21 "lost $70million in sales"
You're assuming the pirates were actually going to buy the game. They can't "lose" what they never had to begin with.
lol why did you skip the part about it having a shitty arc card
"We anticipate that this change will reduce wait times for free users over time." You mean as they get sick of the ads and stop using the service?
Do you know, why Nvidia control panel and Experience got facelift ?
Lets wait ads in there.
I doubt it. Those things are pretty much required software (especially the control-panel) for using a nvidia GPU. Nvidia needs to provide this as part of their service, placing ads in those will unleash a tidal wave of backlash. Especially since you already paid for the GPU in the first place. Geforce-now however was a free service, there is no such thing as free so here come the ads now that an userbase has been established.@@GameBacardi
@@GameBacardigeforce experience already has advertisements, doesn’t it?
@@inverlock I know Adrenaline has ads. But you can turn them off in the app. I wouldnt find third party ads in my gpu software acceptable BLEH
have never had a single ad on Adrenaline software, been using it since release...@@hudbaoir3610
16:02 I obtained MY key from MY legally purchased switch. The switch is mine=the keys are mine.
Not only that, but the games YOU legally purchased can be backed up and stored on YOUR PC, allowing you to store and preserve YOUR backups of the games YOU legally purchased!
Silly people, we don’t own anything. We lease these games until our corporate overlords declare us unworthy. You want to share footage of your “legally” purchased games, tough, we copyright strike that one.
@@dreaper5813 In my experience everyone who is staunchly anti-piracy will mindlessly defend big corporations even if what they're defending is incredibly anti-consumer. Bonus points if they start with the piracy = theft fallacy, then you'll know everything they'll say because they all say the same thing. People like that make me give less and less of a damn about piracy.
@@supra107 I never gave any damns about piracy at all - I can't afford shit anyway :P
I obtained mine from a torrent :^)
is NVIDIA ever not being accused of something...
It's been a while since they've been accused of selling affordable GPUs...
Damn Steve, you didn't have to do them like that (signed, Steve)
Sick burn, on our wallets.
@@GamersNexus Destruction increased to 100
@@GamersNexuscomment of the day goes to Steve
Nintendo is a law firm that also happens to make games.
They have 4 or 5 IPs and refuse to use their talented team to do more games or introduce completely new IPs. A waste of talent.
As I said here, nothing will change Nintendo will never stop piracy, they are wasting their money and time. As long as there are Torrents or even Usenet, nothing will change. They have ROMs up for years, Switch games are easy to get as well, yet they do nothing which they can't and I like it that way.🤣
@@blacknemesy that's more or less games in ps5, sounds fair enough.
Imagine how much cash would Nintendo make if they made their own emulator and finally sold their music on like Spotify.
But nooo... Nintendo hate moneh!
@@GewelRealOr sell Emulator for a one time fee and acess huge library of titles with the unit. premiums of course would be sub based,
Thanks Steve.
Thanks, spellsword!
@@GamersNexus back to you, steve!
@@GamersNexus Thank Steve merch when?
and thanks to the rest of the GN team for all their work behind the lens :)
It's amazing that big companies never seem to layoff the very expensive top people...
they're the ones that make the rules which is why they give themselves bonuses while firing everyone.
Pretty sure Activision had an executive clean out.
"Hmm, should I reduce my salary, or lay off 100 of my employees? Seems an obvious choice to me..." -- quote corporate executives.
Though, to be fair, with a company as big as Sony, they probably just decided to cut back on their video game divisions as a strategic move, rather than financial struggles. In other words, I'm assuming they could have kept the employees, but just didn't think it was worth it.
As far as that Nvidia story goes, didn't Intel do pretty much the same thing with the 440BX chipset way back when? Didn't AMD get $1 billion ruling against Intel for that?
Intel definitely found itself in at least one similar position. Not sure on the legal side how "legally similar" it is, but it had to do with "incentivizing" OEMs to not use AMD parts back then. And yes, AMD was awarded a judgment in that case.
that was right when the Pentium ][s were coming out, and continued to the P]I['s, if I'm not mistaken.
I think that was around where AMD chips were getting to be no longer compatible with the Intel chipsets.
Also that was a MAJOR ass jank period of time for processors, and having to mount them on riser sides.
@@GamersNexus IIRC it also was because bench software ("incentivized" by Intel) was compiled using a compiler that did not only skip executing AMD optimisations, but actively always sabotaged them taking the absolute slowest path to execute the code, where on Intel it obviously was optimised as all hell.
@@jamegumb7298you meant the Intel C++ Compiler?, i know that compiler optimized a lot if you used Intel processors, but not for AMD.
Intel went to a slot so AMD couldn't share the same socket. We got Slot 1 and Slot A. Woohoo?
The lawsuit was over paying Dell to not build computers with AMD chips.
17:37 Correction: Arc drivers are currently bundled together for dGPUs and iGPUs. The performance uplifts listed in this specific driver update (101.5333) are actually specifically only for the iGPUs. Re-read the release notes a bit closer and you'll see what I mean.
But both are Arc architecture. Wouldn't the uplift be seen also for desktop GPUs?
@@GewelRealnot if the uplift is from a clever optimisation of the bandwidth use of system memory or something else specific to an iGPU. I'm sure it won't be that specific and it could just be a case of the uplift being more significant for iGPUs and so they choose to only mention the numbers for those parts.
Technically they are not. Intel iris xe or Intel HD are based on very different silicon than Intel arc or Intel meteor lake (which is also arc)
What's interesting with the Toshiba AC adapters is that they recalled those long after warranty expired, and most of the laptops would have died by now.
Still, AC adapters shouldn't catch fire when they fail.
And that's definitely a good thing! Fire hazards should be publicly noted like this even if it is likely to be in disuse just to protect people who may end up with it and not know better.
I still use an old AC adapter from a Toshiba laptop purchased around the affected time period, to power something else long after having recycled the laptop. Why throw out a perfectly good AC adapter when it can be repurposed in something else? (Well, theoretically “perfectly good”…)
@@macylerThat isn't the point. The point is that the things catch fire. Not that people throw them away.
This comes as no surprise to me. Over the 10-12 laptops I've had over the last 20 years 9/10 times it's the charger and/or the charge circuit on the motherboard that kills them. 3 were Toshibas. I recently had to replace the charger on my 1 yr old HP AMD system cause it failed. I swear those things are made of 100% Chinesium.
@@zodwraith5745every charger is made in China. Don’t be so stupid to blame China for everything every company decided to do cheaply
Nintedo knows they have no chance. They just want to hit the Yuzu team in the wallet with the legal fees and win that way. Edit- Damn never mind they folded like an omelet😂
That's exactly the problem. Nintendo intentionally made ridiculous claims because they know financially Yuzu will lose or settle the lawsuit, which sets legal precedent. If Nintendo "wins", then that will allow them AND ANY OTHER COMPANY to use their ridiculous definition of emulators as "tools for piracy" in ANY future lawsuit and effectively use that to take down all emulators in existence. Yuzu CANNOT lose. They earn $28,000 a month from Patreon so hopefully they've amassed enough for legal defense.
@@Robbie-mw5uu bandai is the same thing
@@Robbie-mw5uu Yuzu will crowdsource the fees if needed. The publicity now and when they win is going to make everyone know who they are and drive up their donations now and long term more than they ever would have been. I've heard their donations are way higher than that monthly. I heard it was at minimum $50,000 a month.
The best way is to get the EFF involved. They have very good lawyers that fight for just these kinds of things.
i hate nintendo i hate consoles someone please port bayonetta 3 to pc
Whats sad with high launch prices and price cuts is that in some countries/markets, the price cuts never take effect.
I think this really hurts Radeon sales vs GeForce as buyers of the latter usually is okay with paying more anyway.
Radeon group keeps taking those well deserved L's
I'll rather pay more for AMD. I would never get Nvidia GPU without being forced to.
Here in India the prices for GPU's are beyond inflated and have been for years now.
What is funny is that some nVidia cards do go down a bit in prices, AMD almost never does. AMD cards cost same, if not more than some nVidia offerings. So basically, you have to be a fool to pay for underperforming AMD cards over nVidia when the cards cost pretty much the same.
Also, the "prices going down" only affects primarily USA or western countries in the end. Means nothing for the rest of the world.
In the US at least, there's actually a lot of legal precedent that establishes emulators themselves as legal, and possibly even valid competition against first-party consoles. This obviously doesn't extend to illegal downloading, and it's not even straightforward whether or not it's legal to dump legally obtained games for personal use, but still, emulators have generally held up in court. Instead, it's fangames, hacks, and mods that Nintendo is typically more successful at taking down.
edit: im sad
Just because there's legal precedent doesn't mean we can expect the legal system to uphold them.
It only takes one win by Nintendo to effectively ruin the future of video game preservation.
@@Operational117Switch is a still on release console, just to be clear. They are not suing a SNES emulator.
@@pedro4205true but the law applies equally to both
nintendo could've made the switch not-current by just launching a revision like all their competitors did
@@Operational117 Well, that's not exactly true. I should say, I'm not a lawyer, but US judges don't actually have scope to just overturn precedent whenever they feel like it. Even if they did, that would only mean that whatever the judge ruled in the Yuzu case couldn't threaten emulation in general either, because some other judge could arbitrarily rule in the opposite direction again. In reality, precedent is incredibly strong in the US legal system, to the point that some legal ambiguities are never settled because because the risk of that first legal precedent being set against one party or the other is too big to take.
I'd pay to be in the room when the lawyers are discussing the "illegally obtained decryption keys" keys from the Switch, given yuzu's instructions are for pulling them from the Switch that you own. Would love to hear the explanation for how that's "illegal."
Probably something along the lines of "You're tampering with nintendo software that is copyrighted and owned by nintendo to access these keys" and probably also something that sounds vaguely like "You don't actually own your switch, you just pay for the privilege of using it" but without actually saying it. It's worth to keep in mind that Nintendo is a japanese company, and in japan big companies have a lot of expectations of everyone "respecting and honoring" them due to how japanese culture works. That's why you have cases like that one in japan where a dude was selling modified switch SAVES (not the games/roms, just the save files) and still got prison time, essentially because his actions "dishonored nintendo". That mindset of their is global, which is why they do these kinds of things. They think of themselves as gods, and we're peasants who should worship them and give them money. Anything else is considered heresy, and will be heavily punished with every means possible. Such as these kinds of frivilous lawsuits.
its really not hard to understand people pirate games and use the emulator thats why theres a lawsuit
Probably some lawyer speak hidden in a 10 page "I agree" page when setting up nnid and switch
@@philipxxxdj Yes but that doesn't mean they're in the wrong. Just because people use their creation for illegal things, it doesn't mean they're responsible.
Same reason car manufacturers cannot be held responsible that someone used their car to commit bank robbery. Or a phone manufacturer because someone called in a bomb threat on one of their phones.
@Clawthorne
Because of how US law works as a common law jurisdiction, if a judge ever rules in favor of Nintendo, that means we can sue auto makers and firearms manufacturers for their secondary liability in crimes.
The accusation against nvidia isnt that they impact the market depending on when they choose to release or not, its that if Nvidia knows you are shopping around for more GPUs from the competition because you arent being supplied fast enough by Nvidia, they will punish you more by purposefully delaying or deprioritizing the shipping of any orders you already made with them.
This is some mob shit.
reminds me of nvidias GPP scandal that kyle bennett broke at [H] years ago, frankly
@@hollywoodmeow Reminds me of the GTX 480 Days (2010). When Nvidia couldn't deliver the GTX 480 fast enough, you had to buy 10 Mid Level Cards (GTX 260 or 280 which nobody wanted) or 100 Low Level Cards, to get one GTX 480 as a Vendor. Got 2017 some G 210 DDR2 (2009) mounted into 30 PC's as HDMI Adapter as those were specified thanks to it. They were literally still lying around for 10 Bucks or so 7 years later. Had good connections to a German wide Distributor, he told me that they have to do it, to get the then hard to come by GTX 480, they simply ordered the cheapest Nvidia Card and throw them into some Business PC, even when they were worse then Intel Graphics.
Nvidia has done scummier shit in the past, stop sucking upto Nvidia. They're not your friend
Steve defending Nvidia again and driving audience focus to something irrelevant.
Nothing new to see here.JMO
Nvidia needed to be broken up after they murdered 3dfx
Reduction in workforce should start with the most expensive and easy to replace people, the CEO and CFO.
C suite peeps aren't that easy to replace honestly
That's a horrid idea
If only it were that simple.
CEOs are theoretically easy to replace, given their primary role in modern business is a spokesperson for shareholder meetings and the person charged with the difficult task of having someone else choose which workers will be in the latest round of layoffs(to round out their quarterly earnings and get that sweet sweet bonus from their shareholders for being a good boy who made line go up).
Since when are CEOs and other high managerial positions easy to replace? Dude, you have no idea what you're talking about. You can hate these people all you want, but the brutal truth is that a CEO NEEDS to have an incredible amount of experience in the industry (and often outside of it as well) to make the cut. Same goes for other c suite positions. Just because there are some shitty ones out there doesn't change that simple fact. Also with how those people are hired, often involving things like stock options and welcome bonuses they are significantly difficult to replace from the monetary perspective as well.
The brutal truth of the matter is that the easiest people to replace are always the ones that are the lowest in the food chain. Especially in software development right now there significantly more developers available for hire than position to hire them for. And guess what, there are plenty of shitty developers out there too, you just don't hear about them almost at all, because nobody cares if some rank and file people suck at their job, it only makes the news if it's the CEO or somebody else that's high in the pecking order. This becomes immediately apparent if you work in any decently large software development company, in fact in both the software development companies I've worked I never had a single problem with anybody from upper management or presidential positions, they were all decently competent people. When somebody was inadequate it was always some rank and file people who dragged things down.
Which makes perfect logical sense, when you hire somebody that has a lot of experience then they are less likely to be the source of issues related to work performance, and a normal company hires experienced individuals for positions that are higher up the food chain.
@@SMgaming619 *"C suite peeps aren't that easy to replace honestly"*
Yes, everyone who's not a fool understands that.
I like that there was some GPU driver dev at Intel who really wanted to play Just Cause 4.
Furmark 2 with Linux time! (Especially important for OpenGL and Vulkan). Would be interesting to see comparisons of raw Furmark scores with the same hardware between Windows drivers and Linux drivers! This could easily be done on the same system via dual booting.
As a Linux gamer first, and windows second, I'm looking forward to being able to tweak and stress my GPU without having to reboot into windows. I can finally set up my power saver and high performance GPU profiles and scripts to switch between them when gaming and not gaming
The Toshiba recall brings me back. I had a string of Toshiba laptops from the 90's until 2013. The power adapters were always a problem. I remember two of them over-heated and melted.
My current HP Spectre had a similar issue where the charger over-heated and started melting while next to my bed. Whatever caused it torpedoed the battery as well and I spent the next month replacing the adapter, then the battery and finally the physical jack in the laptop.
Fun fact: Yuzu is both a proper name and a name for a Japanese citrus, so it continues the citrus theme of Citra.
I really hope Yuzu wins the lawsuit. Emulation is really important for video game preservation and getting new people interested in the space. The whole reason why I have a Nintendo Switch was because I discovered their games through emulation.
Edit: Looks like a lot of people are about to become admiralty, because there's no way in hell people who hear about this are gonna keep supporting this hellhole of a company.
Emulation is legal and will remain legal even if Nintendo wins the lawsuit. The problem appears to be the same as Dolphin; Yuzu may have used proprietary cryptography keys instead of reverse-engineering the decryption process. Notice that Nintendo has not sued Ryujinx, an equally capable Switch emulator.
@@terpfen SHHHHH don't give them ideas!
Yuzu's developer messed it up (by posting screenshots of their emulator running unreleased Switch games like Xenoblade or mentioning fixing their emulator for day-one Tears support in their Discord, by giving way too specific information about how to make it run, earning an obscenely high amount of money, etc). "Emulation" should be safe but they really forgot about DMCA. What will likely happen is that Nintendo will trample them until they exhaust their legal funds, exactly what US justice is about.
@@terpfenNintendo seems to be specifically mad about things like the fitgirl repacks that come with copies of Yuzu (some are Ryujinx as well) completely pre configured to play the game in the same download. Where it's literally just double click and run.
@@terpfen yuzu doesn't ship with keys. You need to dump them. And I'm saying that from personal experience. As you need both the switch firmware dumped. And the keys (as the keys are used to decrypt games/updates/dlc)
Love your videos. Hope the Yuzu team doesn't have to take their hard work down.
The concern is that if it does go to court, and Nintendo's overwhelmingly large legal team manages to overturn precedent that establishes the legality of emulators, it will set a precedent which will allow them to kill any future emulation projects as well. If the legal teams were evenly matched, Nintendo would not have a case here.
If Nintendo wins and he has to drop the project, I hope he puts Yuzu on some sort of public domain or something, at least open the source code so the community can pick it up, like going down with a bang!
Damn, Nintendo are such scumbags, defending your IPs is one thing, screwing your fanbase is something else entirely. I hope Yuzu team wins the case
@@CrashD6 Yuzu is GPL3
@@Kris-od3sj Thanks for the info, I looked on it
@@CrashD6Nintendo hates money so much they don't want people to buy their stuff
17:38 Actually those Intel Arc driver improvements are only for Intel Core Ultra integrated Arc GPUs, not for the dedicated ones. I think those dedicated Arc GPUs got those specific game improvements already in earlier drivers.
Well hopefully, because as for the limited amount of benchmarks available for the Core Ultra, it doesn't really seem to be comparable with 7840U or Z1E, most especially on efficiency. Which makes me quite skeptical about the MSI Claw, especially for their high prices, when the ROG Ally Z1E version can be had for less than 600USD lately...
@@jondasekit’s going to be though got the MSI Claw to compete. The cheapest model with core ultra 5 starts at €829 while the ROG Ally is €585.
Woohooo. Thank you for bringing case testing back!
Love your channel. Even I don't care about gaming or computers I find your videos interesting.
Thanks! Maybe one day you can explore building a PC!
And start gaming
Hmm instead of cutting 10% of the employees, why not cut 10% of the Top Bras' wages, because that would save them more money.
The top brass are doing what they're told.
Your math isn’t mathing.
@@lr5658 True, it'd save them a LOT more money. Average exec makes ~5x as much as average company wage.
Because it is not the employees who makes desisions…
9:58 absolutely love this, thanks Steve!
Top Secret location is probably the Micro Center launching in Charlotte.
Thanks Steve! I have one of the affected adapters. Thankfully I have another laptop I can use in the meanwhile.
I'm excited for the case review next week!
The whole "why won't the trend of 2020 and 2021 continue" question absolutely plagued me at my job. When building any sort of forecasting I'd get bombarded with people telling me my numbers were unacceptable because I was predicting revenue declines. Every single time I'd have to repeat the same conversation that 2020 and 2021 were outliers and they it would be foolish to expect us to have continually record-breaking years.
To this day I still don't understand the rationale of why it's somehow better to miss expectations every quarter rather than just lowering expectations.
Ironic that these capitalist businesses suddenly start acting like the former soviet union when it comes to earning reports, isn't it? "No comra.. I mean.... friend. We do not use the word 'decline' here, as reporting a decline would ultimately not please the oligar.... I mean.... the shareholders. Try using a different word in the earning report, we don't want to project the wrong image for the motherla.... I mean... for our business."
Just tell me to lie to you if you want me to lie to you FFS.
Hello GN! I was wondering if its possible for you guys to classify HW News through its associsted playlist as a podcast in order to get it listed on YT music. I'd love to listen to it as audio on the go when i can't get to the full video.
Furmark...is running max amp and power stage into the memory ....the clock goes down to the mV stage that is left over to max out the rest of the power headroom.. not a safety thing
Love your vids, even though as a newbie to computers lots of the stuff goes over my head , i am slowly learning, although the number & letters that go along with all the GPUs & CPUs still get me very confused, thanks for everything you do, and keep up the great work. from Australia.
When you do ATX case reviews, do you test the Full towers as well like the Antec Performance 1 FT?
YES. love the ready player one reference clip.
Thank you so much covering the AC Adapter, these can be used in so many various laptops even today models like ASUS as "replacements" and I had one. You all may have saved my grandparents life and their home.
@Gamers Nexus - Thanks for the Toshiba recall notice... My mom's was on the list. And yes, the laptops are still usable... their CPUs are upgradable. I've put i7 processors in several of that age.
Thanks Steve!
I've been looking forward to this
thanks Steve & the team for giving us unbiased new & reviews ~!
Finally I can get my case on!
oh I had one of those A/C adapters short and shoot sparks in my hand because the wire was so shitty, that was about 10 years ago now though
14:14 Ooh, is this what that new Yakuza Infinite Wealth game is about?
4080 super still not a single card below 1100.
Nivida don't care, if they sell any, as it will leave more space for AI, that they can sell for so much money, so the less GPUs they sell the more money they make.
Excited for the ATX case reviews! When it’s available, would you consider the Thermaltake View 270 TG? I’ve also been looking for a spiritual successor to the Cooler Master HAF XB Evo.
I’m shocked that any of those Toshiba laptops are still kicking. The screens seemed to snap off of those things *very* easily because the hinges were screwed into the thinnest plastic known to man
Are you guys planning on testing one of the gdp win 4 systems? Im interested in possibly buying one and want know how it compares to the others
love the hoodie
Furmark 2 has a pretty glaring flaw: not all the resolutions listed by the Furmark 1 are in Furmark 2. Some nonsense resolutions like 400x300 are still available but not an actual monitor resolution like 2560x1600.
Yes! More handheld gaming device reviews incoming.
24:35 Germany? we only have the low end model (but 1 extra year warranty).
Breadlines for on demand video gaming. Fantastic. How is that "Its so convenient" when the commisar says you must wait?
I'm very confused by this take. You understand that you're not entitled to play free video games, right? That Nvidia has no obligation to offer you this free service, and you're literally only benefiting by them providing it? "Breadlines" lol. This child is so entitled he thinks that his desire to play video games is a fundamental right comparable to receiving food.
@@link99912 ah yes, we've never seen ad's added to paid tiers of service with online streaming platforms before. Definitely going to stick to the free tier only.
Could you give us a link for the Toshiba recall info?
Love the channel.. can you do a video on the new computer they are developing that doesn't use any silicon.. and only runs inside of a fiber optic cable.. sounds totally amazing if true.
GN calling it out as it is! Thank you!!
Thanks steve
Very interested to see how the Claw's Intel APU does against the AMD APU everyone else is using.
Or against the Nvidia APU in the next Switch.
@@cube2fox Doesn't personally interest me unless it comes to handhelds that can play PC games.
I had a Toshiba laptop 12 years ago and would use it in my bed plugged in. One night, the two-prong cable from the wall to the brick popped, and a few balls of solder or maybe melted wire flew in the air and landed on my mattress, burning a hole into it. Thankfully, it was a modern mattress that didn't instantly catch fire.
Quick question: for 21:30, what's the best option for "destroying the adapter"? I'm assuming there's possible ways one could try to destroy the adapter and potentially harm themselves by doing so.
Woodchipper
My first thought was to cut the cable off in a way that it would be hard to attach a new one(right at the base). Maybe also put a big sticker on it saying "BAD!". I think that would be enough to prevent the average person from trying to use it again.
Thanks for the Toshiba recall info. My Dad has one and we wouldn’t have found out otherwise.
I got my hoodie in yesterday and I love it! along with a shirt, mousepad and pint glass. The shipping team did an amazing job with the packaging, it was the most well packed package I have received.
80% before inducing seizures you say? Damn you, im in! No honestly, 2 minutes of ads for 1 hour of playtime, is quite generous. I would have assumed far more for 1 hour of playtime.
One of the big issues that were announced on the plaintiff is that they were also inside their Discord server, and apparently, some of the game roms were distributed there. Also, it certainly doesn't help Yuzu that you had to pay the Patreon to have the better version of the emulator, which a competent lawyer could attribute to obtaining a benefit from it.
Some people in the community certainly are thinking that maybe Yuzu could be the nail in the coffin that had been able to be avoided for so long, because of practises, like those said above, that can easily be nefarious. When your emulator can play a game before the game is out, you're definitely not making your own case.
It's likely that, also in part, this is a way to discourage a possible emulator for the next system. Or at least, one that is just as swiftly updated as the console itself - it's alright (some might differ, but let's say we do believe it) to think about emulation for preserving, but when the system you're "preserving" is still alive, that system is being preserved already.
PS.: I'd not be surprised if Valve's "Yuzu in Steam Deck trailer" could've been what, on the very least, made them start the procedure to the plaintiff, if not directly put the Ninjas onto the emulator. Though I'd also say they're not the first, because there are a definitely big amount of people who have publicly touted the emulator (and, in a way, spread the word about it).
Emulating current gen is legal so long as you pay for the Switch licenses. For example, emulating Pokémon Scarlet & Violet found the game ran better in emulation than the original hardware, showing the Switch needed a hardware upgrade.
Nintendo has to understand illegal emulation is sourced by illegally distributed ROMs on hosting sites. If someone can buy Steam games with their Steamdeck they can also pay for Nintendo games, however the only thing holding it back is the Switch's upfront paywall. This isn't a matter of "piracy is done by those unwilling to pay", reinforcing exclusivity is something only Nintendo cares about.
Emulation needs to start _during_ the lifespan of the console. If you only start preserving games ten or twenty years after the console's gone EoL, it will not only become considerably more difficult to find the software, hardware, and documentation, but interest will also have waned, making it much harder to find people willing to commit to actually doing the hard work of preservation. Most importantly of all though, if we only start the work of preservation decades after the console's release, many _many_ less financially successful or well-known or simply ambiguously-owned games end up becoming lost media. Some estimates put the number of games that have been lost forever at upwards of 80%. That means four fifths of all games ever made can never be played again. And a big part of that is that no attention was paid to their preservation while they were still in print. The Operative: No One Lives Forever is another great example of a game that, despite not being lost media, is difficult to preserve due to being mired in ambiguous ownership so that none of the companies that own the rights are willing to commit to aiding preservation efforts lest they run afoul of one of the other companies that also own some partial rights to the game. This kind of thing is much easier to avoid when the preservation efforts start long before games start fading into obscurity and need to rely on a handful of nerds with extreme nostalgia and unreasonably deep pockets to keep them from being lost forever.
23:29 GpuOwl and Mfaktc/Mfakto are very good at generating heat too ;)
24:47 Guangzhou digital plaza?
Jeez those are some antique Toshiba AC adapters! Wtf lol my sister had one for college around 2011 but shit, it's LONG GONE. I can't imagine still using a laptop this old from a company that's no more. But hey people do crazy things
That was a very underrated and understated 420 joke. Thanks Steve. 😉
How about Intel's compatibility with older motherboards? What are the benchmarks for streaming 4k TV with an A380 with a streaming computer?
For the MSI Claw, if you were going to only have a $100 dollar difference between 3 models, why wouldn't you just make the higher priced model and save a lot of time and money not making alternate sku's that require support and separate repair parts?
I haven't noticed the 4070 dropping in price yet. Still 600+ EUR in Romania.
10:29 am i missing something or is that a rtx 4070 non super?
Does the freezer 3 preform well with intel. I could of swore the thermal test they did for Intel wasn't very good
I do have one of those Toshiba adaptors and the laptop, though I stopped using it years ago now when the hard drive died, just never replaced it, built a desktop instead.....using only the best premium psu by Gigabyte!! Anyway, I always thought it got much too hot, even compared against other laptop adapters. I used it for about a yr everyday, no fires...but I did keep it off burnable materials just in case...it was kinda scary.
Thanks Steve
Peace & FPS from Algeria 😅
you guys should've bought the GPD WIN mini as oppossed to the AYANEO devices
14:52 investor moment
Another thing about cases is GPU size. if they release a case where the new BRICKS do not fit then the case sales will tank.
Curious how many hours you have in your benchmark games after what you said about furmark :P
Is the CableMod recall necessarily fixed to your standard, if it is mandatory to have a PayPal account?
Whoop Friday!
Agreed!
Not if you live above UTC-1
Work tomorrow!
@@GamersNexus Are you drunk? I think so. I'm drunk too.
It’s incredible how cheap the new arctic liquid iii is compared to the market for the performance you get along with it. Got the non LED 360mm for ~$60 with CC rewards and I’m giddy to put it to work!
9:55 lol
More handheld testing!!!
i thought tropic haze is some sort of mj strain
Are you sure the driver update isnt just for intel core ultra igpu?, cause it seems it is
In Europe (mindfactory), you can get the 7700XT for 409 euros right now. Seems like an ok deal to me, or have I just forgotten how much better the prices were before crypto and AI?
My dad has one of those Toshiba laptops, so that was helpful news
The thumbnails only get better
when I was in college, I had a Toshiba laptop and I had a power brick melt, I thought it was just because I was chucking it in and out of my bag that I damaged it. I bought another one from Toshiba and that one started popping breaker if I tried playing games on my laptop.... so I bought a cheap one from Amazon.... I still have the laptop and power brick...
I don't know if I had one of the fire hazard ones but I did think it was weird...
This is also why I have had big concerns about big companies buying out studios because they don't care about them beyond the $$$ signs
In this week's news: People are reminded once again, that businesses are businesses, and will happily screw over anyone if it benefits their bottom line and stakeholders.
In other news, Steve is as magnificent as ever. Thank you Steve
Seeing some buzz about Helldivers 2's anticheat causing BSODs, hardware damage, and more reports of it happening than just totally isolated little random crazies and unlucky coincidences. Might be worth looking into.
Some of it as killing SSDs, anticheat turning off cooling control software and seemingly every other innocuous software under the sun (even MSI Afterburner). Steam forums has a lot of useful discussion. 18,000 'helpful' votes on a negative steam review mentioning nProtect, so there is some solid awareness of it simmering away. There's even been a push of some people installing Linux instead to protect their computers.
Not really related to any of these stories, but I'd be really curious to see you guys test Windows vs Linux gaming now that Steam Proton has come such a long way. In my very limited experience, DX12 games take a slight hit to performance from playing on Linux but Vulkan games are basically neck and neck. I know it's sort of a detour from the internal methods and processes you guys are continually working on, but it seems like a really cool one-off test to do.
FurMark on Linux? Cool
I'll probably get one of those shirts and hoodies sooner or later to help the cause and the respectable and entertaining tech jesus.
I like how they don't mention that Yuzu had to have a hacked version written by a non-employee to run TOTK, while Ryujinx who isn't being sued could run TOTK out of the box with no hack.
Id like to see how the open-source MESA drivers fare for the intel ARC cards. It would make a nice upgrade from my RX580. Any chance you guys could test that out? Linux users may only be 4% of users, but we are here!
judging by phoronix benchmarks they're still a mixed bag when it comes to vulkan performance as of now
@@olnnn Thank you for the information sir
@dreaper5813 My 580 could stick around for a bit still, but it cant handle my modded skyrim at its maxed out shadow quality. I was interested in getting something with AI upscaling, and since the A750 has this alongside a ~80% general performance increase for a decent price, I figured it would be a nice next step. Plus, intel seems to really care about making ARC competitive, and also open-sourced their shit so I would like to support ARC. I'm not too scared of dealing with issues if they arise.
@dreaper5813 I agree, I was running an HD 7950 for several years and only upgraded cause 3GB was rearing its head. I got my 580 8GB for $50. If I got an ARC card it would be something I would hang onto for a long time, assuming the VRAM kept up.
14:50 Could not agree more, why would anyone employee show loyalty these days to a company. They will never show any to you!
Too Fast Too FURious :)) Brilliant Steve I have to use it from now on foe my Kitties :))