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![]() ![]() For more on 3D Vision Surround, I recommend reading this blog post from NVIDIA’s Bryan Del Rizzo. To enable 3D Vision Surround, 2 GTX 400 Series GPUs with SLI and 3D Vision capable displays and glasses are required. With 3D Vision Surround, you can do full HD gaming in 3D across 3 HD monitors at 5760×1080 resolution! 3D Vision Surround also supports gaming across non-3D capable displays as well. The GeForce GTX 400 Series GPUs bring to market NVIDIA’s new 3D Vision Surround Technology. With the GTX 480 and GTX 470, NVIDIA’s goal was to provide cinema quality visuals and to enable game developers and software developers the ability to create cinema quality visuals for their products. Through SLI, two GTX 480s together offer up a 90% performance increase in scaling if you want even more powerful graphics for your PC. A realistic render of water with one of these GPUs renders up to 1.6 billion triangles a second! See this post from NVIDIA on some impressive DirectX 11 demos. Tessellation offers the ability to create rich detail in through either games or software applications with geometric realism – it’s better at doing geometric processing. With DirectX 11, the GTX 480 and GTX 470 can offer some impressive effects through scalable hardware tessellation. The new features and capabilities of the GTX 480 and GTX 470 are exposed especially in Windows 7 where NVIDIA has taken advantage of the enhancements Windows 7 offers users today – such as DirectX 11. ![]() Previously known simply by the codename “GF100”, the GTX 480 and GTX 470 are the first of NVIDIA’s next-generation GeForce GPUs and based on NVIDIA’s new Fermi architecture. And if NVIDIA were bakers, and these GPUs were cupcakes – these new GPUs we’re talking about today would be some very delicious cupcakes. They have put a lot of investment in the new architecture present in these new GPUs. 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Miscellaneous Sometimes there are extraordinary actions / items that you can bring to the table to gain an edge in the (energy) fighting, that are not classified by the parameters above. You can jettison your fuel tanks or weapons to shed weight, but be mindful of the fact you may need them later. Weight Typically weight is one of the most influential factors on the energy state, as altering the weight also has an effect on other factors (ie thrust to weight ratio). You could use that fuel to obtain extra speed ( light those afterburners!) during a fight though. A lot of fuel will however equate to a lot of extra weight on the aircraft, so you are either not going to turn as quickly or lose a lot of speed (energy) whilst making that turn. Fuel An aircraft needs fuel to fly, so you might be keen to take as much of it as possible. Typically drag is encountered due to the stores carried on the aircraft or things such as flaps, air brakes being deployed, as aircraft designers make their aircraft as aerodynamic (almost no drag) as possible. Drag The amount of drag is how much air resistance an aircraft encounters (similar to sticking your hand outside the window of a moving car). This is because you are often trading in velocity for altitude and vice versa. Altitude Altitude can be easily overlooked as a given thing, but it is in actuality one of the factors you will largely be manipulating (subconsciously) during aerial combat. Be wary that drag and weight are detrimental to speed, as they severely restrict your ability to obtain or maintain speed. Speed / velocity Perhaps the most basic of all energy factors, the amount of speed (velocity) an aircraft has is manipulated by the amount of thrust put out, or the amount of altitude traded in. However, energy is also influenced by the state of many smaller factors:ġ. Primarily the amount of energy or energy state is dependent on how you chose to fly your aircraft: if you make a hard 9G turn you will bleed a lot of energy, versus a 3G turn that keeps you in a pure pursuit that will only lose you a small amount of energy. ![]() Perhaps the most important factor in every aspect of fighting against other aircraft (and even against ground based threats) is the notion of energy (fighting): the state of energy of a given aircraft can often make or break an engagement.Įnergy is the sum total amount of power you can express at a given time (and you ideally want as much as possible at any time). ![]() ![]() ![]() The compensation we receive from advertisers does not influence the recommendations or advice our editorial team provides in our articles or otherwise impact any of the editorial content on Forbes Advisor. ![]() Second, we also include links to advertisers’ offers in some of our articles these “affiliate links” may generate income for our site when you click on them. This site does not include all companies or products available within the market. The compensation we receive for those placements affects how and where advertisers’ offers appear on the site. First, we provide paid placements to advertisers to present their offers. ![]() This compensation comes from two main sources. To help support our reporting work, and to continue our ability to provide this content for free to our readers, we receive compensation from the companies that advertise on the Forbes Advisor site. The Forbes Advisor editorial team is independent and objective. Learn more about how FreshBooks and NeatBooks stack up against Quicken in our reviews. Along with NeatBooks, it also comes with a customer-facing portal that lends an air of credibility to your company-and makes it easier for customers to pay bills or place an order. What sets FreshBooks apart is its ability to track time, which is crucial if you’re a service-based business that charges by the hour. For what NeatBooks charges, it doesn’t offer many expanded features except unlimited cloud document storage, which could be a plus if you deal with many receipts. Quicken falls in the middle when it comes to pricing compared to NeatBooks and FreshBooks, which charge $24 per month and $4 per month (after four months at $2.50), respectively. $5 per month ($2.50 per month for the first four months) This package also has robust tax planning features that can help you with Schedules A, B, C and E. The Home & Business package also includes some interesting business and rental property features, which make it easy to invest in properties and track tenants. If you like the sound of paying all of your bills in one place, you can upgrade for $9.95 a month with one of the other two packages. This connects you to more than 11,500 digital network billers, helping you save time and hassle. Quicken Home & Business: $107.88 for the first year, then $119.88 afterwardīill tracking is included in all packages, but you’ll just have access to bill pay in the Premier and Business & Home packages.Quicken Premier: $71.88 for the first year, then $83.88 afterward.Quicken Deluxe: $44.88 for the first year, then $59.88 afterward.Here’s how the fees for Quicken break down, including the 10% discount on some packages for the first year: Unlike some other accounting software, you pay for Quicken on an annual basis. Most of the others focus solely on personal finances. While Quicken offers four different subscription packages for users, the Home & Business package is likely to be the one most relevant for entrepreneurs. These features can help keep your cash flow organized so you can see where your money is going. It also lets you split receipts across multiple spending categories-so if you did some personal and business shopping on the same trip, you can separate these expenses easily. It’s easy to generate all kinds of reports about your business, from banking to spending to net worth. ![]() ![]() ![]() There is usually never one right answer, but multiple possibilities for success. But it’s forgiving, with plenty of checkpoints and multiple paths through many of the arenas in the demo. Ghostrunner is a slick and brutal game, that relies on lighting fast combat, quick thinking, and reflexes quicker than a bullet. The world is compelling and eye melting at times, with Ray Tracing support being boosted for launch, which makes it even better! Plus, there is a the Cyberspace, a virtual world where the environment becomes even more outlandish and lavish as the Ghostrunner will have to traverse it in order to proceed forward or obtain news gear/skills. While the world does feel as though it’s decaying, there are beautiful neon lights, brightly coloured industrial areas and rain soaked city streets hundreds, even thousands of feet above ground the distract you. It has that hand-made feel were various structures have been wielded together and massive components seems to defy the laws of physics. Ghostrunner manages to do a pretty great job at creating a vastly beautiful yet degraded world, that feels like it mashed up of millions of recycled components and it’s hanging on by a thread. So, you would think there would have to be something new to make this standout. Now Cyberpunk games are ramming the scene at full force, but we’ve seen plenty of Cyberpunk stuff before since the 1930s. Plus, there are plenty of foes who want you dead. These skills will come in handy as the Dharma Tower is a complex and unforgiving beast to climb. ![]() There is plenty given to you from the get-go, including a leash that allows you to grab hard to reach places. ![]() The liberal traversal system will allow you to run along walls, make gravity defining jumps, slide your way through tight spots and even dash your way across massive gaps or out of the line of fire. Thankfully One More Level have done a great job at making sure the pacingĪs the Ghostrunner you will have a few skills and bits of equipment to help you out. It all depends on the skill of the developer and the balancing of various elements. The concept of “One hit and your dead” in a video game sounds completely mad or absolutely genius. Get hit once and that’s it, game over! Players will have to make sure that every move and swing of the blade counts otherwise it’s going to be a short adventure. So what makes Ghostrunner such a brutal game, giving it the honour of being called “Hardcore” by its developers and early players is the one hit kill feature. See the world of Ghostrunner is a ruthless one, with even one hit taking down the mightiest warriors who dare face against the system. Players will take on the role of the Ghostrunner, a masked warrior who has incredible skills allowing them to run along walls, make epic jumps and slice and dice anyone in their path to little chunks. The goal is to climb a mighty megastructure known as the Dharma Tower, humanity’s last shelter, and carry out your revenge against the “Keymaster”. Ghostrunner is a First-Person Cyberpunk themed slack that infuses parkour gameplay with intense and brutal melee combat. Ghostrunner hits the gaming scene within a couple of weeks and we have our thoughts and impressions from the Demo that is live on Steam right now Games such as Ruiner and Blade Runner are worth checking out, but there’s one game which has our attention. With the upcoming release of Cyberpunk 2077, now is a great time to play other titles that delve into the subgenre that has become immensely popular. Cyberpunk themed games are all the rage now. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, there is a caveat to using this feature: you'll have to enable anti-aliasing for it to work. This setting allows you to set the target frame rates you want to achieve and the game delivers it by dynamically scaling the render resolution. Vulkan has introduced a feature called Dynamic Render Scaling to Rainbow Six Siege. However, you can still make your performance smoother with a cool new feature now added to your graphics settings. Choose Vulkan and launch the game.įrom the get to go, you'll experience smoother performance in general when playing Siege with Vulkan support. When launching the game, Steam will ask whether you want to launch the game with or without Vulkan support. You can do so by going to your Steam library and launching Rainbow Six Siege from there. I am not going to bore you with charts and benchmarks and will instead focus on a new feature added to Rainbow Six Siege that lets you decide how much performance you need at the cost of image quality.īefore you begin testing your system on Vulkan, you must first ensure whether you are launching the game on the DirectX 11 or Vulkan API. Recently, Rainbow Six Siege rolled out a Vulkan API update on PC and I took the time to test if the performance is any better in comparison to the game running on DirectX 11. Popular games like Doom 2016, Wolfenstein Youngblood, and Rage 2, among others benefit dramatically from Vulkan API. DirectX 11 (D3D11) gaming benchmark looks at the FPS of. However, games that are running on the newer Vulkan API perform far better than those running on the DirectX API. DirectX 11 Benchmark 150,081 views 659 Dislike Share Save Gamers Nexus 1.65M subscribers This initial Vulkan vs. ![]() Although it is possible to develop marvelous games on DirectX, it also comes with a drawback - degraded performance. Vulkan has a Lower level of API with respect to DirectX 11 and it renders2D graphics with high quality of result because it distributes work in a better way. ![]() Then click on the gear icon choose your preferred engine in the Larian launcher.Even though DirectX has already been around for a decade, developers are still relying on it to develop 'groundbreaking' games. In order to change game engine, you must quit your game first. It must be remembered that you can’t switch between Vulkan and DirectX 11 in-game. We should thank Larian Studios for letting us choose Vulkan or DirectX when launching BG3. But if your PC is old and you are having problems with it, Dx11 is your lifesaver.īaldur’s Gate 3 DirectX 11 – Old but stable technology.īaldur’s Gate 3 Vulkan – Latest OpenGL technology. Simply because new innovative technology. You must update your graphic card drivers and Windows to make things easier.īG3 Vulkan vs Dx11: Winner is Vulkan. Especially anything below 16GB ram can and will have performans issues with Vulkan.īut I wouldn’t put all blame to it either. Unfortunately, some PC rigs are having problems with Vulkan engine. Otherwise stick to the Vulkan because it is the best BG3 renderer. Nije veliki potroa, ne zahteva dodatno napajanje. Grafika je testirana u programima Furmark i Heaven Unigine (slike). Od izlaza ima 2x DispalyPort i jedan DVI, svi ispravni. Montira se u PCIe slot, a podrava DirectX 11. All in all, if you experience multiple crashes during gameplay, switch to DX11. Na prodaju odlina grafika karta ATI Radeon FirePro V4800, koja ima 1Gb DDR5 grafike memorije i magistralu 128 bita. ![]() ![]() Developer Only By Midnight picks up the arcade shoot 'em up tradition with Curved Space, a space shooter that warps the playfield into various geometric shapes. I'm torn because I absolutely appreciate the ideas Curved Space brings to the table, but at the same time not everything works in harmony so it's a toss-up in terms of a recommendation and likely only for hard core shooting fans eager to cut their teeth on something different. Curved Space is a novel shoot 'em up that pushes the genre forward with lots of weapons, interesting story twists, and bombastic arcade gameplay. The play field designs can get pretty funky at times, and aside from there being some frustration in tracking down enemies on these irregular shapes I actually got a bit of motion sickness at times (something that never happens to me with games) on certain edges where everything would shift very quickly. ![]() The result is absolutely a challenge and experience you've never had before, but whether or not it will be appreciated will be another matter. and HERCULES) Tom Berdinski (USA - Writer/director - ITALIAN ZOMBIE MOVIE. Curved Space essentially asks the question of "What would it be like to play a twin-stick shooter on a donut or other irregular 3-Dimensional object?" at its core and then throws in a few additional ideas like an energy lash for good measure. CURVED SPACE - THE ADVENTURES OF STELLA STAR heralds the return of famed cult. but different can often come with a cost. but Taking familiar gameplay and changing things up to take some risks has always been a core component of my love for indie titles. ![]() Taking familiar gameplay and changing things up to take some risks has always been a core component of my love for indie titles. ![]() ![]() While there may be other API's, this one is designed to be fairly easy to set up, and easy to deploy. So, the TL/DR version is - I started writing a web application that will handle IFTTT inputs from Google Assistant (and maybe Amazon) and then do stuff on Plex. So I see that different client IDs are reporting different progresses. This runs through a cycle of 4 different client IDs, with the client ID repeating itself every 10 seconds.ġ6:06:31.022 DEBUG - Client reporting timeline state stopped, progress of 157708/4091576ms for guid=, ratingKey=4084 url=, key=/library/metadata/4084, containerKey=, metadataId=4084 Statistics: (YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY) Reporting active playback in state 3 of type 1 (scrobble: 0) for account 1ġ6:00:44.228 DEBUG - Request: GET /:/timeline?hasMDE=1&ratingKey=3332&key=%2Flibrary%2Fmetadata%2F3332&state=stopped&playQueueItemID=717&time=3927189&duration=3927257 (13 live) TLS GZIP Signed-in To16:00:44.229 DEBUG - Client reporting timeline state stopped, progress of 3927189/3927257ms for guid=, ratingKey=3332 url=, key=/library/metadata/3332, containerKey=, metadataId=3332 In the "Plex Media Server.log", I see a flood of commands when PMP is open. ![]() This happens repeatedly when PMP is open, and appears to go away when it is closed.Īt one point, I had one video that would keep alternating between "7 minutes left" and "42 minutes" left on the "Continue Watching" screen on PMP, without me doing anything. But then when I click somewhere else and return with the Home button, then the partially-watched file returns to my "Continue Watching" screen. I right-click on it and select "Mark Watched", and it is removed from the "Continue Watching" screen. It then shows up in my "Continue Watching" screen. I started watching a show and then stopped it. I cannot consistently get the watched status to remain current. Improved Start/Stop control in QTS App Center.I am using new Plex user, with PMS on a Shield and am watching via PMP on Windows. Allow PMS to automatically accommodate configuration changes. (Transcoder) Update to newer upstream ffmpeg. (Transcoder) Support for hardware transcoding on Intel Xe/Gen12 (TGL, RKL) GPUs. (Transcoder) Support for hardware transcoding of H.264 Constrained Baseline media. (Transcoder) Architectural changes to provide improved support for remuxing some HDR formats. (Transcoder) Architectural changes to provide future support for hardware transcoding on additional NAS devices. (Stream Metadata) Provide additional detail in display titles for HDR streams. (Collections) Promoted smart collection filtering based on selected user. (Security) When possible, request logs now include the name of the device associated with the auth token. (Security) Preroll video files now must have a recognized video file extension. (Security) Downgrading the server’s log level now requires a PMS restart. (Security) Certain critical server-management requests are now logged regardless of the configured log level. (Music) Modernized the metadata matching and refresh logic. (Database) Improved startup performance by up to 70% when several migrations are run in sequence. (Database) Improve access performance substantially. Migrations are now over 35% faster in some cases.
![]() ![]() As you look down one end of the tracks, you can see the singular headlight of the approaching train steam locomotives can have their headlight on the smokebox door or up near the funnel. Along with astronomy, George had a great fascination for trains, and once, he likened the stars of winter to watching a passing train at a railroad crossing. The end of the lineĪ good friend of mine was the late George Lovi, who wrote the "Rambling through the Sky" column for Sky & Telescope magazine for more than two decades up until his untimely death in 1993. Dimly visible to the eye under favorable conditions, a good telescope shows it as a striking pattern of stars forming curves and festoons. The best meteor display of the year - the Geminids - appear to radiate from this part of the sky in mid-December and finally, Gemini is home to M35, considered to be one of the most beautiful star clusters. Not far from Eta, Sir William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus - and in 1930, right next to the star Delta Geminorum, a tiny speck of light was identified as Pluto (once the ninth planet, now classified as a dwarf planet). Up until 1988, the summer solstice occurred within Gemini's boundaries when the sun passed near the star Eta Geminorum on June 21 (the solstice point has since shifted west into the constellation of Taurus). Since the ecliptic crosses its boundaries, the sun, moon and planets can cross through Gemini. Some consider Gemini to be the "Times Square of the sky," because it seems to entertain all sorts of interesting events. Two couples (representing Castor A and B) move around each other a few feet apart, while the third pair (representing C) dances in a far corner of the room and very, very slowly circles the first two couples. ![]() To help visualize this remarkable sextuplet stellar family, picture three waltzing couples on a giant ballroom floor. Finally, well off to the south of the main pair is Castor C, a pair of dim red stars. ![]() Furthermore, both A and B are themselves doubles, though much too close to be separated optically. ![]() In a telescope we can see two, Castor A and B. In fact, the point of light we see with the unaided eye as a single star, is in reality six stars. Originally designated as "Pollux b," the International Astronomical Union has formally christened this planet "Thestias."Ĭastor, which is farther than Pollux at 51 light-years away, has some interesting credentials as well. It is a giant world, calculated to have a mass that is 2.3 times that of Jupiter and orbits Pollux with a period of 590 days. In 1993, it was suspected that a planet was revolving around Pollux - that supposed planet was confirmed in 2006. It is estimated to be nine times bigger than our sun and is about twice as massive. Pollux is approximately 34 light-years away. Pollux now appears about twice as bright as Castor and is also listed as one of the 57 navigational stars. If true, either Pollux has grown brighter or Castor had faded, for there is a noticeable difference between them now. Some historical evidence suggests that when they were first chosen to represent the Twins, Pollux and Castor actually appeared to be twin stars of equal brightness. He also lived in New York and I often wondered if he ever tried to meet Neely in person just to set him straight. Rey's book became quite popular after its 1952 debut. Rey turns Gemini into a plausible outline: two matchstick men holding hands - the Twins. In his classic book, "The Stars – A New Way to see them" (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1952), H.A. "But," he would continue, "it is hopeless for us to try and duplicate this feat of imagery."Īnd yet, it’s not as hopeless as Neely would have liked us to think. "Somehow or other," Neely would tell his audience, "The ancient stargazers managed to find in these stars the outlines of two heroes standing close together." Connecting these three stars, Neely would make reference to the "Wedge of Gemini," a far easier pattern for stargazers of today to find. At New York's Hayden Planetarium, there was a very popular lecturer in the 1940s and '50s named Henry Neely who would point to Pollux and Castor and then down to a third bright star named Alhena, which marks one of Gemini's feet. They are just 5 degrees apart, making for a very good celestial yardstick in the sky. Its brightest stars, Pollux (yellow-orange) and Castor (bluish-white) mark the heads of the Twins. On moonless nights or in those places free of significant light pollution, stargazers can locate Gemini's feet in the Milky Way. ![]() |