You should use the FullScene AntiAliasing filter from the game. And you should also use the AntiAlias Transparency from the nVidia control panel. Set both to the same strength (4x in my case -- You go to 8x if you can handle it, why not?) There is no FullScene Antialiasing option available for Skyr...

OK, you got me curious. :D I've tried some of these -- in particular, in the game I turned off antialiasing, and in the nVidia Control Panel I'm using Anisotropic filtering = 16x, Antialiasing-FXAA = On, and Antialiasing-Transparency = 8x (supersample) -- and I think I'm seeing a visible improvement...

And here is the new trailer:



Tal, I promise I won't think less of you or anyone else who holds off on this until after the reviews go up.

Underworld Ascendant is set for public release on November 15, 2018, for PC, and in 2019 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Switch. (Mac and Linux releases are also being worked on -- no date announced for them, but I'd guess early 2019.) Here's a peek at the trailer from August 20: lOBK9_7eAJA The te...

Sure, the idea of inventing numbers to represent a ratio of relative quantities, and that a few of those relative quantities might be dimensionless, isn't completely whack. Just a bit interesting. On the other hand, this article on the " fine structure constant " of the universe having a dimensionle...

Solid info -- thank you both! Their climate messaging was undercut a bit by the fact that the super not-environmentally-friendly dudes ended up with the best environmental control hardware, while the climate-friendly hippy faction, while producing less pollution, was also pretty terrible at managing...

"union members" for testing? Like, QA workers of the world, unite? Or more like organized labor getting to approve/disapprove of how economics is simulated in the game? At any rate, I've heard interesting things about the Anno series, though it seems to be more popular in Europe than the U.S. (That'...

Not to dismiss your other objections, Ringu, but I think this one is the key: you mention that two projects would divide programmer talent. Well, it doesn't work like that. It's like saying that there shouldn't be so many open source projects, because they all divide the programmer community among t...

Interesting responses. Some quick (so maybe not perfectly worded) reactions: 1. You say "collective ownership," I see "tragedy of the commons." Unclear ownership -- and that's what diffuse ownership would be -- leads to poor use of resources because no one feels the responsibility to shepherd those ...

CD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk 2077 . BethSoft's Starfield . OtherSide's System Shock 3 . I am looking forward to these SO much right now. Each of them seems like it will showcase the state of the art in what PC games could have become if consoles hadn't taken over around A.D. 2000. And also notice that...

pwaffle2, thank you for taking the time to add your comments. I want to say some things about how Josh inspired people, but maybe it's still a little too soon for that. On a more practical note, I can endorse nearly every single one of your suggestions. (Other than GPL. :lol: ) In particular, the si...

From what I've read, relativity (in the general sense, not the Einsteinian sense) does seem to be the key to a particular class of dimensionlessness values. But apparently there are also some dimensionless numbers that really do describe fundamental quantities of the physical universe. Reality is we...

Maybe a good way to say it is that a reasonable goal is "global price stability." That is, it's OK if there's some local variation in price stability, as long as for (roughly) every inflation there's a deflation, and for every rare hyperinflation there's an equally rare place where overproduction is...

One of the most bizarre real-world things I ever saw was in my Fluid Dynamics class for Chemical Engineering, and the name of this freak of nature is the Reynolds number. For those who haven't heard of this value, it's a quantity that describes when the flow of a stream changes from laminar to turbu...

With respect to star systems, I believe the magic word wasn't "procedural" -- as Damocles points out, that already has to be in the game. The magic word was "infinite." That had two major implications, one positive, one negative. The positive effect of spawning new star systems forever was that the ...