At the time, it was being developed for consoles; the developers stated that the game was being developed on PC hardware and being scaled down for consoles. finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/…
> The original Final Fantasy XV runs on a high-spec PC, and how close a console gets to the original depends on its specs. The idea is to keep the options open in case a console comes out in the future that can recreate the original. [...] Nomura even mentioned the possibility of bringing Final Fantasy XV out on high-end PCs if there was ever enough demand.
Here's the key part that led to my assertion almost five years ago:
> having a seamless world and simultaneously having all required actions always available in the memory; world map sized maps that can have elements change and be destroyed during battles, the myriad of weapons, party members' individual actions, magic spells, monsters on a large map, light sourcing, physics, filters and other graphical elements
Back then, I never thought I would ever own a PC capable of handling FFXV, if and when it would come out for PC.
Well, today... I actually have my dream PC and it's specced to meet the highest system requirements.
FWIW the Windows Edition is NVIDIA GameWorks-based, and is meant to be the definitive FFXV experience.
The storage requirement (originally 170 GB) resulted in the 1 TB Samsung SSD 960 PRO being specified instead of the 512 GB originally planned, and the insane graphical requirements resulting in my selecting the GTX 1080 Ti instead of the plain GTX 1080.
Hajime Tabata said that even the GTX 1080 Ti couldn't run the game at 60 fps in 4K, and that SLI was not an option: tweaktown.com/news/58903/…
@bwDraco ehhhhhhh it's certainly not going to be loading the vast majority of that data all the time, and (judging by certain other games) there's a good chance the majority won't ever be loaded. Sooo... yea. Cached HDD.
I'd take an SSD that's "only" 5x-10x faster than an HDD (in terms of IOPS) but has 8 TB capacity, over an SSD that's ridiculously faster than I'd ever need but only goes up to 512 GB
What's the cost per GB you're aiming for?
There already are 4 TB SSDs on the market using 3D TLC NAND.
1 TB and 2 TB SSDs have gotten more affordable than before in spite of the NAND shortage.
I assume you're using it for an application that is read-mostly, so endurance is not a problem as long as it holds onto its data over several years of operation.
@bwDraco near what HDDs are -- I'd go more expensive, but not as much as most SSDs go for, especially at the highest capacity currently available
a 1 TB SSD like the MX 300 is perfectly reasonable per gig, but the 4 TB 850 Evo is overpriced IMO
application is mainly either video editing and storage (mostly storage), or Steam games, which have periodic re-writes with patches, but most of the data is probably write-once read-many
I need the IOPS and throughput to be at least pretty close to an 850 Evo SATA + the price per GB of a high-end HDD (yanno, the $500 ones that are really high quality / high capacity, not the cheapo $50 HDDs)
@bwDraco not quite dense enough; I'd need too many, and my Micro ATX case doesn't have space for more than 6 of 'em
if the price scaled linearly for the Crucial MX300 or MX500 up to 4 TB, it would be great, but (1) they don't offer 4 TB drives and (2) if they did, they'd probably price near the 4 TB 850 Evo, which is too much
Our family has a history of doing incremental upgrades. The first graphics card I recall working with is a RIVA TNT2. Father's old desktop had an 8600 GT installed aftermarket, which was later replaced by a GT 640 (which is still in service).
@allquixotic I think only my last two PCs were self funded, the one before this was shared, then the dell, then I built this cause I wanted a good gaming PC no one would kick me off of
My first system was an eMachines desktop. About two or so years later (don't recall exactly), I got an HP Pavilion dv6z-3000 (custom-built, quad-core AMD K10). That system is now referred to as the Wyvern.
"erm, dad, this thing has a... pretty low res screen, and a decade old processor, and there's absolutely no way it'll run a 4k video. It'll be faster to just get a smaller version"
@D.Hutchinson I have an Alienware R13 R3 and a Macbook Pro, and have used quite a lot of laptop keyboards in my time -- you can type loudly on a MBP too if you try
actually the really quiet keyboard I'm using right now that makes almost no noise is on the Alienware -- if that's something you care about -- and the fan isn't loud even when gaming on the GTX 1060
~4 years later, it was replaced with a much beefier gaming laptop, the Dragon, a Clevo P157SM. It ran then-current games with little trouble, but had constant thermal issues, ran extremely loud (well over 50 dBA), and was a pain in the butt to carry. I later managed to break the CPU heatsink on it and the network adapter is starting to fail.
@D.Hutchinson my MBP's keyboard is waaaaay louder and clickier than this Alienware keyboard, which AFAIK is a fairly standard Dell switch keyboard, very rubbery, kinda rugged, decent build quality, decent key size and travel
though choosing a Macbook or a Windows laptop should be more about what you intend to do with the device than the noise you make, as long as you don't get Cherry MX Blue mechanical switches or something
I'm kinda tempted to get some sort of ultrathin system myself, but I'm not sure I really want to when I just got a cheapie Lenovo only a few months ago...
@D.Hutchinson as far as hardware quality and value for your money and support, I'd say overall Dell/Alienware is okay; certainly most of the heat concerns people seem to have had with Alienwares in the past (like the laptop chassis melting) don't seem to affect me.
But YMMV and perhaps Asus is better at some things. But if keyboard clickiness is your main concern this is a great non-clicky keyboard
@Bob They get noisy if you bottom out. Some keyboards are better than others; for example, my Corsair K95 RGB Platinum is quieter than my old ROCCAT Ryos MK FX. Both keyboards use Cherry MX Brown switches.
@allquixotic I see - yes, a quiet keyboard, with good key size and spacing is pretty important to me. Hmm ... but with my MBP, now about 5 years old (though I've switched the harddrive and added some RAM), I don't ever have to worry about viruses or do disk cleanup or ... defrag ... with an Alienware, I'm guessing I would have to, periodically?
@D.Hutchinson 1. Macs aren't immune to viruses (you can't fix stupid); (2) disk cleanup is something you always have to do unless you have absolutely hideous amounts of disk space, on all computers, as a matter of clearing out old junk that's been sitting aroudn taking up space
you have to maintain your Windows PC just like you have to maintain your Mac, but the way you maintain a Windows PC is different... whereas in Mac you check for updates in the App Store, on Windows you use each program's unique updater tool to check for updates, and Windows Update on top of that
but maintenance tasks aren't burdensome if you keep a clean system
don't download malware, spyware, or crapware, and uninstall stuff you don't need once you're done with it
don't be gullible to phishing, spear phishing or telemarketers
don't click on downloads in email attachments from people you don't know
SSDs are fast enough nowadays that a virus scanner's performance impact is basically invisible, so don't be afraid of the overhead... at the same time, for a laptop you should plan to use less storage than you would on a desktop, but you should definitely make sure your laptop at least has a system boot drive that's an SSD, at minimum, if not 100% SSD storage for the whole laptop
there are justifications for going with an SSD plus one or more HDDs on laptops if you need tons of storage, but having a 5 year old Mac I'm betting that's not the case
basically the only reason I bought a Macbook Pro is because the touchpad is so good (it was better than I even thought it would be before I got it) and because of iMessage client... and because it's extremely light and portable (I have the 13")
@bwDraco having tried them in-store recently, I'd say the surface book (touchpad) is about on par with the immediately previous gen macbook and one of the new lenovo yogas is better. the most current gen macbook wins if only because of sheer touchpad size. however, the windows laptops have touchscreens, soooo
@allquixotic I just wish more PC manufacturers (who are not Microsoft, the Surface family is fantastic) paid more attention to hardware quality and UX.
dell's enterprise gear has been pretty damned solid everywhere I have seen em. their monitors are kinda my "eh, I actually do have money" preference ;p
Is there any way to make a simple LAN port tester that can plug into an ethernet port and check for connectivity. I dont want to use the cable testers as it require both ends of a cable to be plugged in. I just want to test signal to a port.
I hope your real motivation in asking this question is to produce a competing system. Because ScholarOne is horrible and needs to die. — Konrad RudolphJan 10 at 14:25
Back on the topic of laptops... my HP IIRC had its display assembly (bright spots), keyboard (random typing), and trackpad (double-clicking) all replaced twice, as well as a motherboard replacement (damaged Ethernet port), USB port replacement (loose connectors), and even an optical drive replacement (ejecting by itself).
The motherboard and display frame replacement (not the same as the display itself) were out of warranty (~$300) because those were my fault, but everything else was under warranty.
@Bob Faulty eject button. That was the only warranty part replacement which did not require sending back the whole system (was sent a replacement optical drive and had to send the old one back)
@Bob We had a major ISP in the UK supply a bundled 5v router with a standard 5.2/2.8mm or so power jack (i.e. Same dimensions as commonly used on 12v jacks) and had so many people accidentally plug in 12v adapters they first added warning labels then later made the manufacturer design a new revision with a 5.2/2.2mm jack so people couldn't physically fit common 12v plugs in anymore.
sorry, stepped away for a bit, @allquixotic @MichaelFrank
@allquixotic hmm ... what if I browse some "questionable" sites every once in awhile? I feel ... protected ... with a MBP ... whereas with a Dell, I feel it's going to die ...
Ultimately most ICs run on 3.3v or less so any 5v, 9v, 12v or whatever router is going to run the input through a step down of some sort regardless, often a switchmode regulator which can inherently tolerate a wide range of voltages
I used to deliver 12v PoE over long runs of crappy Ebay Ethernet cable to all my routers including 5v ones on the roof, some of which would just work as is while others needed a DC-DC converter, but ultimately was always more reliable than running 5v over long lengths of cheap, thin wiring.
Sometimes running a pair of 12v routers over it would drop the voltage to 7v or so due to wiring resistance but they'd still run fine.
So I'm not at all surprised a 9v router would work off a 5v adapter, intentionally or otherwise
@JourneymanGeek I built one of those myself a while back - needed to test a router in portable mode and run diagnostics off my laptop so I just hacked a connector to run it off my laptop's USB port :-D
Also used it later when I needed a high powered router in client mode with external antennas and my laptops built in wireless wouldn't cut it
Doesn't beat that time I had a 12v router and wired it up to a 11.2v laptop battery using sewing needles though.
This is the screen that set off the ballistic missile alert on Saturday. The operator clicked the PACOM (CDW) State Only link. The drill link is the one that was supposed to be clicked. #Hawaii
is there any danger to buying and using off-brand power adapters for my Macbook Pro? I'm using an Apple brand one now, but sometime last year, I bought one from an non-Apple dealer - the adapter seemed to get extremely hot ...
felt like touching a hot stove ...
I stopped using it since then ...
it looked just like any white Apple brand power adapters ... but it isn't from Apple ...
@D.Hutchinson Probably an overrated and very cheap design. It may very well catch fire if the computer is under load with a less than fully charged battery.
If it's getting this hot, chances are good it's operating beyond its actual capacity and it may not even have OCP, SCP, or OTP.
Not to mention that the power quality is probably exceedingly poor.
If we had an EE expert able to dismantle and analyze it, you could sent it to him/her...
brb, shower.
In short, it's actively dangerous to even plug it in.
@MichaelFrank you set a password. it doesn't work on a different interface. you want to test that the password was actually set correctly.
apparently the "correct" way to do that is to pull the corresponding line out of /etc/passwd and use openssl to manually verify a password against the hash
I've run into a controversy that I didn't think existed. But apparently does.
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So, thinking about computers, which one of these do you think is right: "Production line" or "manufacturing line"? Also, I did Google, and so did many others. I just want to know your personal opinion.
welp. A big project idea just came up. I was thinking about getting a whiteboard for writing an agenda to keep myself organized and motivated, in an effort to combat my lack of motivation and self-discipline. Now I'm thinking about some sort of digital display solution, which led me to think, "wait, RPi would be ideal for this!"
Is there any way to make a simple LAN port tester that can plug into an ethernet port and check for connectivity. I dont want to use the cable testers as it require both ends of a cable to be plugged in. I just want to test signal to a port.
