Mudface

What happened there?

It is a bit. I'll have a look at the games I've got installed and see if any of them have benchmarks- from memory, Thief and some of the Total War games do, but I've uninstalled them. Doom 2016 might have one though. Edit- it doesn't, that's a bit shit.

Shouldn't do, you're running at 1080P resolution, so you've got the same amount of pixels to push around.

Not sure then. To be honest, if you're getting decent results in actual games, then you can just ignore a synthetic benchmark.

Pretty much the same as before. Strange, you should be getting 20 percent more performance than me with your system. Are your nVidia drivers up to date?

I don't get this one.

Gotta get those social media likes.

I re-ran it on the same settings as you. I'd have thought your 1060 would be pretty much the same as my 970, and your processor's certainly better, so not sure why you're getting a lower score. I've got 16 gigs of RAM, but unless you had 4 gigs or less, that shouldn't make much difference. Did you have something else running at the same time?

I ran it in benchmark mode and got this, so yeah pretty useless for gauging how it'll do with actual games, especially as it's 7 years old now-

Yeah, they've already had 3 decent chances.

Proper-sized arms saves that.

What was the program? I used to run 3D Mark a while back to benchmark my graphics card, but anything above a 960 these days should run most games fine at 1080P.

Thanks. It'll probably be around Easter next year when I get a new PC, so might coincide with a sale on the game, CDPR's games seem to drop in price pretty quickly.

Nice- is there a release date yet? If it's early next year, it'd tie in as I'm due a new PC.

We've had to cancel 3 this year. It was my missus's 50th earlier in the year, and we had a trip to New York planned which has been moved to next year and a family holiday to Spain in July got outright cancelled. A bunch of her school mates are also turning 50 this year, and we'd hired a big country house in the Borders for this weekend which has also been nixed. I've got 10 days to take before the end of the year now, and was thinking of taking our youngest down to my Mum's in North Wales in the October half term as we haven't seen her since all this started. Looks like that is very unlikely to happen as well- she may or may not have had it as she was really ill in March, but as she's asthmatic and in her 70s, we can't really risk it.

Just messing. It made more sense halfway through last night's second bottle of wine.

If it helps, I couldn't take part in the scheme he PMed me. Shame though, looks like it would have been interesting.

^ FIFA

It needs to be a league format. Four lots of 16 bands playing against each other in divisions with promotion and relegation- see how things lie after 10 'seasons', and use that as seedings for a 64 band play off initially in groups of 4 based on their co-efficients. But no, we've gone for the easy option. Typical.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/18/mutant-virus-should-we-be-worried-sars-cov-2-changing-covid This might be a more reassuring article. There has been a major mutation- making the virus more transmissible and thus predominant- but it actually makes at least the Pfizer vaccine more effective.

You need to be careful, I had Ben Hillman on a couple of times.

The same's been said several times previously in the thread. It's simplistic and falls apart at the slightest scrutiny. If it was a good solution, it would have been tried somewhere, the fact that it hasn't shows it's completely impractical.

Yeah, presumably you'll need booster shots.

There was a retrospective on Radio 6 earlier in the week with Jim and Charlie talking about the making of New Gold Dream (last week was the 30th anniversary (sob) of Nowhere by Ride). God, Simple Minds' early stuff was top class. I saw them at Wembley in 1988 and they were bland as fuck by then, such a shame they disappeared up their own arse.