I’ll take the RE Engine all day and even the Fox Engine overall. Those engines despite being a bit old now for today’s standard, but you cannot deny the optimizations of those engines. Games with that engine have been running smooth while maintaining great visuals. It sucks that the RE Engine is being hindered thanks to Capcom’s mind boggling decision via installing their own DRM crap on it. No wonder MH Wilds is running shit.
helldivers 2 looking great on a engine that was decomissioned like 10 years ago (stingray?)
most companies don’t want to sink cost into maintaining/developing their own engines so they all switch to unreal
some companies are still using UE4 instead of moving to 5, arc sys works is a bigger one I know of
LMG has a entire channel dedicated to nothing but PSU reviews. First upload was 9 months ago. Had no idea it existed until today. Way to advertise useful information Linus. 
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I know he’s mentioned their labs team has been testing a bunch and has been making some sort of tierlist but didn’t know they made a new channel for it
Guys, could someone please explain to me in regards of the latest Nvidia drivers having problems for 40 and 30 series cards? Not gonna lie, I am out of the loop since I really don’t care about the GPU market lately and with all of the scalped prices going on, you cannot blame me. I reverted mine back to Dec 2024’s version and could please someone confirm me if they are like having issues with their Nvidia cards as well.
nvidia f’d something up some people are reporting having issues with 20 series too
I see, I don’t know what the issues are but I am being told by a friend that it’s black screen issues.
Wow, again… Nvidia is on a roll with the down hill spiral of incompetence/greed (a little of column A mainly influenced by column B).
Nothing new with drivers messing things up. 10 years ago I dealt with this like every other month for genomic computational machines with as many Tesla cores as we could physically run
If the driver is working don’t ‘upgrade’ it until it’s not doing the job you need…like a new game I suppose. I’ve never played games.
It’s looking like the wide recommendation here is roll the driver back to version 566.36. Do not use the new 572.xx driver, it’s FUBAR.
I’m currently on the same driver that you are with my 4090. Had to revert back to it. I had updated to the driver two versions newer when it came out and had constant black screen issues. So it is an issue, but it appears to be hit and miss on who it affects. I’ve not heard of it affecting 20-series cards, but 30 & 40-series, yes. So stay on the Dec driver.
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Been running my 3080 12gb on Game Ready 572.60 and have had zero issues, but I haven’t been playing anything that new or demanding (newest stuff played lately have been WH40k Inquisitor Martyr and Kingdoms of Amalur Re-Reckoning.
Afaik, you should stick to the Dec 2024 drivers as I heard tons of problems with the later ones and across multiple gens.
(IMO if you have no problems with your current version/driver I wouldnt “upgrade” at all, more often than not i have had issues coming from an update than sticking with the old version…)
I am glad I did because my PC was acting weird when I have the latest drivers on my 30 series card. It usually just turns and boots with no issues, but after installing the latest drivers on the card, the PC doesn’t boot at all, it turns on but it doesn’t boot, until I removed a single USB from my motherboard and it boots again which is weird. I am about to find out later if it’s gonna be the same effect with my drivers back to 566.63 or not, if it is, then it might be a different issue entirely and not a GPU driver issue.
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Man, if only I have waited a bit more in order to get the 12GB version, instead I only have like the 10GB version which is like the very first version of the 3080 (I really cannot complain though since I got it as a graduation gift from my family which I didn’t asked for.) I really cannot complain overall since I can still play the games that I still play, it’s 2025 and I am still using a 1080p monitor with high refresh rates and most of the modern games that have been coming out are unoptimized garbage anyway, so it would have been better if games are optimized instead of having that forced excuse to upgrade my rig which is bullshit.
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Praying nothing is wrong with your hardware. 
My pc is on the other hand…lately it looks like It takes around 5 minutes to boot into it. Seems the MB is giving me error 99 (MSI Z87 G43)…not sure what is happening…
(just need to wait and then it boots into it without issue.)
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That’s an IO Initialization error. My immediate guess is that you’ve got a USB port going out. Try disconnecting everything except the monitor and keyboard and see if that does anything. If it doesn’t, move the keyboard cable to a different group of USB ports and try another time.
It could also be the CMOS battery going bad, a corrupt UEFI, or a short somewhere. Those are less likely though. It’s probably a bad port, cable, or peripheral.
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Does knowing that the pc always boots up in the end, after waiting 1-5 minutes tell you anything?
Im also booting from a “portable” SSD (its an internal NVME + case) which is connected to the front USB 3.0 port.