This is your final warning to buy Forza Horizon 4 before it gets delisted in two weeks.
Community MetaSteam | December 2024 - Top Men Belong in a Museum
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Remember the headcrash of my external HDD?
I started up my old Windows 7 PC that I abandoned 18 months ago (was my old media PC)
It had 80% or so of my old files on it, so the headcrash isn't as devastating as previously thought.
the problem is...
The fucking files take up 2-6 times as much place on the SSD as on the HDD!!
The SSD has bigger clustersizes, right?
So a butt-load of my old pictures and files from up to 25 years ago take up vastly more space.
I started up my old Windows 7 PC that I abandoned 18 months ago (was my old media PC)
It had 80% or so of my old files on it, so the headcrash isn't as devastating as previously thought.
the problem is...
The fucking files take up 2-6 times as much place on the SSD as on the HDD!!
The SSD has bigger clustersizes, right?
So a butt-load of my old pictures and files from up to 25 years ago take up vastly more space.
December already..
My STALKER 2 month turned into Wait 6 Months For STALKER 2 To Be Finished Month, so here is hoping Indiana Jones fares better...it should be simpler game and Machinegames have decent reputation with launch releases so here is hoping.
But even if it fails, I already have some games to play this month - Oxenfree 2, Stasis Bone Totem, Aliens Dark Descent
My STALKER 2 month turned into Wait 6 Months For STALKER 2 To Be Finished Month, so here is hoping Indiana Jones fares better...it should be simpler game and Machinegames have decent reputation with launch releases so here is hoping.
But even if it fails, I already have some games to play this month - Oxenfree 2, Stasis Bone Totem, Aliens Dark Descent
It's also on sale on Xbox for those that want it there, but I think that sale just ended as well. Overall it seems that only 2 DLCs will be gone for ever since they were delisted months ago.
As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gamer.
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Can always count on lashman for the hot new v-tuber content and games. Bless.
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Proud of myself for only buying ONE game this sale.
REALLY digging Sandrock so far. I enjoyed the heck out of Portia but this one feels like a big leap over the original.
Production values got a big shot in the arm and if feels like there's a TON of content on offer.
Cozy as hell too so the timing couldn't be better.
Hell yeah.
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After 2.5 years the 1tb SanDisk Ultra microSD card that I was using in my Steam Deck finally died. I'm going to replace it with a Samsung 1TB Pro Plus microsd.
Luckily the card is still not completely lost and is currently in read only mode. It will not save any new data but I can still copies files from it onto other storage mediums. I plan to transfer everything from that to the new 1TB microsd and also making sure to to fill it up completely. This time. I really put that 1TB card through its paces.
I'm guessing that even if I reformat it the card that it will still be lost? And it's not really worth saving other than just backing it up onto something else? I also purchased a 512GB USB drive to I plan to keep on the back of my Steam Deck dock to keep files that I don't use on the MicroSD in order to try to avoid another situation like this.
Luckily the card is still not completely lost and is currently in read only mode. It will not save any new data but I can still copies files from it onto other storage mediums. I plan to transfer everything from that to the new 1TB microsd and also making sure to to fill it up completely. This time. I really put that 1TB card through its paces.
I'm guessing that even if I reformat it the card that it will still be lost? And it's not really worth saving other than just backing it up onto something else? I also purchased a 512GB USB drive to I plan to keep on the back of my Steam Deck dock to keep files that I don't use on the MicroSD in order to try to avoid another situation like this.
Wake up babe a new Wario Land clone just dropped (that I just purchased).
Also I know Nine Sols is on Game Pass, but I want to play it on my docked Deck downstairs and Moonlight is kinda jank.
December 2024 | Humble Choice
www.humblebundle.com
Store Pages:
Bomb Rush Cyberfunk
Old World
Atlas Fallen: Reign of Sand
Crime Boss: Rockay City - First Month Edition
The Invincible
Moonstone Island
Inkulinati
Venba
Monster Prom 3: Monster Roadtrip
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First Humble Choice I haven't skipped in a while. should be worth it for Invincible, Cyberfunk, and Atlas Fallen (the last of those is on Game Pass currently, but always better to own it than to be tied to a subscription). Already played Venba on Game Pass, but it's a really nice and very short narrative game that makes for a great one-sitting play.
Cheers lashman.
I'm really hopeful that LoK remasters turn out great but I need to see some reviews before deciding what to do. It's something that has equal potential of being great or being a complete trainwreck.
As for the sale, I got these: Oxytone | Alekon | Psychonauts 2
I'm really hopeful that LoK remasters turn out great but I need to see some reviews before deciding what to do. It's something that has equal potential of being great or being a complete trainwreck.
As for the sale, I got these: Oxytone | Alekon | Psychonauts 2
I usually get these every month but this one is just awful for me. I'll eventually look around to see if I can find cheap Inkulinati and Venba keys somewhere.December 2024 | Humble Choice
I'm intrigued.
I don't know what you're seeing but, whatever it may be, it's unlikely to be related to the SSD.
SSDs do strange things internally, but report logical blocks of manageable sizes (typically 512B or 4KiB) to the OS.
Beyond that, it's filesystem-level. I assume your filesystem is NTFS, since you mention Windows. Maximum block (cluster) size in NTFS is 2MiB, and it defaults to 4KiB. You can check yours with fsutil fsinfo ntfsInfo C: (or whatever drive you want to check), running PowerShell as admin.
Code:
PS C:\Windows\system32> fsutil fsinfo ntfsInfo C:
...
Bytes Per Sector : 512
Bytes Per Physical Sector : 512
Bytes Per Cluster : 4096
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I skipped this month. I'll be playing Divinity OS2 anyway and I don't feel like supporting the 2 former EGS exclusives in this bundle.December 2024 | Humble Choice
oof. Kinda surprised that it requires RT, tbh; the visuals look decent, but not that good. Will try it out on my RTX 4070 just to see if I can get full RT running acceptably, though.
only for "full raytracing". If that means something close to path tracing, then those recommendations are completely sensible, that is still a future technology, pretty much and will eat up your GPU
btw dex3108 , the link is broken. That's what happens when you crosslink stuff from Xitter.
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FINALLY got a store page
Damage wave 4:
Unbound: Worlds Apart | SkĆ”bmaā¢ - Snowfall | Not Tonight 2 | Skate City | Mr. DRILLER DrillLand | Fire Tonight | Flat Heroes | Alwa's Legacy | The Last Friend | Land of Screens | Cardpocalypse | Tales of the Neon Sea
Unbound: Worlds Apart | SkĆ”bmaā¢ - Snowfall | Not Tonight 2 | Skate City | Mr. DRILLER DrillLand | Fire Tonight | Flat Heroes | Alwa's Legacy | The Last Friend | Land of Screens | Cardpocalypse | Tales of the Neon Sea
That humble isn't too bad, kind of want Atlas Fallen, Invincible and Bomb Rush. But not bad enough to grab it, at least not yet.
But I'm thinking about grabbing Lorelei Laser Eyes.
Min spec having some RT requirement is interesting though, very curious to see what that means specifically. But that's where we are headed, the first gen RTX cards are now 6ish years old so it was bound to happen sooner or later. Didn't Spidey 2 have RT in all modes on PS5, so it's not like this is a new development as such.
And since it's a PC game, I'm sure people will figure out how to run it without RT capable hardware, extremely curious to see that too. Depending on what the minimum RT implementation actually is, it just might look completely fine, completely broken or anything in between.
But I'm thinking about grabbing Lorelei Laser Eyes.
100% this. I haven't followed the dev so I don't know if they have talked about it, but yeah if it's path tracing, then I don't see a problem.
Min spec having some RT requirement is interesting though, very curious to see what that means specifically. But that's where we are headed, the first gen RTX cards are now 6ish years old so it was bound to happen sooner or later. Didn't Spidey 2 have RT in all modes on PS5, so it's not like this is a new development as such.
And since it's a PC game, I'm sure people will figure out how to run it without RT capable hardware, extremely curious to see that too. Depending on what the minimum RT implementation actually is, it just might look completely fine, completely broken or anything in between.
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EXCLUSIVE - Ubisoft's XDefiant Will be Shutting Down in June 2025
Several sources have revealed that Ubisoft will be shutting down XDefiant in June 2025, say sources familiar within Ubisoft.
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Whoops I got a "cheap" ultrawide 32" LG monitor with Freesync, thinking that would work with my NVIDIA graphics. Is there even a cheapish ultrawide gaming monitor that supports G-sync? I might have to stay with this one, but it's such a bummer. That's what I get for not doing my research, haha.
It should work though, as "G-sync compatible", with or without support acknowledged for the given model. Or is it very old? Did you connect with display port?
Ubisoft better hope AC Shadows is a runaway success because otherwise I don't see a way to escape this death spiral
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Fantastic Humble Choice for me, only owned Crime Boss already and had bought Atlas only two days ago so I got a refund for that 
Shadows would have to really shit the bed for the company to completely collapse.
But still they have Far Cry and The Division to fall back on. If done right, the new entries would make them a ton of $$$. Maybe a new Siege game too.
Also if the company value collapses anymore they will be scooped up by someone. After massive layoffs ofc.
The future is grim asf for them but they can turn things around with a few big hits.
No, I connected with HDMI. That's also how I get G-Sync with my OLED LG TV. So in the case of the monitor I need to connect to it via DisplayPort? Unfortunately my Laptop doesn't have DisplayPort and apparently also using USB-c to displayport it will use integrated graphics, so I'm a bit boned here, haha.
Just saw, the external SSD is exFAT formated
The internal is NSFT
just made an experiment
Jagged Alliance 2 modded (has many small files)
10 times the size on the external SSD!
And zipping it, it only takes up 1/30th of the space.
The whole unzipped folder on my internal SSD is marginally bigger than the real 3GB
If I read it correctly, the minimum file size in exFAT is 32 MB, so for every small fille between a few bytes to kilobytes, it takes up 32 MB in a cluster!
So either I have to zip all my small file folders or I buy a second SSD for use as a small filesize storage (I think exFAT is quite superior for large filsizes?)
Something to keep in mind when using exFAT is that this particular file system doesn't have journaling, so it's possible to lose the data in the event of write failure. Better format it as NTFS for Windows-based systems.
32MiB is the maximum cluster size that can be set at formatting time.
Look at properties for a very small file (like, a text file with one character) or try chkdsk D: and look at the "allocation unit" line to find out what it actually is on your drive.
No. It is superior to FAT32 (in that it allows files >4GiB to exist at all), not to NTFS. The FAT line is quite barebones and more appropriate for SD cards or sticks than internal or external drives. Like Kvik, I'd advise you to reformat to NTFS when you get the chance.
If you don't use the contents often, it's not a bad idea.
I am just surprised there are not giving people a choice of EGS Key.
Wow Crime Boss: Rockay City actually very positive on Steam
Antonblast got a post launch regional pricing buff over here. Even that has to copy Pizza Tower smh my head
Time to instantly buy it
Time to instantly buy it
Updated Steam branding guidelines
