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Checks date. ROFL.

Insert obligatory XKCD; Standards:

Hardware Unboxed have released their optimised graphics settings for Phantom Liberty here:

A major irritant with buying the PC version on the Microsoft store is the apparently unthrottlable download - when a FH5 update drops it completely saturates my PC's connection, so much so that the PC is very sluggish accessing any online content. That alone will make me consider buying anything...

Last sentence, first paragraph: "tens of not hundreds".

Indeed - noting that a perfect backup copy of digital media can be made, even after some use, whereas the same cannot be said of analogue.

Not sure that any analogue media are not prone to degradation with use.

FLAC decodes on my phone at over 5,000x realtime - which suggests that playing it in realtime uses a tiny fraction of the device's CPU capability.

An interesting, but ultimately irrelevant, analogy. As a lossless CODEC, by definition, outputs exactly the same samples as went in. The ones and zeros of the bitstream are no different from the original, unless, as indicated, something is broken. Unless the quality of the equipment in some...

.... only if the equipment is broken in some way.

It has before now with code compiled with ICC....

Saw one for pre-order (arriving 29th) on eBuyer in the UK for £414.99 - which is about what I would expect $449 to equate to (+20% VAT).

Interesting timing for this article, in the UK at least....

There's probably an element of "the rest of the world" not wanting to be held hostage by US foreign policy either.

That's a bit embarrassing for AMD - introduce a new performance improving feature; limit it to new GPUs *and* new CPUs; watch the motherboard manufacturers introduce it for existing competitor CPUs.... Hopefully this will be another kick for AMD to "find a way" to introduce SAM on older AMD...