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I really can't empathize with this comment.

HDD's haven't been mainstream for gaming for a decade now. SSDs are DIRT cheap. You can literally go buy one for $20-30 on amazon that is SATA and holds 250gb (edit: 240GB, my bad... maybe you can find a better one, this one took all of 2 seconds of searching). They are trivial to install in any laptop that isn't apple, and even more trivial in desktops. They can even be easily installed into the recent generation of consoles. There is really no excuse in 2019 to expect developers to design games for HDDs for PC titles. I'd even bet the next gen of consoles will use SSDs given how cheap they've become and how big the performance gain is. Upgrading from an HDD to an SSD is the SINGLE BIGGEST PERFORMANCE BOOST YOU CAN GIVE YOUR PC BY A MASSIVE MARGIN.

That's like expecting them to design games to support a GeForce 310 (which came out in late november 2009, so maybe a 200 series card is actually more relevant), Intel Core 2 Quads, and DDR 2 ram.

More importantly, HDDs have a very limited, fixed read speed. That means it puts either a hard cap on realistic load times, or textures. So unless you want your games to look like vanilla minecraft or have 5 min load times... get an SSD.

There's a lot of valid things to criticize BioWare for about anthem... load times on HDDs specifically isn't one of them, IMO.

u/biocamden

There is some critical failure with several of the latest Nvidia drivers and this demo. I want to preorder, but won't until I know the issue is resolved in the full release.

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I believe it's also described here and think it may be due to the fact that I PC game from my couch with my comp connected to a Samsung 4K UHD TV. Overlapping issue here with trying to monitor from an LG OLED TV, although I use a 1080ti card, not a 2080ti.

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Essentially, loading the demo (and no other game/application on my PC), my screen turns bright purple and I observe extreme color distortion. Looks like this, which is a post by another user, not myself. Also, the color distortion pervades all PC applications until I completely restart my computer.

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This also only happened AFTER I updated my Nvidia driver to the latest version, which for my card is 417.71. I did that because Anthem crashed 10min into my first play through. Once I rolled back to a prior version (417.01), the game worked again without any color distortion.

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Any feedback on this issue would be greatly appreciated.

Progression systems, squad controls, over-the-shoulder third person, and expansive environments all needed to be adapted to make Frostbite work with Inquisition and Andromeda.

Check out Jason Schreier's Blood, Sweat, and Pixels for some additional information. He has an entire chapter on what the Inquisiton team had to do to adapt Frostbite for Inquisition.

I agree though, my favorite parts of Inquisition and Andromeda are without a doubt the environmental design and the technical prowess behind any type of magical/biotic/tech explosions. Those games at their best look as good as any game I've ever played.

> Yep. ... been trying to sign up since i got the email at work and i keep being put in a never ending cycle to update my profile.... yall should of know this would have blown up and been prepared

> Mark Darrah
> ‏Verified account @BioMarkDarrah
> It wasn’t publicly announced for precisely this reason

Mr Darrah, please give this level 23 book to your web frontend people: https://www.amazon.com/Release-Design-Deploy-Production-Ready-Software/dp/1680502395/

They will be eternally grateful for it.

Among other things, it explains why "we'll just not advertise the link" is a non-viable strategy.

Careful to be sure it's a slim one; I use this 1TB model and it works great.

Loading times are so bad I am deleting the game and reinstalling on my SSD (for some reason it did not). I'll take the hit to my playtime if it helps bring them down.

Console load times are going to be ROUGH.

If you are planning on playing on console, Go get a SSD with an enclosure.

I'll make it easy for you:

SSD: https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-500GB-Internal-MZ-76E500B-AM/dp/B0781Z7Y3S/

Enclosure: https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-Tool-free-Enclosure-Optimized-EC-UASP/dp/B00OJ3UJ2S

No offense, but that is crazy talk.

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An SSD (well, technically you should go for nvme these days, as there is little price difference) is the single most performance boosting thing you can do for your computer if you really use a 7200RPM platter disk in 2019, in terms of overall performance.

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Spend those 250$ on something like this; https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-970-EVO-1TB-MZ-V7E1T0BW/dp/B07BN217QG - you can thank me later.

I never played the demo, so I can't comment on that. I would pick up a ssd from amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Kingston-240GB-Solid-SA400S37-240G/dp/B01N5IB20Q/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=ssd&qid=1550436077&s=gateway&sr=8-5

$30 and you will be able to fit 4+ games on it. It will make you life in this game 100x better.

https://music.amazon.com/albums/B07N97MHR4

Album is on amazon music if you use that, might be on others too, and yes part of the LOD edition as well.

If you have an old SSD and a console that has USB 3.0, you can pick up one of these and just plug the bare drive in. Works great on my X.

Sabrent USB 3.0 to SSD / 2.5-Inch SATA I/II/IIIHard Drive Adapter (EC-SSHD) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B011M8YACM/

I was having massive temp spikes, but I undervolted my PC a bit, bought these 2 crazy vacuum things for my laptop (sucks out the hot air) and I started playing the game windowed with my bottom start bar set to hidden

My temps were high 70s low 80s but are now 56 celsius across cpu and gpu (max 60), my frames are 50s 60s, I'm running on high not ultra. And my cpu usage isn't 100% anymore (it's 99 but small victories lol)

I7 8750H / Nvidia GTX 1060 running on SSD

Edit: here's the link to the vac thing I was talking about, I have 2 vents so I bought 2. There amazing. Had them both a month now, don't recommend using the "auto" function, just put it to manual and rock it on speed level 10 or 11 (max is 13)

OPOLAR Laptop Fan with Temperature Display and Cooling Pads https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B01E3Q7FS6/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_T49EDbTDXENE4

Hey, when you swing by Microcenter, bring your original receipt and have them do some price matching for you, I can't see all the prices (and microcenter is generally pretty competitive) but I know you got at least $30 coming back on that power supply:
https://www.amazon.com/EVGA-Supernova-Modular-Warranty-220-G3-0650-Y1/dp/B01LYGFRL6/ref=sr_1_1?crid=173M0H8DG1COE&keywords=evga+supernova+650&qid=1550250711&s=gateway&sprefix=evga+%2Caps%2C160&sr=8-1


Here is where they match, you might want to run all the numbers quick!

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https://slickdeals.net/f/10845319-micro-center-price-matching-details-retailer-vendor-list

You should read his book, Blood Sweat and Pixels, it deep dives into a lot of games developments just like in this article (including Dragon Age Inquisition). It’s an absolutely fascinating, if sometimes depressing, read.

https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Sweat-Pixels-Triumphant-Turbulent/dp/0062651234

Gigabyte AM3+ AMD 970 which replaced my ASUS ROG Crosshair V Formula-Z it's the AM3 chipset back in 2013.

the upgrade to am4 or threadripper will bring me some major gains! nvme, dd4 and cpu threads!

Novel is coming in August,
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1506707076/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00__o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I am not sure when the sale ends on Origin but I know that Amazon sells the boxed copy on PC for $19.99 USD (Less for consoles.) It was that price prior to the sale and I assume it will stay at that price after the sale. Other retailers probably sell box copies for a similar price. https://www.amazon.com/Electronic-Arts-US-E3-2018-PC-EAGA1-060818-011-Anthem-Online/dp/B07DLWKQKC?th=1

Not actually true. They do support and even have a Bluetooth dongle for it now.

https://www.amazon.ca/Sony-DUALSHOCK-USB-Wireless-Adapter/dp/B01KHFIO82/ref=sr_1_1/136-2357342-5312112?ie=UTF8&qid=1549901496&sr=8-1&keywords=dualshock+4+usb+wireless+adapter

As much I love you, my favorite mental gymnast. Somehow you think that a post getting to the front page makes your opinion correct and valid(cringey award speeches aside).

People like you end up making others scoff at certain gaming community/forum/subreddit, "I need to say it, bla bla bla", "C'mon guys you guys are really, bla bla bla", all sorts of stuff that you spew out, thinking you're above everyone. That apologist attitude and acting like BioWare is the second coming of Christ, hence can do no wrong. Ignoring comments not siding with your views, cherry-picking downvoted comments. Acting like the entire subreddit is a circle jerk and you're our guiding light, only hope from despair. It's well known that certain people will always hate a game regardless of severity and amount of issues present instead, you go about making it sound like the subreddit is a hivemind. Apparently having expectations for something you paid of is entitled and you should suck it up whether you receive a piece of garbage or a gem. Making two complain posts about how your complaint is more valid than others, BioWare can do no harm, the game is 11/10, "gosh darn millennials and their entitlement, wtf expecting quality for their money, what a bunch of nutcase".

What's with the "oh BioWare is owned by EA, hence BioWare can't do any wrong, EA bad", blink twice if you need help?

I have a gift for you if you want, I think it'll the best gift you ever get.

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[Oh wait, hell yeah this gift too, two for one package, wtf, what a steal my dude!] (https://www.amazon.com/Why-Always-About-You-Narcissism-ebook/dp/B0030MQJMS)

While I am aware that you're under NDA regarding the marketing and mental gymnast display, tone it down a little. Maybe make a new subreddit /r/GodPraiseAnthem.

Amazon

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Anthem-Limited-Bioware/dp/1506711073

I've been using a hybrid HDD/SSD drive ever since I upgraded to a pro. There was a small yet still noticeable difference in performance, but now for Anthem I've finally decided to go full SSD. Did a lot of research before deciding on this one:

Samsung 860 EVO 1TB

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Haven't installed yet... I'll be doing that this weekend. If you want, I can be back for an update after I test it out a bit, although obviously it will have to be on other games.

This is what I have

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07D7WCMF6/?coliid=I3BQ3RPI19T3H8&colid=2CGGPJIC2TE3P&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00OJ3UJ2S/?coliid=I1752G2Y38ZD0Q&colid=2CGGPJIC2TE3P&psc=0&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it

You can also get it for $20 on Amazon

Specifically, I'm running Samaung 970 EVO 1TB. It's way cheaper on Amazon though.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1506711073/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_awdb_t1_8Sy.BbKZMY8F8

I was able to use a second controller logged as a different user, on my machine. I used the vita to launch the game, then my ps4 controller (Logged In as Player 2) worked normally.

I may be buying this soon though!

also up in germany:

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https://www.amazon.de/Art-Anthem-Limited-Bioware/dp/1506711073/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1543333990&sr=8-3&keywords=Art+of+anthem

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Try using this, makes a world of difference.

https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-Tool-free-Enclosure-Optimized-EC-UASP/dp/B00OJ3UJ2S?ref_=bl_dp_s_web_2530336011&th=1

https://slickdeals.net/f/12847678-1tb-crucial-mx500-2-5-sata-iii-solid-state-drive-118-free-shipping-117-99?src=catpagev2

Sorry, this is what I was thinking of.

The Art of Anthem Limited Edition https://www.amazon.com/dp/1506711073/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_YDbCCb7AN5771

Review of that grip here is brutal (expensive in Canada too):

https://www.amazon.ca/product-reviews/B0776CVLK9/ref=acr_search_see_all?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1

And when you use the DS4 as Player 2, do you need to constantly touch the vita for the brightness?