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This thread will attempt to provide a place to discuss past/present/future PC gaming deals. While mainly focusing on Steam games, any standout sales may also be presented. I will not be updating every Daily/Weekly/etc. sale. The tools to help individuals become a smarter shopper will be provided below.

See this POST for links to store sale pages, threads of interest and other tools to help you become a more informed PC game shopper.
 
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That site is never accurate and I have run a lot of games it tells me I have no business running by ignoring it.

In other news, Monoprice has gaming mousepads on sale.  $5 and $6 shipped. 

Syntax,

Are they any good?

 
georgebot84 said:
Askjeev is better. Hope this thread don't get derailed with all the can it run questions.

Congrats on the 1070
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Because other games are full price it's barely above minimum average price of $0.50

thats how they bend Steam rules to sell you games at low prices.

 
Some drops that likely everyone has...  (Maybe already redeemed but highly doubtful since the rest of the bundle was untouched.)

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FoxyPie said:
That site is never accurate and I have run a lot of games it tells me I have no business running by ignoring it.
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Yea, that site is really pretty much crap. It doesn't give complete information and is just a very basic check using published or even rumored specs against your computer. If you have one piece that isn't mainstream or not in their database it gives incomplete information. i.e. I know without question I can run FIFA 15 (the game I checked to see if the site has changed at all) perfectly fine, but it gives me a ? on my CPU. If you understand the differences in a published list of specs, you dont ever need that site. Its just a way to visualize it.

For games that are already released, sometimes it is as easy as Googling the game's title and your specs piece by piece i.e. "Portal 2 + CPU + GPU + RAM + OS" in that sort of string (with the +'s), if you dont find it exact, remove a piece and try again. 99% of the time I'm able to find someone on the innerweb that has the same or very similar specs and a lot of times its on Youtube which makes things even better. Older (by years) games may be tougher to find with this method since they may not be played as much with newer hardware.

For games that are pre-release (i.e. the guy above asking about NMS), no one can give you an exact answer on how it will run outside of very basic guesses, educated or not. There is no way to tell for sure until the game is out. Requirements are not an exact science since so many people have completely different configs. Occasionally a game developer goes above and beyond (i.e. GTA V) testing the game on literally hundreds of different configs, which is how they can get that game running on 5-6 year old hardware in a playable state, but most of the time the testing is not nearly that comprehensive, so there's going to be situations where you smash the recommended requirements and run like shit or don't even meet minimum and run it acceptably (to you). It's all dependent on the game itself and how its programmed etc. I've been on both ends of the spectrum since I went back to PC gaming full time in 2010 with my various upgrades. All that said, the majority of time if I meet recommended, I have a great experience.

 
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Weekly Sale "gems" and by "gems" I mean like cubic zirconiums:

Elegy for a Dead World - $6.74 (55% off):

http://store.steampowered.com/app/252290/?snr=1_7_7_weeklongdeals_150_9

You basically write story in this game.  Seems neat for those with the writing bug.

Critical Annihilation - $3.99 (60% off):

http://store.steampowered.com/app/339440/?snr=1_7_7_weeklongdeals_150_3

Twin stick shooter with destructible environments.  Voxel but has overwhelmingly positive reviews. 

UnderDread - $7.49 (25% off):

http://store.steampowered.com/app/432240/?snr=1_7_7_weeklongdeals_150_3

Well reviewed first-person horror.

 
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easper said:
No idea whether I actually want to buy No Man's Sky full price, day one on PC, but it would help my indecision if I knew whether my i5 6300HQ 960m 8GB RAM laptop can even run it.
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I have a i7 4720 HQ Haswell (4th gen); 16 GB RAM DDR3; 4GB 960m on my Acer Nitro V15 gaming laptop. B/c it runs so damn hot, I don't even run my processor at full-blast; around 70% or so (so it ain't at 97 degrees when it runs intense games like Fallout 4).

Most games, I can do around a tad better than 30 FPS at Medium settings & maybe with maybe a few High settings at either 900p or 1080p (depends per game). A lot of the newer games like Fallout 4 and WWE 2K15+16, it's 900p. Since my screen ain't super-big (Around 15 1/2 inches or so), I find this suits me just fine.

 
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inm8num2 said:
Refurbished 2 TB Hitachi drives $30 again on ebay.

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I did buy two of these ($60 total) from this seller, last time someone - I think it was Fox, actually - pointed it out.

One arrived DOA; one was (and still is) working fine.

Sent the DOA drive back - instead of giving me + replacing it with another one like I asked, he just refunded me the $30 (for the cost of the one drive).

Fair enough.

Crap happens with hardware, in general. [shrug]

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warreni said:
Will it run on this?

i7-5500U 2.4 GHz, 8 Gb RAM, 1 TB drive, AMD FirePro M4170 1Gb
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Some ideas w/ checking out performance for games.

1. Check Youtube out.

People love to post a vid saying "My laptop or gaming desktop can run [insert game]! Look here."

There are vids of GTA5 PC running on i7 5500U's with 8GB RAM and different GPU's (i.e. Intel integrated crap like the Intel HD520; and even some "okay" mobile cards like the NVidia 940M's + 960M's; etc etc) - but I've not seen much on the AMD FirePro M4170.

2. Notebook Check is good for checking out mobile GPU's + CPU's; and game benchmarks on them.

I see this on Notebook Check about W4170M w/ some performance on games:

http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-FirePro-W4170M.113867.0.html

Looks like you'll probably be floating around 720p + 1366x768 mostly on some games. Probably could go for a lower res' than those, if you want to squeeze some frames + performance out. Not sure how GTA5 would turn out; it ain't listed here, unfortunately.

Interesting enough, Notebook Check says your 4170M performs similar to Nvidia GT 750M, so you also might want to look there for benchmarks - a lot more benchmarks there on GT 750M, but GTA5 still isn't listed:

http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GT-750M.90245.0.html

Overall:

Still, maybe this all could give you at least some kind of an idea of what to expect.

 
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MysterD said:
I did buy two of these ($60 total) from this seller, last time someone - I think it was Fox, actually - pointed it out.

One arrived DOA; one was (and still is) working fine.

Sent the DOA drive back - instead of giving me + replacing it with another one like I asked, he just refunded me the $30 (for the cost of the one drive).

Fair enough.

Crap happens with hardware, in general. [shrug]
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Yeah, I just ordered two more from Newegg and have to test them out this week to make sure they are good and not DOA. Sometimes I wonder if these things mess up in transit more than anything else.
 
FoxyPie said:
Yeah, I just ordered two more from Newegg and have to test them out this week to make sure they are good and not DOA. Sometimes I wonder if these things mess up in transit more than anything else.
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Yeah, crap happens w/ hardware - whether it's on the actual refurb itself and it just flat-out died; or it got bumped around badly in transit to get here. Whatever, it happens.

I will make it a point to note this: the seller (Refurbforless) was an an excellent communicator & responded ultra-quick to my DOA issue. Like, within minutes of me letting him know - he responded to my issue; gave me a UPS return label; and I sent it on its way.

I expected another drive to replace the DOA one once he got the dead one back - but, he threw in the towel, I guess. The refund came in pretty quick - so, not a big deal TBH; I got one working one out of it. [shrug]

Not only that, but the refund came in pretty damn quickly for the dead one, too.

 
mguiddy said:
We wouldn't have this problem if CPU manufacturers would just use a number across all processor types that made sense without taking a graduate level class on how to read them.

Like, is a i5 from 6th gen better than a i7 from 5th gen? 4th gen? 3rd gen?

Someone that doesn't keep up with hardware would just think "higher number is better!"

Especially when that's what we were "taught" in the earlier days of processors when they advertised clock speeds.
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Depends on the entire set-up: generation, series, the number(s) & the letter symbols. They all are noting something.

Yeah, I know - it's a real pain in the neck to try to grasp.

For example:

My 4th gen i7 4720 HQ Haswell on my gaming laptop slaughters my gaming desktop's 1st gen i7 950 Bloomfield:

http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i7-950-vs-Intel-Core-i7-4720HQ

A i5 6300 HQ Skylake (way cooler) vs. i7 4720 HQ (more performance + threads, but runs way hotter) looks like it could be a toss-up: http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i7-4720HQ-vs-Intel-Core-i5-6300HQ

 
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FoxyPie said:
Weekly Sale "gems" and by "gems" I mean like cubic zirconiums:

Elegy for a Dead World - $6.74 (55% off):

http://store.steampowered.com/app/252290/?snr=1_7_7_weeklongdeals_150_9

You basically write story in this game. Seems neat for those with the writing bug.

Critical Annihilation - $3.99 (60% off):

http://store.steampowered.com/app/339440/?snr=1_7_7_weeklongdeals_150_3

Twin stick shooter with destructible environments. Voxel but has overwhelmingly positive reviews.

UnderDread - $7.49 (25% off):

http://store.steampowered.com/app/432240/?snr=1_7_7_weeklongdeals_150_3

Well reviewed first-person horror.
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In for underdread. When something with 77% positive user reviews on steam hits 25% off you just don't pass that up

 
IkedaTeramusa said:
It's like these people don't know about Google... I swear.

Listen guys, I just bought 2 monitors and a 1070... can it run on this? I just want minimum graphics with like 1000 fps. What do you think? Will it run?
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Probably doesn't show up on porn searches.

elessar123 said:
But that's a dik dik?
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I think it belongs to Kirk. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirk%27s_dik-dik

warreni said:
Well, yeah, I had to work REALLY hard for that terrible joke.

Way to rub it out. . . .
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MysterD said:
Depends on the entire set-up: generation, series, the number(s) & the letter symbols. They all are noting something.

Yeah, I know - it's a real pain in the neck to try to grasp.

For example:

My 4th gen i7 4720 HQ Haswell on my gaming laptop slaughters my gaming desktop's 1st gen i7 950 Bloomfield:

http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i7-950-vs-Intel-Core-i7-4720HQ

A i5 6300 HQ Skylake (way cooler) vs. i7 4720 HQ (more performance + threads, but runs way hotter) looks like it could be a toss-up: http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i7-4720HQ-vs-Intel-Core-i5-6300HQ
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I'm sorry if that post made it sound like I wanted to know.

When I upgrade my computer I typically just get whatever is most expensive or close to it.

 
FoxyPie said:
Weekly Sale "gems" and by "gems" I mean like cubic zirconiums:

Elegy for a Dead World - $6.74 (55% off):

http://store.steampowered.com/app/252290/?snr=1_7_7_weeklongdeals_150_9

You basically write story in this game. Seems neat for those with the writing bug.

Critical Annihilation - $3.99 (60% off):

http://store.steampowered.com/app/339440/?snr=1_7_7_weeklongdeals_150_3

Twin stick shooter with destructible environments. Voxel but has overwhelmingly positive reviews.

UnderDread - $7.49 (25% off):

http://store.steampowered.com/app/432240/?snr=1_7_7_weeklongdeals_150_3

Well reviewed first-person horror.
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Gonna add these to my Wishlist where they will remain until they are bundled and they then become a small part of my library where they will then remain unplayed until I am dead and they then become a small part of a lifetime full of regret.

I think I'm starting to understand how all this works.

 
DickBurden said:
Gonna add these to my Wishlist where they will remain until they are bundled and they then become a small part of my library where they will then remain unplayed until I am dead and they then become a small part of a lifetime full of regret.

I think I'm starting to understand how all this works.
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You've become CAG's spirit animal.

 
MysterD said:
I have a i7 4720 HQ Haswell (4th gen); 16 GB RAM DDR3; 4GB 960m on my Acer Nitro V15 gaming laptop. B/c it runs so damn hot, I don't even run my processor at full-blast; around 70% or so (so it ain't at 97 degrees when it runs intense games like Fallout 4).

Most games, I can do around a tad better than 30 FPS at Medium settings & maybe with maybe a few High settings at either 900p or 1080p (depends per game). A lot of the newer games like Fallout 4 and WWE 2K15+16, it's 900p. Since my screen ain't super-big (Around 15 1/2 inches or so), I find this suits me just fine.
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Thanks for the reply. I'll have to wait to test (or find video of someone else running) NMS with my specs. Sounds like a chance, but no guarantees.

I downloaded Throttlestop but I don't know where to start. There's no documentation for the sixth gen CPUs, I don't want to mess anything up, and I don't know how much I can actually improve performance (I'd rather keep it running cool with the same or slightly better / more stable performance than wade into the murky waters of over clocking).
 
So, I was playing Go Mission: Space Travel and I learned I should've put my Intro to Programming project on Steam.

 
I don't get the hype for No Man's Sky. I'm thinking Sony must have really opened the coffers and went on a full court press with it's marketing team. Because, seriously, I just don't get it. 

It isn't like procedural generation is anything new. Plus, we've already seen that sometimes games are too big. 
A big universe full of mostly look-alike planets with moons and fauna named as close to something obscene as the content filters will allow doesn't strike me as what I want to dump all kinds of hours into. 

 
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JSweeney said:
I don't get the hype for No Man's Sky. I thinking Sony must have really opened the coffers and went on a full court press with it's marketing team. Because, seriously, I just don't get it.

It isn't like procedural generation is anything new. Plus, we've already seen that sometimes games are too big.
A big universe full of mostly look-alike planets with moons and fauna named as close to something obscene as the content filters will allow doesn't strike me as what I want to dump all kinds of hours into.
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That's what I've been thinking the entire time. It's literally hours of walking and mining useless crap to get more useless crap. Majority of the game is by yourself with no interesting characters to interact with.

 
Tempted by Poi from the Tremor Shop, but the price seems a tad too high. If it was in the 500-600 range, I would be down. 

 
JSweeney said:
I don't get the hype for No Man's Sky. I thinking Sony must have really opened the coffers and went on a full court press with it's marketing team. Because, seriously, I just don't get it.

It isn't like procedural generation is anything new. Plus, we've already seen that sometimes games are too big.
A big universe full of mostly look-alike planets with moons and fauna named as close to something obscene as the content filters will allow doesn't strike me as what I want to dump all kinds of hours into.
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+1

I was hyped initially at the possibility of a universe that I could do stuff with friends in. Once the coop element was shot down when details came out then yea, thats about what I came to as well. Im sure it will be reviewed well just like division where the reviewers only play it for 12hrs at most, but the lack of any real content will bore people after a few weeks and it will die away

Unless the devs have some huge content stash they havent revealed with some long story line its hard to imagine theres enough to keep someone interested for long. It just becomes another mining/crafting/exploring game along with the other 100 on steam. If I wanted space exploration Id just go back to elite and explore a real modeled galaxy full of other people and things to do other than shoot at rocks and space police

 
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Too many people are going in with unreasonable expectations, like it is going to be the next Minecraft or something.  I like the graphical style of No Man's Sky, I like to explore/wander around (I have been temporarily banned from MMOs for getting outside of the landscape) and I am expecting nothing groundbreaking.  So I'll probably be happy with the game.  If it ends up doing something new and interesting above what you see in the videos that is just a bonus.  

 
weretable said:
Too many people are going in with unreasonable expectations, like it is going to be the next Minecraft or something. I like the graphical style of No Man's Sky, I like to explore/wander around (I have been temporarily banned from MMOs for getting outside of the landscape) and I am expecting nothing groundbreaking. So I'll probably be happy with the game. If it ends up doing something new and interesting above what you see in the videos that is just a bonus.
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I fully expect the game to let me drive my LEGO Seth Rollins Trackmania big rig into a nest of Spinosaurus, subdue and capture one with my camera phone, then give it to my lesbian lawyer wife while we make love in our private hot springs located near Site 03. Anything less is a disappointment.

 
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This: http://kotaku.com/two-hours-with-no-mans-sky-a-diary-1785003271

Is exactly the type of thing that makes me like what No Man's Sky is trying to do. I don't think its at all possible to live up to its hype, but Ive felt that for the last 6 months.

 You're only going to get out of it what you put into it. I agree that there's wayyyyyyy too many people whose own hype has driven this game into the ground that its going to be impossible to live up to some expectations, but if it entertains me and I'm able to get out of it what I put into it, I can see myself playing it for a while.

 
I agree guys.

Yeah.

Deus Ex totally won't suck a big floppy Oscar the Cthonic Grouch dong.

#augslivesmatters #alllivesmatter #don'tlookhimintheeyes

#nomans$30
 
bobo2k4 said:
That's what I've been thinking the entire time. It's literally hours of walking and mining useless crap to get more useless crap. Majority of the game is by yourself with no interesting characters to interact with.
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So basically every survival game to be released the last few years, riding the minecraft/dayz bandwagon?

The hype is not all that surprising, considering these games already sell like hotcakes, even when they're in early access and nothing more than an alpha build.

I give it half a year before people get bored and move on to the next thing. I can't think of a single survival game thats continued to grow and stay popular past the one year mark.
 
JSweeney said:
I don't get the hype for No Man's Sky. I thinking Sony must have really opened the coffers and went on a full court press with it's marketing team. Because, seriously, I just don't get it.

It isn't like procedural generation is anything new. Plus, we've already seen that sometimes games are too big.
A big universe full of mostly look-alike planets with moons and fauna named as close to something obscene as the content filters will allow doesn't strike me as what I want to dump all kinds of hours into.
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It's a game for people who like building/exploring random stuff. Not my thing but apparently millions of people love it. IMO, procedural generation is only useful in roguelike games where the focus is more on improving your character via xp and loot. The other stuff is mixed around to keep things somewhat fresh. In a game focused on exploration it's much better to have 'hand crafted' worlds (universes) even if they do end up being smaller.

 
Well after around 2 and a half hours in No Man's Sky, I have to say I'm not really impressed by the game. The graphics look real nice and I love the low fi sci-fi artstyle but there's really nothing much to do in it. There's some cool guns but no one to shoot at. I don't like survival games but I love sci-fi and all the hype the people were giving this, I was like let me check it out, last time I listen to the hype. It just feels way too overwhelming, big and empty. In fact, the in game menus are exactly like Destiny another game that was overhyped and not fun. Imo it should be $30-40 for this game not $60. I find it very odd that people are so excited to jump in this game and yet there's really not much to do in it other than walking and flying your spaceship.

 
No Man's Sky...  At the chance of sounding like a console fanboy, which I'm not, I find most games Sony has their hands on to be overhyped and to be a disappointment on some level. (Uncharted 2, haven't played 4, and some of the MLB Show titles being the exceptions.)

 
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