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essentially import objects environments lighting and then edit the game and play it back with edited elements could be an absolute Game Changer now I have seen some folks actually speaking out against this type of remixing and the arguments are are pretty fair you know like you might take away the artist's intended Ambiance or you might lose things like a lighting effect that lit up that doorway so that the player would know where to go next but the flip side of that argument is this might be our only chance of preserving these types of experiences I mean single player games without you know a season's pass or any other kind of games as a service elements are going the way of the dinosaur and you know thinking about whether or not my kids would be able to enjoy a game like Morrowind I don't think so not without some changes I mean even for me I got into Elder Scrolls with the Oblivion entry and I went back and I tried to play Morrowind after beating Oblivion and I was like I don't think so throw in some better objects throw in some better lighting a few Creature Comforts the kinds that the modding Community has over the years built time and time again for classic games and man I mean I want to play it so I I guess what I'm trying to say is the more tools we can put in the hands of talented PC gaming modders the better and I commend NVIDIA another big feature for RTX 40 series is their dual av1 encoders we haven't actually looked at NVIDIA's encoders yet because you know the thing I said before but what we have been able to do is look at the hardware av-1 encoders on Intel's Arc gpus and so far av1 is looking extremely promising we are talking similar performance to h.264 at around 60 the bit rate absolutely wild especially if you're someone who wants to game stream but you don't have an amazing internet connection or you want to Arc I have a ton of your gameplay footage and you don't want to deal with enormous file sizes also um Studio drivers and video reflex okay that's mostly stuff that we've seen before so why don't we take a closer look at the i o we've got HDMI 2.1 a all right as well as actually this is a bit of a disappointment three DisplayPort 1.4 ports I was kind of hoping for DisplayPort 2.0 uhbr 10 because that's what Intel is shipping on their Arc gpus but I guess we aren't getting that I do want to take a closer look at this Zotac card though this thing is absolutely wild is that nine heat pipes full-size back play with backlighting that's got to be like uh that's gonna be a mode switcher right here I actually don't really know that much about it because the reality of it is even at sixteen hundred dollars people are gonna buy it so ultimately you're gonna end up with whatever RTX 490 is in stock even if this thing is only you know 30 40 50 faster than a 30 90 TI in traditionally rendered games which it looks like it could very well be NVIDIA really didn't want to talk about that that much 30 90 TI's are still going for like 800 to 950 bucks on eBay 30 90s though ooh 390s are down like 700 750 which means that could be a pretty compelling option compared to this that's got to be Jake leaving for the day he's the only one with a car that loud this is actually a greater than three slot card can you guys believe this we've gotten to the point where I mean how far off just having like a seven wide like you just put it in that top PCIe slot and it's less of just it's less of a card and more of just like a module you just take the whole thing and you just put the whole thing in there it just takes up the whole Space you know now that I've said it someone like Jesus is totally gonna build that anyway we can't really speculate on all the details when it comes to Performance because we haven't been allowed to test the card and talk about it yet so that's it ShortCircuit unboxing and get over on LTT so you can check out the full review"}