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Yeah, there's no doubt in my mind that this is a bad thing for the game and VR in general. We need less platform lock in, not more.

Don't trust the hardware survey. If the headset isn't plugged in it doesn't exist. Not many people leave the headset plugged in 24/7, so I don't think the HW survey is a reliable source.

I don't think it's actually trending downward, the hardware survey only shows devices connected at the time. I have two vr headsets and I only plug them in when I'm actually using them, so according to the survey I don't have one. I'm sure a lot of people do the same. Also, totally ancedotal evidence, but four of my friends bought into VR in the last few months since the price finally came down low enough for them to do it and they wanted to play Beat Saber. If that can sell headsets Half Life certainly can.

It seems like ECC support is pretty widespread, I know for a fact that my Asus Prime X570-PRO has an option for ECC memory in the bios and it's a midrange board. Might depend on the board manufacturer to enable it. Asus seems to have it in most if not all of their boards.

FYI Steam doesn't even have content restrictions on the marketplace now. There's a ton of adult games on there now. So not the best point.

Hmm, I see 1.0.0.3abba was released for that board on 9-18-2019. That should include the fix, although I'm not an expert, maybe it isn't there for some reason?

You would definitely be fine as long as you're using an updated motherboard with at least AGESA 1003ABB, which would be any x570 board and likely the vast majority of x470s by now.

It was patched for almost all systems almost immediately like he said. I suspect the reason he still had the bug was due to the Asrock Rack X470D4U motherboard being an older generation board, and also a micro atx server board of all things. They might have only sold a couple hundred of them total in a niche like that so it's not too surprising it would be a low priority on the bios update list.

I also find it kind of funny that he calls Asrock Asus every single time he mentions them in the article. If he was trying to install an Asus bios on his Asrock mobo then he's got bigger problems than this bug.

Yes, I know, but it never actually goes below 4.0 for me on all cores when doing a render. The 4.6 was referring to my 4770k which was at 4.6 on all cores all the time.

I see you've met my CTO.

Can being the keyword. None of that is even close to required. You have the option to tinker, you aren't required to.

Not sure what cpus you're looking at but everything in the desktop space is over 4ghz nowadays. My last cpu was at 4.6ghz its entire life and my 3900x stays at over 4ghz on all 12 cores when doing a render.

The website it's linked on is called widgetsandshit.com. I think that's a bigger problem if you're that worried.

Seriously, the attitudes of so many people on here are absolutely disgusting. Why don't we throw all the poor people in camps while we're at it?

I remember my uncle playing my copy of Bioshock way back when, he walked up to a random door and typed in 0451 and it opened. My mind was blown.