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Cake day: April 5th, 2024

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  • If Stingray is the problem: During the early project phase Stingray was discontinued. They knew that for a really long time (at least 6 years) and still continued with it.

    I however doubt that Stingray is the problem because

    • these problems persist since launch
    • most games on other older engines run smoothly if properly optimized
    • how is it possible that they picked this engine in 2018, when GPUs from that timeframe have serious performance problems? The only explanations are: Either they never tested this at the start or they added a bunch of problematic stuff during development in their code

    So anyway it’s entirely their fault.



  • Okay so not sure why you posted this AFTER buying it and not asking before but here are my 5 cents:

    1500 AUD are roughly $1000. I think this price is overall ok for the specs that you got, however I’m not sure about the specs themselfs.

    Due to current RAM and GPU prices I would have bought a laptop with no dedicated GPU. The integrated GPU is usually enough for watching videos, doing basic work and as long as you don’t play any games (if you do so you shouldn’t buy a laptop in the first place).

    I’m not sure how it is in your case but most laptops I had have extendable/switchable RAM. I would have bought a laptop that has a single 8-16GB RAM stick pre-installed and has one extension slot so that you can upgrade once the RAM prices go down again.

    Also get rid of this preinstalled Windows 11 Home that has likely a ton of bloatware preinstalled. I recommend a full clean Linux or Windows 10/11 Pro installation (btw here’s a possibility how to activate it once installed).