| 00:07.09 | Noshei | ZorbaBeta: I see they are going to do a big pts test on friday, you looking for graphics feedback from that as well? |
| 00:21.52 | ZorbaBeta | absolutely :) |
| 00:23.02 | ZorbaBeta | in fact I'm reasonably certain the PTS test is mostly for the purpose of testing my changes :V |
| 00:24.40 | ZorbaBeta | that said . . . if you want to go totally crazy with testing madness . . . ftp://ftp.trionworlds.com/rift/addon/TrionDebugTools.zip watch that URL to see if it becomes an addon tomorrow, and if it does, try installing it (and running it with /debug, and following instructions) before the test |
| 00:24.54 | ZorbaBeta | (yes, debug tools, yes, that's a 404 right now, it maybe won't be tomorrow) |
| 00:33.04 | Noshei | I'll have to try and not forget then |
| 00:33.13 | Noshei | will those tools only work on pts? |
| 00:34.26 | Ivnedar | woooooo @ debugging tools :D |
| 00:40.06 | Noshei | ZorbaBeta: if I remember correctly you had said before that most of the graphics/rendering changes on the pts are spell effect related, is that still the case? |
| 00:49.32 | ZorbaBeta | if the debug tools show up, those are new and exciting and cover pretty much all rendering |
| 00:49.40 | ZorbaBeta | the rest is spell effect related |
| 00:49.49 | ZorbaBeta | and the debug tools will in fact work on live as well, as long as we leave the functionality enabled :V |
| 00:50.24 | Ivnedar | but only when the pts build hits live? or the hooks are there now? |
| 00:50.46 | ZorbaBeta | that is an interesting question actually |
| 00:50.58 | ZorbaBeta | there are hooks on live right now for the debug tools, but they're not *these* hooks |
| 00:51.15 | ZorbaBeta | the debug interface is wholly undocumented and unsupported; if you knew the magic incantations you could break the game's performance in a few interesting ways |
| 00:51.30 | ZorbaBeta | when the next major patch hits, those hooks will vanish, quietly replaced by the new hooks for the new feature :V |
| 00:51.35 | Ivnedar | :) |
| 00:52.00 | ZorbaBeta | obviously I'm expecting you guys to tear apart the debug addon instantly, but note that these features really are entirely unsupported, so don't be surprised, at all, if they stop working without notice |
| 00:53.11 | Ivnedar | seebs: nice vladd troll :) |
| 00:53.44 | ZorbaBeta | (I think the documentation for the function actually says "do not call this function") |
| 00:55.14 | Noshei | dang, I had almost 3 GCP's worth of crap quality gems in my bank |
| 00:55.27 | Noshei | 6% short of 3 |
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| 01:43.27 | Imhothar | awesome, there are people on the C++ forum who put arguments like "easier" to type forward |
| 01:43.37 | Imhothar | and everyone assumes the whole world is using the english keyboard layout |
| 01:58.42 | seebs | Zorba, that's actually sort of awesome. I am okay with it being undocumented. :P |
| 02:13.48 | Ivnedar | I'm assuming these debug tools allow us to do things like giving ourselves 100k credits, uncompleting quests so we can complete them again, etc |
| 02:24.25 | seebs | I was guessing "toggle rendering engine options or display info about rendering state". |
| 02:24.58 | Ivnedar | :DF |
| 02:25.00 | Ivnedar | :D |
| 03:26.47 | seebs | Huh. |
| 03:26.52 | seebs | I just had a fascinating thought for an addon. |
| 03:27.28 | seebs | A thing like Resource Radar, only, with party/group communications, so you can have people collaborating to improve efficiency. :) |
| 03:34.39 | Ivnedar | to warn you if someone else is nearby? |
| 03:36.03 | Ivnedar | I was considering a plugin to it to store every node it's ever seen |
| 03:37.28 | Ivnedar | but kinda isn't the point of it |
| 03:38.07 | Ivnedar | Boss has decided he wants to buy AR Drones and MyDouble bots for work |
| 03:38.24 | Ivnedar | I'm trying to convince him to get a robot from Boston Dynamics |
| 03:41.03 | seebs | Well, also so that, say, if you have friends with lower gathering skills, you can pick up nodes they can't, or several of you can cooperate to sweep an area. |
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| 06:23.55 | Ivnedar | killing in the name of has an amusing game mechanic |
| 06:24.44 | Ivnedar | you're a soldier, and due to ever shifting political alliances, who your enemy is is changing rapidly through the game |
| 06:24.57 | Ivnedar | that could be an interesting conquest mod |
| 06:25.26 | Ivnedar | have more factions, and divide them into two metafactions that are hostile to each other but friendly inside that metafaction |
| 06:25.35 | Ivnedar | but, every x minutes, those metafactions change |
| 06:26.03 | Ivnedar | do you move apart during a shift, preemptively surround your allies before a shift, etc |
| 06:27.19 | Ivnedar | <PROTECTED> |
| 06:28.05 | Ivnedar | which could make for interesting convos when they change :) |
| 06:30.37 | Ivnedar | scores could be faction based, and you gain them from the metafaction while you're in it |
| 06:32.55 | Ivnedar | objectives are tied to the metafactions, so you may want to be sitting on one during a shift so you can switch it to your new side if you shift |
| 06:35.01 | Ivnedar | the shifts could be on a more random schedule if you wanted to add more chaos and less planning into it |
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| 09:12.40 | Ivnedar | so, apparently there 's a +0 and a -0 coord in Trove |
| 09:12.45 | Ivnedar | both show up as 0 |
| 09:16.38 | Ivnedar | this becomes really annoying when you're buying 500x500 structures and you get back to complete the square and they're off by one ... |
| 10:37.36 | Amadeus- | I wish there was a way to recover a name on a server from someone that obviously isn't playing anymore. Or, at least have the ability to send then an email through Rift's website or something. |
| 10:53.23 | Ivnedar | They cleared names on idle toons not long ago |
| 11:27.59 | ZorbaBeta | ivnedar, should definitely report that as a bug |
| 11:28.08 | Ivnedar | the trove one? |
| 11:28.11 | ZorbaBeta | yeah |
| 11:28.29 | Ivnedar | hrrm, guess I need to make a reddit account |
| 11:29.15 | Ivnedar | My "Block Out The Sun" project was picked up by someone else and continued, it turned up an amusing bug :D |
| 11:29.29 | Ivnedar | built a platform over the starting area at the top of the world, +255 |
| 11:29.47 | Ivnedar | the town portals they added in spawn on the highest point over the town square :D |
| 11:30.01 | Ivnedar | I assume that's so people don't build around them and cause people to spawn underground |
| 11:30.18 | Ivnedar | But, that meant they spawned on my platform way up in the sky :D |
| 11:30.24 | ZorbaBeta | hah :D |
| 11:31.41 | Ivnedar | I'm now building a 500x500x255 box |
| 11:31.53 | Ivnedar | hence running into the two 0's issue |
| 11:33.10 | Ivnedar | looks like cornerstones top out at 209 too, and the area above that is immutable to the world top |
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| 11:56.56 | Ivnedar | oh no, I've discovered a griefing tactic |
| 11:57.54 | Ivnedar | I'm clearing blocks 1-2 blocks below the surface, I can hear people running around above me, if they attack a fire plant or a bottle plant, they get sucked through the ground to me |
| 11:58.03 | Ivnedar | and the person on the surface has no idea what happened |
| 12:59.15 | Amadeus- | ( Ivnedar ) They cleared names on idle toons not long ago |
| 12:59.23 | Amadeus- | on all servers? I thought it was specific servers only |
| 13:00.50 | Ivnedar | all I thought |
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| 14:48.58 | Repo | New addon: Dimension Tools - http://www.curseforge.com/addons/dimension-tools/ |
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| 15:21.11 | ZorbaTHut | ftp://ftp.trionworlds.com/rift/addon/TrionDebugTools.zip is now available, for those who are participating in the PTS test today and want to test some even-more-experimental stuff :V |
| 15:21.17 | Ivnedar | woo |
| 15:21.29 | Ivnedar | immediately tries it on live |
| 15:25.55 | Ivnedar | awwh, disabled :P |
| 15:27.02 | ZorbaTHut | :V |
| 15:27.13 | ZorbaTHut | as if I wouldn't have thought of that :P |
| 15:30.16 | Ivnedar | :D |
| 15:36.22 | Ivnedar | Hrrm, I wonder what time the PTS test is |
| 15:36.51 | Ivnedar | 3pm ST |
| 15:37.07 | Ivnedar | 7 and a bit hours, ok |
| 15:37.11 | Ivnedar | wonder if I'll be awake for that |
| 15:38.40 | Noshei | ./logs on pts |
| 15:40.30 | Ivnedar | awwh, doesn't work on pts yet |
| 15:40.54 | Noshei | yeah |
| 15:41.08 | Ivnedar | damn cleric hp scaling :P |
| 15:41.19 | Noshei | ? |
| 15:41.30 | Noshei | whys that? |
| 15:41.31 | Ivnedar | your hp! |
| 15:42.06 | Noshei | oh that is cause of dream orbs |
| 15:42.19 | Ivnedar | I've got all 4 of mine on, and you're missing 1 |
| 15:42.52 | Noshei | sec logging back on |
| 15:43.36 | Noshei | still have the dream orbs on all my other gear |
| 15:43.52 | Ivnedar | oh, ok, that may be why |
| 15:43.58 | Ivnedar | dream orbs are 4 slots only now |
| 15:44.04 | Ivnedar | and you have them still on the other slots |
| 15:44.09 | Noshei | yeah |
| 15:44.37 | Ivnedar | yeah, that's another 300 end |
| 15:45.53 | Noshei | not bad 110k with some buffs |
| 15:46.08 | Noshei | add in a defiler and rogue cd and I could easily hit 130k I think |
| 15:46.30 | Noshei | actually can you bm cd me, the hp increase one? |
| 15:46.49 | Ivnedar | I have no bm spec, let me go make one |
| 15:46.58 | Noshei | oh dont worry about it |
| 15:48.18 | Noshei | damn, might be able to hit 150k with defiler |
| 15:48.45 | Ivnedar | easily |
| 15:49.57 | Noshei | I dont think anyone where I work is actually working today |
| 15:50.36 | Ivnedar | what hp are you at self buffed on live now? |
| 15:50.40 | Ivnedar | ~80k? |
| 15:51.14 | Noshei | no vial or anything 78,800 |
| 15:51.49 | Noshei | but now I'm not going to be tanking any more :( |
| 15:52.17 | Ivnedar | why's that? |
| 15:52.47 | Noshei | joined a new guild as a healer (I had left vendetta a bout 3 weeks ago) |
| 15:53.22 | Noshei | no guilds were wanting a cleric tank, at least none that were progressed as far as I wanted (which is not that many) |
| 15:53.30 | Ivnedar | yeah |
| 15:53.38 | Ivnedar | tanks are pretty much set in stone in progress guilds |
| 15:54.05 | Noshei | I could have gone to addiction and tanked there, but didn't really want to go there |
| 15:55.15 | Ivnedar | they're having number issues at the moment too aren't they? |
| 15:55.29 | Noshei | not really |
| 16:14.41 | Noshei | so ZorbaTHut I take it we should expect a new pts build at some point today that will enable the addon hooks for the debug addon |
| 16:25.45 | ZorbaTHut | the hooks have actually been in the PTS codebase for a day or two. I don't know if there's going to be a new build today, but I'm pretty sure that, one way or another, the hooks will exist |
| 16:26.03 | ZorbaTHut | btw don't spread that addon around too much, I want most of the testers not using the addon :V |
| 16:26.42 | ZorbaTHut | it's more of an experimental let's-see-if-the-next-set-of-changes-works thing |
| 16:27.19 | Ivnedar | *nod* |
| 16:45.56 | Noshei | so then ZorbaTHut is there a way we can mod that addon to get it to work on the pts now? |
| 17:05.08 | ZorbaTHut | if it works on the PTS already, then you don't need to mod it, just run it and see what happens. If it doesn't work on the PTS already, then no. :) |
| 17:05.26 | ZorbaTHut | (if it doesn't work it may end up not working for the test, but the same functionality will be on live after the big patch) |
| 17:35.14 | ZorbaTHut | looks like it's not on the PTS yet and may or may not make it, depending on if we have time to get a new client out by then |
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| 18:35.14 | seebs | ! |
| 18:35.19 | seebs | Healing potions. Chloro gift. |
| 18:35.21 | seebs | This actually works. |
| 18:53.08 | Repo | dimension-tools: kikimora_ * r2 (105 files in 10 directories): First upload to the Repository of Dimension Tools. |
| 18:53.08 | Repo | After this there will be more detailed change logs in here. |
| 19:02.36 | Noshei | Ivnedar, ZorbaTHut looks like pts just got updated. So the debug tools might work now, cant check just yet shards are still down |
| 19:11.41 | Noshei | seebs: for you issue with gadgets, open the config for your party/raid frames and uncheck solo at the very top |
| 19:20.03 | seebs | Oh, okay. |
| 19:42.09 | Noshei | ZorbaTHut: looks like latest pts update enabled the debug stuff |
| 19:42.20 | ZorbaTHut | yep, excellent :) |
| 19:43.03 | Noshei | lol ZorbaTHut I got a bug |
| 19:43.26 | Noshei | I hit PCQ ON and everything except my UI goes black |
| 19:43.38 | ZorbaTHut | oh dang, it must have gotten that one build that was broken |
| 19:43.42 | Noshei | oh I moved and now it is yellow |
| 19:43.43 | ZorbaTHut | okay, ignore the trion debug tools, then |
| 19:43.46 | ZorbaTHut | so it goes :) |
| 19:44.28 | Noshei | what is it doing? |
| 19:44.29 | ZorbaTHut | it'll be on live once live shows up, and testing at that point will also be appreciated. In the meantime, I care about the VFX performance and stability more than this crazy experimental feature ;) |
| 19:44.47 | ZorbaTHut | it's a different way of dealing with shader parameters and rendering settings. I'm hoping to significantly reduce the cpu overhead of rendering. |
| 19:45.04 | ZorbaTHut | since rift is still heavily cpu-bound in high-action situations, this might be a pretty nice performance increase. |
| 19:45.14 | Noshei | ah |
| 19:45.39 | ZorbaTHut | this is also a section that flat-out can't be multithreaded since dx9 rendering is all about modifying global state |
| 19:46.36 | ZorbaTHut | but this lets us move some of the heavy lifting earlier in the frame, and possibly even multithread it, so the rendering code will - as much as possible - just take pre-assembled data and wildly throw it at the graphics card |
| 19:47.01 | ZorbaTHut | All that said, note that I've found at least four sources claiming that this is impossible, so no guarantees I can get the whole thing working. |
| 19:47.14 | ZorbaTHut | Promising so far, however. :) |
| 19:47.53 | Noshei | I believe in you! |
| 19:49.02 | Noshei | so ZorbaTHut I got gmp for my spectres now, and wow |
| 19:49.12 | Noshei | plus they have built in chain |
| 19:49.19 | ZorbaTHut | fun with rendering debug output: walking around iron pine peak and all the ice looks like a checkerboard |
| 19:49.21 | Noshei | and they have lmp as well |
| 19:49.26 | ZorbaTHut | yeah, gmp+chain is really strong |
| 19:49.28 | Noshei | lol nice |
| 19:49.38 | ZorbaTHut | you may want to dump lmp in favor of something else, gmp+lmp is pretty strongly anti-synergistic |
| 19:49.56 | Noshei | na the mobs I'm using have lmp and chain as part of them |
| 19:50.03 | ZorbaTHut | ah okay |
| 19:50.17 | Noshei | the new desecrate skill is amazing |
| 19:50.52 | Noshei | go to eternal labs and hit desecrate a few times and all the flame sents bodies it spawns will have lmp and chain |
| 19:51.06 | ZorbaTHut | oh very cool. will have to try that out |
| 19:51.41 | Noshei | desecrate spawns bodies based on the map you use it on (go to lunaris and I can get burned miscreations |
| 19:53.50 | Noshei | so my spectres now have lmp+gmp+chain+minion damage+faster casting+added lightning damage |
| 19:54.25 | Noshei | I might change the lightning to chaos though |
| 19:56.35 | seebs | So if you found four sources claiming it's impossible, what makes you think it *is* possible? |
| 19:57.21 | seebs | BTW, I forgot to mention, the guy the other night saying that Rift's problems had absolutely nothing to do with the game being limited by a single main thread? He programmed C/C++ for a living, so he probably knew more about rendering than any of us do. |
| 19:57.28 | seebs | I love MMO experts. |
| 19:58.12 | seebs | I ran into someone once whose authority for claims that homosexuality was completely chosen by sinful people was being a nurse. Nurses being, as we all know, absolute authorities on all biological claims. |
| 19:58.36 | ZorbaTHut | seebs, I didn't really believe those sources - they didn't have a good argument for it being impossible. Difficult, sure, but impossible? Pfft. Impossible is a *big* word. |
| 19:59.03 | seebs | One key observation I've had is: Lots of things are impossible to do without errors. |
| 19:59.09 | ZorbaTHut | Aside from a few lingering graphics issues, the main development branch now works fine in the new mode. |
| 19:59.19 | seebs | But you may well be able to constrain the errors so that they do not have impact you care about. |
| 19:59.28 | seebs | I mean, pseudo's obviously impossible, but in practice it works. |
| 19:59.36 | ZorbaTHut | yeah, and there's always ways we can tweak the shaders if we absolutely need to |
| 19:59.38 | ZorbaTHut | though I'm trying to avoid that |
| 20:01.01 | seebs | So when you say "nice", are we talking 5%? 50%? |
| 20:01.43 | ZorbaTHut | it's going to depend *heavily* on hardware, but even now, with lots of debug code and half-finished improvements, I'm getting 10-20% improvement in the worst case. I'm rather optimistic. |
| 20:02.02 | ZorbaTHut | Note that the best it will get is "your graphics card is now running at 100%", so if you were already at capacity on your graphics card, it'll be 0% |
| 20:02.13 | ZorbaTHut | but most people weren't, especially in high-action areas. |
| 20:02.39 | ZorbaTHut | ("10-20%" is with a hypothetical infinitely-fast graphics card) |
| 20:02.40 | seebs | My gaming machine is currently running ~20-25fps in cities, ~40fps in quieter environments, and ~10fps or lower in things like zone events. |
| 20:02.50 | seebs | And I don't know that the GPU ever even hits 50% load. |
| 20:03.26 | ZorbaTHut | Rift is a pretty computationally simple game - my goal is that it should max out your GPU almost constantly. So, if I can pull that off, 100% fps gain for you. No promises. :V |
| 20:03.49 | seebs | Experientially, there's somewhere between high 20s and mid 40s where Suddenly It Looks Smooth to me. |
| 20:03.52 | ZorbaTHut | oh, and speaking of the issues with maxing out GPUs, I added a frame-cap-while-focused config entry - look in rift.ini |
| 20:03.58 | seebs | YAYYYY |
| 20:04.14 | seebs | You have NO idea how much that will improve my world. |
| 20:04.42 | seebs | In particular: A *steady* frame rate can be less disruptive than one which stutters a bit, and also laptops sounding like jet engines. |
| 20:04.43 | ZorbaTHut | there's no easy end-user-facing slash command because I didn't want to deal with "why is my game running badly" "because you told it to run badly >:(", but for people who need it, it's there |
| 20:04.55 | seebs | That's fine for me. :) |
| 20:05.17 | seebs | I have experimentally altered my RiftRC addon to automatically coroutineify hunks of code it's running. |
| 20:05.43 | seebs | If something it calls does coroutine.yield(x), it prints a message like "Background task 1: x", and then resumes it again next-frame. |
| 20:05.51 | seebs | If there's no yields, behavior doesn't change. |
| 20:06.45 | seebs | Gah. Paperwork looms. |
| 20:06.46 | seebs | Jesse' |
| 20:06.54 | seebs | Jesse's name change happened, now we have to go update everything. |
| 20:06.56 | seebs | This will take a while. |
| 20:09.22 | seebs | wtf |
| 20:09.26 | seebs | Okay, that's a new experience. |
| 20:09.37 | seebs | Two consecutive grocery store runs, with completely different lists, came out to $116.15. |
| 23:07.11 | ZorbaTHut | testing happening, btw :V |
| 23:14.32 | seebs | D&D night, can't go do. |
| 23:14.43 | ZorbaTHut | such is life. enjoy d&d :) |
| 23:14.58 | seebs | BTW, ZorbaTHut, possibly of interest to you and/or other folks, I am planning to do a fairly detailed writeup at some point of the kinds of things I do and don't see on screen in MMOs, especially in new content. |
| 23:15.14 | ZorbaTHut | I'll definitely be interested in that |
| 23:15.19 | seebs | Because while I'm a bit extreme, a bit of chatting has revealed that every autistic player I know has SOME of this difficulty. |
| 23:15.34 | seebs | It's just that, for me, a combat I've never seen before is basically incomprehensible light and shapes, with no discernable patterns. |
| 23:16.06 | seebs | So first time in RotD, it took me quite a while to figure out what the "yellow AoEs" looked like, and longer still to figure out that they centered on plants. |
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| 23:46.30 | Amadeus- | heh http://forums.riftgame.com/general-discussions/general-discussion/411932-flying-mounts-harvesting-please-3.html#post4682393 |
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| 23:47.49 | Amadeus- | hey ZorbaBeta, ZorbaTHut ...would it really be impossible to put in "flying" in Rift? (mounts aside) ...in other words, would it be easier/possible to just give an ascended 'flying' ability versus having actual "flying mounts" ....or, will the zone files just not allow for flying? |
| 23:48.03 | Amadeus- | I'm sure designers can fly around when building stuff, so assume someone has seen what it looks like :) |
| 23:48.29 | ZorbaTHut | amadeus, it's terrible game design, and most of our zones look really really bad from the air. also there's no benefit to it. so . . . not likely. :) |
| 23:48.35 | Amadeus- | just seems to me that "limited height" flight would be possible just based on my experience moving around the world |
| 23:48.40 | Amadeus- | it would make money :) |
| 23:48.58 | Amadeus- | just getting high enough to avoid aggro would be worth $20 to me :) |
| 23:48.58 | Amadeus- | heheh |
| 23:49.22 | ZorbaTHut | not enough to justify the cost. especially because, if we started selling flying mounts for cash only, it would destroy people's trust |
| 23:50.33 | Amadeus- | I dunno ..it's not something required to participate in all elements of the game. (again, especially if it were only able to fly like 10-15m off the ground at maximum) ....SURELY people understand that there needs to be "money makers" in the game for the game to survive....surely. |
| 23:50.38 | Amadeus- | but, I'm sure you're right. |
| 23:51.02 | Amadeus- | I'm not a big "flying mount" guy ...but, at the same time, I don't think it ruins a game either. It just makes getting hwere I want to go more convenient. |
| 23:51.47 | Amadeus- | I will say though, that I find "travel time sinks" to be one of the lowest forms of game development. Making people spend time "waiting" to get from point A to point B is not good design either imo. |
| 23:51.59 | Amadeus- | Rift doesn't have a lot of that ...but some games do (or did) |
| 23:52.22 | Amadeus- | --- |
| 23:52.47 | Amadeus- | btw, I tried the Wildstar beta if anyone is curious about it. |
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| 23:55.27 | seebs | Speaking of perception... |
| 23:55.58 | seebs | In the level 60 solo chronicle, while jumping around on storm legion airships, I dodge AoEs. Like, big red areas appear, so I leave them. |
| 23:56.03 | seebs | Are those *coming from* something, or are they just sort of there? |
| 23:56.15 | seebs | Like, should I be shooting something to make those stop, or is that just a plot point? |
| 23:56.50 | seebs | I have absolutely no idea. I know there's some dragons around, and also a big thing I'm supposed to kill, but I can't tell whether either of those is why there's always AoEs showing up. |
| 23:57.17 | seebs | ... I am perhaps not super fond of that event for reasons pertaining to this, which is why I haven't done it more often. I might actually get it if I do it more often. |
| 23:59.39 | seebs | While I am thinking of it: Is there a remotely sane way to find out relative GPU and CPU consumption while Rift is running? I have seen a few tools which claim to measure such things to varying degrees, but they have not been super informative to me. |