I’ve been playing a bit of Minecraft this weekend and noticed much worse raytracing performance than previously. After a bit of investigation it looks like a regression was introduced with 1.16...
https://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/workaround-for-raytracing-performance-issues-in-minecraft/
Increasing the view distance beyond 24 chunks is possible in Minecraft with RTX enabled, by changing raytracing_viewdistance in options.txt.
https://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/increasing-view-distance-with-raytracing-enabled-in-minecraft/
I've been looking forward to Silent Hunter 5 for a while now as regular readers will know I am a bit of a submarine fan. Playing number 2 and 3 to death, for those wondering Silent Hunter 4 was s...
https://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/silent-hunter-5-out-very-soon-and-i-m-not-buying-it/
Today it finally happened. After so much waiting and hard work, so many recipes and so much chilled meat and northern spice, Dinendal, Guardian of Cenarius finally has his . Below is my buying th...
https://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/my-proudest-achievement-to-date/
So I've just logged back into World of Warcraft after having a break for 5 weeks. I see the spammers have got a new way to spam links in the game now. By making URLs out of corpses. Sigh.
https://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/spam-never-ending-in-world-of-warcraft/
Coming to a computer next year, the fifth installment in the Silent Hunter series, this time we're back in the Atlantic (we should have never left) with the Kriegsmarine. New features: Walk throu...
So as one might expect the Steam servers have been hammered today. And it seems a number of people who have actually brought the retail version, are having Empire Total War get downloaded via Ste...
https://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/retail-empire-total-war-downloading-from/
The Empire Total War demo went up today, after waiting almost 6 hours for it to download (Steam was under a bit of strain, the UK server was trickling it down at 12KB/s, so I had to use the US Ea...
War rages throughout our lands. Only the bravest heroes dare strike the Horde where it hurts them most. You are among such heroes. The blows you have delivered to the leadership of the Horde will...
Seems like somebody at Sony's Liverpool studios couldn't resist making some modifications to the Halo 3 entry on Wikipedia. Seems they wanted to include an extra little bit onto... Halo 3, the th...
https://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/halo_3_wikipedia_entry_edited_by_sony/