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Yes they do. They use the word "surround". That's a lie. They claim to improve audio across the board, for music movies and anything else. That's a lie. They claim to enhance immersion by making it sound more real. That's a lie.

Everything all of these programs do around achieving "surround" is fake garbage.

I said the only REAL thing some of them do is let you hear better in games, and thats arguably cheating.

It has more in common with wallhacks than turning graphics down.

That's what I said.

If someone else turns up footstep audio with additional software, you have to do it too.

But just use a damn equaliser then. Not some "surround gaming audio" processor that at worst does way more to hurt audio quality than help it.

These programs don't help you hear other players by using some magic 3d audio. They literally just make footsteps louder, because the audio is already 3d.

You can also get the same result by just lowering all the audio sliders in the game, except SFX, and then using a louder volume.

These "audio processing" programs are fake garbage.

No.

But why would you want to?

All "virtual surround" solutions for headphones are absolute crap. You have two ears. The headphones have two speakers. Any modern game is already processing the 3D position of sounds and creating the appropriate stereo signal.

All any additional processing does is make it sound worse. At best these programs are just an audio equaliser that makes footsteps louder, that's not some fancy processing, and is arguably cheating.

Wow. An update that adds stuff for free, can't believe they didn't make photo mode paid DLC.

Such generosity!

I was sold when I heard Keanu Reeves is gonna be Shadow the Hedgehog.

It's so beyond dumb it loops back to genius.

It works for both.

Bungie, basking in heat of red hot FOMO: what?

Blizzard: gagging at the smell of games preservation

EA: it's in the game? when did we say that?

Ubisoft: why would you play the old game? the new one is exactly the same

Are you saying Dead Space does have a sexy lady? Or that CERO is more lenient on gore for games that do?

Japanese media does get weird with the lewd stuff, but the rules and regulations are just as harsh and unbending on the sexual stuff as they are on violence.

The article does explicitly state that Stellar Blade features both dismemberment and cuts showing cross-sections of internal organs.

Did you read the article?

Dead Space was denied a rating entirely, which meant a console release in Japan was impossible.

Basically, Dead Space was rated "unreleaseble" on the CERO scale, while Stellar Blade, which is arguably gorier and sexier, is now getting the greenlight.

Which is a WTF moment.

Depends on the task and the hardware. Disk operations can be anywhere between instant and hours.

In some cases, days. When I last retired some drives in my NAS, the task of moving the partitions onto new drives was a 48 hour process.

Like already said, unless you're sure something has gone wrong, don't interrupt. As long as it's still doing its thing, it'll get there.

It's kind of hit or miss. Depending on how full the partition is and how exactly the data is arranged, windows may not be able to shrink even a non-boot partition.

The built-in partition manager doesn't seem to be capable of rearranging anything, so you kind of just have to rely on luck for the shrink operation to be possible.

Hence why third party tools like easus are still in business on the windows side.