How good is The Settlers: New Alliances and what do Nvidia's smaller GeForce RTX 4070, 4060 and 4050 laptop GPUs do? Jan and Fabian take up two loose threads from the previous week, but in both cases there is no treasure waiting at the other end. There is good news from the last game tests.
CB radio: The eighth episode
It's not just Fabian who feared it: Ubisoft's new real-time development strategy game is the expected disappointment. A year after the beta debacle, the developers have made some adjustments, but have not eliminated the fundamental construction sites. It also becomes very fundamental when discussing the three smaller Ada Lovelace GPUs for notebooks: The fact that the graphics memory is the limiting factor has now become a running gag for Nvidia's middle class – the VRAM simply doesn't want to grow. Even almost seven years after the GeForce GTX 1070 (test) or its mobile version, the 70 class has to make do with just 8 GB of graphics memory in the notebook. And the three new laptop GPUs in the test don't necessarily make a well-rounded impression in other respects either.
On the other hand, three new games were a positive surprise this week: The roguelike shooter Returnal (test), the Soviet shooter Atomic Heart (test) and the real-time strategy game Company of Heroes 3 (test) all three run surprisingly well on the PC. By the way, most ComputerBase readers have it under their desks, as the results of last weekend's Sunday question show. We hope you enjoy listening!
CB radio on Spotify, Apple, Google and Deezer
CB radio can not only be played via the embedded Podigee player, but can also be conveniently heard in the podcast apps of your choice. The ComputerBase podcast is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music and Deezer.
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At this point comes the obligatory note: CB radio can also be integrated into most podcast players via RSS. The corresponding URL is: https://computerbase.podigee.io/feed/mp3.
CB-Funk Podcast Episode #8: When the graphics memory just doesn't want to grow