This is not a BUG, this is a game feature

Mid-July, Zhonghai.

Although the development work of "Abba" is still continuing, Chen Ba has already left Jiangning and drove to the headquarters of China Mirage Electronics.

There's something big happening today!

After a long wait, Mirage Electronics is ready to release a 7090Ti graphics card for the PC market.

Of course, a release is a release…

The press conference is just to explain to the majority of players that the graphics card market has welcomed a new player - Mirage Electronics. As for when this graphics card called "Jian Shen 7090Ti" will be available for purchase, it is still unknown.

All parameters are fine.

After all, this is the first graphics card made by Mirage Electronics. It must be very sincere when it comes to stacking materials, and the expected pricing is also quite impressive.

Products from other competitors with the same core frequency and video memory specifications are mostly priced at RMB 8,000 or 9,000, while the 36G version of Mirage Electronics' "Jianshen 7090Ti" only costs RMB 6,499!

"So powerful?"

Guo Mo, who came across this news by chance, had no intention of changing the graphics card, but the price still made him very tempted.

After all, you can buy a 7090Ti for RMB 6,500, which is nearly RMB 2,000 cheaper than its competitors. If you say you are not impressed, you would be lying.

Fortunately, the 60-series graphics card he is currently using is somewhat out of date, so he can take this opportunity to upgrade it to a 70-series graphics card.

After Guo Mo had an idea, he immediately opened the homepage of Xianyu Digital and planned to buy a "Sword God" graphics card.

Who knew...

This thing can only be pre-ordered now and is not in stock at all! And if you pre-order, even Xianyu Digital’s customer service can’t tell you the specific delivery date.

"Dear dear, the current production capacity is insufficient and the launch of new products requires multiple rounds of testing of roasting machines. Please understand..."

The explanation given by Xianyu Digital is that Mirage Electronics, as a new brand and new player in the field of graphics cards, has indeed very low production capacity. Even if Nvidia and AMD provide enough chips, they still cannot produce them.

It would be great to have 2,000 graphics cards in stock in the early stage!

In fact... the truth is far more cruel than Guo Mo thought. The first batch of trial production of "Sword God 7090Ti" by Mirage Electronics only had 167 photos.

Yes, 167 photos!

The first batch is less than 200 pieces, and the second batch is less than 500 pieces. These two batches of goods are either given to game studios at home and abroad, or used for extreme testing or to turn on the machine. Anyway, consumers buy it. Less than.

Chen Ba is also aware of this problem, so he requires that the third batch of "Sword God" graphics cards produced must meet market demand as much as possible, and the quantity must not be less than 2,000!

Then comes the fourth batch, no less than 5,000 pieces...

After the fourth batch of production is completed, it's almost time to take a break and think about the next flagship "Juggernaut" series and "Sword Demon" and "Sword Queen" series graphics cards.

After all, Juggernaut is a top-level flagship graphics card with high price and high configuration. The market demand may not be huge. If six or seven thousand graphics cards are produced, it will be enough to sell them.

"Jian Shen is a high-end graphics card, and the demand is not that big. After all, Mirage Electronics is making graphics cards for the first time. Many consumers don't trust the craftsmanship and design, so sales will be very low. Just make some casual ones."

Chen Ba gave instructions: “When entering the field of graphics cards for the first time, you should focus on creating the “Sword Princess” series represented by 7060 and 7060Ti. "

This is the main force of shipment!

All joking aside, new graphics cards are released every year, and there seems to be a lot of quarrels around the 90s and 80s online, talking about squeezing out toothpaste configurations and reverse upgrades, etc. The popularity is simply unprecedented.

But in fact, the main contributors to sales of each generation of graphics cards are basically the 60 and 60Ti cards, and AMD's X600 series.

Anyway, graphics cards priced between 2000-4000 are always the most sold.

Chen Ba believes that the "Sword God" series of cards, which focus on high-end flagships, can be used casually. If Mirage Electronics wants to gain a foothold in the field of PC hardware, the "Sword Princess" series is its absolute trump card!

“We are new players, making graphics cards for the first time, and we don’t have so many loyal fans and fans to support us, so if we want to open up the market, the best strategy is to lower the price...”

"Can!"

Chen Ba agreed: "There is no problem in exchanging low prices for market share and sales. We are a new brand, and we must give consumers some benefit for the first time."

Not to mention making money, Chen Ba’s requirement for Mirage Electronics when entering the market for the first time was “don’t lose too much.”

That's right!

It is acceptable to give a little profit, or even sell at a cost price and lose some freight. After all, if a new brand wants to rise, it must first sell the graphics cards, right?

There is no discount on the price, and the brand does not have the blessing of faith like "Darenshuo". Why should consumers buy your card?

"By the way, Mr. Chen!"

"After our graphics card is released, many people will definitely buy it for testing. In addition to baking the machine and running rendering, the testing method will most likely be playing games..."

Having said this, several Mirage Electronics executives showed tacit smiles and all looked at the leader, Brother Ba.

I got a new graphics card, how about playing games to test the frame rate changes and heat generation?

What game are you playing?

The most popular games on the market, except for Goose Factory and Pig Factory, basically come from Tianba Studio, which is the brother company of Mirage Electronics.

Then here comes the problem.

Everyone is our own family, and after all, they all work for Brother Ba, so it’s okay to take care of our own people, right?

For a graphics card with the same specifications and frequency of video memory, my price is lower than yours. When playing games such as "Star Emperor 2" or "Cultivation Fantasy", "Fast Rush", "Pinball Storm" and other games, the frame rate is still higher than yours. Isn’t that what you should do to sell well?

"Don't worry, I'm prepared."

Chen Ba reassured everyone that he had already made arrangements for this. He had already passed the in-depth optimization module of the Tiehanhan system in advance and applied "special optimization" patches to each of his games.

Not only that.

In-game optimization is one thing. If you want to widen the gap, on the other hand, optimization at the hardware driver level is also indispensable.

A two-pronged approach ensures that Mirage Electronics’ graphics cards can achieve a frame rate higher than other graphics cards when playing Tianba’s games!

Others' 7060 can only run 2K60 frames, but Mirage Electronics' Jianji 7060 can run 4K70-80 frames. Isn't this a piece of cake?

The most outrageous thing is that the price of Jianji 7060 is several hundred yuan cheaper than the 7060 from other manufacturers...

Be reasonable!

After this combination of punches continued, Chen Ba felt that as long as players were not stupid, they would give priority to the new brand Mirage Electronics when buying new graphics cards.

In this way, Mirage Electronics can almost win its first battle into the PC hardware market.

Maybe the only problem is...

After installing the graphics card driver provided by Chen Ba, will these graphics cards from Mirage Electronics have the same unknown bugs as the "Galaxy Suite"?

Once bitten, twice shy!

After learning that Brother Ba wanted to take action on the drivers of these graphics cards and create some kind of chicken-blooded drivers, the faces of several people in charge of Mirage Electronics suddenly changed.

"No, no!"

"We can just do the driver ourselves. If you do it, if there is a bug like the Galaxy suit, the problem will be serious..."

This is the core hardware of a graphics card, which sells for thousands of dollars and is installed in a computer case!

If using the graphics card driver given by Chen Ba resulted in a problem with the graphics card, Mirage Electronics would have died before it even started.

This is why everyone tried their best to dissuade him and refused to agree to anything.

no way!

That time with the Galaxy suit, everyone was really scared. Before being sure that the graphics card driver written by Chen Ba was 100% safe, Mirage Electronics did not dare to use this driver.

"But……"

Chen Ba understands their concerns, but he also said that if it is not paired with a graphics card driver, the final optimization effect may not be so good if it is just optimized within the game.

"It's okay, that's enough."

"Just optimize it and make our graphics card game frame rate higher than that of our competitors. As for whether it is 10 frames higher or 20 frames higher, the effect will be the same."

This is not true at all.

Mirage graphics cards do not need to be optimized to an extreme level, they just need to be optimized better than graphics cards of the same level from competitors.

It's better than bad, who wouldn't?

Since the frame rate is not as important as imagined, there is no need to use the driver provided by Brother Ba on the graphics card.

"Okay, then we won't repair the driver."

Chen Ba sighed, with a slightly regretful expression on his face and said, "But having said that, I have already written the driver. If I can't install it, wouldn't it be wasted?"

"what do you mean……"

"Let's do this! Go back to the official website and put the "Chicken Blood Graphics Card Driver" I wrote for users to download and install. "

Chen Ba explained: "Before downloading and installing, create a pop-up window to remind the user that the driver may have unknown bugs, and we will not be responsible for any accidents."

"That's okay..."

This request is not too much. After all, it only provides a special driver version selection, and it is not an official recommendation. You will love it.

Anyway, I’ve told you the pros and cons.

This graphics card driver is an unofficial version and unknown problems may occur after installation. The advantage is that after installing the graphics card driver, you can get the ultimate frame rate when playing Tianba series games, and it will be smooth and smooth without lagging.

Let the players choose.

If you are willing to be a guinea pig and take a little risk to get a smoother and silkier gaming experience, then download and install it!

Anyway, the consequences have been explained clearly to you. After installing the driver, don’t be surprised no matter what outrageous bugs or loopholes appear, because this is a normal phenomenon.

…

After returning to Jiangning from Zhonghai, Chen Ba first went to the hospital to visit Lao Wang.

This was Lao Chen's request. It was not kind enough to say that he and Wang Ya had a heated relationship but rarely took time to visit his future father-in-law.

"What kind of future father-in-law?"

Chen Ba complained: "I haven't even written my horoscope yet, and you're already arranging a name for me?"

"Then tell me, what's the situation between you and Wang Ya now? We're chatting so passionately. Is it possible that you two are not compatible?"

"Nowhere!"

Chen Ba shook his head and denied: "She just took over a large company and lacks management experience. She often comes to me for advice."

"Ah this..."

When Lao Chen learned the truth, he cursed angrily: "I thought you two were in a relationship, but it turned out that all you two talked about was work?"

"What if?"

Chen Ba was also speechless. What else could we talk about if we didn’t talk about work? Should we talk about when Lao Wang belched his fart?

He understood what Lao Chen was thinking.

But to be honest, Chen Ba and Wang Ya were really friends, and there was no spark of love at all.

"You don't really like men, do you? That Yang Dong is already married, and you still miss him?" Old Chen said in shock.

Chen Ba: "???"

Who is spreading the rumor that he likes men? Just spread rumors, why is it always Brother Dong who has scandals with him?

Can't it be replaced by someone else?

"I... don't know how to describe it. Anyway, it's hard to like someone again, no matter how beautiful she is."

After all, it was his father, and Chen Ba couldn't bear to see him working so hard on his marriage, so he spoke the truth.

"Frigidity?"

Lao Chen frowned: "How did you get such a disease? After watching Lao Wang, you go to the doctor and ask. If you are sick, treat it. Don't delay..."

Chen Ba was completely speechless.

He finally understood that Lao Chen should not give up until he achieved his goal, and no matter what he said, it would be useless.

"I will try my best!"

"I'll give you an answer at the end of the year. Whether it's Wang Ya or anyone else, I will bring people back to celebrate the New Year with me this year."

"You asked an actor to lie to me, right?"

"If you don't look for an actor, the first target is Wang Ya, whom you like, followed by others."

Chen Ba said frankly: "I'll tell you the ugly things first. I will give you a chance to have a grandson, but in other aspects, please don't interfere."

Isn’t it just to hold a grandson?

Whether it was Lao Chen or Lao Wang who was lying in the ICU ward and said he was critically ill but getting better and better day by day, this was the only thing he was thinking about.

Then let's talk it out and say that Wang Ya and he have no feelings, but they can get together because of interests or "well-matched" and other reasons.

When the time comes to give birth to two children, one named Chen and the other named Wang, everyone will be happy!

He felt that Lao Chen would not object to this suggestion.

Even to put it harshly, the suggestion made by Chen Ba happened to be the wish that Comrade Lao Wang wanted to achieve most on the hospital bed.

emotion?

With the family background of both parties here, talking about love is undoubtedly an extremely luxurious thing. Lao Wang wanted to find a "well-matched" husband for Wang Ya, but he was worried that his daughter would not be able to maintain the family in the future when he got old.

Chen Ba simply fulfilled his wish.

Anyway, Lao Chen was pressing hard, so he could take this opportunity to satisfy Lao Chen's wish to have a grandson.

As for Wang Ya not being the one he likes, that doesn't matter. After all, the person he really likes is already married.

"It's a deal, double happiness!"

Sure enough, when Chen Ba told Lao Wang his idea, Lao Wang immediately clapped his hands in agreement without even a trace of hesitation.

So smooth?

Chen Ba was a little surprised. He didn't expect Lao Wang to agree so readily.

He guessed that Lao Wang would agree to this proposal. After all, the old man had been eyeing him for a long time. If he picked up a son-in-law like him for nothing, he would probably wake up laughing in his dreams at night.

But I agree, does this old guy even bother to pretend?

In ancient times, when emperors ascended the throne, they had to make three concessions and three concessions. How could it be that with Lao Wang, marrying a daughter was as easy as treating guests to dinner?

no……

Is this old man pretending to be sick?

Chen Ba, who hadn't thought about it at first, suddenly realized something when he saw Lao Wang's rosy face.