hellerphant

joined 1 year ago
[–] hellerphant 2 points 1 year ago

I use my deck daily. Anything that is super intensive I actually just stream from my PC upstairs to my deck / or TV downstairs using the deck. For native games I am currently playing Diablo IV, Eastward, and about to start XCOM 2 after finishing the first game entirely on deck earlier this year.

 

Hey folks!

So thanks to the community here, I took the plunge and wiped a 1TB SSD and put PopOS on there. Got things running, but I am having trouble working out how to get Ray Tracing options working in Warhammer 40,000: Darktide.

I added the call "PROTON_HIDE_NVIDIA_GPU=0 PROTON_ENABLE_NVAPI=1 VKD3D_CONFIG=dxr %command%" to the launch, and that gets me DLSS options, but no RTX.

I understand that some things won't work 100% correctly on Linux, but missing out on Ray Tracing on games I care about is not ideal. Not a deal breaker, just not ideal.

Anyone have some insight?

[–] hellerphant 3 points 1 year ago

As of last week I do, simply because SF6 has really captured my heart. The modern controls allow me to still pull off some cool moves, but give me a chance to focus on building fundamentals. I don't want to grind away in the lab mode for 1934589 hours. I want to learn by doing. I'll never be hyper competitive, but I have won a few matches online and now I have the bug.

[–] hellerphant 26 points 1 year ago

This is really sad. I rarely posted on Reddit, and I mostly use it as an information source, but Apollo is how I mostly interacted with the platform, and when I did post, it was always through Apollo.

One silver lining is I found Beehaw as a result, and I like interacting and posting here, so I guess... thanks for being shit Reddit!

[–] hellerphant 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I will have to check this on out too! Thank you.

[–] hellerphant 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah 100% no shade on what they are doing. I think it's great. But I do want to be able to access my accounts regularly without major problems. I'll stick it out a little longer, mainly because I already lost all my posts migrating from Masto, and I don't want to lose all my posts again migrating back haha.

[–] hellerphant 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks! I will make sure that I don't just share only my stuff, but occasionally I would like to try and get some eyes on the things I am working on haha! Thanks for the comment.

[–] hellerphant 2 points 1 year ago

Not on my end, I just ran it the standard settings. I rarely mess with TDP as I am playing at home mostly and always have access to my charger.

[–] hellerphant 2 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Hmmmm. Now I am definitely starting to think it might be better to move back to standard Mastodon. A whole day gone with no ETA feels kinda bad. I know this kind of stuff can happen, but Calckey was already having some weird issues for me anyway, so I am a little scared away by it.

[–] hellerphant 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks, was aware of that. I have pretty much stopped playing Val, and if I ever needed to, I could boot back into Windows.

[–] hellerphant 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

undefined> https://lemmy.ml/post/1130762 Thanks! I used OpenSUSE yeeeeears ago. Totally forgot about it until just now. Will check it out.

[–] hellerphant 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks! I will check this out.

[–] hellerphant 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for the tips. I liked PopOS' vibe, but I might check out Mint seeing it is recommended a bit.

 

Hey folks!

Thinking of switching back to Linux. I was running PopOS about 1.5 years ago and was pretty happy with the gaming aspect of things, but I was playing a lot of VALORANT back then, and I got sick of dual booting. That is less the case now, so I would like to try going back to Linux for the majority of my gaming / streaming setup, and just use Windows for the handful of games like Destiny 2 that won't run on Linux.

I am fairly new to Linux. Don't mind learning some terminal stuff, but I am basically a noob so it does need to be pretty easy to start with. Got a NVIDIA 3080 and AMD CPU if that matters at all.

Recommend me a distro please fellow penguin gamers.

 

Snapped this on my way home from work the other day. The sun was hitting it just right, makes the brown bricks look like chrome. Trying to play with textures and repeats lately.

 

I have been trying to get access to my feed for most of the day, and I am just getting timed out messages and no feeds. Anyone else part of this instance? Can you confirm if it is alive.

I really like calckey but the stability has me thinking about switching back to vanilla Mastodon.

 

Hi there! I am pretty new to the Fediverse, spinning up an account on Mastodon in November of last year, moving to Calckey about 1.5 months ago.

I do photography, which I share on Calckey, but I thought I would also go into Pixelfed. I believe you can follow accounts / link them somehow from both services. However whenever I search for my Pixelfed account on Calckey, it cannot find the user.

Or am I just completely misunderstanding how it works. I created my pixelfed account on Pixelfed.social, and I actually follow a few people from that instance on my Calckey account, which is when I got very confused.

 

Hi folks!

I was using PopOS regularly a few years ago, and it was working great. Good performance, and I was actually noticing a lot of my gaming was running smoother too. I ended up going back to Windows because I could not play VALORANT, Destiny, or HUNT: Showdown on the platform. While I don't play VALORANT anymore, I don't think that the other games have support on Linux either.

The other reason was Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop, and DaVinci Resolve. I need to do some video editing, and general live streaming too, and I never really dabbled with that on Linux.

I guess my question is for those who game / content create - has Linux been viable for you? Or do you often find yourself dual booting anyway to get the latest updates, driver support, anti-cheat support, plugins etc.

 

Not sure if I am allowed to share my own gaming criticism here (I don't post that often, so don't worry about spam), but I recently put together some thoughts about RE4 Remake and I think it turned out pretty okay!

 

Snapped this walking to work the other day. I have been really enjoying playing with reflections lately. So lucky that they were looking right at the camera, and just the way the crosswalk and doubles are showing from the window was just great!

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