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Don’t they already use FSR on the 5?
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What does “experimental color management” mean? Is that HDR support?
Can anyone expand on that?
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Sure, you could probably write an awesome new AI for black and white but you could also write an awesome 3d renderer for the original Mario World.
My point was that the AI is really core to the game, and I am not sure how they would replicate it in an accurate manner. If you wrote a new AI it would be a different game.
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I wonder how they will translate over the AI from the original. That was a huge part of that game, so much so that I would say Black and White with a different AI isn’t the same game.
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How do I enable sharpening for FSR?
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Game is Hunt Showdown and they don’t have sharpening as an in game option.
I will take a look at vkBasalt. Little worried that could trigger a ban from their anti-cheat.
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How do I enable sharpening for FSR?
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I’ll answer this for people using GE - https://github.com/sonic2kk/steamtinkerlaunch/wiki/Wine-FSR
I don’t think these options would work in my scenario but I could be wrong
Under Windows this is an option in the AMD control panel. Not sure how to enable it. Specifically, this is for a non-native Proton game with FSR support built in. I am not using GE as I need the latest code in Proton experimental to run this game.
Today I Learned
TIL Burger King sold a burger with so much food coloring that it turned people's poop bright green
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What is the rest of the text for the bottom one? I must know
Found it "TIL that in 2020, Burger King ran an advertising campaign featuring a picture of a moldy Whopper, to prove that their burgers are made without preservatives. This unconventional advertising method wor"(sic)
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The same is true for blue states.
If your vote is not important because your state is locked in on a presidential candidate, local issues / candidates are worth voting on. They can have a more direct impact on your day to day.
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Looks like Subnautica devs have been sneakily posting Subnautica 2 screenshots in the original game
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Apple will update iPhones for at least 5 years in rare public commitment
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It was more that older batteries can't handle the power draw, so they would shut down if the power draw spiked by an expensive operation.
It was a really bad user experience so Apple throttled so phones wouldn't crash.
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Good quote. Here is more of it for context:
Fable was profitable - "highly profitable", Lionhead's Simon Carter told Eurogamer - but in a now too-familiar story, it and its genre was seen by Microsoft as just not profitable enough. "That category is not the biggest category on the planet," said Robbie Bach, who was the President of Entertainment & Devices Division at Microsoft before Don Mattrick assumed the role. "It's not soccer. It's not American Football. It's not a first-person shooter sized category. So at a commercial level, I would say it was successful, but not wildly so."
Wildly successful was what Microsoft was after. A pitch for Fable 4 was rejected. "It was like, you've reached your cap of players for RPG on Xbox and you need to find a way to double that, and you're not going to do it with RPG," Fable's art director John McCormack told Eurogamer at the time. "I thought, yes we can. I said, look, just give us four years, proper finance, give us the chance Mass Effect has, Skyrim has, the games at the time. They're getting four years and a lot of budget. Give us that, and we'll give you something that'll get you your players. Nah, you've had three shots and you've only tripled the money. It's not good enough. Fuck off. That's what I was annoyed about." (Worth noting: Skyrim went on to sell 63m copies, as of June 2023, The Witcher 3 over 50m.)
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Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT
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https://blog.codinghorror.com/are-you-a-digital-sharecropper/
Interesting article from on of the co-founders of StackOverflow.
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Bitwarden has launched a new authenticator app
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It really depends on your threat model. It’s not a one size fits all thing.
For instance in some threat models you shouldn't have TOTP auth and passwords on the same device, let alone the same app, but the vast majority of people are not going to carry two devices because of how inconvenient it is.
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Bitwarden has launched a new authenticator app
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This even works with some apps that hide the standard part - like Symantec VIP - it’s possible to extract what they are doing and use a standard TOTP app instead of VIP.
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I read the original mastodon post by the developer of run0 and I am still don’t understand what the problem with SUID is.
Whats an example of an attack that would work with sudo and doas (which also uses SUID) and not on run0?
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Diablo 4 randomly stopped working
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CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core Processor
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
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Diablo 4 randomly stopped working
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Got it working, this was totally it.
I tried a few wine configuration options, MESA_VK_DEVICE_SELECT and DRI_PRIME but to no avail.
I ended up just disabling my integrated GPU in my bios and it worked fine.
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Diablo 4 randomly stopped working
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I am starting to get convinced that the game is trying to use my integrated graphics vs my discrete GPU.
No idea how to fix that as I specified in Lutris that it should be using my discrete GPU.
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Diablo 4 randomly stopped working
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Flatpaks have been updated.
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.
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Not sure what caffe is? Is that a runner?
Hey Folks, I had Diablo 4, the Battle.net version, running perfectly fine under Lutris Flatpak. Then randomly one day it just stopped working, I didn't download a new version of the wine runner I was using, I didn't make any configuration changes it just broke. Specifically it boots, the screen goes grey for a few seconds, and then it loads up super slowly, like 1 fps and makes the game interface and Plasma becomes unusable, so I have to drop to a TTY to kill the process. Nothing really interesting is show if I select "show logs" in Lutris. I was thinking some Flatpak Lutris update broke it, so I tried to install the game using Bottles, also a Flatpak, but ended up with exact same problem. Now I am thinking this may be a Mesa problem since that is a dependency both of these Flatpaks share. I am using the same Wine GE version on both, but it's a version from February and it worked just fine a few weeks ago. Any recommendations on what I could do or what I could look at to debug further?
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Release GZDoom 4.12.1 · ZDoom/gzdoom
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The Flatpak version works really well once you figure out what permissions to set.
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How are you all partitioning your setup?
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Two libraries sound good, but I heard the Steam Flatpak has issues with libraries on multiple drives. Haven't had a chance to try it myself.
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How are you all partitioning your setup?
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Unrelated aside, I like running torrents on my NAS because I almost always have that on, plus I have ZFS on it so all the data is reasonable durable.
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How are you all partitioning your setup?
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Is that the BTRFS raid mode or something else?
I have 2 drives in my machine. Linux right now is installed on 1/4 of the first drive and I am going to start moving parts of my 2nd drive, which is just games on Windows, to a 1/2 combo of NTFS and BTRFS. Essentially giving Linux more space as it replaces Windows as my gaming daily driver. With the eventual plan to move that entire 2nd drive over to BTRFS, and allow Windows to have 3/4 of the 1st drive for games that only run under it. Curious how folks have set this up. Currently I have Steam, Heroic and Lutris installing to `~/Games`. So it may make sense to mount my new drive there, but I am not sure that in home folder mounts make sense. I also realize I could potentially use BTRFS to make it look like my space is all one mount point vs multiple, but given the complexity of that filesystem I am worried there is a downside I am not aware of. Any suggestions? What has worked for you for your setup?
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Playboy image from 1972 gets ban from IEEE computer journals
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Keep in mind that Playboy had a reputation as more than just porn. A lot of really respected authors had work published in Playboy.
I not sure of its culture status when the event in question happened, but it would have been different then say, Penthouse.
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Steam Flatpak interface randomly freezes
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Maybe I will just go back to native, the flatpak stuff is pretty neat, but more useful on a distro with less up to date drivers and kernel.
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Steam Flatpak interface randomly freezes
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What permissions would I have to set?
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Steam Flatpak interface randomly freezes
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I don’t have an answer for you, but out of curiosity, is the freeze exactly 25 seconds?
Possibly? How would I do some dbus debugging to confirm that?
Also, while it’s frozen, you might want to check beneath all the open windows to see if a new window has appeared behind them.
I don't think this is it, because when the UI unfreezes I often move the window around because it goes into drag mode and don't see anything behind it.
The freeze behaves like, I get a message and I open it to respond and maybe get a letter or 2 types before it just hard freezes.
I am using the Steam Flatpak on OpenSuse Tumbleweed and when using the Steam interface, specifically when I get a chat message or try to respond to one, the Steam UI will hard freeze, as in a I can't type or move windows or interact with anything and then 30 seconds or so later everything goes back to normal. Plasma is still response when all of this is going on, it's just the Steam UI that freezes. It's super odd and I have been running the Flatpak in the terminal to see if I can chat any relevant log messages but haven't seen any yet. It's been a little bit since I used the OpenSuse package and I think I remember seeing these freezes occasionally, but they seem much more common on the Flatpak version. Anyone else get this behavior?
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Are any major Lemmy or Mastodon instances in Fedi Garden?
I was looking through the site and didn't see any instances I recognized but they also nest everything so it takes like 3 clicks to see 2 severs.
Edit: By type looks like the easier way to see the entire list, which is not huge and I don't recognize any of the servers but I will admit I am not a big Mastodon person.
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It's cool people are doing this - but it feels weird that they want to get X number of levels done and polish the assets to a level before releasing anything playable.
Seems like they should be releasing a few levels to folks with a few characters, get feedback and iterate from there.
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Mangohud randomly stopped working with Steam Flatpak
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Thanks.
Ended up adding :/usr/lib/pressure-vessel/overrides/share to the end of the XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable as described in https://github.com/flathub/com.valvesoftware.Steam/pull/1281/files.
Not sure what happened but I've been running Steam games using `MANGOHUD=1 gamemoderun %command%` and it's been working fine with Mangohud. Suddenly, no Mangohud. Mangohud still works with Lutris. I am using the Flatpak version so I looked at my history and there haven't been any updates to the Steam or Mangohud Flatpaks when the breakage occurred. Nothing relevant is logged out if I run Steam using `flatpak run com.valvesoftware.Steam`. Inside Steam there have been a few updates, including an update to the common redistributable and that may have been around the time this broke. The only other thing I see is that Gnome updated some Flatpak stuff recently as well. System wise I am on OpenSuse Tumbleweed using KDE Plasma 6. Any tips for debugging further? ## Relevant Flatpak packages ``` Name Application ID Version Branch Installation Valve Corporation com.valvesoftware.Steam 1.0.0.79 stable system Mesa org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default 24.0.3 22.08 system Mesa (Extra) org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default 24.0.3 22.08-extra system Mesa org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default 24.0.3 23.08 system Mesa (Extra) org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default 24.0.3 23.08-extra system Mesa org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.default 24.0.3 23.08 system Mesa (Extra) org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.default 24.0.3 23.08-extra system MangoHud org.freedesktop.Platform.VulkanLayer.MangoHud 0.6.8 21.08 system MangoHud org.freedesktop.Platform.VulkanLayer.MangoHud 0.7.1 23.08 system gamescope …g.freedesktop.Platform.VulkanLayer.gamescope 3.14.2 23.08 system Freedesktop SDK org.freedesktop.Sdk 23.08.14 23.08 system GNOME Application Platform versi… org.gnome.Platform 45 system GNOME Application Platform versi… org.gnome.Platform 46 system i386 org.gnome.Platform.Compat.i386 45 system Breeze GTK theme org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Breeze 6.0.3 3.22 system Adwaita theme org.kde.KStyle.Adwaita 6.5 system KDE Application Platform org.kde.Platform 6.5 system DXVK org.winehq.Wine.DLLs.dxvk 2.3 stable-23.08 system ```
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[Skill Up] Here's how Judas is trying to be more than just 'Bioshock in space' (Hands-on Overview)
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I get your point but I think you are off base with this one. The lead designer of this game, and the reason it’s getting a press cycle in the first place, is most famous for Bioshock. The comparison to Bioshock is absolutely called for in this case.
If you aren’t familiar with it, then fair enough but it’s more then a game design point of reference, this looks like a spiritual continuation of that series.
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This is a good step but I still feel like it's pretty obscure where a package is actually coming from. "by Google" or for the Steam package "by Valve" is really confusing and makes it sounds like it's coming directly from the company. Unverified tells the user to pay attention but there is no hover over to say what it actually means.
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I am using B2 now - I started using it before they added the encrypted buckets and am using restic to encrypt everything. It's nice because I don't really have to trust Blackblaze at this point aside from them not losing my data.
I've since additionally turned on encryption on my buckets, but as far as I know they store the key for you, so in terms of privacy it's not the best.
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I haven't played a lot of Divinity but I will say the DnD character creator is much more interesting to me then the skill system in Divinity. I don't know if Divinity's skill systems gets better as it goes, but BG3 starts out with a lot of really interesting classes and choices.
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Plasma 6: How to use HDR with games?
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I could compile my own flatpak locally I suppose but I imagine they will do a release soon
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Typo in the last message, I didn’t pull the trigger.
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Yeah mine too, glad I didn't pull the trigger during the Steam sale
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New Humble Bundle supporting child’s play and the Trevor project
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Plasma 6: How to use HDR with games?
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I finally got a chance to try this out and couldn't get it to work then I realized you mentioned this was git only right now, and I am all Flatpak'd up, so I need to wait.
What is the specific commit that adds the magic since the last release?
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Dragon's Dogma 2 launches to "Mostly Negative" review bombing after microtransactions reveal, and man, what a bummer
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Wait, anti-cheat? Wtf?
As the title asks, how does one actually use HDR for games after upgrading to Plasma 6? This was the feature I was most excited about, and I can hit the HDR button on my display configuration and it looks like the desktop is going into HDR mode, but so far I have had zero luck enabling the HDR feature in games. Every game I've tried had the HDR toggle disabled with no way to enable it. I am running these games under Proton and I've tried both 8-GE and 9 Beta. Any tips? Edit: probably important to note that I am using an AMD GPU under Wayland
I was going to going to ask this question because Steam Flatpak was listed as last being updated May 2023, but they just updated it yesterday. That's still about 9 month between updates. In general if I am on rolling release like OpenSuse Tumbleweed is my Steam package and Mesa drivers going to be more up to date then what the Steam Flatpak provides or are they updating the Flatpak and dependencies more frequently then the Discover app is suggesting?
I've done some Googling on this topic and some folks are saying it should just work and that distro I am on, OpenSuse, used to patch Firefox with support for global menus or that the Plasma extension should give you support but I haven't been able to get anything to work. Anyone know what is needed / if this is even possible with current Firefox?
Me again! Using Discord while playing Hunt Showdown and if I alt+tab away from the game into Discord to volume adjust, unmute myself or someone else, the left clicks are going to the game and causing some not so great misfires. Anyway to prevent the left click from propagating into the game window? Using KDE + Wayland and Discord Flatpak if that effects it at all.
Weirdest damn thing, occasionally my network connectivity was being lost. Not the wifi signal, but just the route to the internet. I finally realized today it happens whenever I do a fresh boot (i.e. first time after system boot) of Heroic Games Launcher. I am running OpenSuse Tumbleweed and using the Heroic Flatpak. Any idea how I would debug what the heck is going on so I can give a bug report to the Flatpak maintainers? I was poking around `/var/log` but didn't see anything interesting. Edit: Correction, it brings down my network on every single launch, not just from a fresh boot. The network eventually comes back up, but it blips for a good few minutes. Message that pops up in KDE is "This device appears to be connected to a network but is unable to reach the internet. " and trying to open websites leads to an error page.
Like the title says I am trying to understand how these things should work together. Part of my issue is I don't have a good mental model on the Flatpak permissioning / sandbox model. My use case is running a game on Lutris, which is a Flatpack, and using my package install of Mangohud. I am also curious if I should using a Flatpak version of Mangohud instead of the package installed version, and understanding how I would set up Steam as a Flatpak in the future when I switch away from the packaged version. Thanks for any helpful tips or links you can provide.
Mangohud works really great for this inside a game, but outside of that I am not sure what to turn to check temps at idle. I would prefer a GUI tool (QT since I am on Plasma), but I am also comfortable with the terminal. What are you all using?
As the title says, I am looking to install both the package version (on OpenSuse Tumbleweed) and Flatpak version. I've been running the package version for awhile and it's been fine but I want to play with the Flatpak version to see how that compares - partially because I may eventually go for an immutable distro. I know how to do this, I am just curious if I shouldn't do it or if there anything I should be aware of. Will my game library just work between the two?
Question to help me increase my understanding on what’s going on in the Linux desktop stack. I’ve heard Gnome doesn’t support VRR while KDE does. Why does this matter, isn’t Wayland or X11 the one that would ultimately need to support VRR? Basically when running a game that I want to use VRR with, why does it matter what my desktop environment is doing?
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Got a Steam Deck on the way, anything I should know before I dive in when it arrives?
Any recommendations for games like Hunt either in tone or gameplay?
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Another winner from the YouTube algorithm
I see lighter rain, and I hear the heavy rain and see the fog effect but I actually can't see the rain effect. My partner is telling me this is a huge advantage because it's pretty blinding, but I don't want to have an unfair advantage and I would prefer to get the intended experience. Anyone else seeing (or maybe more correctly *not *seeing) this?
Was looking at the [Steam store page](https://store.steampowered.com/app/594650/Hunt_Showdown/) today and I no longer see the bundle that includes all the DLC. Did they get rid of that? It was a great way to pick up missing DLC for a bundle discount.
Anyone else hitting this? Game crashes right on startup as it loads the loadout screen. Reddit is saying this is happening for a bunch of folks all the sudden, https://www.reddit.com/r/HuntShowdown/comments/14i8v9t/randomly_started_crashing_on_loginprior_match/
I am on a crazy long cold streak, where I get kills, but haven't gotten a bounty in a while. My hunt dollars are getting dangerously low.
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The game is currently on sale on Steam. Curious what folks think of the game. Where does it fall among modern throwback RPG's?
At this point 75% of my calls are spam. I get the occasional text spam but it’s much lower. The number one feature I want Apple to announce is features to better handle spam. Any else in the same boat?