Quoting: Projectile VomitI'm still wrestling with this damn Nvidia/Intel hybrid thing. I switched, recently, to Manjaro (KDe- I love KDe. Leave me alone.) and have never seen this hybrid thing until now. I tried switching to just the Nvidia 440 drivers, and rebooting did not give me the desired results. I am the guy who simply decided to reformat (after backing up everything using a liveUSB), when I mess up the graphics. I have never been very good at recovering a system from a graphics issue. So I reformatted with Manjaro (I get better results with my music production than from other distros, which may have something to do with the hybrid video drivers, as Nvidia is known not to play nice with audio production, but I'm not entirely sure). I am back at the hybrid drivers and, for now, I'm leaving them. Music production is a bit more important to me than games, at least on this computer (my only computer, at this time). I hope a switch that doesn't have me altering files and jumping through hoops comes along soon.

While Manjaro runs fine on my desktop (no hybrid), I had the same problem than you with my MSI laptop. I finally installed Linux Mint on it, and it works ok. I haven't tried making music on it though.

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I got hooked by Punch Club [External Link], where you manage a fighter's career. The game also has a lot of humorous references to movies.
Currently played 10 hours straight :whistle: , although it can get a bit tedious at time (training for big encounters)

Oh, and it's cheap and runs natively on Linux :smile:

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: ageresstuff

Pixel-art is often a style choice. Look at Dead Cells, it's incredible and it just wouldn't be right in 3D. On all sides, there's always going to be games that don't look good. For every person who shows a picture of a 2D game looking bad, I could show one of 3D looking just as terrible. 3D/2D doesn't matter, gameplay and overall style trumps all.

There are pixel-art games which do look good indeed (Dead Cells was in my mind too), but the truth is, it is harder for me to convince my friends to play pixel-art games (such as Mother Russia Bleeds, Children of Morta, Kingdom Two Crowns...) than 3D games (Overcooked, Helldivers,...).

Graphics are what makes people want to play a game, and gameplay is what makes them stay. But if the low graphics sets them away, the actual gameplay does not matter.

Then, there is Minecraft with pixel-art in 3D :tongue:

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: axredneckIs there any tool for creating "tracker" music, like OpenMPT but with sequencer-like interface and piano roll?

What do you mean?
There is no "tracker" music... i mean you can create any kind of music with trackers and sequencers, they are just tools.

Unless he was thinking about creating files in .xm, .it, .mod... format, which are lighter than mp3 files ?

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Quoting: GuestEdit: Oh, i googled and they are plenty of free courses on the web ! Can anyone knowledgeable tell me if it is a practical way of learning some music or just a loss of time? I always thought you had to go to a music academy and stuff at minimum.

Well, I know nothing about music theory, nor do I know how to play an instrument, but that doesn't prevent me from toying around. It depends on what you want to achieve, I guess :wink:

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Now we need the plugin to be applied to other people on Discord :tongue:

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Quoting: NibelheimI try it... Terribad perf :(.

I got GTX970. Someone got any tweak ?

--force-vulkan not working, it blocks on loading screen...

I tried launching the game, and indeed, something is wrong with the perfs... I only got ~15fps at the beginning, when it was more around 60-80 last time I played...

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I have been trying to setup Jack + Pulseaudio working for my external USB soundcard ; also I have been tinkering a lot with virt-manager to try various stuff on VM, so not much time to play this week (I did find the time to buy a few more games on Steam, though :whistle: )

Quoting: emphySet up a new retropie system on a pi4 and copied over the rom file of Golden Axe from sega's genesis collection on steam. It's really annoying I had to download the bloated piece of manure (sega's emulation interface) to get to the pearl (the collection of roms), but worth it, certainly at the 1/3 sale price that collection is regularly at.

Makes me remember that I finally got my hands on a original Eternal Champions cartridge for my Megadrive. I loved that game when I was a kid :smile:

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: EikeIf I had such a setup, i'd disable the second monitor for gaming to get what I payed for.

Yep, indeed. If you have a high quality monitor, you can disable the worse one while you are playing something to get full benefit from adaptive sync and high refresh rate.

Wayland compositors should support mixed cases better.

Except that it currently doesn't seem to work reliably (in X11 at least). I tried rebooting with only my Gsync monitor, but Gsync was only active in a Gsync demo and some games (enabled in Dead Cells, disabled in Crucible for example). But that's another story ;)

Quoting: EhvisBut that's a general X11 thing, so that applies to everybody that has GSYNC on Linux. It only works on a single screen setup.

Yes, I know. But, in the survey, would I have to:
- say that I have Gsync / adaptive sync, even though it is not technically working, so I am not really using it ?
- say that I do not have it, but then someone may conclude from the survey that very few people have a Gsync display, so there's no point in making it work ?

That's my concern ; as I said, this could be a nice addition to the survey, and it is gaming-related.

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: Liam DaweYeah, honestly that sounds like a fluff detail we don't really need.

Can you please add monitor refresh rate and usage of adaptive sync points? Those are directly gaming related and would be interesting to see, in addition to already existing resolution.

I really like this idea, however, I am wondering how this would work with multiple monitors ?

For example, I have 2 monitors, one is 180Hz with Gsync, and the other is 75Hz, so technically I could play at 180Hz (max) with Gsync enabled, (like I did when I was using Windows), but under linux, I am capped at 75Hz with no Gsync...

So I am afraid that the answer to these question will be biased.

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