Quoting: drlambI feel no pressure to upgrade from my 5800X3d/6900XT for 1440P/144, but as always, I'm tempted.

with the generational stagnation in performance, your probably good to run that system for another 5 -7 years before you absolutely reach a point where games need too many of the settings turning down to justify.

for context (although its not exactly how things work like for like) your card has 35TFLOPS and the Steamdeck, xboxone (which is still a huge target platform) have less than 3 TFLOPS (1.8 for the steamdeck) and they run games just good enough at 720p/1080p. Even an old 1660Ti has 5.5 Tlops and can play most every game on medium/high at 60fps. Sure if you want ultra settings pegged at a constant 144hz at 1440p then you probably will be looking at a yearly or bi-yearly update.. seems excessive but it's your money and energy wise cards are not getting lower TDP's. a 4090 is supposed to be 85TFLOPS (not sure if that's accurate but possibly) that said its a 450w card!

edit* just checking and the xbox series x and the PS5 are under 12TFLOPS (again not an exact marker for performance). But im not sure if sony or MS are going to put a 450w GPU plus competing CPU in a small form factor console. So with your hardware you are definitely covered for a loooong time.

Perhaps lower raytracing performance will be the issue with your hardware though.

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Steam controller 2 enters the arena... makes all other controllers for PC obsolete.

(so long as it has proper dual shock vibration and not the terrible fly trapped in a plastic thimble haptic they used as a costs cutting excuse on the first gen model)

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Full HDR support, whilst simultaneously using Freesync 2. On Wayland.. using vulkan.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: mr-victory

Quoting: GuestToo much energy wasted imo.

On my laptop keyboard LEDs draw ~4W which decreases battery life a lot for me. (2.5 hr -> 2 hr) On a desktop where your GPU pulls 300W? Leds are very innocent.

20 or 30watts are 20 or 30 watts.
They are not justified because something else draws even more.

Gaming PC's are quite wasteful all round for everyday tasks. Outside of gaming ( and only really AA / AAA titles) you are using way to much energy for just coding, browsing, watching streams or basic office tasks. My PC is using between 70 - 80w watching a 720p video, when a mini PC can do this and everything else comfortably at 6w - 10w.

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Quoting: GuestToo much energy wasted imo.

But that's why you offset that with using a steam deck.

Quoting: Liam Daweit really does give you a little extra spark of happiness and that should never be underestimated.

Turns a monolithic black box into something a little less bland. But i prefer subtle lighting and it costs less.

Quoting: Liam DaweI wonder what else I can do to make it even more ridiculous

A-RGB Fans (not RGB). They should be controllable if you select the right fan model by the same software.

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Merry crimbo GOL players :smile:

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Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: LoftyIm guessing using proton is probably the best way to play this now.

Better for what? I played that game years ago. From the date of my achievements and the screenshots I can determine that I used my GTX970 at 3440x1440 resolution and had no performance issues. That's potato level for current standards. So maybe proton can give you more fps, but it's not really needed.

Stability perhaps. i used to have frequent crashes with the native version.

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Im guessing using proton is probably the best way to play this now.

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have a sn30 pro 2 controller. not impressed tbh. The buttons sort of click as they are released and pressed, feels cheap compared with an original xbox controller. The games on steam don't always pick up the controller even when fiddling with the different modes, some games are really picky about getting an 'exact' xbox360 controller it seems and those ones won't work.
Never managed to get the gyro to work without losing some other functionality.

i have an 8bit do M30 for retro games and by the wire at least it is much better. I wouldn't know how much latency BT added although i expect reading above quite a lot. But i almost always use an extended USB wire to play anyway.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: NumericIn general, they don't want to know anything about their computer (mobile device), it just needs to function near 100% of the time and be able to "run the apps/games" and "visit the sites" that they want or need. Updates of any form are met with resistance or pure apathy. Good practices regarding data safety or backups are not considered or understood. As a FOSS advocate, I want to help these people have a safe and successful computing experience, but the lack of motivation/desire/understanding I encounter make it near impossible to recommend any Linux distribution.

I don't really get it, to be honest. These are real issues I guess, but what do they have to do with not recommending Linux distributions? I mean, it's not like Windows is nice to work with vis-a-vis updates, or does anything for you in terms of data safety or automagically creating backups without you having to notice. And Linux distros can visit the sites, run the games, and run apps that are generally equivalent (but cheaper) to what they're used to. The more user friendly ones do it with LESS need to fiddle around than Windows. So I mean, assuming you can't actually ban these people from using computers, why shouldn't they do it with Linux?

Y'know, I use Windows at work, but because we have IT people I don't have to administer it. But a few months ago, i bought a basic little computer to attach to the TV, just to surf the web so my wife can watch the news and stuff. It came installed with Windows and, feeling lazy, I initially just left Windows there--why not? Just running a browser. It was a massive pain. Windows is nagware. My wife was constantly calling me over because of some mysterious message that she thought meant something serious but was actually just Windows saying something you can click and forget, for no particular reason except to look vaguely ominous as far as I could tell. Or because they wanted you to switch to fucking Edge. Or because they wanted to know if you really meant it when you set settings to "don't phone home very much" or if you wouldn't rather switch to doing things the Microsoft spy-on-you way. And the updates, argh. Wiped Windows, put in Mint, clear sailing ever since.

Mint is a great media player ootb. I don't need a ten foot interface TBH. im quite happy to just have a typical desktop on the TV with some larger icons / fonts and a wireless keyboard/remote. I prefer it. a desktop filled with emulators, browsers and media players that's stable and familiar more to me than a dumbed down smart phone type interface. Although you can have an icon for the new steam big picture too and have the best of both worlds.

It's also the goto USB live boot distro if your system breaks whilst you fix it, or just get straight on the web and do work if your main machine takes a dump and you just need to get going.

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