For Linux+Deck,I've opened a GitHub issue [External Link] today. Online gameplay does not work and it keeps spamming the "Cannot connect" message on each screen that tries to transfer data from servers.

Spent the last night playing this gem (finished all missions from Hangar-THPS2 and some from School II), but online play was definitely a no-go

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All the high-pixel art and numbers/text gives some Demon's Crest vibes to this game. Nice.

Added Timespinner and Timespinner 2 to my wishlist.

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Playing this on a Steam Deck is a no-brainer.I've just downloaded on my Deck and it ran smooth.

I found it funny the mockery that the mobs resemble a little more 'chubby' variants of Zerg units...lol

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Terraria team is awesome.

They are engaged with the community, they are patching and content updating a game that was launched back in 2011, got the Labor of Love prize on Steam and now this...

They are truly swimming against the gaming industry waves

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Besides the meme, that is a maneuver from behemoth companies that damage the reputation on a way it can't be easily regenerated...

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I'm excited to see these news after the THIRD time Steam Deck gets into a promo, but it is marked as Out of Stock here in Ireland.

Now I have to wait 1-2 weeks :)

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Quoting: GuppyAnd atleast with ubuntu 20.2 there is no way to enable nvidia-powerd so I'm stuck at max 80W of the 130W the card can provide :| (*)

Linux has come a long way in terms of ease of use in the last 30 years, but laptops gfx and wifi is one of the areas that is still kinda of ifffy

Yeah, I had problems in the past with nidia-powerd as well and got stuck into that bug where it was consuming a high amount of CPU [External Link] (like 4 cores at 100%). Problem is that disabling nvidia-powerd also removes the power boost feature, which in your laptop is 130W and mine is 115W on high load. But it was solved and not nvidia is handling pretty well the higher and lower power delivery features.

As for the wifi, my rule of thumb is get laptops with Intel or Atheros for wifi(and maybe Ralink). Those work out of the box and are usually feature complete. Last time I've got a broadcom wifi subnotebook back in 2013, I had to use ndiswrapper with all those nasty bridges to use the Windows .INI driver converted into a Linux driver.

So while I would not generalize that all wifi and gpu support is iffy, there are some points to take extra care.

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Quoting: sarmadI have always said it: hybrid graphics is a bad design to begin with and should have never been adopted by anyone. It complicates the hardware, complicates the software, and it also wastes space on the chipset. Complexity results in bugs, and anyone who has used hybrid graphics knows how clunky the concept is.
A fraction of the efforts spent by all parties on getting hybrid graphics to work could have instead been used to actually enable dGPUs to scale down their performance when it's not needed. We could've had dGPUs that can scale down their power consumption to a point close to those of iGPUs when no game is running (lower the frequency even more, power down some of the cores, etc).

Agreed on laptops going full dGPU here, and ditching off the iGPU

When I was using a Muxless laptop 3 years ago, I've made some simple tests [External Link] and configuring Reverse PRIME to start all X on the dedicated GPU entirely, and I was astonished with the results. Setting the dGPU from the ground up as the provided made my system perform better and drain less battery than using the iGPU or the dGPU through "prime-run" even without a mux switch in place.

My current Laptop does not have the BIOS option to set the dGPU only, but I know Lenovo Legion allows it.

The part that I disagree is with the fact that dGPUs don't scale down power on laptops and that is untrue. Here are some tests with optimus-manager set to "Nvidia"(power cord plugged)

1. With Firefox(10 tabs), Telegram Desktop and Steam running:

[nwildner@sandworm ~]$ nvidia-smi 
Sun Sep  3 23:26:29 2023       
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 535.104.05             Driver Version: 535.104.05   CUDA Version: 12.2     |
|-----------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name                 Persistence-M | Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp   Perf          Pwr:Usage/Cap |         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                                         |                      |               MIG M. |
|=========================================+======================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 ...    Off | 00000000:01:00.0  On |                  N/A |
| N/A   40C    P8              14W /  80W |    674MiB /  8192MiB |      0%      Default |
|                                         |                      |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
                                                                                         
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                            |
|  GPU   GI   CI        PID   Type   Process name                            GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                             Usage      |
|=======================================================================================|
|    0   N/A  N/A      2721      G   /usr/lib/Xorg                               328MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      5175      G   /usr/lib/firefox/firefox                    308MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      5183      G   telegram-desktop                              3MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      6474      G   ...local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam        3MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      6499      G   ...re/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steamwebhelper        7MiB |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

2. With Xorg only running and a text editor opened(buffer for this answer):

[nwildner@sandworm ~]$ nvidia-smi 
Sun Sep  3 23:28:55 2023       
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 535.104.05             Driver Version: 535.104.05   CUDA Version: 12.2     |
|-----------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name                 Persistence-M | Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp   Perf          Pwr:Usage/Cap |         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                                         |                      |               MIG M. |
|=========================================+======================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 ...    Off | 00000000:01:00.0  On |                  N/A |
| N/A   39C    P8               8W /  80W |    166MiB /  8192MiB |     18%      Default |
|                                         |                      |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
                                                                                         
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                            |
|  GPU   GI   CI        PID   Type   Process name                            GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                             Usage      |
|=======================================================================================|
|    0   N/A  N/A      2721      G   /usr/lib/Xorg                               160MiB |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

nvidia-powerd needs to be enabled for power scaling to work.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI still say they should have called it "Optimus-Prime"

I think that this would cause major confusion with the already established Prime technology...

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PRIME [External Link]

Quoting: PikoloThat's unfortunate. Have you talked to the people behind asus-linux [External Link]? They're not asus, but they might know what's behind the odd displayport behaviour on asus laptops

I kinda solved that by buying a DP-to-USBC cable, and using it on the thunderbolt port, which funny enough is not a port that is being advertised as DisplayPort compatible as it is with the other usb-c port on this laptop.

But it is weird how plugging on the port that is supposed to be dedicated for USB and DP connections to instantly limit frequency of the HDMI output. Maybe bus share or other engineering trick I'm not aware of.

Quoting: Luke_NukemI maintain the alternative supergfxctl which leans towards Asus but can be used by other laptops https://gitlab.com/asus-linux/supergfxctl/ [External Link]

I can see that supergrafxctl works with Hybrid, Integrated, Vfio and AsusMuxDgpu. Is the AsusMuxDgpu equivalent of setting full NVIDIA on BIOS, since it manipulates some ACPI data?

I had a black screen problem back in the past with this TUF model when setting the GPU mode to "Ultimate" using ROG control center, and had to do some touch typing to get the system back to normal...

That is why I was holding back on using supergfxctl.

Also, the battery and AC for different modes is pretty convenient on optimus-manager. Is this possible to do with supergfxctl? (full nvidia when booting on AC, hybrid when booting on battery).

Quoting: setzer22Yes, I know, I could also shut up but... You know which GPU brand doesn't require jumping through hoops and just works on Linux? :grin:

Are you suuuuuuuuure? :tongue:

The experience is quite the same when you have an Intel processor and AMD GPU on a Laptop. :wink:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=279808 [External Link]

Don't know how it works when you have an AMD processor, if it comes with a "buit-in Vega" when paired with a AMD GPU as well...

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"performed in line with management expectations in the quarter" Mean: "we're not taking our fanbase opinion seriously and we're heading whatever the f**k management wants".

That's a true recipe for disaster on any project, trying to please management instead of it's users.

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