29th October eh, sounds fishy considering AMD's RDNA 2 will be announced a day earlier.:whistle:

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Quoting: aluminumgriffinNice, however I really wish they would keep mesa somewhat up to date without forcing one into a FrankenDebian, maybe start with yet another "distro sub-section" (akin to non-free) that is "gaming" with the note that it is a slight sacrifice of stability for the sake of more bleeding edge (would also be a good place to put things like fresh OBS).

(mesa in Debian/Stable is at 18.3.6 , the iris drivers (matters if you uses intel iGPU) became good quite a bit after that (in the 19.x series) - to make it all that much funnier debian stable ships with libdrm 2.4.97 (to build the 19.x mesa and later you need at least libdrm 2.4.100)
In Debian/Testing it is mesa 20.1.8 and libdrm 2.4.102 so it is a night-and-day difference in terms of performance you get in stable and testing)).

A bleeding edge Mesa would be appreciated in the Stable release, it's one the key areas which needs improving, Fortunately with a little tinkering it's possible to use latest Mesa on Stable without turning it into a frankendebian. Below is my Debian 9 system from 2017 running Mesa 20.1.9. Many of the required updated packages have been compiled from source.

My system has a lot of customization under the hood so an OS upgrade was not possible, had to find a way to upgrade Mesa without breaking everything else. Just a few months more until Debian 11 and I'll start clean again.

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This will be a tough one for me to play through, I get scared shitless with scary games and no chance I'll play them during the day or with lights on. Must go for the full experience:tongue:

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: Avehicle7887If you can compile the kernel yourself, adding fsync is just 1 patch away: https://github.com/Frogging-Family/linux-tkg/blob/e95ea2a75d489bbd5eb402fcf402e9d42d2e1b5c/linux58-tkg/linux58-tkg-patches/0007-v5.8-fsync.patch [External Link]

How is the progress of accepting that upstream?

Last I read about it were those articles:

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Syscall-User-Redirection-V4 [External Link]
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Futex2-System-Call-RFC [External Link]

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Quoting: Tuxee

Quoting: Avehicle7887

Up to 16GB LPDDR4x

A high end laptop with non upgradeable memory, if I was in the market for a laptop this certainly wouldn't be it.

AFAIK LPDDR is always soldered.

Unfortunately yes.

Which is why I find buying a laptop these days has become a bit of a challenge, because you either get a laptop with soldered ram + 1 expansion slot or worst case scenario even just 1 slot. 2 Slots are pretty common in gaming laptops but common ones 400~500 euros can be difficult.

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Up to 16GB LPDDR4x

A high end laptop with non upgradeable memory, if I was in the market for a laptop this certainly wouldn't be it.

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Quoting: scaineI thought ACO needed a specific kernel to work? Or was that fsync?

If you can compile the kernel yourself, adding fsync is just 1 patch away: https://github.com/Frogging-Family/linux-tkg/blob/e95ea2a75d489bbd5eb402fcf402e9d42d2e1b5c/linux58-tkg/linux58-tkg-patches/0007-v5.8-fsync.patch [External Link]

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I never used ScummVM since most games are not my type, Ultima 8 though that's hard one to pass up and I've played it to death on my old 486, so I'll give this a shot :grin:

EDIT:
Source code compiled fine, we have lift off!

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And to end the weekend, the Wine Staging 5.18 patches have been released about an hour ago, unfortunately the mfplat support has been disabled in this release.

EDIT:
The mfplat patches have been rebased soon after the release and have applied correctly to the Wine 5.18 codebase. Gonna run a few tests as usual :whistle:

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Quoting: chimpyNot completely relevant to the article, but does anyone know how to install a non Steam DLC to a Steam game? Specifically Mass Effect; Steam doesn't have any of the DLC available but they are available for free as executibles on the EA site. Tried to install by adding it like you'd add a non Steam game to Steam, but when it looks for where Mass Effect is installed it can't find it.

Got a link to the DLC download? I can try to figure out how to install them Manually.

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