Quoting: drlambAdding the following to the boot.config file within the valheim_Data folder results in the following performance uplift. OpenGL still performs better than vulkan for me.

gfx-enable-gfx-jobs=1
gfx-enable-native-gfx-jobs=1

2560x1440, Maxed out graphics minus Depth of field, chromatic aberration, and motion blur.

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I've whined before, but will again. People are like 'but you're spoiled!' Whatever, I like to be able to play full screen and NOT have the giant window title bar push the bottom of the screen off so I can't see everything, and having a super ultrawide monitor with a giant grey line across the top is very immersive breaking...

I'll stop whining like I stopped playing until it's fixed ha.

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Quoting: DuncI'm not going to say 4K is snake oil - more resolution can't be worse (leaving aside compression issues, etc.), and I'd be surprised if IMAX wasn't using it, or even 8K, today - but it's way overkill for relatively small screens, at least with current technology.

I'd say that the case is better for small screens than big ones. Watching soaps or a 20—foot face gurning emotively: meh. Having text that's clear with the letters the right shape, and not having chunky aliasing on edges in games, are the kinds of thing that makes a difference when you're close to a screen, which you're going to be for small screen use cases.

Hmmm depends how small, for a laptop, I tried both 1080p and 4k, and honestly except my battery draining faster I did not see any difference ...
For work screen, so 27 or 32" is more open to discussion, but I also stay at 2k there. Also because some tools I use have no correct support for high res, and link straight to X11 calls, so nothing a modern system can save you from (aren't shitty proprietary tools written at dinosaurs age wonderful ...). If not for those, I don't know because at 2k I can easily have 9 sub terminals with vim or tmux cmd line and no issue to read or anything, but yeah maybe I would gain a little from 4k.

For gaming, high framerate is more important than higher resolution honestly, so for me the choice is a no brainer, 2k all the way.

As for bigger projector screen, 1080p definitely gets blury in games. I am currently looking seriously at upgrading to 4k for that use. Issue is to find a 4k projector with decent latency.

Well, considering I connected a Genesis, C64 and Atari 8 bit up to my projector, I don't think going 4k would help :P

Indeed :)
On the other hand, choosing a projector/tv which uses an adapted upscale algorithm could change the result dramatically. There was a nice LTT video about that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUCc5NGEthA [External Link] , Of course if you use an external device for that, then no issue.

I realized Saturday that I have a whole lot of extra space around my TV downstairs... so started looking at projectors... someone needs to tell me NO haha. https://www.amazon.com/BenQ-Entertainment-Projector-TK850-Watchers/dp/B07Y2N2MBL [External Link]

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Quoting: sarmadToo bad Steam Controllers are only 2%.

Yeah, sad. I kind of feel like I'm that 2%, as I have at least 3 of them :P

It's interesting that Sony is writing their own driver for 5.12 kernel for the DS5 controller. It'll also be interesting to see if people start utilizing the various new features for PC games.

100% though there are just simply games in existence that are better with a gamepad, or trackball, or joystick. Then there are those that are better with a keyboard / mouse. Some are even better when you use a directional pad vs analog stick.

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Quoting: einherjarI rarely use controllers.
I tried Valheim with controller, but I was not satisfied and went back to MK.

But some game are nice to play with controller, so having the freedom of choice is always good :-)

I find myself wanting more controller enabled games, mostly because I sit for 10-14 hours a day typing away and wiggling a mouse doing work... I want to be able to lay way back in comfort with a controller in hand to play some games. (or in the case of VR, standing with controllers and punching the living shit out of enemies with the Index controllers).

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They adding rumble support to the Steam controller?

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Quoting: 3zekiel

Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: DuncI'm not going to say 4K is snake oil - more resolution can't be worse (leaving aside compression issues, etc.), and I'd be surprised if IMAX wasn't using it, or even 8K, today - but it's way overkill for relatively small screens, at least with current technology.

I'd say that the case is better for small screens than big ones. Watching soaps or a 20—foot face gurning emotively: meh. Having text that's clear with the letters the right shape, and not having chunky aliasing on edges in games, are the kinds of thing that makes a difference when you're close to a screen, which you're going to be for small screen use cases.

Hmmm depends how small, for a laptop, I tried both 1080p and 4k, and honestly except my battery draining faster I did not see any difference ...
For work screen, so 27 or 32" is more open to discussion, but I also stay at 2k there. Also because some tools I use have no correct support for high res, and link straight to X11 calls, so nothing a modern system can save you from (aren't shitty proprietary tools written at dinosaurs age wonderful ...). If not for those, I don't know because at 2k I can easily have 9 sub terminals with vim or tmux cmd line and no issue to read or anything, but yeah maybe I would gain a little from 4k.

For gaming, high framerate is more important than higher resolution honestly, so for me the choice is a no brainer, 2k all the way.

As for bigger projector screen, 1080p definitely gets blury in games. I am currently looking seriously at upgrading to 4k for that use. Issue is to find a 4k projector with decent latency.

Well, considering I connected a Genesis, C64 and Atari 8 bit up to my projector, I don't think going 4k would help :P

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I use 2 @ 4k 27" screens for work ao I can fit more shit on screen, but see absolutely no reason to use that for gaming. Instead I now use a 3840x1200 Super Ultrawide fir gaming. Just of course I had to get the weird reaolution that nothing supports again!

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Quoting: MordragReally sad to see...
Out of curiosity, if now someone would write specifications based on that code, and another one would write another engine reimplementation based on that specifications, would be it legal ?

Depends on how many lawyers get involved. The thing is, clean lab reverse engineering is perfectly legal. From my understanding of it, if it wasn't the PC as it is today would not exist, as IBM's architecture was open, but their BIOS was not, and it was reverse engineered.
In this day and age though, all that needs to be done is for a company to cry foul (claim DMCA) and the project goes away.
The process that is illegal is if they had someone from tge original project working with them, then it would not be considered 'clean'.
(Not a lawyer, juat remembered it from reading things years ago when people were doing similar things with other games.)

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Quoting: t3gI can’t wait for Stadia to die out since it’s one big circle jerk here.

Seriously? I've heard reasonable arguments against Stadia, but yours is just silly.

Maybe if it was a big circle jerk a certain group of people would enjoy it more.
;)

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Quoting: dubigrasuI don't personally care about 4K, (I think 1440p is the sweet spot) I care more about a minimum of 60fps. And I doubt is Stadia's choice here, (rather Bethesda's), but is ridiculous that (as stated in the article) Elder scrolls Online still runs at 30fps even cranked down at 720p.
All this while they were talking even about 8K. They really really need to stop this over-promise > under-deliver thing they're doing.

I was recently arguing back and forth with someone who clearly is of the 'PC Master Race' persuasion. I myself could be considered as such as well, but the older I get (as I told him) the more I lean toward wanting to play games on my TV with a controller. Mainly due to already spending far too much time on a keyboard / mouse working. And so I lean toward playing games on the PC with gamepad support.

But he was insisting that the Atari VCS sucked because it couldn't handle 4k@120fps. Without also saying that 99% of PCs can't handle games at max settings at 4k@120fps either...

4k isn't really a thing unless you have the unobtanium current Gen GPUs, and certainly not at 120fps. Mind you I would MUCH prefer high details over high resolution. Unless you are strapping the screens to your face (in VR) then having that high of resolution is fine if you can already set maximum settings. I'd rather have more details / effects than tinier pixels. Streaming in general tends to make things blurry to try to increase framerates.

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