It sounds like what I've been doing with JACK but better (I've just been using it as a mixing board). I haven't looked much at pipewire because for some reason when I see "and video" I assume it's going to somehow be wayland related (which I personally am not ready for)... but it sounds like it's more "and video CAPTURE" rather than video output. Now I kinda want to try this.

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Curiously, it encodes it using JPEG

Almost all video formats use key frames and diff frames. If the goal is to have a rolling window, you don't want key frames to roll out of the window and be left with a bunch of useless diff frames. There are probably more efficient ways to do this, but this is a surefire way to make sure you have full data for every frame up until you do the video compression, even if JPEG is mostly a weird choice because per frame compression may make the video compression act weird.

Seems like it gets the job done though.

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Quoting: ValckNow this looks interesting!

Hopefully now I can finally turn off the RGB crap you simply can't avoid buying these days... will this idiocy never stop?
Glossy glarey displays, piano black finish, RGB lighting inside closed cases, I don't even want to know what may come next.

I game in a dark room where color replication is better than glare reduction. My case is class on several sides.

RGB isn't just for "all the colors flashing like its a rave". I have mine set to permanently blue to match my water cooling loop. Lighting is a thing I actually want for my PC, which is a bit of a show-piece for me, and toggle-able RGB is far more efficient than having a "no lights" SKU, a "blue" SKU, a "red" SKU. etc.

You can turn it off, so getting mad that it exists is just getting mad that people have different preferences.

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Watching people on twitch, it seems pretty straightforward. I wonder if living in the middle of nowhere affects latency to datacenters. Would be fun to try out.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEP

Ubuntu support? Currently it's too hard to run PoE on it.

Sorry, what?
Steam -> Steam Play -> Download & play PoE.
How is that hard?

I mean, sure, native would be even better, for performance alone, but PoE is definitely one of the best running games on Proton right now (at leat post Proton 4.2). Most of the problems reported on ProtonDB are actually bugs/performance issues of the game itself (like heavy stuttering when shit hits the fan) which happen on Windows as well.
I'd know, I played on both platforms for dozens of hours ;)

I've consistently gotten it to launch. But it would always (90% of the time) crash on load screens between zones, or hard lock my entire computer. I've never found it to be "playable" through proton, even if I've been in game and killed some creatures before. Maybe I need to give it another try.

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Quoting: KelsI wonder if it does the wrong monitor/shuts off other monitor trick that the original did for me. I had to run it windowed, which isn't actually optimal for this sort of game.

Remastered definitely has improved window handling. I'm getting the AMDGPU issues mentioned, but I can at least alt+tab in and out of the game now, and it hasn't resized my monitors at all. So far (when the AMDGPU issues get fixed), this will be enough to let me play the game all the way through for once.

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Quoting: Doc AngeloI'm not sure what "Ashes of the Benchmark" means.

It's pretty commonly accepted among Windows/PCMR types that no one actually plays this game for the gameplay. It has a VERY robust built in benchmark tool, so EVERYONE buys the game just to run the benchmark, similar to how everyone runs Firestrike.

However, since it's built first as a game, any claims against synthetic benchmarks where someone wants to dismiss the scores and say "oh a real game isnt like that, reals games don't do XYZ" are less valid.

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Quoting: qptain NemoIf this lead is correct, then I can see two possible prominent themes in the song that wouldn't be too insanely cryptic to reference: a red-haired woman and disappearance.

red-haired woman -- Triss
disappearnce -- Ciri

Witcher 3?

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KSP has an already active modding community, which the developer has now given a big boost thanks to the Mission Builder

Take Two changed the EULA to claim they own any and all mods made for the game. They also now state that you can only have 1 downloaded copy of the game ever, so people that like to have copies of different game versions (for archival, or mod compatibility, since the "active" mod community doesn't always update their mods to the latest release, so people still playing on older versions just for mods is actually super common) are technically breaking the rules.

This seemed like a really big thing right when the DLC dropped, and now I can't find any reference to it. Maybe it was people misunderstanding the EULA, or maybe it just got hushed up, but I would say that if people care about EULA's and rights and stuff, they should look into it before buying.

Edit: Found some stuff, it seems that some people are claiming the wording was just changed by Take Two but means the same thing (they get full usage rights to user generated content uploaded to their services, which is quite a bit less threatening). But as always, be aware that the EULA has changed, if you care about those sorts of things.

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Does steam VR have all the abstraction in it that will allow my Oculus Dev Kit 2 to work, or do I need a Vive for this to work?

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