I wish they'd let us have more customization on notification location. Atm you can only select corners but it be better if you could designate a boxed in location for them, or force a compact version that sticks to the APP icon triggering the notification. ATM mine sort of float over top of my browser and its a bit annoying.

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Maybe we will need to wait a little longer for the DX12 performance issues.

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Quoting: Greo

Quoting: syylkThere are active DP1.4/USB-C -> HDMI 2.1 adapters that support the necessary features and transfer speeds, but I have no experience with them.

I recently tried this BENFEI DisplayPort 1.4 zu HDMI 2.1 Adapter [External Link] with my LG G2 TV on Fedora43/LinuxMint/Ubuntu26.04 and had no success with VRR (FreeSync). I thought that maybe the sound would be transmitted in 5.1, but I didn't spend much time messing around with it. I sent the adapter back four days later.

You need to firmware patch the adapters to get VRR and all the features working. And some adapters don't play as nice as others.

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Yeah you just need to wait for the XFCE Wayland rewrite. Probably another year away before usable I'm guessing.

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Can't wait for the day when there will be landfills of memory/gpus and what not because all the Data centers failed to milk everyone for money for AI slop.

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It's going to be janky, and certainly most youtubes won't like it. But I will enjoy it simply because I was a big Gothic fan back in the day, both gothic 1 and 2 were great. (Gothic-3 was a stretch)

Then we got Risen 1 & 2 which were quite good as well, but again Risen-3 was a bit of a flop!

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I found AMD hardware to be quite competent at hybrid Ray-Tracing games like Metro Exodus/ KCD2 probably.

But as soon as you turn on FULL RT and ESPECIALLY Path Tracing, they buckle massively at the knees. Sadly more and more games are coming out that rely HEAVILY on RT, really hope the GAMES industry adopts some RT optimization down the road. (there are a tonne of videos on youtube showing creative ways of improving RT performance in games, but few games afaik deploy them)

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Yeah well the memory is like %200-300 more costly now. And likely other components are affected like storage and even some other microchips (trickle on effect). So its likely costing them TWICE as much to build these now... kind of destroys their value.

This whole destruction of PC part pricing is likely not to rectify itself until sometime after 2027, maybe not until late 2028!
Fortunately, I don't need any new PC parts as I've stopped playing stupid unoptimized junk that can barely run on a 5090 at 1080p. And also taken up a lot more older and basic graphic titles, even visual novel games (some excellent stories out there) which don't require top end hardware.

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AMD/Intel RT performance being quite far behind NVIDIA, and probably still behind.

At least when looking at very heavy RT based games like many running UE5, or CP77.
I think the only reason AMD/Intel look ok in these games atm is because NVIDIA has that COLOSSAL 40-50% performance hit in MANY DX12 RT games. (probably still 3mnths until we see fixes be fully integrated)

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I think when I used WiVRn with HLAlyx last time (3mths back or so) I had a issue where the controller would not respond to turning right/left correctly (would cut out) or something. Was real weird as ALVR didn't have said problem.

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