I never got to complete Dying Light, as when it turned to night time, it scared the hell out of me. Techland really gave the night time a horrible feeling of dread. It has to be the most intense time ever of any horror game. Resident Evil does not come close to the atmosphere that is portrayed in Dying Light. I will pluck the courage up to revisit it soon though.

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I picked up all the FarCry games yesterday one to six for thirty quid on Steam yesterday. Never played them before, though looking at reviews for some of them, people disappointed for some reason?
Been playing Alone In The Dark 2024 of late, not very scary in my opinion. I use Cachy OS Xfce edition as my choice of gaming Distro. I have two main PC's, Cachy OS for gaming and Linux Mint 22.1 Xfce for everyday stuff, YouTube, Emails, Amazon, banking and helping people out in various Linux Forums.

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VP9 is what YouTube turns every video uploaded into. VP9 makes 1080p video look really bad, unless whilst recording or rendering video, the bit-rate is very high, like twenty thousand or above. I record in 1440p and my bit-rate is eighty thousand. When I render in Davinci Resolve I bring down the bit-rate to sixty thousand and render to H265 using Nvenc through my NVIDIA 4060 TI 16GB of Rammage card. I record gameplay through OBS using Nvenc too. Then to shrink final video down again, without losing quality using the brilliant Handbrake, setting the constant quality to lossless and bring the rendering speed down to it's slowest, that shrinks the video right down, plus it is Network optimised, which is supposed to make it smoother uploading.

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Still have this on my PS1, original CD. Love it, charming little game, that has great music too. Just bought it on GOG, going to install it tomorrow using Heroic Launcher.

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I give Valve their due, they are quick to fix stuff. I've been using
SteamDeck=1 %command% to get The Last Of Us II to work on my Cachy OS Desktop.

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Looking forward to this and hopefully Nixxes do a better job than the last PC port? I already have 32GB of Rammage, RYZEN 7 5700x and NVIDIA 4060 TI with 16GB of Rammage. Everything I chuck at Cachy OS Xfce Edition Gaming wise it says yes I can run that every time.

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In my opinion, when I have looked at at other environments with Wayland, it feels heavy. No not the bloat that most other Distros have, but Wayland itself. I'm so used to X11, but then just add NVIDIA driver and everything is fine. The question is why are Xfce going with Wayland? I have used Xfce for years now and it is fine as it is. Why try to fix something that does not need fixing? Call me old school if you like? I prefer the X11, as X11 is still needed in Wayland, so what is the big deal about Wayland? I can see Xfce not being light anymore, it will become heavy with Wayland support. This is just my opinion and I am not a programmer, but a user of Xfce and to my mind it is fine the way it is.

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Linux Mint 22 is on 550.107.02. Just have to wait for the 550.127.5 update.

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You cannot beat the original Resident Evil 2.
Looking forward to this being released and will be playing it on my ArcoLinux Gaming PC. I've finally taken the plunge and moved to Linux full time for gaming, as before relying on Windows. Just played through Uncharted 4 through Proton and can honestly say I am enjoying gaming in Linux. I poo pooed Proton when it first released and thought it would never get off the ground, but that was mainly in it's first year. Since then, with the Steam-Deck release and the amazing work done in Proton and WINE for us to be able to play PC games, from nearly on first day release, is amazing.

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Reminds me of V-Rally on the PS1. Many late nights on that game. Graphics doesn't have to be perfect all the time for a game, it's if it's fun or not? 32-bit games were so much fun, came on a disc and you had the full game in your hand. No patch updates, as the Internet back then was not as popular in households as it is now. I yearn for those days back again.

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