Quoting: nattydreadPS4: Rocket league (in 4k!)

Why not 4k on Linux? :)

Quoting: GuestAs a new linux gamer I have been enjoying Ark and all the linux glitches :P

And yesterday I was introduced to Ballistic Overkill and not gonna lie I love it! So simple to pick up and learn. That and the fact its super cheap!

Two games that I've avoided because of the negative comments on Steam : / I've gone back and forth on Ballistic Overkill since, as you said, it's so cheap. Dumb comments, lol. I'll get it.

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Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: saildata

Quoting: mrdeathjrI dont like flight simulators however this x-plane 11 is very heavy, remember ask huge hard drive space
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It's a good one. The community assets available are unlimited - people spend so much time modding that game. You're right -- it is a big install even with just the US/Europe maps (37 GB)

Just wait until you start adding stuff. Soon you'll find it grew to 500 GB. I spoke to streamer that rendered large parts of the EU and US in photo scenery and accumulated over 10 TB. It can get a little crazy.

Uhh.. that sounds like a nightmare/ possible bug. 10 TB?! Maybe time to remove some of the areas unless they are attempting to literally fly around the world. Even then.. delete the higher latitudes : )

EDIT: I just saw you said photo scenery. That's insane.

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Quoting: mrdeathjrYeah have cuda - nvenc sdk and ffmpeg all enable is difficult but possible (with guides)
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Same here, I guess I've just gotten used to having the AUR and ABS (Arch Build System) available to automate so much of this. I'm actually a developer myself and so I have no problem with the know-how, rather it's the time/frustration that I prefer to keep to a minimum :)

Quoting: mrdeathjrHowever another important detail respect screen casting is have hard drive dedicated to capture, in my case have one for system and other for screencasting (since around october stay using new hard drive for capture, one seagate survillance series VX001)
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Yeah, I agree. I have two 512GB NVMe drives (one for system, and one mounted for media) and a third drive - 1TB Samsung 850 for other media and other OS. E.g. Linux Mint is my dedicated OS for anything in Wine (somehow I feel safer? with it separated from my primary OS)

When I moved my DiRT Rally install (44 GB) from my main drive to the other NVMe drive, the benchmark was consistently lower by ~5-10 fps. This shows that even in extremely fast drives, having to jump over to another one still has a penalty involved.

Obviously some programs can fit entirely into memory, but there is a CPU cost usually involved. Firefox/Chrome are SSD killers (go watch your I/O with Chrome on Youtube...) so I run them entirely in RAM, with the side effect of more CPU %. It's all a balancing act.

Quoting: mrdeathjrIn arch them provides simple screen recorder with nvenc support
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Yes! I love that program. The default settings are usually good enough for quick recording.

Quoting: mrdeathjrRespect roller coaster is supposed them can provide linux version, however this game type with many objects could be ideal to use vulkan (if them dont have work on opengl now)
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Gotcha. Yeah, it's amazing how quickly Vulkan performance has improved. Talos Principle (Vulkan) @2160p is consistent 140+ fps for me.

Quoting: mrdeathjrI dont like flight simulators however this x-plane 11 is very heavy, remember ask huge hard drive space
^_^

It's a good one. The community assets available are unlimited - people spend so much time modding that game. You're right -- it is a big install even with just the US/Europe maps (37 GB)

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Quoting: mrdeathjrHave ffmpeg with nvenc in ubuntu is complicated as your said, various guides are needed case

https://www.quantstart.com/articles/Installing-Nvidia-CUDA-on-Ubuntu-14-04-for-Linux-GPU-Computing [External Link]

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*Mic drop* : -|

Where were you when I was hand linking and compiling each.. individual.. codec.. asking myself do I really need this one too.. I can follow a recipe card lol. Live and learn.

I completely agree with the "your mileage may vary" depending on the game. I'm a total nerd and basically install it for either strategy or simulators. You'd think that someone would put two and two together and figure out that sims would sell like crazy on Linux.. but alas I can only blame myself for giving into the temptations.. why should they port it when people like me jump through hoops so they don't have to..

I can, however, say that I still have my original 512GB Nvme with Windows 10 on it just in case Asus ever decides they will update their UEFI and I have to have my windows install to initiate it. Even with that I haven't booted Windows (for more than the initial warranty registration) in about 3 years.. I had to dual boot in grad school. If a Linux drive fails totally I'm wiping the factory one though.. just sayin :)

Have you seen anything/anywhere about the latest Rollercoaster Tycoon? People had originally said they would port it to Linux (it IS built on Unity..). I want to verify before actually paying more than $10-$15 for a Windows game. E.g. Simple Planes... Love that game.

Honestly, as someone else said, the new X-PLANE 11 is amazing on Linux. Best (proprietary) Flight Sim I've used.

EDIT: I can't seem to properly quote a post ( smells like PHP >:-| )

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: saildataI'm going to have to finally break down and play this. Harvest Moon was one of my favorites growing up, and I think I've been scared that this would be too much like it but not as good : )

I’ve never played Harvest Moon so I can’t compare…

What?? That's immediately what I thought of when I saw SV... "Someone's made a modern Harvest Moon".

Your mission is to search the dark webs until you find it, install it (snes version was the best.. or N64) and come back saying, "holy crap they made a modern Harvest Moon!" :)

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Quoting: mrdeathjrAlso test ffmpeg 3.24 with nvenc 7.1 (waiting for sdk 8.0) and works good

I seriously had a partition with Ubuntu installed b/c my main rig broke my ffmpeg setup (GTX-1070). The steps you have to jump through to get a FULL ffmpeg install on Ubuntu is not trivial, to say the least. Anyways, I ran one last strace today and solved my nvidia-uvm module issues that had plagued me since I believe 4.9 (4.10.1 now). So no more dual booting Arch with Ubuntu..

The performance is better than before, with cuda 8.0 and they added vp9_cuvid, (decode only), making it easy to do full hw transpiling (*_cuvid) -> (hevc). I think GPU to GPU transfers are something like 8X faster than RAM to GPU, and who knows about disk to GPU. I tested today with transpiling a 8k video down to 4k and it was somewhere around 80 or so fps. CPU was around 8-12% b/c I was also on Steam/YouTube lol (@Liam -- that's what 64GB of RAM is for :))

Thanks for your YouTube content as well! I've watched several when trying to determine if something runs on Wine or not ;)

Oh, and to answer the forum question -- Civ6 and DiRT Rally. Also, I highly recommend Typoman to anyone who hasn't played it/looking for a recommendation outside the other 90% mentioned.Cheers --

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Quoting: GuestStardew Valley [External Link]. It’s a bit grindy but new things happen regularly and you slowly improve your farm and equipment and there are many different things to discover and do, which keeps the game fun for many hours. Also the UI is a bit unpolished but you get used to it and workaround the issues.

I'm going to have to finally break down and play this. Harvest Moon was one of my favorites growing up, and I think I've been scared that this would be too much like it but not as good : )

lol that sounds weird, but it's seriously why I haven't played yet.

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[quote=Samsai]

Quoting: Dea1993And when it comes to DIMM amount, I'm pretty sure there's two sticks in there running in dual-channel. This laptop's an absolute bitch to get to the innards though, so verifying that isn't particularly easy. And for those interested in the model, this is an HP Notebook 15, the APU variant.

Check out lshw (list hardware) [External Link]

To get the detailed memory info, sudo lshw -c memory

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Quoting: saildata

Quoting: RussianNeuroMancerSwitching CPU governor from ondemand to performance could be very useful for running games on APU.

Both good points.

@meggerman I noticed over 55% frame count reduction with no visual improvement; so all loss no gain.

Not sure if it just scales really well or what. For MSAA I haven't even tried lower yet,

I usually just alter one variable at a time so it's easier to attribute causality. I'll check it out and see how it does (I'm sure it can only improve with less computation per frame!)

Oh, and yes the rest of the system is Gnome shell at 2160p.

@RussianNeuroMancer modern chips don't really see much benefit from governor changes, I usually stick with p-state for thermal sanity but totally agree that there could be some upside to performance.

I also wanted to test disabling the new default Nvidia threads config, that's one that can sometimes be huge gains or losses depending on the code. Usually it's gains but with these ports you never know what the secret sauce will be.

Overall, I'm a happy camper at over 80fps.. refresh is 60 so it's all bonus at this point.

UPDATE:

I've tested a few changes and wanted to let others know in case they are looking for performance improvements.

Changing from MSAAx8 to MSAAx4 (governor=p-state powersave): 21,811 frames (+21.1% increase) Min/Max/Avg fps: 83.8/127.2/106.2

Changing from powersave to performance governor (MSAAx4): 21,260 frames (-2.5% decrease) Min/Max/Avg fps: 83.1/128.0/105.3

(someone asked about RAM) 64GB DDR4 @ 2400 MHz

The last test I want to run is moving the game install to my other/spare NVMe drive in case there is any iowait (NVMe usually has 0% iowait, but just testing... :)

UPDATE #2
Tested the separate drive theory.. all else equal (MSAAx4, p-state powersave) showed under 1% improvement in frame count which is probably within margin of error. 22,000 frames (+0.9% increase) Min/Max/Avg fps: 85.0/131.3/107.1

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Quoting: robvv

Quoting: saildataI had a few issues with it, nothing major. I'm also on the beta client, which had some recent updates for the SC.

Have you tried one of the community configs? Also, sometimes I find it helps to reboot with the controller plugged in.

'xinput' will typically list two nodes for the SC, so that's one way to quickly check if it's your system (eg udev/permissions etc) or Steam/the game.

Thanks for this. I have been using the beta client and indeed xinput does show two nodes.

The triggers do work when I run the test utility in the Steam client so I'm wondering if there is an issue between the game and my Steam client.

Also, the controller buttons seem to recognised as keys (e.g. Pg Dn, Ctrl etc) in Dirt Rally so I will have to keep digging!

Glad to help out! Enjoy the game :) (check out the project below re: the buttons)

P.S. Anyone with a Steam Controller should definitely checkout the GTK3 based configuration tool, which allows you to re-map any button without running the Steam client. Also, it's a user-mode driver so no special privileges needed.

link to AUR [External Link]

project page on GH [External Link]

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