My Sapphire 5700XT is super quiet. I have my PC sitting under the desk and it's barely audible. The fans on the Sapphire don't spin at idle at all - 0rpm. If I play a demanding game, they'll spin up around 1200rpm - audible, but certainly not over the game sounds.

It's a great experience and VR will happily sit at 120Hz each eye. I haven't noticed any performance issues at all. I generally game at 4K, 60fps with this card. In fact, GOL reader Michael Emory has a Youtube playlist on his experiences of running various native and proton titles at 4K with a 5700XT [External Link]. He's very active on discord if you have further questions.

As for the high idle power consumption - nope. I'm running Mint 20, with Cinnamon as I write this and I'm on 8W, as you'd expect. If I run `watch sensors`, scrolling rapidly on Firefox can jump it up to 18W. Bigger graphical effects like Workspace Zoom can push it to 24W. No idea what it jumps to "in game", but certainly no idle issues on my rig.

As for recommendations - I'd highly recommend the 5700XT... but of course, the 6800 series just launched, so that recommendation is now tinged with a) will the price of the 5700XT cards come down now? and b) should you still buy a 5700XT when the faster 6800 and 6800XT cards will eventually become available? It'll depend on your timescales and budget, of course.

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I'd love to try this if there were pre-built campaigns for Gloomhaven, but unlike Tabletop Simulator, there doesn't appear to be a really strong "repository" of pre-built campaigns.

TTS is amazing, but it needs a really strong graphics card. I like the idea of FVTT, but if I have to import and build everything myself, I'll be sticking to the workshop support in TTS.

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Quoting: CatKiller5.6 was released on 29 March 2020 and 5.7 was released on 31 May 2020, so 63 days between them.

Huh. According to the mainline repo link I posted in my first comment, 5.7 wasn't released until 15th July... but you must be right, because 5.8 then released on the second of August, just two weeks later! Must just be the directories that are incorrectly dated for some reason.

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Loved the achievement pop up at 8:55. I'm surprised that Rocket Lab didn't spring for professional presenters though! They did a good enough job, but it's weird seeing such a cool space launch marred with long silences and little speech errors when clearly reading from a script! Night and day from the SpaceX launches!

Very cool though.

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Quoting: benjamimgoisI use to recomend the custom kernels from TKG, the man and mind behind proton-tkg (that represents the major part of proton-GE). TKG has custom version for all different kinds of CPUs and diferent governors. TKG kernels use to be Arch only but i think it's compatible with ubuntu based distros now.

https://github.com/Frogging-Family/linux-tkg [External Link]

Looks like it's compatible, but it also looks like you're basically compiling a new kernel whenever a new release comes out. Since I know next-to-nothing about kernels, I think I'll stick to pre-packaged .deb files from either mainline or Liquonix, unless there are other options out there.

Also, doesn't compiling a kernel take hours?? Maybe I'm missing something that install script just updates your apt cache, but that's not how it's presented, and they go on to talk about having to manage "custom compiled kernels". I'd prefer something that merges into the Mint kernel management tool, like mainline does.

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Well, I think you said before that this won't land until kernel 5.11. That seems likely since 5.10 is currently in Release Candidate 4 as of a couple of days ago (https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ [External Link] ). I'm not sure what the release schedule is for kernels - they seem to be every two months or so, although there was a 6 month gap between 5.6 and 5.7. But based on the 2 month schedule, we could be looking at 5.11 around February next year, maybe even a bit earlier?

I'm currently running the latest 5.9 from mainline using the low-latency option. It works really well, but I think I might give Liquorix a shot, since it will update automatically, AND includes the fsync patches. Liquorix (https://liquorix.net [External Link] ) support PPA and AUR updates, which is pretty cool.

If you're on an Arch-based disto, apparently the Zen kernel is also worth a shot (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=Kernels&oldid=407966#Official_packages [External Link] ).

Anyone know of any other reliable, solid options for kernel upgrades, particularly on an Ubuntu-based distro?

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If I were to dip my toe into the Bridge Constructor world... do I go for this, or Portal. I haven't watched The Walking Dead, so no particular skin in the game from a fanboy perspective. Just wondering which of the two titles is more fun for a noob in this genre.

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Quoting: cdnr1Zero-k on steam is also a realy good one

It might be free, but it's Windows-only.

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I'm not sure I love the look of it, but it reminds me of Rebelstar on the Spectrum [External Link], believe it or not! And I didn't know until I googled it just there, but Rebelstar was the precursor to Xcom, so I guess I'm getting the same vibe as Liam!

I like the look of the card-based upgrades at the end - some nice weapon diversity in there. It's also reminding me of Arcen's awesome Bionic Dues [External Link] (which you can pick up right now for £1.74 until the end of November).

Might have to pick this up. It's ticking all the right boxes.

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Quoting: 14OMG, ten pages of comments. I should just wait for this weekend's post. :P
I've been barely playing Rise of the Tomb Raider. Sunk too many hours researching single-board computers.

Jeez, where have you been all week?? These games aren't going to play themselves you know!

Side note - I've set my user profile options to display 25 comments per page, so this is only a 4-page thread. But yeah. That's a lot of reading and a lot of games being played!

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