On to KOTOR 2 now. Ironically, Aspyr's native port seems less stable and buggier than the original was in Proton (although in fairness, I've heard that it's a bit flaky on Windows, too).

I was playing GTA 5 from the Epic giveaway. After a bit of a struggle installing it, it worked really well (although launching it is tricky because the Epic Store doesn't play nice with DXVK), but in the last couple of days, when I start it up it seems to go into an update which only gets so far then just... stops. No errors, no crashes; it just grinds to a halt, sometimes after about a quarter of the progress bar, once as much as 90%.

Easy come, easy go, I suppose. I'd be annoyed if I'd paid for it, though.

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EA Access [External Link] “coming soon to Steam [External Link]”.

(Sorry for the bump, but I just noticed this on the EA sale page.)

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Quoting: CFWhitman

Quoting: DuncYes, I came to much the same conclusion. I usually use ZEsarUX elsewhere, but it's not in the RPiOS repos (at least, not last time I checked).

That's correct; it's not in the repositories. However, there is a binary of the latest stable version for the Raspberry Pi on the ZEsarUX GitHub site in the download section (the latest beta doesn't have a Raspberry Pi build; of course you could build it yourself if you are familiar with compiling software). It's just a zip, but I think it can just be unzipped and run from the resulting directory. I haven't downloaded it and tried it, though. There's probably a README with more information in the archive.

I thought about building it, because it's not something I'm unfamiliar with after 15 years on Linux but honestly, once you install all the build dependencies... it's not that important to me. But the binary sounds interesting. I'll give it a try sometime. Thanks for the info. :)

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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoBut if Feral has the publishing rights for MAC and Linux, they can publish it anyway. Only the Windows version will be Epic Store exclusive.

That crossed my mind too, but I doubt if it's the case. As I understand it, Feral's essentially in the same position as the original developer; the publisher is still Sega.

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Quoting: CFWhitman

Quoting: Dunc

Quoting: CFWhitmanIn my experience, the Raspberry Pi 2 and up work well for PS1 emulation as long as you use the right emulator (PCSX ReArmed), and you are not using all the memory for other stuff at the same time.

Yep. What I can't understand is why it still struggles with the ZX Spectrum, at least using the build of FUSE in the Raspbian Raspberry Pi OS repos. I'm pretty sure there's a homebrew Spectrum emulator for the PS1. There's no way a modern ARM device should have trouble with such a bare-bones Z80 machine.

I haven't tried emulating the ZX Spectrum on a Rapberry Pi. If FUSE doesn't work well, I would speculate that it's really not optimized for the hardware at all and is depending on it just being such an easy system to emulate. There is also ZEsarUX [External Link] for the Pi and even ZXBaremulator [External Link] if you want to try running an emulator directly on the hardware (with no Linux in between), but I haven't tried them.

Yes, I came to much the same conclusion. I usually use ZEsarUX elsewhere, but it's not in the RPiOS repos (at least, not last time I checked).

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Quoting: CFWhitmanIn my experience, the Raspberry Pi 2 and up work well for PS1 emulation as long as you use the right emulator (PCSX ReArmed), and you are not using all the memory for other stuff at the same time.

Yep. What I can't understand is why it still struggles with the ZX Spectrum, at least using the build of FUSE in the Raspbian Raspberry Pi OS repos. I'm pretty sure there's a homebrew Spectrum emulator for the PS1. There's no way a modern ARM device should have trouble with such a bare-bones Z80 machine.

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Quoting: legluondunet- 4 Go is necessary if you wish to use a Linux distribution with a graphic environment. With 2Go, you can launch one ou two Windows maximum and the desktop experience is not very fast.

Can't say I've noticed that. I've been running a desktop on a basic Pi4 for about six weeks without issues. Mind you, I don't tend to have many things open at once. But Chromium and Firefox aren't exactly known for being light on memory, and I can run them simultaneously (with only one tab open in each, to be fair; I haven't tried any more).

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Quoting: ArehandoroI wish they look into including some m.2 SSD out of the box and deprecate the sd card.

Eben Upton mentioned that in an interview a couple of months ago. They're still very conscious about building to a price and backwards compatibility (they agonized quite a bit over switching to USB-C for the PSU, for example, but the power requirements demanded it). So any new storage connections would have to be in addition to the existing ones, at least for the first model with them, and right now that would add too much to the price. He's not ruling it out for the future, though.

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Quoting: iskaputtDoes anyone use one of these things with a USB DAC? I have an Odroid C2 and audio via USB has been broken since forever. Tried about every distribution under the sun, but all produce some kind of noise or clicks in the audio output.

I don't have a good quality DAC, but I just tested my cheap and nasty one on my 2GB Pi4, and it seems as good as it ever was. I wouldn't take that as definitive, but I didn't hear any clicks, dropouts, or anything like that, at least. (I think I know the sort of thing you're talking about, because I do have problems sometimes when switching outputs on my main desktop. Oh, and before anyone pitches in, yes, I've probably tried that. Fragment size, tsched... I know all about it.)

The built-in audio on the recent Pis is a lot better than it used to be, actually. But I know that sometimes “good enough” isn't... well, good enough. :)

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: DuncBeware that the recommended specs given on Steam are laughably inadequate these days, though. When it came out, I could run it comfortably in 4MB. Today, it struggles with 8 (which is to say that it's playable, but only with smaller cities, and forget any mods).

You sure it wasn't 4 KB? ;)

Heh. :) I meant GB, of course. Now you dang whippersnappers get off my lawn. I don't know, kids today...

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