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Latest Comments by Shmerl
Starfield from Bethesda launching September 6
8 Mar 2023 at 4:19 pm UTC

What's the current story with Bethesda. Did MS force them to use DX12 or they are still using Vulkan in some games?

Wine development release v8.3 is out now
7 Mar 2023 at 7:20 pm UTC

Is d3d7 basically ddraw.dll?

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27 Feb 2023 at 8:31 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: whizseOh gosh, thank you so much! Adding a custom modeline fixed it!

I'm back down at a minimum power level at max refresh rate. I didn't even realise it was a bug, just stupidly assumed more Hz = more wasted power.

The monitor is a AOC CU34G2X for reference.
You're welcome!

Yeah, the power is wasted becasue MCLK (GPU memory clock) stays on max frequency when driver detects certain patterns, which are caused by whatever it establishes from display EDID. And sometimes those modelines result in some edge cases, so making custom ones can help.

I hope AMD can sort it out somehow and also KDE developers implement some way to set custom modeline in KWin Wayland mode, becasue right now it's only possible in X11 one.

The last time I had to fiddle with modelines was for CRT displays. Didn't expect it to become useful again.

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27 Feb 2023 at 7:42 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: whizseNo hardware changes, but I did switch from 144Hz to 60Hz. Why? Turns out just idling at 144Hz causes the GPU never to enter the lowest power state and using 17(!) more watts.

I should probably try out that VRR stuff.
What display? I had this issue with my previous LG display, but newer one works fine. You can also experiment setting custom modelines to work around it, but that's not possible in Wayland session in KDE.

There is a huge bug about it here: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/1403 [External Link]

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27 Feb 2023 at 7:32 pm UTC Likes: 1

Just got Sapphire Pulse RX 7900 XTX - very pleasantly smooth experience so far.

Wayland driver for Wine is getting closer
27 Feb 2023 at 5:43 pm UTC Likes: 1

On a side note, what's the story with Winesync project? Esync / fsync were rejected for upstreaming, but what happened to Winesync that was proposed as a more robust solution?

Wayland driver for Wine is getting closer
27 Feb 2023 at 5:42 pm UTC

Cool to see it approaching merging! I hope it won't take too long, to allow testing it in upstream Wine.

X-Plane 12 now uses the open source Zink driver to help Plugins
26 Feb 2023 at 4:03 am UTC Likes: 1

This is cool to see and I agree, giving credit to developers is very nice for a change.

Mesa 23.0 out now improving open source graphics drivers
24 Feb 2023 at 6:30 am UTC Likes: 3

I think Debian experimental would have it before unstable and testing.

It was getting RCs before: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/mesa [External Link]

Avoid rc4 though if you are on RDNA3. You need rc5 or release becasue of important bug fixes. They are also included in 22.3.5.

Mesa 23.0 out now improving open source graphics drivers
23 Feb 2023 at 9:34 pm UTC

Quoting: undeadbydawnBeen using mesa-git on CachyOS since the XTX launched and had nothing but good times. Seriously amazed how stable and performant it's been
What llvm are you using with it?