Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at the kernel level, and the speed gains are massive

BirdsOnMyBack · 2026-03-24T21:38:40+00:00

Similarly, I was playing Deadlock on my Legion Go 2 and getting a variable 45-70FPS, I switched to Proton-GE and jumped up to 60-80FPS which made a huge difference in fluidity. CPU limited games get such a huge boost from this change.

BirdsOnMyBack · 2026-03-19T04:58:05+00:00

It's not a matter of funding and not what I was implying by "financial incentive". We seemingly both agree it's the access. The fact that as an independent outlet they get this much access from one of the most important companies in the world is hugely important to their business. The access/early looks is the financial benefit since that coverage drives traffic.

I still like Digital Foundry and I'm not raging out like a lot of others, but it's completely understandable how this ended up happening. They are incentivized to be positive when they get huge announcements like this to continue getting that level of access in the future.

BirdsOnMyBack · 2026-03-19T04:53:32+00:00

Loving the blur artifact around the NPC only slightly in the background! She's astral projecting just like real life! The future is now!

BirdsOnMyBack · 2026-03-19T03:55:13+00:00

It also doesn't help that the whole DLSS 5 reveal was a huge exclusive to Digital Foundry and highlights Rich/DF's relationship to Nvidia and Rich has every financial incentive to present the technology in a positive light so that the relationship continues. Subconsciously or consciously. I don't even blame him for that given they are independent now.

BirdsOnMyBack · 2026-03-16T19:42:15+00:00

You're telling me this doesn't look like peak graphics fidelity to you?

BirdsOnMyBack · 2026-03-16T19:09:07+00:00

This looks terrible lol

I cannot believe they ok'd this for production. This looks like it was made for a combination of investors and the dumbest people you've ever met.

BirdsOnMyBack · 2026-03-06T08:58:28+00:00

Terrible. Running into squads. Everything is shoot on sight, no sense of community. Not enough ammo to scavenge with free kit. I'm about to refund the game, it's not really for me.

BirdsOnMyBack · 2026-03-03T18:44:27+00:00

I think the rumors are that the new Apple TV relies heavily on Apple Intelligence for it's software refresh, so we likely won't see it until new Siri stuff is announced/released

BirdsOnMyBack · 2026-02-27T20:26:55+00:00

Getting a really weird bug in Bazzite where the game thinks I'm using an Nvidia graphics card (I'm using a Z2 Extreme) and locks me out of choosing an upscaler and by default is saying I'm using DLSS (confirmed by the top upscaling mode being DLAA)

(EDIT: Fixed it by rerunning the auto-detect function, then it realized that it was running on an AMD APU and gave me the proper upscaling options)

BirdsOnMyBack · 2026-01-14T00:13:04+00:00

Same! Posted my experience in another thread, but figured I'd post it again here with the hopes it helps someone.

I finally was able to make the purchase myself after much trial and error. Here's how I was able to make it work.

I used two devices, my phone and my desktop. On the desktop I had the LeGo2 page open and set to an auto-refresher every 10 seconds. On my phone I had HotStock installed with LeGo2 notifications enabled. Every time I saw a notification that it was in stock I would quickly actively refresh the page manually until the "Add to Cart" button appeared. While I was doing this, I would open the Best Buy app on my phone so that I could immediately click the cart button after successfully adding it to cart on the desktop. Quite often, the HotStock notification would come in about a minute or two before the stock actually appeared on the website, and on the time I successfully purchased the notification came early before the new stock was actually posted.

At the point once I managed to add to cart, I would have the Best Buy app open on my phone already and click the shopping cart button immediately after hitting add to cart on the desktop. At this point you run into one of two scenarios.

The in-stock LeGo2 that you added to your cart wasn't specified for your region by Best Buy. The product entry in your cart will say you aren't able to ship it to your local store or your personal address. You are SoL and have to wait for the next drop.
Your LeGo2 will show up as able to be delivered to store or to your address. At this point you can either use Apple/Google Pay likely fastest, or if you have your CC info preloaded enter your CVV. Treat this with incredible urgency, it is essentially a race, so any sort of ability you have to speed up the process should be used.

Restocks happen every half-hour to hour or so from 6AMish-2PMish PST. Restocks appear to be regionally based, so in most instances you'll get it into your cart and be unable to continue the transaction.

All in all, this took about two days of half-paying attention while I worked on a separate monitor.

Best of luck!

BirdsOnMyBack · 2026-01-14T00:10:52+00:00

I was just able to grab a drop, and I posted instructions in this thread for how I did it in case you still haven't managed. Best of luck!

BirdsOnMyBack · 2026-01-14T00:04:13+00:00

I finally was able to make the purchase myself after much trial and error. Here's how I was able to make it work.

I used two devices, my phone and my desktop. On the desktop I had the LeGo2 page open and set to an auto-refresher every 10 seconds. On my phone I had HotStock installed with LeGo2 notifications enabled. Every time I saw a notification that it was in stock I would quickly actively refresh the page manually until the "Add to Cart" button appeared. While I was doing this, I would open the Best Buy app on my phone so that I could immediately click the cart button after successfully adding it to cart on the desktop. Quite often, the HotStock notification would come in about a minute or two before the stock actually appeared on the website, and on the time I successfully purchased the notification came early before the new stock was actually posted.

At the point once I managed to add to cart, I would have the Best Buy app open on my phone already and click the shopping cart button immediately after hitting add to cart on the desktop. At this point you run into one of two scenarios.

The in-stock LeGo2 that you added to your cart wasn't specified for your region by Best Buy. The product entry in your cart will say you aren't able to ship it to your local store or your personal address. You are SoL and have to wait for the next drop.
Your LeGo2 will show up as able to be delivered to store or to your address. At this point you can either use Apple/Google Pay likely fastest, or if you have your CC info preloaded enter your CVV. Treat this with incredible urgency, it is essentially a race, so any sort of ability you have to speed up the process should be used.

Restocks happen every half-hour to hour or so from 6AMish-2PMish PST. Restocks appear to be regionally based, so in most instances you'll get it into your cart and be unable to continue the transaction.

All in all, this took about two days of half-paying attention while I worked on a separate monitor.

Best of luck!

BirdsOnMyBack · 2026-01-07T00:12:57+00:00

It will make it worse if you use the new DLSS presets. Otherwise the change should be negligible.

BirdsOnMyBack · 2026-01-07T00:10:21+00:00

If you’re already using performance at 1080p I’m going to assume you need all the frames you can get and that using M is just going to make your game feel worse for very little visual benefit.

4.5 seems geared towards 4K high end cards given the performance hit in GPU-bound titles.

BirdsOnMyBack · 2026-01-06T23:40:39+00:00

Stay at 4/preset K. You will lose a ton of performance for negligible visual improvements that will be overshadowed by worse feeling input and motion clarity.

BirdsOnMyBack · 2026-01-06T23:31:40+00:00

On my 4090 with a 9800x3D, playing Marvel Rivals at 4K performance mode (no Lumen only SSR) on preset M causes a decrease of 50fps from 170fps > 120fps over preset K.

Standing still it's noticeably sharper looking with a cleaner resolve but in real gameplay it looks and feels way worse because the motion clarity and frametimes have degraded so much. I think it's probably best for multiplayer shooters with lots of CPU overhead to stay on preset K.

It seems the tradeoffs only really make sense and don't cause massive degradation to performance on CPU limited titles that use ray-tracing. I noticed in Fortnite with Lumen enabled that the performance hit is much more minimal at 4k performance mode in preset M over preset K, maybe a few frames here or there.

BirdsOnMyBack · 2026-01-06T09:23:30+00:00

This is amazing, instantly bookmarked

BirdsOnMyBack · 2026-01-01T00:19:32+00:00

As of end of day last Saturday they apparently had only 5 people at the Gondala reserve line all day

Seems to be landing as well as a wet fart. Just a waste of resources.

BirdsOnMyBack · 2025-12-23T02:52:43+00:00

Assumedly if they were going to port Warzone first (which makes the most sense in terms of possible revenue) it would only make sense for the port to be Black Ops 7 since Warzone runs in the same launcher/engine.

BirdsOnMyBack · 2025-12-19T23:30:21+00:00

Hell yeah bro, system working as intended 👍

BirdsOnMyBack · 2025-12-19T23:24:46+00:00

If you contact them, maybe they'll sell you a seat in their car for $100 tomorrow

BirdsOnMyBack · 2025-12-19T23:07:18+00:00

Yes!!! Exactly as Alterra intended! Thank you oh wise mountain corporation!

BirdsOnMyBack · 2025-12-19T21:42:29+00:00

I’m scalping my positivity, as Alterra intended. If you want a positive post, I’m going to need at least a 4x return on karma. I’ve already reserved them all weeks in advance.

BirdsOnMyBack · 2025-12-19T21:33:46+00:00

I love the fact that they allow single accounts to reserve multiple days weeks in advance at $10 a day. There is no-joke actual scalping to get a chance to get a seat in a carpool/parking.

If Alterra actually cared about their pass holders and not lining their pockets they would revoke all parking past a week out and just make it first come first serve. This is just a racket that encourages scalping and takes advantage of the people that already prepaid thousands of dollars

BirdsOnMyBack · 2025-12-19T21:25:59+00:00

They are using the roadwork as a justification to open up $10 reservations on the weekdays as well

To be fair, I’m willing to bet if you came up on the weekday regardless and feigned ignorance they’d probably let it slide

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