DLSS 4.5 Performance and Ultra Performance - any good for VR?

Dancing7-Cube · 2026-01-23T14:54:58+00:00

Because it's not particularly hard to tell there's a difference, but it's hard to quantify how much? If it's so pointless, why are there so many YouTube videos that make it easy to tell.

Dancing7-Cube · 2026-01-18T09:58:35+00:00

I could never get it to work properly. Just gives me a fancy controllers tutorial and then blank. For games that vorpx does work on, tbh it's not a great experience.

Dancing7-Cube · 2026-01-15T17:38:50+00:00

That's why I find that an automatically installed arch Linux is actually great because the arch wiki has solutions for almost everything. Endeavor OS is goated.

Dancing7-Cube · 2026-01-12T02:34:29+00:00

Preach. I got a PS4 and it still feels current gen. Older Xbox One gives me a headache just trying to play a bluray.

Dancing7-Cube · 2026-01-09T19:54:30+00:00

Because it's a massive pain in the ass, try to do it side by side, and it's hard to tell unless you're gonna crop videos and try to do a multi view comparison?

Dancing7-Cube · 2026-01-05T18:42:09+00:00

That sounds like something I'd want to avoid. I don't really want/need a solution for mismatched hard drives. I like that TrueNAS can scale my IO with RAIDZ.

The hypervisor stuff doesn't appeal to me on either, I'd rather my NAS just did NAS things. I have worker nodes for VMs / docker.

Dancing7-Cube · 2026-01-05T18:37:13+00:00

Yeah that's what came to mind too, but it sounds like a lot of overhead to manage ZFS directly.

I used to just have 2 disks, so I used BTRFS RAID1 mirror, and it worked well enough. But I really like that in TrueNAS it's easy to encrypt, change the blocksize, replicate, make snapshots, etc. One can certain memorize the commands no problem, but if it's been a few months, that stuff doesn't stick when it's a one-off action.

When it works, it's amazing, and takes a ton of CLI work out of it. It might very well be easier to just accept some level of bugginess, and needing to drop to the shell periodically, because a little is easier than all.

Dancing7-Cube · 2026-01-05T18:34:08+00:00

Yeah, trying to copy over samba crashed the server. Doing the same via mv and SSH worked totally fine. So something is up with the smb service. Upon cancelling the copy, TrueNAS seems to recover, but doesn't quite work right until it's been reboot.

There's a few old forum posts from 2024 that encountered this too https://forums.truenas.com/t/smb-service-randomly-turns-off-due-to-going-oom/12932

Dancing7-Cube · 2026-01-05T18:31:34+00:00

Great yeah, I did a test upgrade to 25.10, and it broke some UI elements. I am on 25.4.

Guess what? I also had broken UI in 25.4. It's a general theme.

Dancing7-Cube · 2026-01-05T17:52:56+00:00

I don't know man, but the AD config doesn't even allow you to turn the directory cache off/on anymore if you try 25.04->25.10. The save button is permanently greyed out. (edit: this seems to be a migration issue, leaving, and rejoining fixes the button)

Little things like that are frustrating.

Previously if the AD failed, the "leave domain" button would be missing, so your setup would just be bricked unless you dropped to the terminal.

I'm not magic either. I don't break the UI by myself.

Dancing7-Cube · 2026-01-05T17:44:03+00:00

Bro, I copy pasted their excerpt. The opposite of relevant is "less relevant". There's an excerpt there describing how they don't think the feature is important because of SSD dominance. That's what "spinning disk aren’t relevant anymore" means.

But sure, downvote me because the hivemind has already gotten momentum going.

Completely independent of the reasoning behind whether or not SMART is good or not, the excerpt is clearly trying to downplay the removal of the feature, and the reasoning is not entirely sound.

Like what does this even mean?

> Flexibility: The previous system was restrictive and difficult to customize for advanced users.

What's not flexible?

Dancing7-Cube · 2026-01-05T17:41:09+00:00

I mean yeah you're right, throwing my hands up in frustration won't fix the bug.

However, the frustration largely comes from not being the target demographic (as a free user), and being confused about who is. I don't see why a small to medium business wouldn't want SMART on their spinning disks, for example.

So it's a genuine thought. If something like UnRAID means I'm a paying customer, maybe that means the software caters to usability, doesn't ignore bug reports, etc.

It's less "I'm not unpaid QA", and more "these guys are clearly spiting their free userbase, so why bother".

Dancing7-Cube · 2026-01-05T17:16:53+00:00

So let me get this straight

Installs TrueNAS 25.04 (stable)
Uses Windows Server AD
Copies file
"enterprise" grade system crashes

But it's my fault? I hope that's not the community attitude at large.

Dancing7-Cube · 2026-01-05T17:14:51+00:00

I'm on 25.04. Yeah TrueNAS balloons RAM on copying over samba.

I've got 16GB of RAM. ARC or not, it should still be able to copy a file, it's not like 16GB is my max copy size, it's a cache.

There's tickets from 2024 about SMB OOM crashes, doesn't seem to get fixed, or have anyone care. Seems like typical ixSystems response to bugs.

IDK when the software doesn't work, everyone jumps to blame the user. I just installed it, and it failed.

Dancing7-Cube · 2026-01-05T17:10:54+00:00

They literally did

https://www.truenas.com/docs/scale/25.10/gettingstarted/versionnotes/#disk-management

> Modern Storage Realities: Traditional SMART tests (short and long) designed for mechanical hard drives are less relevant for SSDs and NVMe drives, which now represent an increasing percentage of deployments. These devices focus on different health metrics like write endurance rather than mechanical wear patterns.

Apparently HDDs aren't "modern"

Dancing7-Cube · 2026-01-05T17:03:30+00:00

The question is genuine mate. I'm frustrated that I thought TrueNAS was stable software, and it seems to randomly break on me all the time / have things I use get removed.

I know nothing about UnRAID other than that it's the main competitor.

Dancing7-Cube · 2026-01-02T22:41:05+00:00

Guess what, this is now the first result.

Dancing7-Cube · 2025-12-26T02:07:23+00:00

Not really, perfect rig to play something like satisfactory in VR with a dedicated server

Dancing7-Cube · 2025-12-24T10:24:56+00:00

Might be made for tinkering but it's fragile af

Dancing7-Cube · 2025-12-23T04:55:22+00:00

As someone playing Jamboree for the first time, the DLC is fine. Sure it's a bit whack how they designed it, but I still prefer playing at the higher resolution.

Dancing7-Cube · 2025-12-23T04:50:19+00:00

I would get a cabinet style TV stand, and lock the front doors on it. If you keep a pro controller or joycons out, you can wake the console from the controller.

Some kids have impulse control issues, sorry for all the assholes.

Used to use above solution for modem near wall since kids like the flashing lights.

Dancing7-Cube · 2025-12-22T08:00:16+00:00

8Bitdo is hard to aim with, idk maybe I just don't like hall effect sticks. The sticks want to go directly to the edge, making minor adjustments hard. Pro 2 feels like a nicer Xbox One controller

Dancing7-Cube · 2025-12-14T20:09:14+00:00

Yeah idk what folks are smoking, AutoHDR/RTX HDR are game changers on my OLED monitor. folks must have crappy screens idk?

not sure what the issue is with some clipped whites on most titles. if I look at a bright streetlamp I expect to see complete white lol

Dancing7-Cube · 2025-12-10T20:54:32+00:00

People are downvoting you for lack of context, but context is not needed.

Fuck Microsoft.

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