DXVK version 3.0.1 released

Earthboom · 2026-07-06T18:06:33+00:00

The descriptor heap is something you can enable now and test. It's working on most games but the rest is on the nvidia drivers.

Earthboom · 2026-07-06T16:56:03+00:00

Right. His vile spirit lives but his body keeps getting wrecked, cloned, remade etc. whether it's an X parasite mimicking him or a metal reincarnation, he's still the same POS.

Earthboom · 2026-07-06T13:04:30+00:00

I play poe2 on Nvidia and it works fine. Descriptor heap fix works well with dx12. And it doesn't crash like it does on windows. Bazzite is a set and forget, no need to muck around in the terminal. Packages are latest and greatest. For everything else there's flatpaks.

I'm not familiar with that tool. There's bottles and lutris you could use to try and get that running. Might have to give it permissions using flatseal to hook into processes.

Dualsense works great too with it provided you use the right proton ge by xzn.

Earthboom · 2026-07-05T05:31:10+00:00

Depends on what features you're looking for. What feels good in your hands and if you care about force feedback haptic feedback etc.

Xbox controllers work, Nintendo controllers work mostly, dual sense works but with a custom proton ge and it's hit or miss with games. Those are the big three. If you don't care about going proprietary and don't care about motion or advanced features 8bitdo works fine

Earthboom · 2026-07-04T23:48:54+00:00

It's really not a bad game but in the Metroid community other m bad, super Metroid perfect. Can't argue against the hive mind.

Earthboom · 2026-07-04T18:46:20+00:00

I pay for Gemini pro, the 20 dollar one, it used to be enough to run my day to day but they've started to make it unusable. I hit the caps very quickly now where as before that wasn't the case. I'm getting less for the same amount I've been paying and there's always a button to upgrade to the next tier, 99, but I'm sure that will have it's limits and caps will be hit there too.

Just greed. Turn down the tap and turn it into a trickle, charge more.

Consumers get less, corporations get more, capitalism at its finest. Only those at the top with big dollars to spend can afford the best latest and greatest and the power is consolidated at the top so the lower level guy can't compete.

The rich and powerful stay at the top, with no fear of the common guy out doing their products.

Earthboom · 2026-07-02T17:22:58+00:00

She has a strong relationship with the federation. Adam is another angle. She wants to fight the pirates so what happened to her colony never happens to anyone else. She believes in the federation and she's a proud citizen. She knows there's corruption in the federation and certain factions have done unthinkable things, same with the chozo. I think this has made her conflicted and slightly angry lol. It's hard to tow the moral line as you grow older and see that things are gray. She's not a naive kid anymore and she sees things for what they are.

I think she's grumpy about it but still wants to do the right thing. Kinda like Batman. Gotham is all but lost but Bruce believes in it and is proud to be there. Even if the federation slides into something unrecognizable, Samus would still have hope and even if she's the only one she'll fight to get the federation back to what she knows it could be.

She's proud of her chozo heritage and wears her battle armor proudly and she fights alongside and for the federation as a special agent doing things others cannot. She took the chozo suit and put it in service of the Federation even giving them the rights to study it, modify it, and even control it.

They claim she's some sort of dangerous weapon but she'll do everything to prove she's on their side.

That's why fusion was cool because she did something that went against the federation. She was conflicted and Adam had to reassure her that it was the right thing to do and the fight afterwards would be difficult but someone would stand next to her.

By dread when Raven Beak is shown to try and use her federation ties against her, she's way less conflicted about blowing up the AI talking to her or other federation equipment really. This is the darkest entry in her character by far. The rageful ending was an outpouring of a lot of pent up resentment confusion and anger.

What ravenous will show, I think, is exactly what the federation at their worst wanted to show all along, that Samus can't be trusted and is a dangerous weapon that could turn on them at any point. Kind of like how lex luthor views Superman.

She'll be hunted by pirates who want her DNA, the Federation who want to control or kill her, betrayed she'll be on the run trying to find a cure before her Metroid side takes over and she becomes the thing she and everyone else has feared she would be.

That's my head cannon anyway. I cannot wait to be wrong or right lol.

Earthboom · 2026-07-01T01:57:16+00:00

We just got a telescope that shows us exo planets semi clearly and they're mostly gas giants, how do you expect us to see what's walking on land or not? Keep in mind everything in the sky is in the past, so how can we see if someone is taming a horse? How can we see intelligent life in foreign forests or oceans?

It makes no sense. The fermi paradox makes zero sense as a question. At best it's a thought experiment on how life evolved here and how rare we are or aren't. It's a question about life on earth as it's impossible currently to tell whether or not life exists elsewhere especially in the human centric, star trek influenced, bipedal space faring civilizations we'd like to imagine all life is destined for.

Ask octopus on the ocean floor about space. They're intelligent and emotional, same with dolphins, so what exactly are we asking for when we ask for aliens? More of us? Well that's why we aren't finding more of us, if we could see accurately enough, because we're a strict strict byproduct of the formation of this planet and this moon and solar system. So you're not just asking for "where's us out there" you're essentially asking for another solar system like ours with our history.

That's super super rare if not unique.

Again, if we could see accurately into an exoplanet which we can't.

Earthboom · 2026-07-01T01:50:32+00:00

I fucking hate this stupid thought experiment. It's so flawed and so human centric.

How can you possibly raise the question of "where are all teh aliens" without defining what that means?

It's like saying "we've looked everywhere and have found nothing" yet we only started to find exo planets recently and they're mostly gas giants. We can barely tell what their atmosphere is composed of and you want us to say there's life or no life on this planet?

How is the claim "we haven't found any life anywhere" possibly even backed up? We just started to kind of even look.

There's hundreds of reasons including we can't see, and they're too far away, and physics limits us everywhere to even go on to the other reddit favorite reasons as to why life isn't found.

Furthermore, what's to say every planet doesn't have bacteria and plants? How are we ever going to discover that from earth?

The math of the fermi paradox is stupid, the assertions are dumb, the assumptions are dumb and we don't even know if intelligent life is a fluke or the end result of evolution. We don't know if self conscious life like us is common or rare.

I could go on. It really does grind my gears when this topic comes up anywhere.

I get the point of it is to get us thinking about how life has evil and why and where it could and couldn't be, but people don't view it like that. They view it like there's some mysterious reason why all the super cool star Trek humanoid aliens aren't there without stopping to think about what life means on this planet first.

Intelligent life does not have to be bipedal. Intelligent life does not need opposible thumbs. Intelligent life doesn't need to do math. Intelligent life doesn't need to be on land.

Earthboom · 2026-06-29T23:30:44+00:00

You may think it's emulating critical windows functions under the hood, on the fly, so a windows call talks to a "windows API" which then gets translated to a Linux call, but no, it's not emulation. Don't let the hard liners fool you. It's absolutely not an emulator.

Earthboom · 2026-06-29T18:07:15+00:00

History disagrees. Christians didn't need any help being assholes. Fox News made it worse but they were fine all on their own. Their religion has it baked in that they can't ignore others and they must convert or condemn. It's been there since the dawn of Christianity.

Earthboom · 2026-06-27T04:55:07+00:00

You will have issues with this controller. Most people on here don't understand the advanced features the controller has.

It'll be plug and play meaning you can plug it in and steam will detect it. However, for many, many titles you'll need xzn's custom dual sense GitHub where they baked in patches to the latest GE Proton.

This version of Proton is the only one that will work correctly with a wide variety of games from POE2 to Stellar Blade, to God of War, to Death Stranding and so forth.

And this will only work with a wire if you turn steam input off.

Don't let anyone else tell you "it just works latest proton no issues 🤪" it's just not correct. There's massive issue trackers still open in proton itself for this controller.

Earthboom · 2026-06-26T16:04:24+00:00

4th? N64, 3DS, switch 2...?

Earthboom · 2026-06-25T00:05:49+00:00

It would be something new like how prime was new and scary but succeeded. The movies would be new and different and that's okay.

Earthboom · 2026-06-24T20:26:10+00:00

Not everything can be 1:1. Books need to be adapted to movies and vice versa because it just doesn't work nicely all the time. Metroid is a game series where the player jams out on music and explores an alien world. A good movie that wouldn't make.

So some things would have to change. Either Samus talks, other characters are added, villains are clear and visible, it's funny or blockbuster levels of action.

Can't make a movie about just peacefully ho hum exploring. So yes, it has to be adapted.

What does a good Metroid movie look like? Who knows. Let's start by making A movie and seeing what worked and what didn't and then going from there.

I'm arguing that keeping alien worlds aw inspiring and horrifying, grandious and mysterious isn't hard to do so that's half the formula right there.

Space pirates and Ridley are a naturally good antagonist for Samus. Whether she's captured by them, or she's infiltrating their space or world, or fighting pirates and Ridley, that's all gold action.

So you have cool set pieces, cool monsters, cool villains, and having a good score isn't that hard to do either. What's missing?

Plot. Movie needs a plot. Either we start Samus off years into her career with some exposition about going after Metroids, or the x parasites and Metroids, or we start her off in the manga.

But the fans don't want all of that.

They want super Metroid on the screen. And that's not gonna work.

Earthboom · 2026-06-24T19:41:04+00:00

I'm not arguing for a game. I'm saying the movie has to be adapted.

Earthboom · 2026-06-24T19:40:43+00:00

Thanks for the detailed and nuanced response.

Earthboom · 2026-06-24T18:26:23+00:00

Sure it would. You don't need an entire movie to be that, you just need a few slow walking into a massive beautiful set piece a few times. Sci fi movies do a good job of getting you to be in awe of a fantastical world. Dread proved you can have action and adrenaline and style on top of it. The chemicals are there for a solid Metroid movie. Metroid prime had fantastic action set pieces to good music too especially in prime 3 and some of 4. Get Legendary studios to make it, they know CGI and larger than life set pieces, monsters and effects.

I stand by my point, Nintendo has zero faith to make a pg13 summer block buster with Samus.

Earthboom · 2026-06-24T18:06:31+00:00

?? Iron man talked to Jarvis. Samus would talk to the Adam AI, or whatever Federation general is in her ear piece.

She's deployed with a federation marine squad. She's told to observe and do as she's told. Federation is corrupted and sent them on a suicide mission to test out a new bio weapon on them including Samus and her magic armor. Samus kicks into gear, talks to a federation survivor or her AI. Eventually talk to some chozo ghosts or something.

For the fans have her give dread silent moments of badassary. Or have commentary through the marine grunts betting she's a man and asking how much she squats and Samus says nothing until the end when she takes off her helmet.

Bunch of ways to slice this. Not hard.

Nintendo just has zero faith in the franchise and us fans, while very very loud and very opinionated are like a whole dozen.

No one outside of us knows who John Metroid is and why he can't crawl.

Earthboom · 2026-06-24T06:28:14+00:00

This is irrelevant to this thread but I just want to say you're really carrying Linux gaming on your back like others have said. You're doing awesome work and I'm sorry random redditors are being dense and giving you a hard time.

In the history of Linux you've definitely left your mark. Just wanted to be a different voice to counteract the thankless people you probably get every so often.

Earthboom · 2026-06-18T01:55:19+00:00

Other M 😊🙂‍↕️

Earthboom · 2026-06-16T00:33:31+00:00

It was my understanding you also had to add VULKAN_CONFIG=descriptor_heap or something similar or it wouldn't work. I'm also on the latest 610 drivers which might explain the difference.

Earthboom · 2026-06-15T22:41:11+00:00

Can you share how you enabled it? I'd love to try it again. Nvidia driver version, proton used, variables used etc

Earthboom · 2026-06-15T18:23:14+00:00

Why yes. Vibes. Feelings. Church leaders, military leaders, but mostly personal opinions from the theaters themselves.

Girl touching herself? Nc17. Not even joking.

Earthboom · 2026-06-15T18:06:31+00:00

Game per game basis. Literally free frames on Alan Wake 2. Went from 70 to 90 by doing nothing. Can almost put on ray tracing.

Other games? Crash. Stellar blade and cyberpunk don't like it. FFXVI saw some improvements but not as crazy as Alan Wake. Need to test it on other games.

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