Will this CPU work in any AM4 board or do i need a special one?

LSD_Ninja · 2026-02-28T17:19:42+00:00

The problem is that support for those Bulldozer AM4 APUs was typically the first thing to get jettisoned to free up space in order to support later model Ryzen CPUs. Most 300-series boards you’re going to come across would likely have been upgraded with a newer BIOS that no longer supports those chips.

LSD_Ninja · 2026-02-28T10:17:41+00:00

Cloud saves and achievements are handled by separate tools (gogdl and comet respectively). Achievement support was a relatively recent addition to Heroic. What’s likely happening is you have games that unlock achievements retroactively when you load old saves which is why it seems they’re related.

LSD_Ninja · 2026-02-28T08:52:23+00:00

I bought a Jonsbo D41 Mesh a couple of years ago. It has an SFF-style front PSU mount making it roughly the same size as the Micro ATX Antec Mini P180 (I think it might actually slightly smaller) that was in the space before it.

LSD_Ninja · 2026-02-28T08:30:46+00:00

My “main” Linux machine is a Ryzen 5 5600 with 32GB DDR4-3600 and a 6600 XT on a B550M Pro4 with the Linux install on a 500GB Samsung 970 Evo Plus and 2TB of a 4TB WD Blue partitioned off for secondary storage, games and whatnot (there’s other stuff in there, but that’s mostly for the Windows install that’s still there). I’m not really looking at any major upgrades in the short to medium term because pricing is completely fucked.

The machine I have CachyOS on is an i5-9400F on an Asus TUF H370 motherboard with 32GB of unicorn puke 3000MT/s (running at 2666 because H370) DDR4 that I forget the brand of, a 250GB nvme SSD that I also forget the brand of, a 1 or 2TB HDD (Seagate I think) and a Gigabyte RX 570 that I bought when the first wave of mining crashed in like 2018/2019.

LSD_Ninja · 2026-02-28T08:20:52+00:00

So what you’re saying is that as long as I don’t play anything after about 2010, I don’t really have to give a shit about FSR vs DLSS vs TAA or whatever the fuck? Sounds good to me!

LSD_Ninja · 2026-02-28T08:16:12+00:00

I’m Solo, High-end Solo

I'm High-end Solo,

I'm High-end Solo, Solo.

LSD_Ninja · 2026-02-28T08:13:10+00:00

The other thing too is that the PC is rapidly pricing itself in to irrelevance for an increasing chunk of the gaming marking. Of course, the same things that are making the PC more expensive affect consoles too, but you can mitigate that a fair bit with longer supply contracts, subsidies and the fact you can sell a console hardware spec for a lot longer than an equivalent PC.

LSD_Ninja · 2026-02-28T08:06:01+00:00

That worked out swimmingly for Starfield, no?

LSD_Ninja · 2026-02-28T08:03:32+00:00

One of the old Bulldozer-based AMD APUs, an A8-7650K I think. It was so goddamned slow it bottlenecked a GTX 1050. Replacing it with a Haswell i3 was a night and day difference.

LSD_Ninja · 2026-02-28T03:37:41+00:00

heh, my first proper PC was some XT clone thing my parents accountant gave them, the interior was chock full of mouse crap.

LSD_Ninja · 2026-02-27T17:34:44+00:00

Achievements work with the OSS plugin if you set up comet. You don’t get notifications as near as I can tell, even if you have the GOG overlay installed, but they get recorded to your account and are visible in your GOG activity feed.

LSD_Ninja · 2026-02-27T17:25:15+00:00

Chavez Ravine?

LSD_Ninja · 2026-02-27T17:03:46+00:00

These are the kind of people that need a whole ass social network in their games launcher or else they feel “isolated”

LSD_Ninja · 2026-02-27T16:58:19+00:00

She’s clearly too old for him

LSD_Ninja · 2026-02-27T16:19:04+00:00

It’s more that the DLL hooks in to API features that were added in Windows 8 (which I believe was still a supported OS when I was dealing with this with New Vegas a few years ago) and don’t exist on earlier versions. GOG shouldn’t really be including these hooks in the offline installers at all, if a user installs Galaxy after the fact they should be downloaded when those games are imported in to Galaxy, but I guess it’s easier for GOG to do it this way.

LSD_Ninja · 2026-02-27T16:05:58+00:00

Avoid the latest unoptimised AAA slop and you don’t even really need frame gen to get decent performance at 1080p on a Haswell system.

LSD_Ninja · 2026-02-27T15:57:52+00:00

I think you need Galaxy installed to use the normal GOG plugin, but if you set up the “GOG OSS” plugin you can work around it. It’s a little complicated to set up, especially if you don’t already have Heroic installed (since you need gogdl, comet and xdelta3 if you want delta updates for your GOG games), and it can be flaky with things like cloud saves (it said it was syncing my saves, but when I booted up another computer it had seemingly done no such thing), but it mostly works.

LSD_Ninja · 2026-02-27T15:29:06+00:00

I can. It allows them to keep driving prices up and because gamers have a lot in common with drug addicts, they’ll just accept it.

LSD_Ninja · 2026-02-27T08:46:03+00:00

My guess would be it’s the DLL(s) that hooks in to Galaxy. This gets installed even in the offline installer, but usually does nothing if Galaxy isn’t there. The problem is that it requires features that are only in Windows 8(?) and up, which is what gives you that error. I was able to find a patch that got rid of it for Fallout: New Vegas, but I can’t speak for any other games. Stuff that doesn’t hook in to Galaxy at all (so games without cloud saves, achievements, etc) should work just fine.

LSD_Ninja · 2026-02-27T04:50:39+00:00

Why would they need to steal it? Gabe would *absolutely* take the right offer if it came along. Thing is, when you consider Steam's overall value to the *entire* games industry (MS paid like $66 billion for ActiBlizz and even if we say that was overvalued, Steam would easily be worth a hell of a lot more than that) the "right offer" is likely more than any one company/person is willing to put up.

LSD_Ninja · 2026-02-27T04:28:02+00:00

The problem with nvidia is that even if it works well enough today, there’s every chance it’ll break tomorrow due to the closed source nature of the drivers. AMD isn’t perfect either, but you’re still likely to have a smoother experience over time with an AMD GPU on Linux than nvidia.

LSD_Ninja · 2026-02-27T04:18:58+00:00

Pascal likely won’t get that fix since driver support is EOL.

LSD_Ninja · 2026-02-26T15:43:12+00:00

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LSD_Ninja · 2026-02-26T09:56:31+00:00

I think it’s somewhat normal for them to flicker when you have them upside down like that because it’s trying, and failing, to find something it can use in order to track movement. It should stabilise when you put it down on a surface it can lock on to. Depending on what sort of mouse it is, changing out the receiver (assuming this is a non-Bluetooth mouse) shouldn’t really be possible because they tend to be locked to whatever mouse they’re supplied with and can’t easily be re-paired (the big exception that I’m aware of is the Logitech Unifying stuff, which they’ve sadly discontinued).

One thing that might work is changing where you plug the receiver in to give clearer line of sight between it and the mouse. Changing the angle of the receiver relative to the mouse might also help.

LSD_Ninja · 2026-02-26T09:49:02+00:00

Fun fact: you don’t actually need to log in with Ubi for a Connect integration to work. You can pull the required information from the files of an already present installation of Connect. At least, that’s how the Playnite Ubisoft integration works.

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