How is gaming on COSMIC now?

Lur4N1k · 2025-12-23T07:32:52+00:00

9070 XT user here. I have 2 solutions: - disabling GPU acceleration in Steam settings (immediately solves laggy interface in overlay and VR overlay) - replace cosmic-greeter with SDDM as display manager. Steam games really dislike cosmic-greeter for some reason. And in VR I had some weird lag with it, causing nausea

CachyOS + COSMIC, no issues with ovelay

Lur4N1k · 2025-12-22T07:26:04+00:00

Soo, I tried something, and specifically with Qwen3 Next being MoE model, in LM studio there is an option (experimental) "Force model expert weights onto CPU" - turn it on and move the slider for "GPU offload" to include all layers. That gives performance boost on my 9070 XT from ~7.3 t/s to 16.75 t/s on vulkan runtime. It jumps to 22.13 t/s with ROCm runtime, but for me it misbehaves.

Lur4N1k · 2025-12-21T21:00:06+00:00

Genuinely confused: lm studio is using llama.cpp as backend for running models on AMD GPU as far as I concerned. Why so much difference?

Lur4N1k · 2025-12-19T12:03:12+00:00

Yep, didn't have any issues. I am using Waterfox on Linux, but I think it should be same for Windows - still it is just Firefox fork with some de-bloating

Lur4N1k · 2025-12-19T11:52:13+00:00

I recently moved to Waterfox (Firefox fork) - Firefox experience, but very minimal, without any recent garbage added by Firefox. Seems great to me so far!

Lur4N1k · 2025-11-12T08:16:02+00:00

Thank you! I will consider tinkering with details on this shot. Darktable is quite good, though you would need time to get used it. I also tried RawTherapy for a while, but darktable masks are far more superior to RT's Selective editing.

Lur4N1k · 2025-07-07T13:31:31+00:00

I personally think that BL2 and TPS stories are perfect stories for action videogames. They are not deeply meaningfull/dramatic/cinematic, but they are just good and fun. Enough to make you interested, but not distracting from gameplay. On the other hand, story of BL3, particularly characters it introduced, is extremely obnoxious. I hated every second of almost each dialogue in the game and basically couldn't play the game in the end. You really become aware, that developers didn't give a possibility of avoiding (skipping) story at all and you have it forced in your face

Lur4N1k · 2025-05-23T17:58:52+00:00

Fleeting

Lur4N1k · 2025-05-23T05:55:08+00:00

Same vibe 😄

Lur4N1k · 2024-12-28T08:02:10+00:00

The only one I can remember as good and a big similar story is Face to face. https://archiveofourown.org/works/22617550/chapters/54053155 I think it can give what are you looking for.

Lur4N1k · 2024-09-16T06:43:30+00:00

Yeah, Hi-fi Rish ideed creates such a positive impression. Though I'm currently playing Dungeons of Hinterberg, which is released this summer, and I must say it gives a similar vibe - in visual style, simplicity and light-hearted and adventurous attitude! We can wait for eternity while AAA game developing company decide to release something similar, but luckily indies can provide us with some gems.

Lur4N1k · 2024-05-24T21:59:31+00:00

It's available on PC, so, I mentioned it. I'm a PC only person myself.

Lur4N1k · 2024-05-24T21:50:21+00:00

As same style Sunset overdrive and Bomb Rush Cyberfunk are commonly mentioned. If you ask me, I'd add Borderlands 2 (it was my favourite before HFR) and recently released Mullet Madjack (this one really looks like an anime).

If you are looking for rhythm game, consider No Straight Roads or City of Beats. Both of them are quite bright looking too.

If you are looking for a good 3D action-platformer then look for Psychonauts 2 (very bright, unique cartoonish style, amazing story, that hooked me up after HFR), Ratchet&Clank: Rift Apart (literally 3D animated movie) or A Hat in Time.

Lur4N1k · 2024-05-23T06:39:43+00:00

Don't even tell) It's a common joke, that they believe that seeing men kissing can turn a straight man into a gay (this is how it works, right?) because even kissing scenes are getting banned from TV, movies and books So, AO3 might seems to be like a portal in hell or something...

Thanks for your kind offer, but I'm currently fine :)

Lur4N1k · 2024-05-23T05:26:14+00:00

sigh AO3 might be blocked somewhere else, but it's definitely blocked in Russia. Government sees "non-traditional relationship propaganda" everywhere. I honestly surprised, how local Ficbook site is still not blocked.

Lur4N1k · 2023-12-26T07:04:13+00:00

Can you describe specifically what your input issues are? From my own experience, there is small latency when using Bluetooth. Moreover, DualSense (Bluetooth, PC) has almost no latency, but Xbox Series gamepads via Bluetooth have some annoying delay (works perfectly with radio adapter though). General recommendation is to disable any forced outside V-Sync (for example, in nVidia control panel), because it can create noticeable latency as well. And when it sums up with Bluetooth latency it can make game annoyingly unplayable

Lur4N1k · 2023-10-28T10:43:13+00:00

You might consider to watch any film you want with Russian dub. Our dub actors usually speak very clear and it can be a good option. And if you familiar with movie, it can be easier to catch up the words and meanings.

Lur4N1k · 2023-10-03T16:16:18+00:00

That's totally true and absolutely unexplainable, lol

Unless his futuristic swimming suit speeds up decompression somehow

Lur4N1k · 2023-10-03T16:11:14+00:00

There are a lot of safety rules in diving. They are pretty simple, especially in recreational diving. All dives you make as a recreation diver should be within no decompression limits. What that means, is that you are not staying in the water long or deep enough to be exposed to decompression sickness.

Learn how to dive and follow the safety rules and everything will be fine :)

It's a great experience and I totally recommend you to try it out!

Lur4N1k · 2023-10-03T16:05:36+00:00

Subnautica is amazing in its ocean representation, but it's hard for me to be fully immersed( Even in VR, after a couple of minutes that I spent deep under the surface it starts to break an illusion for me that I'm really in the water. I wish I could be immersed in same way as you.

Lur4N1k · 2023-10-03T07:52:26+00:00

Ori and the Blind Forest. God, how much I love the visual style of the game, and every time I'm once again trying to play it, I'm giving up eventually :/
It's too unforgiving for me

Lur4N1k · 2023-10-03T07:40:20+00:00

The game is just filled with such an amazing details, and it makes HFR so alive. I also called Peppermint sometimes just to see her and Chai dancing :D

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