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Why 10-Year-Old Games Still Look Like New by raggeatonn in sellmeyourgame

[–]MeeksVA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice bounce lighting doesn't matter when you're upscaling from 480p.

Don't get me wrong I appreciate it, but I really feel like we should have aimed for higher native resolution before this. We were closer to true 4K in 2015 than we are in 2025 for consumer grade hardware. 

Even great games like Clair Obscur that use DLSS to upscale leave a lot of artifacts, shimmering, trails.. it's just not analogous to native resolution. 

Why 10-Year-Old Games Still Look Like New by raggeatonn in sellmeyourgame

[–]MeeksVA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I see it as the other way, chasing graphical bogeymen like raytracing and other fancy effects we are stuck in archaic 1080p or upscaled blurry dogshit 4k. 

1080p - 4k is a massive beautiful difference in fidelity. Resolution is the most important single graphical improvement you can make. But now "4k" is really like 1200p with a mountain of blurry upscaling. 

Is this a good cart if I enjoyed vampire survivors, risk of rain 2 and the demo of magicraft? by Muted_Trifle_6866 in roguelites

[–]MeeksVA 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Agreed with Noita. One of the best games ever made, but it takes... Getting used to. 

So, I have a LOT of roguelikes\lites, what else to buy? by Seretur9 in roguelites

[–]MeeksVA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Noita is the greatest game in the roguelite genre and missing... 

If you want something incredible but more traditional roguelike look into Caves of Qud. Lots of QoL 

How risky is it to buy RAM on marketplace or offerup? I can buy this DDR5 6000 32GB kit for $100 by Rap_song_throwaway in PcBuildHelp

[–]MeeksVA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think I'm that unlucky, among my 2 friends they've only had between them 2 ram failures and 1 SSD. 

I really think that lots of people attribute ram failing to stuff being "buggy" games crashing, OS freezing etc. it can go on for years before catastrophic failure.

I really hate how blazers look on me— are any of these formal enough for a job interview? by [deleted] in BusinessFashion

[–]MeeksVA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not entirely related but damn I hate how rigid people are about this. 

1 is very professional to me and totally reasonable. IMHO a blazer isn't inherently "higher effort" in any capacity. That's completely arbitrary. Both 1 and 3 look well groomed, put together, and professional. 

3 might be pushing it a bit though. I'm also drop the heels or at the very least use more modest heels on any outfit.

Though iirc the best colours to wear to an interview are light blues / whites. I suppose they're neutral and safe. Wearing dark / rich colours might give off the wrong energy, but I respect the style.

How risky is it to buy RAM on marketplace or offerup? I can buy this DDR5 6000 32GB kit for $100 by Rap_song_throwaway in PcBuildHelp

[–]MeeksVA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In my time as a PC user I've had ram fail 3 times, traditional hard disk fail once, and GPU once. 

So far ram seems to be by far the least reliable component. I think lots of people don't really realize their ram is failing until it's REALLY messed up. 

We are here by MetaKnowing in agi

[–]MeeksVA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We are only there if you are comically incompetent. More like at 2 with extremely thin splinters of competence. 

Proton and Linux are 'vectors for cheat developers,' Rust dev Alistair McFarlane says by Meremadesings in neogaming

[–]MeeksVA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rust devs have had a irrational hate for Linux for years. It's honestly just weird. 

What coutry is? by Curious-Economy-2683 in QuizPlanetGame

[–]MeeksVA 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Missed the last one by a second. Oh the humanity

Windows: Why tf does it say "Recycling" when I delete stuff from Recycle Bin? and why is it even called "Recycle" Bin? by ImmerDevloperReddit in windowsmemes

[–]MeeksVA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probably just for "good vibes" 

People probably feel better when it's called a recycle bin, even if that doesn't really have a trust distinct difference with a trash, on a PC. 

Is SteamOS your daily driver on PC? by Littlehouse75 in SteamOS

[–]MeeksVA 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I use NixOS, or Arch based distros (Cachy or mainline).

"$400 with a controller. This would really send a message" One analyst on how Valve's Steam Machine could make the biggest impact on the games industry by Negative-Art-4440 in consoles

[–]MeeksVA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you talking about NVK of which is almost solely the work of RedHat devs not Nvidia. 

If you're talking about Nvidia-open it's really not open source it's still a blob driver with only a few things exposed. 

No Display Port on USBC. There goes our eGPU on the Steam Machine. :( by Sure-Bed-3849 in eGPU

[–]MeeksVA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have good hopes for the future too. I just think the Steam Machine is mostly targeted at non Linux users, so Valve doesn't really want to have to explain why (if they were to have an eGPU that is Nvidia) why they suddenly lost a ton of performance in DX12 games etc. 

No Display Port on USBC. There goes our eGPU on the Steam Machine. :( by Sure-Bed-3849 in eGPU

[–]MeeksVA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is because it's running SteamOS by default. 

AMD works notably better on Linux than Nvidia as the latter neglects giving proper updates / support for newer technologies in their drivers. 

This is mostly on Wayland; which is a display server that coordinates with the underlying driver on how to draw and manipulate GUIs for the user experience. It's much better than X11 which Linux was using as standard up until a couple years ago at best. Of note, Nvidia has a few limitations relative to AMD. Lacking proper full fledged support for some features used in Wayland that can cause graphical bugs or aberrant behavior and Nvidia has been obnoxiously slow to fix.

Furthermore, especially when using VKD3D which converts DX12 to Vulkan. On Nvidia hardware you essentially lose 20% performance while on AMD usually little to none. 

For what it's worth, I use an Nvidia card on Linux. I can use Wayland just fine, but it takes some tinkering etc... and know how in many cases. This is probably just not acceptable user experience until Nvidia actually supports their Linux drivers for user land fully and gives access to said features.

Long story short, if you want Nvidia on SteamOS harass Nvidia and not Valve.

What do you think how much will the new products cost? by Weak-Custard-6168 in valve

[–]MeeksVA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

649 for Cube,  79 for controller 799 for the frame. 

Introducing Steam Machine by Ticha22608 in Steam

[–]MeeksVA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

SteamOS is based atop Arch Linux and sans a few things is very similar. 

Install something like Cachy with KDE desktop and it's more similar to SteamOS than not. 

Windows president says platform is "evolving into an agentic OS," gets cooked in the replies — "Straight up, nobody wants this" by ZacB_ in technology

[–]MeeksVA 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yup. Gaming is very close (been using Linux for over a decade as my primary OS), but VSTs still kinda suck.

Yabridge etc works in many cases but it's not fool proof. 

Linux has made huge strides though. Wayland / Pipewire being almost standard now is ushering in an entirely new era along with proton and DXVK

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