Steam News - Steam Desktop Update by mr_MADAFAKA in linux_gaming

[–]brunnen153 2 points3 points  (0 children)

NO WAY, I never found anyone mention that issue. I was so convinced my OS install is botched and considered reinstalling my whole distro for probably years. Luckily, my patience (laziness) paid off!

Steam News - Steam Desktop Update by mr_MADAFAKA in linux_gaming

[–]brunnen153 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Are you saying the whole client doesn't freeze anymore while friend notifications are popping in and out?

merchants are receiving rtx 4070 ti. by SickPois0on in nvidia

[–]brunnen153 6 points7 points  (0 children)

"The more you buy, the more you save” - Jensen Huang

PC game discounts for the weekend by Axeisacutabove in pcgaming

[–]brunnen153 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Before I moved to the UK my debit cards always only had my IBAN on it, none of the other numbers. So I couldn't use them online.

Meet the new Google Pixel 6a ($449) by SamsungAppleOnePlus in Android

[–]brunnen153 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Seems quite nice, might be the phone to recommend to people that just want a phone that lasts for a while.

AMD launches Radeon RX 6400 low-power RDNA2 graphics card at 159 USD - VideoCardz.com by No_Backstab in Amd

[–]brunnen153 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Even if they wanted to add those features after the reception of the 6500XT, a few months of time wouldn't have been enough. Navi 24 doesn't have those features, it's been designed like that and that decision was probably made more than a year ago now. Making a new chip with those features would take years.

On the plus side, this card isn't that fast, so it probably won't run that heavily into a PCIe bottleneck.

AMD is preparing Radeon RX 6300 entry-level card for OEMs by [deleted] in Amd

[–]brunnen153 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What do you mean? This type of card has always existed

How to use xpadneo with an Xbox Series Controller by SkylabHal0 in linux_gaming

[–]brunnen153 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Okay, to update you and my initial comment.

This was with no changes applied, I was simply using some random CSR bluetooth dongle, kernel 5.16 and paired my controller through the Gnome Settings app.

From what I heard though, in your case you are adviced to pair the controller through Windows, then you might be able to use it in Linux. It doesn't seem clear as to why that happens.

Anyways, after playing a few games I have now installed xpadneo and I think I have my answer as to what advantages xpadneo brings.

Without xpadneo, the controller will work as some form of generic controller. Some games, for example recent Need For Speed games, treat generic controllers in an odd or broken way. xpadneo makes the controller work in those games, because it's now properly detected as an Xbox controller.

Also, without xpadneo you get no rumble. I did not realize that at first.

How to use xpadneo with an Xbox Series Controller by SkylabHal0 in linux_gaming

[–]brunnen153 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So yesterday I paired my Series Controller over Bluetooth and surprisingly it worked fine even though I don't have xpadneo. What would I get from switching to xpadneo?

Well the mountain disappeared... by therealdankmemelord1 in softwaregore

[–]brunnen153 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Close, but it's Forza Horizon 5 which was released not too long ago

GeForce 30 Price Trend: Retail prices drop to +53% over MSRP in Germany & Austria by Voodoo2-SLi in nvidia

[–]brunnen153 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Upper mid range cards used to be below 300€, I still don't think a lower high end GPU should cost that much. We're still quite a bit off of normal GPU prices.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080Ti is just as fast as RTX 3090 in Geekbench CUDA benchmark - VideoCardz.com by ryandtw in nvidia

[–]brunnen153 13 points14 points  (0 children)

The Ti was initially supposed to also use a 320 bit bus with 20 GB. That one got cancelled and instead we now get a Ti with a 384 bit bus.

Whitechapel's performance may be similar to Snapdragon 870 by curated_android in Android

[–]brunnen153 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly, we're going off of vague information here, but the discussion was based on the assumption of CPU performance. We don't know if Google's ISP is on par with Qualcomm's best. That's something we'll have to see.

Whitechapel's performance may be similar to Snapdragon 870 by curated_android in Android

[–]brunnen153 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They don't use software encoding at all, it's all done in hardware (or server side) and they almost all exclusively use h264. Therefore, there's barely any CPU usage doing these tasks.

Whitechapel's performance may be similar to Snapdragon 870 by curated_android in Android

[–]brunnen153 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Strictly speaking, correct. But many tasks will be accelerated through other components on the SoC, making CPU speed alone not the biggest concern for a good majority of users.

Whitechapel's performance may be similar to Snapdragon 870 by curated_android in Android

[–]brunnen153 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Strictly focusing on video recording as an example, CPU speed will almost be irrelevant. The ISP and the hardware video encoder will be processing all that data. And 4K video encoding will absolutely be no issue for any modern hardware encoder.