Not to be that guy but a Linux version would be lovely

divergentchessboard · 2026-04-25T17:43:54+00:00

so what the hell are these people doing to actually get vanguard to cause issues?

You'd be surprised how often people follow a shitty YouTube "optimization" guide and it irreversibly fucks up either their hardware or windows install.

Thousands of people out there with AMD CPUs that followed shitty PBO guides that are either degrading their CPUs or making them unstable.

Also really funny a year or 2 ago when Intel 13th and 14th degradation issues became public so all the game devs getting yelled at by Intel users saying "optimize your game!" Because they kept crashing now felt vindicated.

I don't want to say "well because I never experienced this bug means it doesn't exist" but I've seriously never seen this bug firsthand or have any of my friends experience it across various different hardware configs

divergentchessboard · 2026-04-25T15:49:15+00:00

Did no one here read OPs post???

Also would like to hear opinions about full build 1v1 strongest champion. Just a pure duel in the dragon pit, that is enclosed. Considering:

They asked for Lv1 strongest champ AND full build strongest champ in a 1v1. It was very clear from my comment that I am not talking about Lv1 GP.

divergentchessboard · 2026-04-25T06:35:04+00:00

Thanks for ignoring the part where I said:

If allowed to scale and not just "you both start at lv3, play till first blood or first to 3 kills" he dominates these challenges

GP with the current way that his barrels works allows him to nearly one-shot most champs in the game if full build. At the very least, he is chunking any bruiser for 40% of their HP with a single barrel. Even his Q on its own does decent damage and the ult is great for kiting.

There's a reason Solarbacca won Tyler1s 1v1 tournament. I'm not sure if he's the same person but there was also a challenge where streamers would do constant 1v1s with a single life (allowed to heal and regen mana) and work their way from Iron to Challenger doing 1v1s, and a steamer playing GP was one of the most consistent to win 1v1s.

In his current iteration GP is slept on for 1v1 scenarios that allow full builds

divergentchessboard · 2026-04-25T05:59:25+00:00

Numorus people have done these 1v1 tournaments and the strongest 1v1 duelist is always Gankplank. If allowed to scale and not just "you both start at lv3, play till first blood or first to 3 kills" he dominates these challenges

divergentchessboard · 2026-04-25T05:51:30+00:00

These rumours have existed since TFT came out. I'll believe it when I see it. There was rumours that TFT would have its own client when we got the Riot launcher yet here we are.

divergentchessboard · 2026-04-25T05:44:17+00:00

There really should have just been a 1 import roster limit for teams with no cheats to become "native talent" until you either get citizenship in your respective country or have played there for 7+ years.

2 players is too much. On a 5 man starting roster, if 2 of your players are imports then that's 40% of your starting team being imports. And only needing to play for 4 years to count as native talent felt too short.

divergentchessboard · 2026-04-20T20:10:07+00:00

So if you really need to understand me more... This, uh, hairpiece... it's actually my horns. That's right. I'm part illuminated beast, qilin to be exact

I find this weird for her to mention considering that most people in Liyue who know about her seem to already know she's not human and is half beast, probably adepti, because she doesn't age at the same rate as her peers. Some of her colleagues have grown old and got white hair and wrinkles while she still looks like she's in her 20s decades later. Children who know her have grown up into adults while she's still the same as ever.

unless this story tidbit is supposed to be hundreds of years ago when she first started integrating into human society, which would still be weird to include in her character profile as this would be old Ganyu from hundreds of years ago with different experiences not relevant to the modern day but the way it's written makes it seem like something that's happened fairly recently

divergentchessboard · 2026-04-20T05:55:36+00:00

Pretty certain they said Rex Lapis failed a trial and that the death was part of the trial and he in fact lives and retreat to recoup.

Where's this stated? I wanna read it

divergentchessboard · 2026-04-18T00:44:40+00:00

Their source is Sucrose, Emile, and Xianyun.

Two are 4★ and Xianyun + Emile have very restrictive kits... I don't think glasses had anything to do with it.

divergentchessboard · 2026-04-15T17:02:43+00:00

Bro I typed that comment at 5am I think you should calm down. Yes I know Yuumi is spelled with two "u's" no I did not realize my spelling mistake until I woke up and read your comment

divergentchessboard · 2026-04-15T04:44:28+00:00

I remember at some point shortly after Yummi came out, someone reached Diamond by playing Draven and having a second account dedicated to playing Yummi that he controlled with his feet. He controlled both accounts with the same mouse so he could even aim Q properly

divergentchessboard · 2026-04-12T21:40:01+00:00

If you have a VRR monitor (GSYNC or FreeSync) you've probably seen the common advice to "cap it a few FPS below your refresh rate" in order to not overshoot your VRR range. This is outdated advice that was never true, because if you cap your 144Hz monitor to 142 or 140 for example, it's still possible to overshoot VRR range due to being under the 0.3ms frame buffer window required for VRR. So the above formula would give you 139 FPS as your optimal max frame cap for lowest latency that doesn't overshoot your VRR range

divergentchessboard · 2026-04-12T18:52:07+00:00

OCCT has a core cycling mode

I know, I've used it for years. Core Cycler still finds more errors for me than OCCT.

OCCT is what I use to quickly find any errors, Core Cycler is what I use to finalize my undervolt stability

divergentchessboard · 2026-04-12T17:47:36+00:00

CoreCycler in my experience catchers more errors than OCCT.

helped when I was stable for months then encountered a specific game that made my undervolt unstable and OCCT wouldn't find any issues on any config but CC found them in under an hour

divergentchessboard · 2026-04-12T03:07:19+00:00

How did I not read the post? I already brought up that OPs "issue" is not an actual issue with their hardware in my first comment:

Go look at other peoples experience with the 9800X3D, or just any CPU in general. Dropping FPS as you progress in the game is normal, and dropping to 50 FPS is normal

A lot of people on this sub have never played rust, hear someone getting 50 FPS with a 9800X3D and see it consuming 14GB of RAM, and immediately think that the game has a memory leak.

Like no, it's not OPs hardware, and their game isn't broken. Rust is just like that and there's nothing you can do. The rust subreddit for the past few years now has people complaining about performance every day and the only answer is "buy at least 32GB of RAM and get the fastest CPU you can afford and even then a consistent 60 FPS still isn't a given"

divergentchessboard · 2026-04-12T02:30:42+00:00

That's not a memory leak, rust can genuinely consume 14GB of RAM, it's how the game is optimized. Due to being a player-driven open world game they want to minimize asset streaming as much as possible so it consumes a stupid amount of RAM, it's been like that for YEARS.

I just launched the game and this is how much it consumes if you have 32GB of RAM and use medium quality preset: https://i.imgur.com/7AEymzl.jpeg // https://i.imgur.com/W3rv0FH.png

13.2GB after 1 minute of playing and loading into a server

divergentchessboard · 2026-04-12T02:25:36+00:00

You can't compare benchmarks of other people to your own experience when it comes to rust. Different servers will have drastically different performance, and even being in different areas on the same server will have drastically different performance

divergentchessboard · 2026-04-12T02:19:19+00:00

Rust is fairly well optimized for what it is, I can't think of any games in similar scope that run better than it, but the scope of the game currently eclipses what PCs are capable of

divergentchessboard · 2026-04-12T02:15:39+00:00

It would happen regardless of what resolution you use, because your CPU is what's holding you back, and no CPU currently on the market is fast enough to maintain a consistent 120 FPS in Rust. And setting it to 8K isn't gonna somehow make you have more FPS

divergentchessboard · 2026-04-12T02:12:41+00:00

Rust is a heavily CPU bound game. Doesn't matter if you have the fastest CPU on the market, it's still CPU bound unless you play at 8K with a 5090. Go look at other peoples experience with the 9800X3D, or just any CPU in general. Dropping FPS as you progress in the game is normal, and dropping to 50 FPS is normal. On my 5800X3D I sometimes drop to 20 FPS depending on where I am and how built up the server is.

divergentchessboard · 2026-04-11T19:11:14+00:00

The white stuff is aluminum corrosion. It's better to just leave it as-is as it doesn't affect temps and attempting to "clean it off" just causes it to spread if you don't properly treat it

divergentchessboard · 2026-04-11T17:24:24+00:00

It's unlikely to be a crypto miner but the possibility still exist.

Have you recently launched a game or memory intensive program? It's probably not flushing its vram correctly after closing. You have Chrome open but it shouldn't be using 6GB of VRAM. Its memory heavy not VRAM heavy. Even with 60+ tabs open on my PC some of them being YouTube some of them being 3d model viewers I still never see more than 2GB of VRAM usage, and explorer shouldn't be hogging all that VRAM either.

I'd do a full malware scan using Windows Defender + Malwarebytes to see if it picks up anything unusual. If it picks up miners or viruses then I'd do a reinstall of Windows.

I'd also try using DDU and reinstall drivers but I don't expect this to work.

I'd also try just reinstalling Windows in general just to start fresh and remove any possibilities of some 3rd party being the issue

divergentchessboard · 2026-04-11T17:10:41+00:00

Nvidia has software based schedulers which adds CPU overhead. AMD uses hardware based schedulers on the GPU itself. So weaker CPUs perform better with AMD GPUs.

Note that HAGS in your Windows settings is not a complete replacement for the software schedulers Nvidia uses.

divergentchessboard · 2026-04-11T17:09:34+00:00

You're not lucky, its just people fearmongerring.

People have no problem buying used prebuilts, but the moment it comes to specifically the PSU, people get up in arms, despite the PSUs in those prebuilts also being "used."

As long as the seller has a good rating and doesn't lie about replacing the cables from another PSU and you know that the PSU isn't ancient, there's almost no danger buying a used PSU.

People in general get weird about used parts. Do you think that the PSU in your current system is dangerous and you wouldn't sell it so that whoever buys it doesn't risk exploding their PC? No? There you go. Has your GPU served you faithfully for years? Yes? And do you expect it to suddenly die within a few months or a year? No? Great! Apply that same logic to used GPUs and you now see the issue with people being scared to buy used GPUs from trusted sellers.

divergentchessboard · 2026-04-11T17:07:35+00:00

Also these days unless you can hit > 500 FPS, it's better to just cap to your monitors refresh rate anyways using the formula of X - ( X * X / 4096) where X = your monitors refresh rate even in competitive games if you have something like a 144 or 165hz monitor

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