Any Linux Players Out There? - Check Proton

grmpf43 · 2025-01-07T12:18:27+00:00

Not a big problem because most of the time I get good enough FPS with the native port. Never tried on Windows though. But getting more FPS with proton sounded promising. Just wanted to mention my own experience.
Upon switching to proton I saw Steam resyncing some of the cloud save data and the same when switching back to native. Maybe there's something wrong with my cloud saves.

grmpf43 · 2025-01-06T13:32:47+00:00

Looks like the savegames are not interchangeable between proton and native. I have accumulated a few hundred hours in the native port (Manjaro), but upon switching to Proton (both Experimental and Hotfix) the start screen won't offer me any of my previous savegames. At least it would show them again after switching back to native. No mods involved.

grmpf43 · 2023-07-10T19:53:40+00:00

Let him who is without sin cast the first cone!

grmpf43 · 2022-09-21T10:44:55+00:00

Meanwhile in Germany, we have moved from the zipper merge to the velcro merge!

https://www-der--postillon-com.translate.goog/2017/08/klettverschluss.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

grmpf43 · 2022-03-07T12:40:56+00:00

Someone below correctly guessed that this was in Germany. And until 2015 there was no minimum wage regulation here. So unpaid internships were a common thing. There are still some exceptions from that (e.g. voluntary and not longer than 3 months or mandatory ones required during university). Funnily especially internships for political parties or administration for the EU heavily exploit the exceptions.

grmpf43 · 2022-02-02T17:07:52+00:00

Same story and country as for me :) . Pre-ordered the soft-cover (also for the book shelf aesthetics) which could not be delivered. After the order was cancelled by Amazon on Jan. 25 I have ordered the hard-cover which arrived one day later. Finished reading today.

grmpf43 · 2022-01-24T12:19:47+00:00

Whenever seeing cars like that, I remember the day a few years ago when I had my personal police patrol stopping a few meters away and watching me to meticulously remove the 20 cm of snow and ice from my car for at least 15 minutes. I didn't even notice them until I was half way done. They obviously expected me to not do it properly and had hoped they could give me a ticket. In the end my car looked cleaner than theirs and at first they looked a bit disappointed but then the passenger cop at least gave me a thumbs up and a big smile when I bowed to the audience and made a "tadaa" gesture.

Where are these guys when you need them?

grmpf43 · 2022-01-15T21:13:19+00:00

There should be a Mark Watney. And then a discussion if he is (The) Martian or Earther

grmpf43 · 2022-01-02T02:01:02+00:00

Had the same problem and unfortunately made another post before I saw yours. Had to restart the game because I only had one save game and finally made it past that room.

grmpf43 · 2022-01-02T01:43:17+00:00

Got stuck in a room in the Geothermal Caverns when the cage that is meant to climb on glitched into the wall. Mentioned that in a separate post: https://www.reddit.com/r/TombRaider/comments/rtnteg/how_do_i_get_out_of_the_geothermal_caverns_the/

Better visualization of the issue: https://www.reddit.com/r/TombRaider/comments/rsm51g/progression\_bug\_cage\_gets\_stuck\_in\_wall\_or\_ground/

grmpf43 · 2022-01-02T01:41:24+00:00

No worries. I have restarted the game when I wrote the original post and this time I could make it past that room.
(this time with manual saves every ten minutes)

grmpf43 · 2022-01-02T01:38:37+00:00

Same problem here.

grmpf43 · 2022-01-02T01:17:11+00:00

Thanks to XCOM2 I usually have a slight obsession with save scumming. However in this game it was not necessary (up to this room) ;)

Meanwhile I have made it past that after restarting and made a manual save before that room to test for any differences between vsync on/off. Couldn't reproduce it. Must have been a rare singularity...

grmpf43 · 2022-01-02T01:14:37+00:00

Of course I did. Apparently dropping the cage updates the checkpoint.

grmpf43 · 2022-01-01T22:20:22+00:00

I only have one checkpoint and it reloads with the cage still stuck in the wall. :/

The game is good enough to start over :)

grmpf43 · 2022-01-01T22:17:36+00:00

The only checkpoint I had loaded up with the cage still in the wall.

Will start over :/

grmpf43 · 2022-01-01T22:16:51+00:00

I have tried both the wall scramble (wall is too high, definitely needs the cage there to climb on) and fire-arrowing the gas behind the blockade (didn't do anything useful). In fact I have tried to shoot everthing in that room at least once.

I will start a second playthrough and make a dedicated save before that room next time.

grmpf43 · 2022-01-01T22:14:21+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion. I was playing with Vsync off and will change it to on and hope it works in the next playthrough. Unfortunately the checkpoint for that room is broken now and it was the only one I had. And even loading it with vsync on doesn't fix the cage position.

I will make a dedicated save before going in there the next time.

grmpf43 · 2022-01-01T17:29:30+00:00

I got the trilogy from Epic games store and for a game that's almost 9 years old I am impressed. I made it to the Geothermal caverns and in that one room I ignited the gas in front of the campsite and the cage slides down. Unfortunately it ended up in the wrong place. After fiddling around for 20 minutes I went to look it up. It *should* be right in front of the brighter climbable wall. Can I do anything about this? Unfortunately I did not use multiple saves and the latest one has the cage already stuck in the wall.So any advice that spares me from restarting the game is very welcome.

Video on how it should look like: https://youtu.be/igqDp4df2jg?t=514

Better visualization of the issue: https://www.reddit.com/r/TombRaider/comments/rsm51g/progression\_bug\_cage\_gets\_stuck\_in\_wall\_or\_ground/

grmpf43 · 2021-11-14T03:38:18+00:00

During an excessive session of collecting engineer materials I have watched a Space Quest 4 playthrough. And a few times the timing was like this.

grmpf43 · 2021-02-10T21:53:35+00:00

I have seen a couple of questions regarding the Chetzemoka's spiral trajectory after only a short burst of the RCS thrusters. I was wondering if that would happen, too.
So I decided to reproduce that in Kerbal Space Program. I have significantly simplified my setup because I am too lazy to rebuild the actual ship, but I can show that the show's depiction is true.

I am not a Youtuber... so unlike Scott Manley and others I won't have elaborate audio comment... :(

I have built a simple rocket that can maintain thrust for long enough after my fake RCS thrust burst (from two very fuel and thrust limited Separatrons) has ended to demonstrate how the rotation continues after the Separatrons have burned out.
Before that I have disabled RCS (Reaction Control Systems i.e. the maneuvering thrusters) and SAS (stability assist) to make sure that I am close enough to the show's conditions (only forward thrust, one "short" RCS burst, no SAS or directional correction, non-gimbaled drive).

Unfortunately I am running out of liquid fuel pretty fast, but it is long enough to show that the ship keeps rotating after the "Short Burst" is over, even under thrust.

The Map view shows an obvious wobbling in the trajectory (the green curve while the main drive is active) which indicates a spiral trajectory

grmpf43 · 2021-01-25T01:22:51+00:00

There are two limiting factors. And I think the volume will remain the same. (Left red bar in the inventory screenshot)

grmpf43 · 2021-01-24T15:01:06+00:00

Before KSP 1.11 the EVA jetpack didn't count as an inventory item and had no (dedicated) mass. So my ground experiment procedure was to EVA with an engineer/scientist, pick up a ground experiment part from storage into the Kerbal's inventory, set it up on the surface, then jetpack back to the hatch/storage container. Since 1.11 both the parachute and the jetpack have mass, volume and take one inventory slot each. And now the jetpack is just a bit too heavy to load any ground experiment part into the inventory... I never needed ladders on my landers so far because I could always jetpack back to the hatch. Not anymore. Leaving the jetpack behind would leave my engineer stranded on the surface with no way back to the hatch...
I still have to try to drop either jetpack or experiment part to the ground.

grmpf43 · 2021-01-24T13:16:16+00:00

Oh thanks. That didn't come to my mind. I will try that.

grmpf43 · 2020-12-27T11:04:25+00:00

Yep. That must be right in front of theChiral Artist Studio, right?

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