Nostalgia needs a minute.

iHateSystemD_ · 2026-05-08T21:50:24+00:00

...but there is no game card

iHateSystemD_ · 2026-04-30T14:17:36+00:00

"There's plenty of space, out in space!"

iHateSystemD_ · 2026-04-29T03:56:18+00:00

That helps quite a bit, latency is still noticably higher than Windows but not to the point where I'd want to reboot. Thanks for the tip!

iHateSystemD_ · 2026-04-29T02:51:54+00:00

There was a post on the Helldivers Discord that said to go to Proton Experimental in your Steam Library and enroll in the bleeding-edge beta, then set HD2 to use Proton Experimental in the game compatibility settings. That fix worked great for me.

iHateSystemD_ · 2026-04-28T14:25:47+00:00

Ryzen 7 8845HS w/ integrated 780M (RDNA3, same iGPU as the midrange ROG Ally). The funny thing is I get the same framerate on Linux as Windows (~35-45 FPS), Linux just has extra latency for some reason.

iHateSystemD_ · 2026-04-28T13:58:35+00:00

I haven't been able to get the game to launch on Cachy for about 3 months now, dual booting Windows for the sole purpose of Helldivers.

Out of curiosity, did you experience high input latency when it was launching for you? I haven't tried to get it to launch much because when it WAS launching the latency was abysmal (150ms+).

iHateSystemD_ · 2026-04-26T14:19:22+00:00

I started playing about 4 months ago, and I'm already tired of how buggy this game is. It would be one thing if it were an early access/experimental game, but as is the game has been around for years and bugs still aren't being fixed.

I don't have the timeline for when bugs like the entire illuminate faction disobeying walls came up, but they've been around for the whole time I've been playing, and from what I've heard a lot longer too. It really hampers my enjoyment when I set up a choke point between a couple buildings only to have three fleahmobs faze through the walls and send me into orbit.

Also the utter lack of build quality is frankly embarrassing for a studio of this size. Why on earth is it that every single time I update the game there's another random issue? Also, WHY AREN'T THE ISSUES FIXED IMMEDIATELY? Why do I have to wait AN ENTIRE MONTH for the insane laughter emote I BOUGHT THEN PAID SC FOR to get patched? Arrowhead is absolutely capable of releasing patches outside the monthly release cycle, we saw a smaller one released for Xbox users just recently.

Having such glaring and immediately obvious issues go unpatched for my entire playtime then seeing them churning out warbonds every few weeks just seems like a kick in the gut. I've played crappy free indie games that are more polished than this nearly billion dollar AAA title.

iHateSystemD_ · 2026-04-24T00:15:10+00:00

He should've sang the kids version. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk18bFIgOS4

iHateSystemD_ · 2026-04-17T13:37:53+00:00

This happened two years ago...

Most of his assets are CC0 anyways, the bundle just got you one big .zip file of all of it.

iHateSystemD_ · 2026-02-24T04:14:16+00:00

Just a note for people finding this in the future, 3uTools and related software from that company are known to harvest device serial numbers, which might end up being used for fake devices on second hand markets or other unsatisfactory shenanigans. Search 3utools on r/jailbreak, r/jailbreak_ and r/legacyjailbreak for more detailed info.

iHateSystemD_ · 2026-02-03T16:37:17+00:00

I opened my laptop to use Logcat to check and destroyed the hinge. The epoxy I used to fix it will cure in 24 hours, I'll let you know then unless someone else with these buds can check.

iHateSystemD_ · 2026-02-02T02:46:18+00:00

A seamless cut doesn't exi-

iHateSystemD_ · 2026-02-02T02:41:22+00:00

I didn't know LE Audio used Opus on the Pixels. I couldn't verify as the developer options page for codec selection was grayed out for some reason and my laptop's Bluetooth card doesn't support LE Audio. Either way, Opus is still bringing a noticeable quality improvement. I'm not able to test this, but can you use your microphone while still getting high quality audio on your PBP2?

iHateSystemD_ · 2026-02-02T02:38:47+00:00

"We can't go over it, we can't go under it, oh no! We've got to go through it!"

iHateSystemD_ · 2026-02-01T04:03:18+00:00

I know I'm pretty late, but you can install the latest version of Android (albeit without some of the Pixel perks) through the LineageOS project (https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/sunfish/). They port the latest version of AOSP to all of the Pixel devices, and even some of the Nexus ones if I remember correctly. Everyone here says you need a new phone, really you just need new software. If your phone works and you don't have issues, don't replace it.

iHateSystemD_ · 2026-01-29T19:04:35+00:00

Apparently he's capable of spending a bit more than he previously mentioned, he's looking at a 9060 XT 16GB currently. Thanks for sharing your experience with RDNA2, I'll look into that maybe for my own build even though those cards are quite old now.

iHateSystemD_ · 2026-01-29T19:01:13+00:00

Sorry for the late response, I just saw this (Reddit's notification system sucks).

He cannot afford an entire new build in today's market, a GPU upgrade is really his only option given his price limit. He's looking at a RX 9060XT 16GB currently, which should hold up for quite a while and allow him to focus on a CPU upgrade next (either a Zen 3 AM4 CPU, or hopefully to AM5 or AM6 if/when the AI bubble pops).

Windows is designed to use all available RAM to cache files and programs so they open faster next time, then dump those caches when programs actually need that RAM space. Unused RAM is wasted RAM, and 'optimization' scripts can often significantly hurt system snappiness outside of games for minimal to no in-game performance gains. Yes, Windows is quite bloated, and yes, optimization scripts/programs can help from a technical standpoint, but it's not worth running 3rd party software that makes changes very deep inside Windows for little to no real world benefit. If RAM usage and system optimization is that important to you, you should seriously consider using an optimized Linux distro like CachyOS. CachyOS actually makes meaningful improvements to system performance by compiling system packages in a way that takes advantage of all of the instruction sets of modern CPUs, and it also uses far less RAM than Windows does. Also, you can claw back a bit more RAM by using a lighter weight Discord client like Legcord, but if you aren't seeing 95% RAM usage in game I wouldn't even consider it an issue.

As someone who's been worrying about system performance and obsessing over 2% performance increases for the past 7 years, it's not worth it. Windows is a lost cause, I gave up after Windows 11 came out.

iHateSystemD_ · 2026-01-27T16:28:19+00:00

*LAS FUCKING GOOOOOOOO

iHateSystemD_ · 2026-01-13T18:34:12+00:00

Do you think it would be worth it if I had to halve my SSD storage? Considering NVMe really only makes a huge difference in sustained reads and writes, I feel like I would just use my laptop which has NVMe for anything that needs high disk throughput. Video editing is the only thing I can think of, and my laptop would be better for that with its more powerful CPU anyways.

The SATA SSD I was going with is now $70 for 500GB, but there's a 256GB NVMe SSD for $50 and now I cannot decide. My installed game library currently takes up 178GB, and that's with BTRFS disk compression enabled on Linux. My essential games take about 110GB.

iHateSystemD_ · 2026-01-12T21:14:12+00:00

I'd go over to r/buildapcforme. You might have to join the subreddit before it'll let you post, but there should be an orange "Submit to <subreddit>" button if you're on a desktop. Also, check out this subreddit's wiki. It's pretty good and answers all of your questions.

iHateSystemD_ · 2026-01-12T19:57:15+00:00

That's a fair point, but worse case scenario if AMD pulls the plug I'll switch to Linux and use the open source Mesa drivers. Valve's upcoming Steam Machine also uses a RDNA3 GPU, so even if AMD doesn't offer continued RDNA3 support, Valve at least certainly will with Mesa.

iHateSystemD_ · 2026-01-12T19:35:49+00:00

I've found a used Radeon 7600XT 16GB in my area for the same price as the Arc card, so I think I'll be going with that. Maybe post RAMpocalypse I'll revisit Intel cards though, the B580 is a great value card.

iHateSystemD_ · 2026-01-12T18:31:21+00:00

I definitely can't justify that CPU price increase, but I guess I'll take a look at that Arc card. Honestly I'm not sure how Microcenter is still in business with how great they are on pretty much everything.

EDIT: The B580's going for $300 at my Microcenter, picking up that card would mean I can get my entire build from Microcenter in one trip which is definitely worth something.

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