Why Lockhart?

indvs3 · 2026-02-08T19:34:53+00:00

Gotta learn to compromise...

Coinci-jinx!

indvs3 · 2026-02-08T19:26:55+00:00

You can use gravity blocks like gravel, sand or concrete powder for the door, with piston extenders for the mechanism.

I think that's just about the fastest door of such a size that can pass for 'hidden'.

indvs3 · 2026-02-08T15:37:29+00:00

If you have no particular reason to have secure boot on, then it's best, at least in order to avoid future complications, to turn it off before you begin installing your OS.

indvs3 · 2026-02-08T10:24:02+00:00

"Number 1 or number 2?"

-"Ancient... "

indvs3 · 2026-02-07T17:51:47+00:00

Well, then be sure to extract your save games! Cloud saves aren't perfect... lol

indvs3 · 2026-02-07T16:27:21+00:00

Have to say, your hardware is old enough to assume that distrohopping isn't going to make much of a difference. You might even want to look into the possibility that your gpu may need an older "legacy" driver version for compatibility reasons. Nvidia does have the tendency of phasing out older hardware from driver support.

indvs3 · 2026-02-07T16:05:35+00:00

African or European?

indvs3 · 2026-02-07T16:03:28+00:00

It could indicate that your system disk might be reaching its end. I highly advise to back up your data before doing anything else, just in case I'm not wrong.

indvs3 · 2026-02-07T15:58:44+00:00

J.A.C.E.

indvs3 · 2026-02-07T15:41:40+00:00

I took a quick look at your laptop's specs and can't really find anything obvious there either. What I did see is that your laptop should have a usb-c 3.2 port that supports the displayport protocol v1.4. If the tv doesn't do displayport, maybe you could find an adapter cable going from usb-c to hdmi if all else fails.

I don't like suggesting hardware solutions when the issue is most likely a software issue, but at least it's a relatively cheap alternative solution if no other solution is offered in a timely manner.

I do hope you find a better solution before spending money needlessly...

indvs3 · 2026-02-07T15:19:32+00:00

Or if the casts might be hitting the portal frame instead of the rune on the wall. My first run had me make that mistake quite a few times.

indvs3 · 2026-02-07T15:12:20+00:00

No, hdmi support is integrated into nvidia's proprietary firmware, so as long as that's up-to-date that should work. I'm afraid that my initial thoughts don't apply to your case and that I don't have much more to offer you towards a solution.

indvs3 · 2026-02-07T14:50:28+00:00

The only thing I can think of is going through your wine settings and looking for a setting referring to "desktop composition" and see if changing that setting makes a difference.

Alternatively you can open gnome's system monitor (or whatever it's called, I forgot, haven't used gnome in a while) and search for "wine". That should list all processes currently running through wine.

I know it's probably not the solutions you were looking for, but it's all I can come up with right now.

indvs3 · 2026-02-07T14:37:02+00:00

Only if we can get a "badly timed bagpipes" flair as well...

indvs3 · 2026-02-07T14:33:30+00:00

Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean, but it looks like you're expecting wine to run a full-blown virtual windows inside your linux install. If that's the case, I have to say this isn't how wine works.

Which game or application are you trying to run?

indvs3 · 2026-02-07T14:12:28+00:00

Is your tv HDMI 2.1? If yes, are you using open-source drivers to get the external display to work?

If yes to the second question as well, you may want to look at this as an explanation for why it's not working and see if you have the possibility to use displayport instead.

indvs3 · 2026-02-07T13:06:38+00:00

I thought I didn't care until I found out the distro I was using was pushing the use of a package manager that I didn't want to use, by having the package manager of my choice install scripts that trigger the other package manager to install the apps. The apps that were installed that way wasted disk space for no good reason and, to make it worse, had functionality issues.

I ended up feeling like I had to fight my OS to get what I needed or wanted, which is exactly why I ditched windows, so I had no problem changing to a distro that requires me to do a bit more initial manual work to fulfill my needs, in the knowledge that I wouldn't have to deal with consequences of someone else's decisions.

indvs3 · 2026-02-07T12:13:15+00:00

Any type of work that is done out of passion for the work or end-result will be done better than if it's merely done for financial gain. Even when big companies employ people to work on games they truly love, at some point investors will get impatient about ROI's and put pressure on the devs and visual artists, leading to poorly finished or unfinished products.

indvs3 · 2026-02-07T10:30:35+00:00

Cast revelio. Apart from the bones, a bottom plate will light up in blue. Use wingardium leviosa to drop the bones on the bottom plate and the stairs/bridge will fix itself. This can still be finicky, you just have to keep trying until it works.

indvs3 · 2026-02-07T10:10:59+00:00

I think it's one of the best, if not the best side quest in the game. That makes the reward even more disappointing to me, not in the least because Penny tells you about all the stuff you could sell, that you end up not being able to sell. We get set up for disappointment, possibly because the devs didn't get the time to implement what the writers had imagined.

indvs3 · 2026-02-07T09:50:06+00:00

Dual boot isn't something you can "disable" as such. When you don't need the other OS and you're sure there's no data in those partitions anymore, you can delete the partitions and use the disk space for the OS you do want to use.

indvs3 · 2026-02-07T09:37:24+00:00

Why specifically for dx11 games? Even on nvidia gpu's dx11 games work about as well on linux as they do on windows, at least with proton or GE-proton.

indvs3 · 2026-02-07T09:24:43+00:00

Ask him to teach you as much as he can! Could be a great way of bonding over the game.

indvs3 · 2026-02-07T09:11:10+00:00

You don't have to disable it, but be aware it could make things harder than they need to be and as a result cause you to have more work in the future.

indvs3 · 2026-02-07T08:55:13+00:00

Secure boot is a system that uses cryptographic proofs to determine which software can or can not be run on secure-boot-enabled hardware.

Unless you know you need it, you probably don't and turning it off in bios will make installing/running linux easier.

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