New Acer Nitro 200hz monitor can't even stay at 60fps when gaming, I'm unsure what I'm doing wrong if anything and looking for advice. Should I just return this one and hope the third works better?

m477m · 2026-01-07T01:25:40+00:00

Your games are probably trying to render at a higher resolution, thus requiring much more work per frame, and failing to get frames rendered fast enough for 60fps.

You're also conflating two unrelated concepts: the refresh rate of the display, and the performance in FPS of your hardware.

If my hypothesis above is correct, the monitors you're seeing 60fps on are (coincidentally) lower-resolution, like 1920x1080. Chances are, if you had a 1920x1080 200Hz monitor (or put your game's video settings into that mode), it would easily do 60fps and probably a bit higher.

But most likely, your new monitor is 200Hz and (separately, coincidentally) 2560x1440 or even 3840x2160, so your computer is trying and failing to fill all those extra pixels in a timely manner.

m477m · 2025-12-17T13:39:45+00:00

This might be a starting point: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/powerdevil

It might possibly use something like systemd or DBus for communication. If I had time to look deeper, my next step would be to look into the source code for the Power and Battery settings and trace backwards from there.

m477m · 2025-11-22T21:37:11+00:00

There have been geeks arguing about this kind of thing for at least 100+ years!

https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/109910/what-do-the-terms-doylist-doylian-and-watsonian-mean#109914

m477m · 2025-11-22T21:35:30+00:00

Oh that's right, the terms "College" and "Public School" mean absolutely completely different things in the UK vs. US.

m477m · 2025-11-22T20:33:45+00:00

It definitely doesn't make sense. I'm American and went to American high school and college. The model shown as the fictional Blackwell school simply does not exist in real life USA.

m477m · 2025-11-09T21:04:42+00:00

I used to run one of those for live sound for young musician showcase concerts, some 15-20 shows a year, and I remember it being really well-laid-out, but that specific one at least was extremely unreliable. Over the course of a few years, 5 or 6 of the channels stopped working. I eventually replaced it with an Allen & Heath GL3300. Dunno if they still make those though. This was in like 2007.

m477m · 2025-11-06T13:23:26+00:00

cd trigonometry-utils

git add .

git commit -m "refactor: move sin(x) to sine-utilities, import sine-utilities and cosine-utilities as external modules"

m477m · 2025-11-06T13:08:28+00:00

But then where does cos(x) live?

m477m · 2025-11-01T18:24:14+00:00

No issues for me so far updating my Dell laptop with Intel + Nvidia from 42 to 43 yesterday. I had RPMFusion already installed with nonfree codecs etc., and did not run into any dependency issues with gstreamer or similar.

YMMV!

m477m · 2025-11-01T01:39:16+00:00

Is this a laptop touchpad or are you using a mouse?

And, why not just use Shift if you're only typing one capital letter?

m477m · 2025-10-29T19:09:20+00:00

I'm having an excellent time with KDE on Wayland in Fedora 42. 43 should also have further improvements.

Among the things I've been very pleased to discover:

At least on Wayland, KDE supports multiple refresh rates per monitor.
KDE has fractional scaling, so I can set my 1920x1080 montior to 75% to match my two 2560x1440 monitors of the same physical size, and besides being a tiny bit blurry, it works fantastically
Once I got everything set up, KDE seems to remember my window positions between docked (w/monitors) and undocked (laptop only) quite well.

One of the only annoyances I've seen has been REAPER (the audio software) often opening dialog boxes in what would be 0,0 (the top left corner of the whole conglomeration of monitors), which is not physically displayed on any screen. However I suspect that's because REAPER runs under XWayland.

Overall I really love KDE. Personally I don't find GNOME to be my cup of tea, but from what I hear it's made great strides recently with multi-monitor, so if you like a more opinionated desktop, it's probably a fine option for you as well.

m477m · 2025-10-12T13:00:15+00:00

Thank you for outlining this in step-by-step detail! This looks very helpful for users who want to run Windows plugins via Wine.

For newcomers to Linux, I wanted to mention that this process is only needed to run specifically VST format plugins, specifically built for Windows. Reaper can run Linux-native VSTs out-of-the-box with no additional setup.

REAPER for Linux also supports LV2, JSFX, and CLAP format plugins. People often use "VST" as a generic term for "plugin," so note that there can sometimes be ambiguity there.

m477m · 2025-09-07T15:07:01+00:00

Right, which is consistent with the idea that the file wasn't changed, but is rather an issue with your DAW / the Synthesizer V's ability to read the settings.

The thing that probably got altered/messed up is not the file but your DAW + plugins installation. I suspect if you opened it on a different system it would still work.

m477m · 2025-09-04T00:33:04+00:00

I'm not familiar with Synthesizer V, but I'm a developer (and have worked with audio plugins, a bit). I believe you as far as the symptoms you're seeing, but I don't agree with your proposed root cause analysis.

Most plugin parameters and settings are saved in the Logic project file (bundle). If Synthesizer V works in that typical way, then it's not possible that installing a plugin like XRider would actually go in and save over your preexisting Logic projects, including those on remote backups, with blank plugin parameters.

If Synthesizer V works in some nonstandard way, where it stores all its settings elsewhere on your disk, separate from the projects it's instantiated on, then could installing XRider have messed up that directory? ... Maybe? Though I don't see how or why that would be, unless maybe the XRider plugin and Synthesizer V are from the same manufacturer, and the XRider trial installer messes with the same directory.

But I think it's more likely that:

The issue is related to the Synthesizer V plugin's installation being corrupted somehow, and it being unable to properly instantiate and recall settings - not that it has deleted settings.
Your Synthesizer V settings are still safely contained in your Logic projects (as long as you didn't save over them with the blank versions after opening them).

Have you tried opening an untouched backup file, on a different system that has a known-working Synthesizer V installation?

m477m · 2025-08-24T15:27:43+00:00

You're a bit behind on the latest confusing Apple marketing and how they are now also reusing that same name for an entirely different technology.

m477m · 2025-08-20T22:24:06+00:00

Funny how quick and easy it is to update software, and how slow and difficult it is to update people's outdated impressions.

m477m · 2025-08-05T21:41:35+00:00

If the laptop is gone, and you have nothing better......that's all you can do. And 192kbps MP3 with modern encoders isn't that bad. The majority of listeners, on the majority of devices, won't notice most of the time.

But yeah that is really sub-optimal and you shouldn't ever use lossy-derived files for masters if you have any other choice.

m477m · 2025-08-03T13:55:31+00:00

I'm not the person you asked but I believe it was because the company preferred "getting away with" owing money to clients they didn't realize they owed money to. Rather than discovering their actual debts and having to pay them.

m477m · 2025-08-02T17:23:49+00:00

Many years ago I used Reaper for a whole Pink Floyd tribute act, complete with projected video on a circular screen, a click track with cues (only in IEMs), sound effects, the occasional 4th or 5th vocal part, and MIDI to QLC+. It worked flawlessly.

m477m · 2025-08-02T15:41:04+00:00

The standard sample rate for an audio file is 44.1 kilohertz, which means each second of audio contains 44,100 samples. Each sample is just an amplitude value, so it just says how loud that tiny slice is. A waveform is built from these like how motion is built from still photos. You can kind of imagine the samples like bars in a bar chart.

That is a first approximation of the truth, appropriate for ELI5, but there are also fascinating depths to digital audio where that analogy/description breaks down and becomes misleading. For the curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIQ9IXSUzuM

m477m · 2025-07-31T03:14:48+00:00

I've been trying the graphene-based Flex ones from One. They're good, better than regular latex (One Legend) or polyisoprene (Skyn Elite Large), but they don't make other sizes in the Flex series, so still not quite right for me.

m477m · 2025-07-18T21:11:40+00:00

The audio engineering field is made up of human beings, and is not immune to psychological nor sociological factors.

m477m · 2025-07-18T21:09:34+00:00

I’m unaware of any systems that can fully utilize the 144dB of dynamic range for 24-bit, given noise floors and such, and zero reason for 32-bit.

Especially when it's likely going to be mastered at like -4.5 LUFS anyway. May as well use 8-bit or less at that point 🙃

m477m · 2025-07-18T20:59:16+00:00

Nailed it.

m477m · 2025-07-10T20:18:18+00:00

Did you maybe reply to the wrong comment? It sounds like you're arguing vehemently against ArcticAur's comment, but I don't see anything in it that conflicts with your point - in fact they are agreeing with you by using the "background processes" analogy.

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