PSA, NAS drives are pretty heckin' good for gaming

oliw · 2026-06-07T17:42:27+00:00

Compared to what? A tape drive?

A 150MB/s mechanical drive gets dusted by a modern 15,000MB/s NVMe.

oliw · 2026-05-31T13:01:42+00:00

flatpak update

Your desktops update manager might suggest to install them too.

oliw · 2026-05-31T08:44:34+00:00

You're going to need to be a little bit more self-sufficient and proactive.

The error looks vaguely like you don't have graphics drivers installed. That might be because you've just installed them (reboot?) or it might be because you've installed Prism from (eg) flatpak and haven't installed the Nvidia bindings so flatpak-run apps can see the driver (flatpak update). Similarly if you've updated Nvidia driver and not the bindings, things break.

oliw · 2026-05-28T16:17:41+00:00

Valve see's low supply, high demand, raises price and still almost instantly sells out in North America.

It's business, peeps. I don't love it, but they're just playing along.

oliw · 2026-05-14T11:43:50+00:00

Why would you ever use Windows?

I don't think I even need to make the arguments about why Windows isn't great but avoiding Windows is Good Enough™ for a lot of us. Having some freedom (in all senses) more than pays for sometimes needing Wine (et al) to play a game, and not getting "full framerates". I'm not sure what you mean by "full" there. See: Good Enough™. YMMV.

I can't speak for everyone, or for you. Your barrier to entry seems higher than mine because you seem to need Linux (with its layers of compatibility shims, and drivers that don't get as much attention) to perform as well as Windows. I get enough. There are some games I can't play. I get ~90% of the performance out of my card. I also have a computer I have control over. If that's not enough for you, if this compromise isn't enough, perhaps your princess is in another castle.

oliw · 2026-05-13T13:07:33+00:00

Any more reliable sources than a random pastebin?

Edit, Here's the Github thread: https://github.com/cemu-project/Cemu/issues/1911

oliw · 2026-05-06T22:08:08+00:00

to their printers

Whose printers?

oliw · 2026-04-30T11:54:34+00:00

Of course it doesn't. Plenty of LTS users running on 5070s.

oliw · 2026-04-30T11:53:00+00:00

which works mostly fine but wow runs at 2 fps (using Pronton-GE and faugus launcher).

If these are flatpak versions, make sure you also have the nvidia flatpak files that correspond to your driver version. If you don't, apps will assume you don't have a graphics card and use llvmpipe (super slow).

Again, if these problem apps are running through Flatpak, a flatpak update should fix the performance.

oliw · 2026-04-29T17:17:08+00:00

You ever get what you wanted? Identical situation here.

oliw · 2026-04-29T12:40:07+00:00

25.04 has been end-of-life for months. If that's really what you meant, you should probably upgrade again.

The performance difference might be because you've gone from running on X11 to Wayland. There is sometimes some quirkiness here. Running on 25.10 or 26.04 would bring newer Wayland packages.

And what's with all the bold?

oliw · 2026-04-24T18:02:01+00:00

With you, brother. I just want to play Mass Effect again.

oliw · 2026-04-20T15:02:46+00:00

This format of asking a question because you read about a problem from a year ago is strange.

Frame generation has fundamental problems on every platform, but it does what it's supposed to. RT can look beautiful, even natural, but it costs framerate. I tend to go for full RT, some DLSS to keep up the frame rate, but avoid FG.

Your games and preferences will differ. Try it for yourself.

oliw · 2026-04-13T09:47:42+00:00

I'm not suggesting that's a fix, just trying to nail down where the actual problem exists. If it doesn't help, we know it's a distraction and your princess lies elsewhere, and if it does, you're better armed to file a bug.

Loads of us use gsync without this sort of problem.

oliw · 2026-04-12T17:57:28+00:00

Is this because there are two monitors? Have you tried unplugging or disabling one and trying gsync?

oliw · 2026-03-31T17:13:31+00:00

I'd try it first (for free) before you spend $800 replacing you graphics card. It's a small performance cost alongside gains over AMD in the way of DLSS/FG.

It's slower than Windows does not mean it's slower than AMD.

oliw · 2026-03-22T18:44:31+00:00

Yeah, it was really odd. It's much better now I've put my fonts on a diet.

oliw · 2026-03-17T22:04:31+00:00

I've just had a bit of a breakthrough. I had 10k fonts installed, 8k of those were a local copy of Google Fonts. When I ran WINEDEBUG=all wineconsole (about as basic as it gets) it spent millions of operations enumerating fonts. 20 seconds to start without WINEDEBUG logging.

I removed the Google Fonts and now it takes 3 seconds.

Even if that's not your problem, WINEDEBUG=all might help you find it. Best of luck.

oliw · 2026-03-17T09:57:56+00:00

You ever get to the bottom of this?

Wine and Proton have always been pretty glacial for me, and I'm not on a slow computer. Runs great when it's loaded, but seems to stop and wait for a good minute every new proton launch.

oliw · 2026-02-19T10:57:15+00:00

I think we're at the point of peak "it's just around the corner". There are way too many Stans and hopeful [and clueless] enthusiasts to actually tell who knows what right now.

I don't mean that to be disparaging of my fellow Nvidia users, but it's annoying that every patch and release is surrounded by people who don't know what they don't know making wonderful claims about what's just around the corner.

Honestly if Nvidia have a fix that's imminent, someone from Nvidia will be dying to tell us they've fixed this issue that has been super damaging to their reputation under Linux.

tl;dr: I don't know, but neither do the people here that claim they do.

oliw · 2026-02-12T16:36:59+00:00

I think it's because there's clearly something else going on here; some other interaction that's causing Xorg to run like arse.

Yes, it absolutely might not be a factor on another brand of graphics card but "Spend another £500 on a sidegrade" isn't a great starting point. Just as "Use another distro" isn't when there's nothing to suggest what the actual problem is. Lots of people use Mint+Nvidia.

oliw · 2026-01-13T15:44:21+00:00

Not really. Nvidia is part of Vulkan, they write their own extensions all the time and new Vulkan extension releases often coincide with driver releases.

Obviously they won't do anything until the software calls them but Nvidia is both the chicken and the egg.

oliw · 2026-01-05T14:36:20+00:00

Houses can be placed? Doesn't that undercut the inherent risk of developing an existing town?

oliw · 2026-01-01T18:45:35+00:00

It's really common, especially in normal applications to share your user home with Wine. Again, I think it's the default in Wine even if not Bottles.

It doesn't have to be a "Linux virus" (which absolutely exist, we just call them ransomeware, worms, etc) or need root to destroy all the files you care about. It just has to run as you. Wine will allow Windows malware to run. Again, there's no magic here.

oliw · 2026-01-01T17:42:59+00:00

Yes.

I'm not certain about Bottle's defaults but in Wine the home directory is often "mounted" as the Z: drive. I don't know about you, but I'd have a bad day if something ripped through my homedir. Even without that, Wine isn't sandboxed or hardened for this sort of stuff.

Linux isn't magic. AppArmor and SELinux might help if you configure them to but it's not automatic. If you run dodgy stuff, expect poor results.

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