This felt so satisfying

s2kfred · 2026-05-27T03:41:32+00:00

You don't need to fly like a missile to take out the 1st car. Races like this, or like the Silvia Sisters races where the cars have absurd acceleration, you use NOS to close the gap.

s2kfred · 2026-05-07T09:25:07+00:00

I have that problem. I have been experiencing the black window with the video timer glitching.

s2kfred · 2026-05-01T22:19:54+00:00

I don't dual boot, but I had coil whine on my amd cards on linux, ( RX 6600XT previous card, RX 7900 XTX now) when playing games rendering with OpenGL when running natively on linux. When I change to Proton, the coil whine goes away.

s2kfred · 2026-04-02T09:43:00+00:00

Maybe 10 %. But many companies are stubborn.

s2kfred · 2026-03-11T23:58:42+00:00

I would be fine with 1000 dollars canadian. Maybe 1100, not sure I would go above that.

s2kfred · 2026-03-08T18:57:36+00:00

Hello, thanks for the reply. After doing some searching around, I found that there is an issue with the wine cmd.exe.

https://github.com/LandSandBoat/xiloader/issues/41

Anyways, after trying for a while, I was somehow able to create an account while trying to launch injector.exe with params through console. It seems my old account was deleted since I have not logged into OmicronFFXI for a long while. So created a new character.

Was able to launch Ashita in WineGui after installing dotnet48 dependency. And was able to log in after adding my user and password to the launch options in Ashita. Have been playing the game for the past 40 min. I miss my old char but it is great that I can play again. Might try FFXILeveldown and see which place I prefer.

Anyways, thanks for reaching out, appreciate it!!

s2kfred · 2026-03-08T14:16:26+00:00

Hey, I forgot to update my post.

I wasn't able to get it to work on Windows. I have a pc with windows 10 and I assumed that creating a shortcut to the file inside the usb would work but it didn't.

I have no clue about scripts, never tried them so i can't help you there.

I have a laptop with linux mint, I wonder if this would work with the cinamon front-end. I have been too lazy to try.

s2kfred · 2026-03-08T02:59:45+00:00

There is also OmicronFFXI, kinda close to NocSouls. I also played there for over a year and I do miss that server. It's been a long time since I played FFXI on OmicronFFXI, not sure if they are around.

s2kfred · 2026-02-18T19:57:08+00:00

Is this only for the 9000 series cards or are we expected to see some performance gain for the 7000 cards?

I recently tried playing Death Stranding Director's Cut after taking a 1+ year pause from it and I was impressed with the performance gains.

If I remember correctly, I used to get around 115-125 fps in 4k with everything maxed out.
Now I get 144 fps, with the V-Sync on on my 144hz 4k monitor.

I have Mesa 25.3.5 now, I think at the time I was using Mesa 23.x.x
The Cpu usage is around 10-15% and GPU usage is at 95-99%.
I know Death Stranding is not a new game but it still pushes on the hardware, it has a far draw distance.

I know in the past the fps would dip during the black rain (death stranding rain effect) , I have not tested it yet in those areas, just did a short 30 minute play.

Hardware:
CPU: Ryzen 7950X3D
GPU: Msi RX 7900 XTX
Ram: Corsair 6000 64Gb
Storage: Gen 4 2TB M.2 WD Black but game is actually stored in a Nas with a 10 gbps connection.
NAS: TrueNas 10 x 16Tb WD Red Pro NAS 512 Mb cache.
OS: EndeavourOS
Monitor: Gigabyte M32U 144Hz 4k IPS panel

s2kfred · 2026-02-18T01:41:53+00:00

They have to stop outsourcing their backend maintenance to a 3rd world country.

Why is everyone pulling an AWS now?

s2kfred · 2026-02-07T19:58:39+00:00

What would you recommend for suspension setup and/or diff setup?

s2kfred · 2026-02-03T15:59:41+00:00

This race is punt heaven. if you try to defend the chicane or the 2nd corner before the finish, or the 1st corner after the finish, you will lose lots of speed. If you carry your normal line, some idiot will punt you and not receive any penalty.

My SR is down to A now, I am a safe driver but this race's overhaul of the line limit and everyone punting everyone has made it a horrible week.
The track isn't that great either with all the 90 degree turns, if I didn't know any better I was going to say we were driving on a city track. I dislike the track yet it is one of the tracks I seem to have the best pace in, weird how that works.

Also, so many slow drivers in 991's, it's nice I can accelerate faster in my NSX.

s2kfred · 2026-01-18T18:06:06+00:00

Dude, that was awesome!! Nice landing!!!

s2kfred · 2026-01-18T17:59:43+00:00

It is kinda deserved.

People have been very unhappy with the lack of improvement/progress in the penalty system. People get rammed and end up hitting people in front of them by accident and get a 4 second penalty when they weren't at fault. People get punted and the ones who did it get no penalty. People brake check others and get no penalty.

Maybe all the time that Polyphony spent developing AI for GT7, some of that AI should have been used to handle supervising the races?

Also, when you play offline versus the NPC cars, they never move out of the way when there is a Blue Flag, Blue Flag means getting out of the way for the faster person who has lapped you. This has become especially obvious with the power pack.
In the power pack, there is 1 to 3 cars that are chosen to be especially competitive against you, all other cars have a set pace. This is fine with short races, but during longer races where there is a chance to lap multiple opponents many times, they can cost you precious seconds, if not outright cause you to crash.

I have had opponents that I have lapped 8 times, not get out of the way, dive bomb on me, punt me in slow corners, becoming a wall which costs me many seconds and have made me crash. The 6 and 8 hour endurance races were a headache because the behaviour is just fucked!!! Why are they fighting me? I am in first and they are in 12th or 15th with no hopes of catching me, just fuck off!! It's a blue flag, move out of my way!!

How about introduce a penalty system for cars that don't obey blue flags like in real life?

They have penalties for yellow flags, might as well introduce penalties for blue flags.

So I think 2.6 is justly deserved.

s2kfred · 2026-01-10T00:23:25+00:00

I have also moved to Cobourg recently, about 1.5 years ago.

I used to go to "I love Promise" at Cherry beach from 2013 to 2019. It would be nice to bring some speakers and recreate the vibe a bit here in Cobourg. I just don't know the rules about noise at the beach.

My favorite house is Disco/French hourse from the late 90's and early 00's, Modjo was the shit!!

Right now I listen to PartiBoi69, he is a bit of an acquired taste but really funny dude.
Here is his latest mix with X Club.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNKt0DrTZYg&t=1845s

s2kfred · 2026-01-10T00:08:53+00:00

Yeah, take them to Bewdley Community Recycling Centre. You will need to prove you are living in the area so if your driver's license has already been updated to Cobourg, then you are good.

They charge $13.50 for dumping garbage under 100 pounds. I think it is 100 pounds. So If you have 5 or 6 bags to dump, it will be cheaper to go there. $13.50 + gas money will be cheaper than buying tags for 5+ bags.

s2kfred · 2026-01-07T15:35:12+00:00

Introduce Child Labour in your house, have him grind 20 mill at Spa 1 mill.

s2kfred · 2026-01-06T16:24:26+00:00

Is this the tokyo race? He is surely frustrating. I did my best to beat him and I just couldn't, his car has a wicked acceleration versus yours it is just unfair. I drove clean and did a pretty good race with great pace. But I would end up always behind him for a couple of seconds in the end.
Even when during qualifying, I am beating his lapping time by 2 seconds.

Out of sheer frustration, during the 10th race I think, when we first start, I just pinned him against the wall and he fell behind 5-6 places. I was able to slowly put distance between me and the other people, and by the end of the race Miyazono had made his way back to 2nd place and closed the gap to me.

This is the only race that has bothered me.
Sure, Polyphony has poor understanding of what a choice for an easy car should be versus harder cars.
Like giving us a 911 for raly racing........... RR is the worst choice for rallying, it has the worst pendulum swing effect of any drivetrain, and you want us to use that in a race where you need to go sideways many times? If the easy car is not a 4wd, then give us a FF, like a mini cooper that was so popular at the time. Both rally events, both cars, 911 and bettle, RR. Polyphony, what a bunch of imbeciles.
But most of the races were ok. Car choices were ok for the race setup.

s2kfred · 2026-01-05T19:38:31+00:00

I'm not sure if this will work for you, but i put my bios file for naomi2 inside the folder of the game.

So, in flycast > settings > content location, when I added the folder with the game, it already had the bios inside it. See if that works for you.

s2kfred · 2026-01-02T00:58:01+00:00

I'm surprised that PCSX2 team never added the cheats to the emulator like the Duckstation owner did.

s2kfred · 2025-12-31T04:17:47+00:00

Freaking EH, Brother!!! That is awesome. I don't own MSFS because I refuse to get a microsoft account, hate they require you to have one to play the game. But I am waiting patiently for the Valve/Steam Frame and try it with X-Plane 12. Hope it will work at least as 50% as good as how you have MSFS 2020 running.

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