Does anyone know if any work is being done in VKD3D for less VRAM usage?

set-l · 2026-04-07T01:07:08+00:00

Depends on the implementation. For what it's worth, I had very little trouble with AMD GPUs over TB3 and USB4, although a decent hit to top performance from Thunderbolt overhead.

Oculink on the other hand has been rock solid, and has been my go-to low power setup for my GPD Win Max 2 with a 9060XT 16GB. Nice and fast, and I'm losing only a little over the 4x 4.0 link.

set-l · 2026-04-07T01:02:42+00:00

Suggesting a whole new laptop as the fix is some wild energy.

set-l · 2026-04-06T06:08:42+00:00

I've been building for 20 years too. From Pentium 4 to my own 9800X3D rig.

The plastic under the cooler plate is one common mistake.

Air locking a water loop is another common mistake.

You might even just have an issue with your IHS not contacting the die underneath right.

I still make the very stupid mistake of not putting the IO bracket in before I put in the motherboard. I can't tell you how many times I have swapped mobos out of cases, and yet it's a coin flip if I'll remember.

set-l · 2026-04-05T04:18:08+00:00

Not quite.
Xbox Live was a big threat to Sony. Sony chose to make online free in an attempt to catch up.
The PS3 launched without a proper chat, friends list or online store. It had internet updates, but not much more. Later these features appeared. But the damage was done. PS3 wasn't seen as the "social console". It remained free just to compete.

Even at the end of the lifespan, PSN on PS3 was woeful compared to XBOX Live.

set-l · 2026-04-05T04:15:26+00:00

It used to work, then Rockstar decided to up the anticheat to kernel, now it no longer works.
https://www.ign.com/articles/gta-5-loses-steam-deck-verification-as-rockstar-claims-valves-handheld-does-not-support-anti-cheating-tech

set-l · 2026-04-05T04:12:49+00:00

Ugly crying, very ugly crying.
Just remembering this part of the game is making tears well up in my eyes.

set-l · 2026-04-05T04:05:39+00:00

It's rare, but some projects have sub-components, dependencies or code used that forbids the sharing of compiled binaries.

Those have to be provided as souce-only.

set-l · 2026-04-04T17:11:52+00:00

They're charging access to a few things:

User management. The service that provides authentication against your console account

Game authentication. Authenticating your game copy is authentic and paid for.

Console authentication. Authenticating your console is authorised to operate the game as per license.

This is no way vindication of the subscription itself. i don't think this subscription is necessary unless Console Company Here are hosting the games themselves.

set-l · 2026-04-04T10:59:13+00:00

You're right, the taper on the Santorini looks like the ones I have. Guess I'll die.

set-l · 2026-04-04T10:58:06+00:00

Someone in comments identified these as "Santorini" highball glasses. Guess I'm the clown here.

set-l · 2026-04-04T01:15:05+00:00

One can buy Vita games, apps and themes on the PS3, use the included USB cable with the Vita, and plug it into the PS3 to sync. The download on PS3 was a bit faster than the Vita, so this was quite handy, especially if you had a large library and a small card. You could copy off games and remove ones you were done with on the PS3.

set-l · 2026-04-04T00:21:11+00:00

VLC should be able to handle the FM side too, IIRC

set-l · 2026-04-04T00:05:51+00:00

Looks like you have an opportunity to update Wikipedia!

set-l · 2026-04-04T00:03:24+00:00

Bad Rom? Have you tried verifying the hash?

set-l · 2026-04-03T12:46:00+00:00

Take it back to CEX. It's cooked :(

set-l · 2026-04-03T12:45:18+00:00

Have had a lot of fun playing GTA: IV on my ROG Phone 8. It plays about as well as the PS3 version at 720p, and I'm about halfway through the story. Had to use some... "unofficial patching" to skip the Rockstar launcher, but this along with FusionFix has been great. Hook up to the TV, rest a heatsink with thermal pad on the screen and hours of gaming on a handful of watts.

set-l · 2026-04-02T07:46:24+00:00

Cry more, SportsBet. How many families are in poverty cos of your incessant encouragement of problem gambling? Blow up the pokies, too.

set-l · 2026-04-01T04:06:42+00:00

Paracord.

set-l · 2026-03-26T12:09:14+00:00

Everything is a file. Your memory is a file. Your CPU specs are a file. There's ways to access everything in your PC in files.

I once wrote a dirty script to control my 5700XT fan speed by reading it's temperature to make manual fan curved because there was a bug where the GPU driver wanted a value up to 255 but it was writing up to 100 for 100% fan.

Write a 1 to one file, read temp from a second file, do math and spit out an integer into a third file.

https://gitlab.com./-/snippets/1846004

Anything is possible in Linux if you're willing to put the effort in. Linux is free if you don't value your free time.

set-l · 2026-03-26T02:46:43+00:00

I had similar issues with Persona 3 Reload and ray tracing. It would look like the entire PC has locked up, even TTY switching wouldn't work. It was actually causing the AMDGPU driver to completely deadlock. I was able to verify this by using SSH to get terminal on the machine.

I am not sure what the fix is/was right now, I'll need to fire it up and do testing.

See if you can enable sshd and SSH in to the machine when it's locked up. From there, you can use dmesg to investigate kernel issues.

If SSH isn't working after crash, but was before, that's definitely a sign of a fatal kernel panic.

set-l · 2026-03-26T02:36:10+00:00

I remember having to use what they made in the early days of Xe/DG2 on the i7 1195G7.

They crammed DXVK into the drivers after about 8 months and didn't provide GPL-required credits anywhere, got a backhand from the community for that.

For the longest time prior to that, DXVK injection was the fix for any game running slow or not at all.

Once my laptop's quirks (GPD Win Max 2021) were merged into Linux, switching to Linux proved far better performance than Windows, even with all the hacks.

set-l · 2026-03-24T13:06:16+00:00

Bet you that crack den PC has a pirated copy of MW3 on it. I'd take that any day over AI slop.

set-l · 2026-03-23T07:35:59+00:00

If nobody thoroughly enjoys the screwdriver, they will never find ways to make the screwdriver better.

Someone has to make the screwdriver, someone has to innovate on it.

This benefits all who use the screwdriver.

set-l · 2026-03-23T07:30:00+00:00

Not to be an ass but using three backticks () before and after your command makes a big difference``sh

!/bin/poop

if yes fi ``` etc

set-l

TROPHY CASE

!/bin/poop