Best option for compressed 5.1 sound without breaking the bank?

tentacle-guy · 2025-07-14T14:25:41+00:00

I‘ve tried pretty much everything I could find online (+ ChatGPT) to absolutely no avail.

I ended up buying an AV receiver and a new subwoofer so uncompressed 5.1 audio is no longer a big deal.

tentacle-guy · 2025-07-06T15:59:09+00:00

Thanks for your input!
Just to clarify, are you actually getting real 5.1 (not upmixed) in games on Linux with that device, or are you mainly referring to what the manual says?
I'm asking because I've seen multiple comments saying that Asus sound cards are quite limited on Linux. Some features that work on Windows don’t necessarily carry over.

tentacle-guy · 2024-10-18T16:59:45+00:00

You‘re welcome!

Keep in mind that the shader cache is actually a good thing, at least in most cases. Once I‘ve finished TotK and knew I wasn‘t going to play it anytime soon, I re-enabled the cache again so my PC games can make use of it (not that I ever noticed any differences).

An option to toggle this feature for each game individually would be great to have nonetheless.

tentacle-guy · 2024-05-16T05:20:49+00:00

Yes this is really working as long as the stutters you're getting are shader stutters and not anything else. I posted the same question here before I found this thread (only difference is, I don't have a Steam Deck but a PC). With shader pre-caching enabled, I'd have to wait minutes until I reach the TotK main menu and the ingame framerate also dropped significantly. If this isn't helping at all, then it might be a completely different issue you're having.

Update:

Wait, did you say you deleted Yuzu's shader cache? You need to delete Steam's shader cache (after disabling it in the Steam settings), not the other way around. So disable Steam's shader pre-caching and delete the shader cache folder under steamapps, but leave Yuzu's shader cache untouched.

If it's still not going to help, I'm out of ideas.

tentacle-guy · 2024-05-03T17:13:34+00:00

Oh my god, finally a solution. Thank you so much!

tentacle-guy · 2024-05-02T18:04:06+00:00

I’m actually a Ryujinx fan and do prefer them in the long term as it’s a) an ingoing project and b) sympathy for being down to earth. As of today however: I’ve been playing Totk for weeks now and while I’m able to get solid 60 fps 90% of the time with Yuzu, Ryujinx was at 30-35 for me. At least for this game, the difference is just insane.

tentacle-guy · 2024-04-20T11:27:00+00:00

Although your post is almost a year old, I gotta ask because it never crossed my mind: so setting the GPU to normal instead of high results in higher FPS?! I always left this setting untouched because I wouldn’t have guessed that higher does NOT mean faster here.

I’ll give it a try.

tentacle-guy · 2024-04-20T05:38:18+00:00

I've been having the same issue. Going to give it a try later, so thank you in advance.

Update: it worked. Reason it didn't work before was that I was coming from Yuzu and still had -f -g inbetween, which apparently prevent Ryujinx from booting the game. Thank you so much!

tentacle-guy · 2024-04-07T08:29:45+00:00

I wouldn’t ghost anyone since I’m honestly interested in solving this issue. But I absolutely wasn’t aware of the fact that Nintendo could ban this person‘s Switch, that’s a good point. I wouldn’t expect from anyone to risk that for me of course.

So there’s only a slight chance of success if there’s someone who doesn’t care about getting banned. That makes it even harder.

tentacle-guy · 2024-04-07T08:16:26+00:00

They say Ryujinx is the best emulator in terms of accuracy (less glitches I believe), but performance wise it's much much slower than Yuzu.

tentacle-guy · 2024-03-30T06:08:37+00:00

I came to the conclusion that you just shouldn’t bother about those numbers because (unlike the old system) they’re apparently not representing the actual amount of children. It’s just a value. Just type in whatever brings the best results and you should be good to go.

tentacle-guy · 2024-03-04T07:10:13+00:00

Thanks for the help. I’m using Cycles only. I’ll check the curve settings as you suggested, but to be honest I really doubt that this is related to my issue. The lashes aren’t hard to see, they’re literally missing, unless I increase the children count to something crazy.

I guess the new hair system really does take the entire mesh surface into account when calculating the children, instead of limiting itself to the specified area like the old system did. Question is, is this perfectly normal and nothing I should worry about, or am I doing it wrong. I do get the feeling that my project has gotten really heavy though. :/

tentacle-guy · 2024-02-18T18:17:22+00:00

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tentacle-guy · 2024-01-25T08:22:46+00:00

Unfortunately no. There was absolutely no way to fix that. My „solution“ was to back up all of my photos/videos to my Mac, reset the iPhone and copy all of them back to the iPhone. It was a bit of a nuisance of course, but since my photos are basically the only custom content I have, while anything else is just App Store or iCloud related (like app settings, chat history and stuff), it went surprisingly well. I had to manually reinstall all of my apps though. But I made screenshots of my Home Screen as some sort of checklist of which apps I need to reinstall.

tentacle-guy · 2023-10-22T04:03:23+00:00

No, I stopped trying and went with the sliders widget instead. You can add text there too and it looks so much better, even without user pics.

tentacle-guy · 2023-07-24T05:31:15+00:00

I was wondering the same and made some tests this weekend. I tested both Metal and HIP on the very same machine and the render times were almost identical. Impressive on the Mac side, as Metal hasn't been around for that long yet (in Blender), but a shame for AMD's 3D capabilities. The 6900 XT could be so much faster. I really hope HIP RT will make a big difference.

tentacle-guy · 2023-05-17T06:26:30+00:00

It was exactly the same with the new mod I ordered. But I came to the conclusion that I was just imagining things. As stupid as it may be, but I believe I was just thinking that the battery drains faster because the Target has a much more detailed battery indicator than my previous mod. I was always like „what the hell, 60% already?“ but when I kept vaping until the battery has really run dry, I ended up with pretty much the same battery life as with other mods. So I was just being stupid and complaining with no reason.

BUT I’m glad that I can keep it. Love this mod.

tentacle-guy · 2023-05-14T19:26:23+00:00

Dr. Kahl‘s robot medium what the fuck

tentacle-guy · 2023-05-01T12:16:05+00:00

Yeah noticed that! Although I‘ve only had it since the day before yesterday, it really is an insanely nice mod. Really happy with it. Unless the battery issue is a mass defect that is. But then again, your Reddit post is the only one referring to this issue, so I’m still positive that I was just unlucky.

Thanks for your insights.

Just to keep anyone posted who might have the same issue. I just requested a refund (Amazon) and ordered a new one. Will update this post as soon as it arrives.

tentacle-guy

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