I’ll preface this with the fact that I don’t know the game, but looking at the system requirements on steam, both of those systems are below minimum spec.

Also, it would probably help if the macbook actually was on fedora 41, it reads 40 in the screenshot - so maybe try upgrading that one, since the game runs on the system with actual fedora 41?

eyyyy, World Class Leaderboard, one of the first games I ever had on PC. Got fond memories of that - but rose tinted glasses didn’t survive revisit in dosbox x)

This game looks neat tho. Might pick it up!

most people and/or critics hate witcher 3? o_O

np, it happens. :)

Elex

I truly need to give this game another go, can’t really say why I stopped playing it. But it is EuroJank all the way.

Funny tho, I noticed most of the character animations I saw in Elex are straight up the exact same they were in Gothic 3, possibly from even earlier games’ of theirs. Nothing wrong with reusing assets, but damn they’ve gotten some mileage out of them :D

I did state that I can’t remember - entirely possible we did, but it has been quite a while since we played it.

Aliens: Colonial Marines

IMO, the game is better than it’s reputation - at least in it’s current state. After the .ini tweak to fix the alien ai-typo makes it a bit better - afaik, I can’t remember if my group played it with the fix or not, we’ve played the campaign at least 3 times now.

The game’s not a masterpiece by any means, though. It is pretty enjoyable action game in COOP and fairly high difficulty. Sure, arguments could be made that any game is, but game still more fun than not. Now, would I play the game on my own, as single player? Eeeeeeeh, dunno… But if my gaming group asks to play some ACM, I’m down.

Some random points about the game summarized:

• Pulserifle goes BRRT, alien goes splat.
• Could do with less of the human/android enemies though, or at least the parts with androids felt like they dragged on for considerable time.
• Quite a bit of collectible guns, they’re mostly sidegrades but they are different enough, imo.
• runs on a toaster
• goes for pennies on Steam sales, so gaming group funny hours per unit of currency -ratio is pretty good, imo.

awww. I somehow thought it was coming in 6.13 (which is in testing -repos for arch atm), oh well.

Either way, seems like good stuff for gaming and - hopefully - productivity apps.

Is it just one guy’s project though? that kind of thing worries me in an xkcd #2347 kind of way.

honestly I don’t know. That’s a fair point, though I don’t really consider proton-ge to be mission critical by any means.

Oh, but you might finally play some of those untouched games in your library, so there’s that.

(X) to doubt.

When there’s a call for action, Avengers assemble, do nerds compile?

proton ge is actively maintained: https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom - same guy that maintains nobara linux.

it’s essentially proton experimental with extra patches and more up to date dxvk etc etc. While it is the bleeding edge of proton experimental, and all the other components, it’s pretty stable in my experience. But as always: experimenting with different proton versions is key, what works - works.

As cool as this is, to me this just screams security issues. If scripting in PDF can run doom, it can be (and is) used for nefarious purposes. Wasn’t eg. LTT’s channel compromized because of a PDF with some nasty stuff in it?

Been waiting this feature to drop for ages, the average improvement seems to be pretty bonkers.

Hoping this would fix some of the issues I’m having with games stuttering a bit, most notably Darktide.

since proton experimental works better (as in, works, but bad performance), are you on a distro which has proton-ge-custom available? Eg. on arch (and adjacent) https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/proton-ge-custom-bin / https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom is pretty baller. No idea if other distros have it packaged.

The github page does have the compiled version available under releases, but as for what you’d need to do to get it to steam requires some manual work, afaik. I’ve only used the packaged version.

The TLDR about proton-ge-custom is that it incorporates a lot of patches, newer dxvk, etc, bells and whistles and all that. Might work better than proton experimental, might not. Worth a try?

same, same. Had some cheap laughs with it around the time of release - got horribly drunk, peed out of the van’s window - at obscene speeds on dirt road, died several times… good times.

But actually building the car? Yea nah, that’s some arcane arts to me, don’t know much about cars beyond the surface level.

probably asking the obvious, but you did the … whatever mkinitcpio does, after changing the module’s config? Totally derped with that myself and wondered why my new settings didn’t take x)

try disabling the gsp, helped a lot with weird stutters on my system (kde/plasma, wayland, 3090, 565 driver).

IIRC it was just setting NVreg_EnableGpuFirmware=0 to nvidia module

edit: only works for the regular nvidia driver, not for nvidia-open

Yea, using wayland. 2 displays too, 120 and 60 Hz.

hopefully this ends up helping the desktop experience as well. I’ve been disabling the GSP for the nvidia driver because it seems to introduce weird stutter to my desktop (kde/plasma). And switching to nvidia-open just has the stutter all the time (because can’t disable the GSP).

On that note, what is the gsp even for?