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Yeah, I've stayed away from the off the shelf NAS systems as I have friends who have run into various such issues with them. I used to have an HP N40L years back but I've mostly used random cobbled together systems put together myself since then. However they can have their own issues and can be a lot more fiddly to work with. I've been very happy with this T430 and a load of 14TB drives, and I'm considering getting another with more bays.

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@supay you think a storage server like that would be better/cheaper than an off the shelf NAS device? (pretty much the same thing at the end of the day I guess)

Don't do an off-the-shelf NAS... I learned the hard way what a silly idea that was, because they all use proprietary software on the NAS (I had a NETGEAR Stora in which one drive failed, now I have it sitting in the wardrobe until I can work out how to extract the data, because it's no longer supported).

Make sure you use something completely Open Source, from start-to-finish (whether you buy something like FreeNAS or make your own).

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@jarmer Some of the NAS devices are decent, and they are small and quiet. Probably also more power efficient, you do need to factor that in as well. However they can be more expensive up front and limiting on size and expansion later

I'm running a Dell Poweredge T430 (got it cheap) and it's been solid. Updated the firmware to latest really easily, it has a remote management idrac tool, can take up to 1TB RAM, has two NICs, has two power supplies, and has two CPU sockets. Here in the UK you can pickup the 3.5GHz 14 core/28 thread Xeons for it at £30 each.

I'm using it in the 8x bay setup with a load of disks in a Snapraid array. But it has hardware RAID if you want that. And a bunch of spare internal mini-SAS connectors that you can convert to 4xSATA each and mount drives internally as well. I'm running the OS on a RAID1 mirror that way, with two SSDs mounted inside. It's surprisingly quiet, has been temporarily sitting in our lounge and not disturbing us. Lots of easy expandibility options.

Not sure what prices are where you are but you can get them in basic setups for only a couple of hundred £ in the UK, including RAM and some drives. There is also a 16x bay option for 2.5" format disks if preferred. And they do rack versions as well. I have been very happy with it. The ability to add a lot more RAM and CPU cores cheaply also means it works really well as a hypervisor, so can do more than just provide storage.

[eBay example](https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/236080350655?_trksid=p2332490.c101429.m2460&itmprp=cksum%3A23608035065563d55c32582d4bafa7b848932409f7f7%7Cenc%3AAQAKAAABQKxsCgy5i7ztWhjg%252FVuODCBGFXnymLLtCQPw0Pb%252BAnnUrEh3Uicx%252BzponjKRRstuhNepgyA9zsxxm9WkU4eJhJNc0FnE3sWn9QNPQ9BsfycWHf4xsNkj50TMSN%252FYu8xkfNTCiAJvbQs%252FzyiZpxwPqVBfGTgQ1CoIPPrI1fprhMJskU4tRCVy2cBVctAvaQ4hJyVCAGZspa725QMzVfRDu%252BsFRqC60M4OZIINxxyEDmFFWo7oTKpQ87x5AmViFjY7C0drPl8hEIEGYTXzCZPEUVQ6e31yJCbqyjpIPD1%252FFg9MStG82tr9GdHY0nb3QYqqIANRnqcTwqUQtkcqPwocDpInZJpjY4q1sAK6AfKaEQvxFdz1RFAe4MaAqb7hY9Qk%252FwRUFS8EL4EzfEfLaJm2PSluDLda3NeyBVKaqxmyaYx0%7Campid%3APL_CLK%7Cclp%3A2332490)

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So - looking into it a little deeper, that particular bug fix looks to be this ticket: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/14087 and that sounds like a GTK / Gnome + Vulkan issue that they're working around.

The bug I'm looking for, however, is here: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/1856 and, good news, but it sounds like that did get a fix recently: https://lore.kernel.org/amd-gfx/[email protected]/ ... in the kernel. That patch shows up in [the changelog for kernel 6.17.8](https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/ChangeLog-6.17.8) (search "drm/amd/display: Fix incorrect return of vblank enable on unconfigured crtc"), so either way I have something to test, even if it turned out to be unrelated to the Mesa update here.

Carry on!

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Wonder if Photoshop on Wine is fixed, it doesn't draw canvas if vkd3d is installed.

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so now we can finally play RDR2 in DX12 mode - amazing!

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Wonder if some of the Proton forks like GE will include the FSR4 flags for other GPUs, or is this not how this works ?

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Not that surprising. I'm still baffled how many people were crying for a sequel to fix all the issues of the first part (outdated graphics, horrible memory management, wonky mods, etc.). Whenever I saw that I thought that those people a) have no idea about development and b) underestimate the Paradox's greed. It's hard to develop a worthy sequel considering all the official content (bazillion DLCs) and huge number of mods that are considered essential. The first game is still a niche game, so obviously the sequel would have to be a bit more mainstream – which leads to mechanics like the automatic traffic fixing. Even with unlimited time and money it is very hard to start from scratch and have something comparable at release.

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amdgpu: ring gfx_0.0.0 timeout, in vr when opening apps

Oh my gosh, is this the bug where the first time launching SteamVR with a newer AMD GPU causes a freeze and GPU reset? I thought that was a firmware / DisplayCore thing, and at least after that first crash & reset, it would work fine for subsequent launches that session.

Looks like I have something to test, later.

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Awesome idea to include the full release notes on demand! 😎

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The concept reminds me of Tactical Breach Wizards, which is definitely in my (completely imaginary and ever-changing) Top Ten Games Of All Time list. It allows you to do mad experimentation that you wouldn't normally do in games, especially mid-run.

Might have to give this a go, although the real-time nature of it puts me off a little.

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@supay you think a storage server like that would be better/cheaper than an off the shelf NAS device? (pretty much the same thing at the end of the day I guess)

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It depends on where you want to house the storage unit. You can pick up secondhand either rack or tower storage servers for quite a decent price. Stuff that full of drives and shove in a corner somewhere, network it and just use it for storage. Advantage with a lot of them is that they also often come with multiple NICs so you can aggregate them as desired if needed, and CPUs for them are usually pretty cheap.

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🍄🪵

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Yep, anv still needs it. However no llvm for radv (and radeonsi too? Didn't know that) does make things easier.

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I was just thinking: in 2 yrs my htpc will be 7 yrs old, so starting to show a little bit of age. I will probably look at replacing it around then. I have roughly 60tb of local storage that I use constantly (and I mean almost constantly with friends and family streaming stuff from my plex to them) and will probably want to upgrade that storage to around 100tb.

Right now my htpc is just a regular old gigantor pc case stuffed full of wd red spinning drives due to cost and a mid range gpu so my buddy and I can play couch games. That works fine with the current setup, but it really does require a humungo monstrous and loud case to house all the components.

What would a replacement look like that for this that could utilize the steam machine? I'd need some form of 100tb external enclosure? Locally connected via ... something? Or just networked as a nas? Would it suffer performance wise that way? I should research all this.

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welp, that's the end of the cities skylines franchise forever. Sadness. CS1 was so damn good. I played with a friend at his house, and it felt like we were back in 1995 with a crt and playing simcity releasing tornadoes everywhere LOL

I never did play cs2 because the launch was so miserable, I was waiting on the game to become in a more enjoyable less horrible state, and then just eventually gave up and stopped paying any attention. No idea what state the game is in now, but I guess by this news: still horrible?

Sad to see stuff like this happen.

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Well, it's only for AMD (radv / radeonsi + aco). I'd imagine llvm might be needed for other GPU drivers.

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So Colossal Order mismanaged Cities Skylines 2 so poorly they've been fired instead of shut down and our now self-employed. Got it. Will be surprised if they last very long. I feel like they've lost the trust of too many people to be successful.

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I don't doubt Colossal Order screwed up here, but I also have the feeling Paradox could have actually helped instead of releasing a broken, unfinished game and then letting it fester for 2 years before "parting ways" with the devs. Whether that was stepping in earlier in development to steer the project, growing the team or providing dev support, or doing whatever the issues called for when it wasn't too late.

I'm sure the new devs will look upon the code in horror and just pump out assets until there is nothing left to milk or until the game can no longer take more. Not their fault, naturally.

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Argentina amazing place... cheers from Argentina!

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Wouldn't it be better news the other way round? I.e. the game remaining with the original devs but free from Paradox?

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Yeah, moving games to a new developer always turns out great. That's how we got the fantastic, Kerbal Space Program 2! Right?

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Not really all that surprising something like this would happen after the mess that is Cities Skylines 2. Hopefully the new team can bring it into a better state and Colossal Order does better with their next project.

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@1xok I assure you they won't let you run on "any shady Windows machine".
I tend to aggressively debloat Windows to keep it running on ancient hardware(part of my job) and gaming ability is one of the first things of consumer value you lose(full telemetry, ads and bloat are the first victims, but those you don't actually want).
Also many anti-cheat systems nowadays require TPM2.0 and although essentially all hardware, since 2008 supports it, activating it in BIOS is often required. Valorant even excludes itself from systems with old keyboards.

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I had a lot of fun modding and making levels and mission expansions for this back in the day.
I remember a couple of developers at Lucas Arts taking time out of their day to answer questions via email regarding video codecs, coding, etc.

That was a different time

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this is a fantastic shooter, one of the all time greats to this day. highly recommend picking it up if you haven't played it before!

hopefully the videos will work without too much fuss in proton :)

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Added some notes for Debian.

Our wiki is bad.

Installing nvidia-drivers on Debian is basically
> apt install nvidia-driver

I made I video talking way too long for the easy task of installing Steam plus Nvidia drivers on a virgin Debian:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS6mXW7KPoU

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Strange. If it's an official stable version, odd that it's not listed as an available option on the Compatibility tab.

It's there for me. May require it to be installed, and to restart Steam so it's all properly picked up.

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Added some notes for Debian.

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