Quoting: Purple Library GuySo this is very popular. Can someone explain to me the appeal of a game where you drive trucks around, much the way real people only do when they're being paid and have few options?

Some people do yoga, and I don't get the appeal of that. I do appreciate ETS2 though, and I guess it's kind of like yoga?

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I'm having some troubles with VAAPI-encoding too. Basically, it seems slower than it should be capable of. The highest settings I can run without overwhelming the encoder is 720p, profile=high, level=4.0, bitrate=25000kbps. In Windows the same graphics card will do 4k 60fps no problem.

I suspect that the encoder has a speed setting that isn't exposed in OBS, and it's set to high quality by default. I remember (long time ago) running a transcoding application in Windows which utilized AMD's VCE and it had three speed settings. The differences in frame-rate between each setting was pretty huge. The quality setting at 1080p would result in something like 40-ish fps, medium was maybe ~120fps, while the fastest setting would be between 150-200fps IIRC. That makes the quality setting pretty useless for realtime encoding in an application like OBS. I wish this setting was exposed in OBS too because as it is right now, the VAAPI-option isn't very useful.

Edit: Not sure if relevant, but the following yields ~72-77fps on a 1080p video.
ffmpeg -y -vaapi_device /dev/dri/renderD128 -i file_in.mkv -vf 'format=nv12,hwupload' -c:v h264_vaapi -b:v 25000k file_out.mp4

Edit2: I found a promising parameter in the VAAPI-section of the ffmpeg documentation, '-compression_level', but it doesn't seem to be implemented or working on my hardware. [h264_vaapi @ 0x55cefcc345c0] Quality attribute is not supported: will use default quality level.

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Portal 2 wasn't a one-off then. I wonder what's next? Maybe Counter Strike: Source, which coincidentally I've been going back to playing lately

Edit: Also, not a Valve game per se, but I think Black Mesa would benefit greatly from a DXVK option.

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Any reason to use DXVK's framerate-limiter rather than libstrangle, or does it not matter? Assuming libstrangle works with the application in question that is, which isn't always the case.

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Cool. There's been quite a bit of DLC released since I first played through this awesome game. Seems like a good time to give it a replay!

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+1 for a "download all" button. Also, I'd like to be able to change the priority by dragging and dropping instead of just using the button that brings a download to the top. They could sort of make it like the Steam wishlist where you can drag and drop to prioritize. And why not make the look a bit more coherent while you're at it?

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Quoting: BielFPsI wonder if OBS will perform better/worse compared to a x11 system. Maybe someone who uses both can answer this.

Ultimately the goal is to make it work better than X11 according to the dev who made most of the OBS Wayland code. The work is not finished however, so it might not live up to those expectations just yet.

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Quoting: ShmerlIsn't Pipewire made for this? What's the status of that in OBS?

You can follow OBS Pipewire progress here
https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pull/4287

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Quoting: Guesti would like more options in the mouse settings though in regards to acceleration. the default acceleration profile causes my mouse to move way to fast. i would prefer a more "flat" profile. or an option to disable acceleration.

Maybe you know this already, but there's a utility called gnome-tweaks which contains additional settings to those in gnome-control-center, including mouse acceleration. Contrary to gnome-control-center, the gnome-tweaks app contains settings which the casual user is unlikely to touch, and it is therefore usually not installed by default.

gnome tweaks is broken atm on gnome 40. there is a new version, but its a beta version and not in arch yet. not even in the aur or the gnome unstable repo.

nevertheless, i just switched over to gnome 40 from xfce.

There will probably be a new version any day. Some rolling distributions don't put out every GNOME-package at once, but instead piece by piece over a few days which obviously can break things temporarily. Arch is among those distributions.

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Cool! Ultimately we need PipeWire-support though. Personally I have always been able to capture xwayland surfaces but for some reason the frame-rate in the captured footage is terrible. When I switch to GNOME on x.org I can capture smooth 60fps footage.

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