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Latest Comments by Xpander
AMDGPU driver for Linux 6.7 enforces lower power limits from vBIOS
6 March 2024 at 8:35 am UTC Likes: 1

Shouldn't the powerlimit range come from VBIOS anyway.. depending on the GPU.
136W minimum for a 6600XT surely sounds a bit too high for a Minimum. On nvidia at least usually the limit ranges are sane. Higher end GPUs have higher minimum thats allowed.

RTX 3080 for example:

 GPU Power Readings
        Power Draw                        : 37.30 W
        Current Power Limit               : 370.00 W
        Requested Power Limit             : 370.00 W
        Default Power Limit               : 370.00 W
        Min Power Limit                   : 100.00 W
        Max Power Limit                   : 370.00 W

NVIDIA disclose new driver security issues - Feb 28
28 February 2024 at 11:53 pm UTC

Quoting: Minux
Spoiler, click me
If you use x11 you shouldn't have faced any issue. The problem is with Wayland. I've been suffering them and there are a lot of people having too, you can check their forums on the Linux section.

https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/c/gpu-graphics/linux/148

Although 535 was still stable for me, some people already had some then. And they messed enough with them to make playing on Wayland impossible. They were really outdoing themselves for a while, I almost got some hope thinking playing on Wayland as an Nvidia user would be possible.

Ahh ok, wayland, yeah, but X11 still works perfectly, so why is there sudden rush with wayland? its not even default on most distros yet.. Give it some time.

NVIDIA disclose new driver security issues - Feb 28
28 February 2024 at 10:05 pm UTC Likes: 1

security issues has been a thing for quite some time for many things. Usually developers get some time to prepare fixes ahead when those issues are discovered and before becoming public. So i dont really see much of a problem with that since all the drivers have been already updated with fixes.

what mess has nvidia made with drivers recently? the drivers have been working flawlessly for me quite some time... i think there where few game regressions with early 535 versions but updated ones fixed those and 545.xx and current 550.xx have been super solid also.

NVIDIA 550.54.14 driver released as stable
24 February 2024 at 8:47 am UTC

Quoting: TheRiddickAll good.

What I would like NVIDIA to be doing is release a update o NVReflex and Frame Generation support, that be neat.

afaik reflex will work once that gets merged:
https://github.com/HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton/pull/1739

The top Steam Deck games for January 2024 have been revealed - Palworld hits 2nd place
3 February 2024 at 7:27 pm UTC Likes: 1

What i have been Playing mostly last month on Linux Desktop.

THE FINALS
FarLight 84
EA Sports WRC
Sunkenland
Warhammer Online
Cyberpunk 2077

THE FINALS freezing on Linux? Here's ways you can fix it
26 January 2024 at 3:05 pm UTC Likes: 2

Yeah, seems thats the reason i haven't had any crashes at all with the game.
Always wondered why some people had so many crashes with this game.

xpander@archlinux ~ $ cat /proc/sys/vm/max_map_count
2147483642
xpander@archlinux ~ $ cat /etc/sysctl.d/80-gamecompatibility.conf
vm.max_map_count = 2147483642

NVIDIA 550.40.07 Beta driver released with fixes for VRR and Wayland
24 January 2024 at 5:46 pm UTC

So far seems to work like all previous drivers (535 and 545) for me. No issues to report.
Im on X11 though so yeah. Cant complain really. Everything works as expected.

NVIDIA reveal Half-Life 2 RTX, plus GeForce RTX 40 SUPER Series GPUs
9 January 2024 at 11:53 am UTC

Portal with RTX and prelude was very well made. Textures were replaced there also. Enjoyed playing through it again.
Half life 2 Looks great from the few shots it shows in the video. Modders are amazing!
Hopefully it will have decent performance, but i dont have high hopes for performance with anything related to RT really at least on native resolutions.

Steam Deck officially hits over 13,000 games Playable and Verified
6 January 2024 at 4:05 pm UTC

Quoting: EikeLook your list up here: https://checkmydeck.ofdgn.com/
I bet most of your "unsupported" games are "Valve is still working on...", which usually means that it works all fine.

This is the site i used yes.. For example EA Sport WRC shows unsupported, but i have been playing it since launch. Clocked 75 hours in it. Sons of the Forest is another one. Works perfectly.
Portal RTX, WRC Generations, WRC 10, Dirt Rally 2.0, RAGE, State of Mind, Mafia, Mafia 3 Definitive Edition, Valley, Project Cars 2, Elder Scroll online just to name few that are marked as unsupported but working without issues on my Linux PC.

But i guess they are somehow unsupported on Steam Deck maybe.

Edit: What i meant that they were tested by valve but marked unsupported i guess due deck incompatibilities?

Steam Deck officially hits over 13,000 games Playable and Verified
6 January 2024 at 12:21 pm UTC

Pretty sure everything i have on my library works on linux. Though i guess there could be few free to play games that have anti-cheat and not working, which i have downloaded.

113 unsupported is way too much though, but its steamdeck verification.

VERIFIED: 165 games (19.86%)
PLAYABLE: 333 games (40.07%)
UNSUPPORTED: 113 games (13.60%)
UNKNOWN: 220 games (26.47%)