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How would I use a DS4 (wired) on Linux to play old games on RetroArch?
  • Those are windows not W*ndows

  • How would I use a DS4 (wired) on Linux to play old games on RetroArch?
  • Oh, no I haven't tried pushing the PS button, thanks for the tip! I'll try it

  • How would I use a DS4 (wired) on Linux to play old games on RetroArch?
  • Thanks. I did try just PnP but it wouldn't work. Could it be because Steam was running? I'll have to try again after closing Steam

  • How would I use a DS4 (wired) on Linux to play old games on RetroArch?

    On W\*ndows I used DS4Wind\*ws, and I have no issues with Steam, but how can I use it to play with RetoArch and Lutris?

    Is DS4DRV the way?

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    Is there anything specific to do to make Mod Organizer work properly via Lutris?
  • That's a long guide! Thanks for now, I'll check it out as soon as I can!

  • Is there anything specific to do to make Mod Organizer work properly via Lutris?

    I'm using the latest WineGE (8.26, I think) to launch MO 2.4 but some parts don't work properly, namely activating/deactivating mods (when I click on the checkbox, MO just freezes), launching the game (when I launch the game MO doesn't do anything, only when I close MO it says "something VFS" and the game starts) and actually closing it (when I do, Lutris still says that it is running, and I have to click on "Stop" in Lutris to actually make it stop).

    Am I missing aomething?

    I'm on PoP!_OS. Thanks!

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    Can anyone help decide what to upgrade?
  • No, yeah, I get that, I was asking about that "100% CPU usage and 70% GPU usage and if I turn details up I get a slideshow". Is this at 1440p or are you playing at 1080p?

    Edit: actually, I watched some benchmarks and the RX580 should deliver some solid FPS at 1440p so the CPU is the actual bottleneck here. Go first option and that will give you a very big framerate boost

  • Can anyone help decide what to upgrade?
  • Your monitor is 1440p, are you playing at that resolution?

  • What do you feel is your ideal amount of storage for a phone?
  • Currently using 12GB for system and 9GB for apps, then I have 30GB for music + documents + backups (that I mirror on PC) since I never stream anything, so 64GB would be a bit too tight for me haha

  • What do you feel is your ideal amount of storage for a phone?
  • I keep the bare minimum on my phone (something to read, music) and use very few apps, so 64GB could be enough for me, but I have other requirements for my phone and those often collide with storage so I never find anything with less than 128GB.

    I keep backups on my PC, and that's where I funnel my funds for storage lol

  • Steam Survey for September 2024 - Linux 1.87%
  • Got it once in the one year I've been on Linux

  • Printing on Linux
  • Teach me your ways. I don't have a very new model, I think it's a 4130e or something. Do you use CUPS?

  • Printing on Linux
  • My issue lies elsewhere, it takes me that long to have the printer recognized by the OS, then by CUPS browser, then I send the printing job and... it just stalls, never prints. I then cycle the USB ports and start all over again until it miraculously prints

  • Printing on Linux
  • I have a HP printer and printing is never a smooth process. No idea why, but it takes me 5/10 minutes each time

  • What are these? Where do I use them?
  • atlas skill point and Kirac mission. for the former, open the atlas passive for the latter talk to kirac

  • Best strategy to farm uniques that don't have a divination card?
  • Ended up moving to Trade league, I was level 87 farming T1-3s with absolutely no luck, I was around 100h spent in maps. Since I dropped two items that would total 6 divines and that were no use to my build, I gave up farming, migrated, and sold both lol

  • Best strategy to farm uniques that don't have a divination card?
  • I see, thanks. It doesn't have that line so I'll go with required level instead, which is 60, meaning it can drop in any map... which is good since I'm trying to farm a T4 map for one divination card... and that's also going pretty badly as I only got one lol

    I'm not gonna make it

  • Best strategy to farm uniques that don't have a divination card?
  • I see, thank you, appreciate the help!

  • Best strategy to farm uniques that don't have a divination card?
  • I'm already wearing IIR items, up to 90% now, but I had forgotten about Item Rarity Support, I guess I can add it to my main skill! Thanks!

    Yeah, getting the bases is not an issue, they do drop kind of regularly and I've been chancing them all.

    Where do I see the unique's minimum level? Is it the required level to use it? If it is, then I'm good even in T1 maps lol

    I will keep trying chancing as well, you never know

  • Best strategy to farm uniques that don't have a divination card?
  • Thanks! Not a fan of Heist so I'll keep focusing on Expedition and add Ritual. I'll also craft a Gold flask, even though I'm alreadly at around 90%IIR on my equip. Is the Atlas passive that converts map IIQ to 300% IIR worth taking?

  • Best strategy to farm uniques that don't have a divination card?

    I'm playing SSF btw

    I need a stupid T4 unique that I haven't managed to drop (I did drop the ONLY OTHER UNIQUE WITH THE SAME BASE THANK YOU GGG -well at least this means that I can guarantee the one I need if I get an Ancient orb, right?- edit: no, Ancient Orb keeps class and ignores base, so I can vendor the one I dropped OK) or chance.

    I missed a few years of PoE, so reading around it seems like trying Gwennen gambling is (or was) a good way to farm T1-T0, so I guess it should work for lower tiers as well? But is there a better way that you can suggest?

    I'm at my wits' end, since I'm level 87 and I haven't managed to get it yet, absolutely my fault I know, but if I can't get it "soon" I will probably migrate to Trade league and buy it for 3c lol

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    For those of you on Linux + Steam, how to make multithreading work?

    I have a very old CPU and without multithreading I get abysmal FPS in certain encounters like Breach (which I'm farming), couple of times I hit 1 FPS, and average like 10 FPS, which often kills me.

    Multithreading + Vulkan crashes the game with an engine error that apparently has no fix; DX12/11 crash the game as soon as I pick either. I think I'm running PoE with the latest ProtonGE. Any way to make it work? I don't really care about graphics at this point, if I can get 30+ stable FPS in Breaches I'm happy lol

    edit:

    • nVidia GPU and latest stable GPU drivers
    • updated PoP! OS
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    How was your first weekend of the new league?

    This is my first league in years and I decided to try SSF for the first time, I'm building a pretty standard ED/Contagion Occultist that I plan to spec to Low Life if I manage to chance/drop the needed uniques (four unique pieces: Cane of Unravelling, Heretic's Veil, Shavronne's Wrappings and Presence of Chayula), of which only the amulet should be difficult to obtain since I need to drop a Blessing of Chayula, but the Atlas Passive should help with targeting Breach encounters... hopefully!

    Still in acts and unfortunately I'm not dropping any "+1 to gems" equip, so damage is a bit lacking at the moment, but survivability is good and I'm moving forward at a decent pace!

    What about you?

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    Returning player... is there a good guide to SSF?

    I'll be trying SSF for the first time next league and I'm looking for a guide, though not a full-fledged one, but something more akin to small tips and tricks to have an easier time in SSF, how to build your character to accomodate whatever equip you drop or manage to craft, for example.

    I was planning on playing ED Occultist as it can get pretty tanky with decent clear speed even on just rares, but the uniques I'm looking at can get chanced which would be a welcome addition.

    My main doubt is about six-linking... should I just abandon the idea? lol I remember trying several times and it always took a pretty hefty amount of fusings, though I've been always lucky since the one that took the most was just shy of 1000, which is something in trade league, but I bet it will be much more difficult to accrue in SSF

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    datahoarder @lemmy.ml mumei @lemmy.world
    Bought a couple of Exos 7E10 8TB drives, warranty status says "initially sold as part of a larger system, contact seller". It means I can't take advantage of their five years warranty, doesn't it?

    I admit they were way too cheap for what they are (like 15% cheaper than same-size Ironwolf), so I gambled it haha there were no indications that these drives were OEM or similar.

    Back to issue at hand: since I can't personally have the five years warranty on these, only the original purchaser can, and I have no way to know who they are and when they bought them, I should just return them, right? And maybe buy the next ones only from authorized sellers?

    edit: also, now that I think about it, and before I make the same mistake twice, there's no way I can get enterprise drives as a normal consumer, can I, at least not brand new? I expect any enterprise drives I can find will have the same issue, i.e. bought by someone else for servers or similar, and then resold, correct?

    edit 2: actually WD sells enterprise drives on their website, so my previous assumption about it was wrong

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    datahoarder @lemmy.ml mumei @lemmy.world
    NAS build, what's wrong with it?

    I want to setup a NAS (mainly for storing games and videos), that I'd also like to use to watch said videos on a WiFi TV and to install games on a separate PC connected via ethernet. This is the part list I came up with (plus whatever GPU I can get for as cheap as possible, I can probably get a GT 730 GTX750 for free). I also don't need it to be on 24/7, if that's OK. I can place it in the same room as my main PC and hook it up to the same monitor to turn it on and start it up.

    What's wrong with it?

    PCPartPicker Part List

    Type|Item|Price :----|:----|:---- CPU | AMD Ryzen 3 3100 3.6 GHz Quad-Core Processor | $50.00 Motherboard | ASRock A520M-ITX/ac Mini ITX AM4 Motherboard | $99.40 Memory | Kingston Server Premier 8 GB (1 x 8 GB) DDR4-2666 CL19 Memory | $36.00 Memory | Kingston Server Premier 8 GB (1 x 8 GB) DDR4-2666 CL19 Memory | $36.00 Storage | Samsung 860 Evo 250 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive | Purchased For $0.00 Storage | Seagate IronWolf NAS 4 TB 3.5" 5400 RPM Internal Hard Drive | $118.00 Storage | Seagate IronWolf NAS 4 TB 3.5" 5400 RPM Internal Hard Drive | $118.00 Video Card | Gigabyte GV-N750OC-1GI GeForce GTX 750 1 GB Video Card | Purchased For $0.00 Case | Fractal Design Node 304 Mini ITX Tower Case | $117.70 Power Supply | be quiet! Pure Power 11 CM 400 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply | $58.10 | Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts | | Total | $633.20

    PCPP says that R3 3100 isn't compatible with the RAM I picked (although I can't find why); it also says MoBo doesn't support ECC RAM, but on the producer's website it says it does (https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/A520M-ITXac/index.asp#Specification) , so I think PCPP is wrong.

    I tried building around LGA 1150/1151 but motherboard prices are way higher (although CPU prices are lower).

    I don't think I can make it much cheaper than this, since I'm buying everything, but if you can point me in a cheaper direction, feel free to do so!

    Thanks in advance

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    Sanity check request! Part list is basically finalized, requesting a final check for incompatibilities or other issues between parts that I'll keep from my current PC and new parts!

    PCPartPicker Part List

    Type|Item|Price :----|:----|:---- CPU | AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 3.7 GHz 6-Core Processor | $155.50 CPU Cooler | be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4 50.5 CFM CPU Cooler | Purchased For $0.00 Motherboard | MSI B450 TOMAHAWK ATX AM4 Motherboard | Purchased For $0.00 Memory | Kingston HyperX Fury 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-2666 CL16 Memory | Purchased For $0.00 Storage | Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive | Purchased For $0.00 Video Card | Sapphire NITRO+ Radeon RX 7900 XT 20 GB Video Card | $925.00 Case | Fractal Design Meshify C ATX Mid Tower Case | Purchased For $0.00 Power Supply | SeaSonic FOCUS PLUS 850 Gold 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply | $129.00 Monitor | Gigabyte G34WQC 34.0" 3440 x 1440 144 Hz Curved Monitor | $390.00 | Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts | | Total | $1599.50 | Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-10-16 05:42 EDT-0400 |

    Ignore prices: I'm going to buy from different stores and I couldn't bother inputing prices manually actually went and edited prices, also removed unnecessary bits as they were causing some confusion haha

    This part list fits my budget and it's unlikely I will make changes to it, unless there are big issues with compatibility in which case the only change I can make is to go for a 7800XT instead to open up some of the budget to fix those issues.

    Objective is playing AAA games at 3440*1440 100+ fps (ideally 120+), high-ultra with no RT and hopefully no FSR; what I'm keeping from current build are RAM and MoBo (plus case, CPU cooler, fans, and drives, but these shouldn't cause any issues). I listed current drives, fans, etc. just to get a somewhat accurate total power draw to pick the right PSU.

    I know about case GPU length restrictions, that's why there's a slim fan in the list that will be mounted front bottom, to accomodate the long GPU (Fractal's website says maximum GPU length with front fan is 315mm, standard fan is 25mm deep, 7900XT is 320mm and the slim fan is 16mm deep, so I should have 4mm of wiggle room!).

    My main doubt is about huge bottlenecks with either RAM or MoBo. I'm keeping those and I'd rather not change them, because that would mean having to get a 7800XT instead (I know, for example, that a faster and lower CL RAM will give me slightly better FPS, although my current sticks are running at 3466Mhz and CL18, so not too bad, but I'm not looking to min-max to the last minute detail), unless such dated parts would cause huge bottlenecks that would make that GPU a total waste.

    PC will be used exclusively for gaming.

    Thanks for any and all suggestions!

    edit: after a bit more researching, I ditched the AOC U34G3XM and picked this Gigabyte after watching the video by Hardware Unboxed

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5FunMmbztw

    The only bottleneck I see is the PCIe on the motherboard, which is only 3.0 x16, while the 7900XT is 4.0 16x. Not the end of the world, though, so I will pull the trigger in the next few days. Thanks everyone for your help!

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    mumei mumei @lemmy.world
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