I had a quick play of this - I lost after about 25 minutes - my fortress was overrun by Serpentmen. Anyway, just wanted to say it’s really well written and nicely illustrated, and I enjoyed the gameplay loop. It’s a really interesting game. I’m not sure on my free time/availability for testing, but if it is literally “do a playthrough and let me know if anything was broken”, I could fit that in somewhere :)
Flatpak apps don’t have access to your system packages, so you need to install mangohud as flatpak. Once it’s installed it’s available to Steam flatpak and can be enabled like system mangohud in system Steam.
Edit: Switching from system Steam to flatpak Steam is simple and it’s always possible to switch between them. Just make sure to give flatpak Steam access to the existing SteamLibrary through flatseal.
Personally I have my SteamLibrary at ~/Games/SteamLibrary and give flatpak Lutris/Steam access to ~/Games.
Yeah chalk this up to me needing to read that manual.
I took the instructions there and replaced the Steam flatpak with Lutris and it worked - though Mangohud is not reading my existing config even though it has access according to Flatseal.
It’s weird to me that Flatpaks cans interact with other Flatpaks but not system packages. I would assume sandboxing would prevent both of those cases.
It’s an older interface than DP and has “better” support for audio (I.e. all of those proprietary passthrough audio formats that home theater setups support) so it became dominant in TVs. Monitors are still DP first but likely have a HDMI port as well.
That kind of makes sense though. I figure they assume you’ll have one computer hooked up and then a bunch of consumer devices that all use HDMI. And if you need a second computer hooked up you can also use HDMI if needed. Probably makes the most sense to the most people as having more DP in place of HDMI would just mean the average user couldn’t hook up as many devices since (almost?) no consumer devices use DP unfortunately.
That also includes money to upgrade, for example, display equipment in virtually every office conference room, classroom, home theater, etc. It took a long time to shake VGA in those settings and now that that’s largely been dropped in favor of HDMI it’ll be a tall order to chase after the next best thing with no benefit noticeable to 99.9% of people.
I know it’s probably for cost cutting. But the monitor does indeed have a DP input option. Maybe the HDMI is included because it has inbuilt speakers and as far as I know those aren’t usable thrpugh DP and I don’t know if it has a separate audio input.
In my experience, its cause monitors are already over priced, and adding a display port to it seems to add at least another 100 on top of that.
Which is why I prefer HDMI. Less cable headache too, since I only have to keep one type of cable in stock and so i can easily switch for testing/diagnostics/layout change purposes.
I didnt say they did, I said they seem to, since in my experience every monitor that had similar spec, but had a display port, was about 100 dollars on top of whatever the hdmi only one had.
looks like after an update (?), the rockstar games launcher doesn’t open automatically / in time anymore when you launch GTA. as a small hack, you can launch the launcher (ugh) in the background, wait a bit, and then run the game. This seems to also affect other games in the rockstar launcher, such as red dead redemption (which I don’t play myself)
copying their message here for reference:
I’m don’t play the game so I’m not sure if this is fully working, but I got inside the game in the story mode.
This is based on the solution that works on windows.
After installing the game, run it once so it installs the rockstart launcher, log in
Close the Rockstar launcher
In the game install folder, create a file called fix.bat with this content (the file has to be in the same folder as PlayGTAV.exe):
Thank You very much! When You play, please let me know about Your feelings. And I haven't heard about Pirate Software before, but I guess it is it: https://www.youtube.com/@PirateSoftware/videos ? Thanks for recommending.
They don’t need to RE it; they have access to the full spec and everything for their Windows drivers anyways. They’d open themselves up for litigation if they implemented this behind the forum’s back though and that’s something AMD (understandably) simply won’t do.
No, they can’t. AMD is a member of the HDMI forum, which means they’re contractually obligated to follow the forum’s rules. In exchange, they get voting rights on decisions like this one, the right to propose changes to the HDMI standards, technical details that are protected by NDAs, etc. They wouldn’t throw that all away and open themselves up to a lawsuit just for their OSS drivers.
Is there a specific contractual obligation stating that they can’t hire teams whom have no access to NDA protected specs to RE HDMI products through the usual legal means? If not, then they should be well within their legal rights, tho it’d be worth consulting a lawyer first. Now, would it damage their relationship with the HDMI people? maybe, likely.
Their contacts are most likely protected by NDAs, but they’re also written by lawyers who know how to close loopholes. There’s no way a SIG like the HDMI forum would allow members to release compatible products without following the rules.
Even if it isn’t covered by the contract, the other members could hold a vote to remove AMD from the forum.
I don’t think that’s ever going to be in the plan, because the issue with Nouveau was the older cards, or more specifically, that the code was based on older architecture.
NVK was able to utilize newer code from the newer RTX cards to get a more performant base to build upon (or at least, that’s my understanding). Even if they wanted to, I don’t think they can actually go back.
The issue actually is them being unable to control the older cards power state due to Nvidia being dicks (as always). That’s the only thing stopping them because it’s a shitload of work to reverse engineer Nvidia’s fuckery (Nvidia REALLY put a lot of effort into it to make it very hard to actually do)
Hopefully AMD start doing what Intel does and including a DP -> HDMI 2.1 converter in the card itself. There are already third party adapters that work reasonably well with existing AMD GPUs, especially on Linux. If they had their own implementation they could iron out the quirks and driver issues and get something that should be equivalent to real HDMI 2.1.
The default system monitor application that comes with KDE can do this. You will need to click the “edit page” button in the top right, and create a custom layout that shows all the sensors you want. Here is mine:
They are, though the sensors are hardware specific. So while I could export and send you this particular page, it likely won’t show any temps and fan rpms, as the associated hardware wouldn’t be there.
A lot of stuff does work though, like the application list and network graphs, so I could export it for you tomorrow if you like.
Or I could just explain more about how to configure it, it’s really not that complicated. For a display item, you basically just need to pick a display mode (line graph is good for temps) and then add what sensors you want displayed in it. Everything else is just visual tweaks you don’t have to touch.
KDE’s system monitor is absolutely great, I kinda missed it when switching to GNOME because their default system monitor is very lackluster. I’m now using Mission Center instead tho, which is great! It’s basically an almost 1:1 copy of the Windows Task Manager but I think that’s a good thing, Task Manager is one of the few things about Windows that are actually really good IMO.
That’s a cool program thanks for the recommendation. However, it’s disappointing they don’t have CPU temps on it. Actually there are CPU temps, just missed it the first time I was looking at the program.
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