Bummer - sucks to lose a good server

What happened? Did the instance maintainer just get sick of running it?

For posterity’s sake here is what I ended doing.

• I reinstalled Bazzite and switched over to KDE variant
• Flicker seems a lot better then Gnome under KDE, especially at the desktop level
• In the games I have tested, flicker still feels more prominent then Windows 11 - mostly noticeable in HDR games with fluctuating framerates and in menus (even if that menu has stable frame rate)
• Flicker patterns are different under KDE then Gnome, some games has less flicker, some more, overall an improvement

HDR is working well under KDE, the Wayland mode in GE Proton introduces a big performance hit in some games unfortunately.

Yeah I was exploring KDE on a Fedora live disc and I guessed that is what automatic vrr was doing. Turning it to always introduced more flicker but still seemed less then gnome.

It’s way worse if I run games under the experimental Wayland mode that you enable with GE.

What distro are you using? I am on Bazzite

https://www.reddit.com/r/XboxSeriesX/comments/t3fn6l/can_someone_explain_vrr_like_im_5_what_it_does/

Ok, so let’s say your tv is a typical 60hz TV, that means it updates 60 times a second, regardless of the games frame rate. A 60fps game will be in perfect sync with your TV, as will 30fps because each frame will just be displayed twice. When your game is running at a frame rate in between it’s not in sync with the display any more and you end up with screen tearing, as the image being sent to the TV changes part way through the image being displayed.

VRR stands for Variable a refresh Rate. It basically means the displays refresh rate can vary to match the source of the image, so that it always stays in sync.

This a pretty good explanation of what VRR is doing. Basically makes it so you can drop frames and it still feels smooth.

Kind of a bummer to hear - I was hoping KDE’s VRR implementation might avoid the issue. It may be a Wayland problem so that would be unavoidable.

Edit: did some testing with a live image tonight - at least on my machine KDE seems much better when it comes to flicker

I had the name wrong initially - I just edited it to correct it, but under Windows “dynamic refresh rate” - is distinct then VRR. Settings reads “To help save power, Windows adjusts the refresh rate up the selected rate above”. See https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/29/22555295/microsoft-windows-11-dynamic-refresh-rate-laptops.

I can turn it off and still have VRR enabled.

Trust me when I say the amount of OLED flicker is much much higher in Gnome then under Windows for the exact same games. Like give you eye strain and a headache super fast. I still see a little flicker under Windows but it’s not comparable.

Oh man that looks bad. Hopefully that’s like something going wrong in the beta version because I can’t see them shipping something that looks like that

What was up with Mafia 3?

Huh, that is really cool. Also that can’t be cheap to do.

The UI also felt like the best extraction shooter UI I’ve ever encountered.

As another big Hunt fan this made me laugh. The bar is pretty low over in Hunt land unfortunately.

TIL I had no idea you could untick compatibility and some games would auto-run with a Valve selected Proton version

Performance art in 2024

Out of the loop, what happened to kbin?

People treat it like a mistake but not be able to use the mouse while it’s plugged in is the entire point of the design. Right or wrong the Apple designers thought a cord drag was a bad experience and designed to prevent it.

They probably looked at their target audience and realized there was a certain percentage of folks that would just leave the mouse on the cord 24/7 and wanted to prevent that.

The monopoly position helped for sure but I think it’s glossed over that at one point Internet Explorer was simply the best web browser on the market. It’s was only after years of mismanagement by Microsoft that it gained the reputation it has now. But there was a point in the late 90s early 2000s where Netscape was a super buggy mess and Internet Explorer was the best browser on the market.

That was true for Chrome as well, when that first hit the market it was a light and amazing browser. There were a lot of technology savvy early adopters for Chrome.

I wonder if arm Linux laptops will become more of a thing.

I know Apple silicon has a lot more going on then just arm, but a Linux based device with that kind of efficiency to power ratio would be cool.

He has done some other good videos but yeah this is a pretty shit take that amounts to “stop having fun”.

All the analogue systems have official unofficial jailbreaks. I’ve never used cartridges on any of them.