xdaniel

Hey there~

📜 Hobby programmer, ROM hacker, retro computers & consoles, anime & manga fan, sometimes NSFW?

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rdbaaa
@rdbaaa

Hello! LowPolyTown is a new side project of mine! A constant stream of A-Train 5 gameplay with sim game music. It's a realtime stream of an emulator, and because the game's 3D mode was so customizable, I made it so that you can move the camera with chat commands. In other words, it's Lofi Girl meets Twitch Plays, minus the point.

For now all I ask is that if you like the idea, sub/follow! I've loved the look of this game for a long time, and I think this is an easy way to communicate that. More on why I did this



atomicthumbs
@atomicthumbs

retro computer enthusiasts: NetBurst was the worst CPU architecture EVER. It got INCOMPREHENSIBLY HOT and consumed UNHEARD OF AMOUNTS OF POWER

intel, today:


sirocyl
@sirocyl

the raw current of a welder's torch; the thermal power, of over a hundred hot incandescent light bulbs, of a dozen tungsten arcs. all firing into an area of silicon the size of half a postage stamp square. all in order to draw pictures with absolutely maddening amounts of procedural, brute-force math



xdaniel
@xdaniel

This is supposed to be Steam's Big Picture mode. Running it with GPU-accelerated rendering enabled causes the above glitched main menu, but running it with acceleration disabled makes Big Picture mode extremely laggy.

Who do I blame, Nvidia or Valve? Sigh.

Anyway, specs and stuffs...

  • Latest EndeavourOS, Arch Linux-based, kernel 6.8.7-arch1-2 (64-bit)
  • Using Wayland, w/ KDE Plasma 6.0.4 as desktop environment
  • OS freshly installed hours ago, so should be up-to-date
  • Intel Core i5-6500, iGPU enabled in BIOS/UEFI but not used
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 GPU, using proprietary driver 550.76

Blame aside, any ideas on how to get accelerated rendering working on the GTX 1050 with the proprietary driver? Or is there a way to try using the integrated GPU just for the Steam client itself — in case it is an Nvidia issue —, but still run games on the GTX 1050? I am aware of Nvidia Optimus, but don't know if that can be used on desktop systems, nor how to set it up.

Note that, while I'm not a complete Linux newbie, I don't daily drive it and have mostly just used for basic, GUI-less home server setups.


xdaniel
@xdaniel

Because, apparently, AMD GPUs are less problematic on Linux than Nvidia ones, I went and ordered a cheap, used Radeon RX 460 to use instead of the GTX 1050.

Could've used Windows instead, could've tried messing around with settings more, etc., etc., but this seemed like it'll probably be the least headache-inducing option...?

(famous last words™?)