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  • 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.

  • Or miscarrying :(

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

  • I am a little disappointed to find out it was just the Mike Tyson fight and not the entire game. Or I was curious to see what ridiculous glitches they needed to use to get to the end in 2 minutes.

  • It’s weird because there is a thumbnail with pictures but no pictures in the actual article

  • Blocking Linux probably didn’t help those numbers

  • The 4 to 1 ratio gets aged out of real quickly. In fact I am not sure we ever got that ratio with our daycare.

  • If only we had 4 years to adjust and prepare

  • 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.

  • Actually on Tumbleweed right now. I've been generally impressed but my suspend broke out of no where and it's the latest in a long line of (mostly) minor things breaking with updates. The upside with how fast the updates are is that usually things are fixed as quickly as they break but suspend has been broken for me for about 3 weeks now.

    I honestly just don't think rolling distros are for me. Or at least, not for my use case of chill out during my downtime and play a game PC.

  • Right now I am pretty frustrated with HDR under Linux. Well frustrated may be the wrong word, but it is the thing right now that gets me to boot into Windows to play games that have HDR.

    I am wondering if I would have more luck using the deck variant for HDR because apparently Valve has this figured out before everyone else.