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Cake day: September 11th, 2023

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  • When I was gaming on Windows, the DirectX 12 implementation in every game I tried was kinda garbage.

    It usually either would just perform bad in general, or just have really bad input lag.

    The first thing I’d try whenever I had problems was switching the renderer to DirectX 11, and that would often fix things.

    In fairness, Vulkan implementations have been pretty hit-and-miss too. I think developers still just need to get used to the new execution model.

    This also was on Nvidia graphics, which may or may not have had something to do with it.


  • Despite a rocky launch, I ended up playing a fuckton of Battlefield 4.

    And Battlefield 1, while not historically accurate in the slightest, was actually a nice breath of fresh air, and a setting that hasn’t been covered nearly as much in popular media as other 20th century wars (with possibly the exception of Korea). It’s actually one of my favorites.

    Battlefield 5 just felt so… bland by comparison. They tried to change too many systems, and ended up making just a completely milquetoast game. Really disappointing for what should have been a triumphant return to the series’ roots.

    Battlefield 2042 had no soul whatsoever, and some of the worst designed maps in a Battlefield game I’ve ever seen.

    One of the maps that was available in the beta that I played was literally just a giant fucking field with hardly any cover and a hundred-foot wall for the enemy snipers to stand on top of and pick off attackers one by one. I really wish I could have been in the meeting room when they were workshopping that map, because I wanna know exactly what the fuck they were smoking to think that it would be any fun at all to play.

    I’d honestly welcome a return to formula here if it means another game like BF4 or BF1, even if most players don’t consider that “classic” Battlefield.


  • Your opinion is posited as an absolute: “This is useless”

    That’s not even correct. I said “not all that useful” and then “next to useless”. Never “absolutely useless”.

    The whole point of this feature is to provide something built into Steam that works without a whole bunch of fiddling like other recording software. It currently fails at that on Linux because the implementation of it is half-assed. That is my position. End of conversation.


  • I see this as a substitute for Shadowplay, which records your microphone if you enable it, which I previously used on Windows to record gameplay clips, but it doesn’t exist on Linux.

    Steam Game Recording can record your microphone on Windows, but they haven’t bothered to make it work on Linux for whatever reason.

    As currently implemented on Linux, it captures all system audio and cannot be configured to do anything otherwise, so if you’re talking with friends on TeamSpeak, it’ll only capture half of the fucking conversation. Making it next to useless.

    I’m getting really annoyed that people are going out of their way to invalidate my opinion here.









  • As someone who’s built his own PCs for years, I’ve never really bothered with a BIOS update.

    Then again, one of the main reasons to update BIOS is to gain support for new CPUs, but I’ve been using Intel which switches to a new socket or chipset every other generation anyway. I’ve almost always had to buy a new motherboard alongside a new CPU.