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All in an Overlord's day / Gaming

Vacation Day 5: Words This Time

99% of the day was enjoyed outdoors… with a gaming laptop… for science. I tested a few more games under Proton, and 99% of what I tested actually worked! Mortal Kombat 9 ran as if it were native, Hard Reset Redux worked just as well as on my main desktop, and I even tried a freebie! I played Particula for the first time, and it ran perfectly from what I can tell. I might have to run it under Windows though just to compare grapical details. Framerate was excellent, but I’m not familiar with the game’s graphics, and I couldn’t tell if the enemy emotions on the map (I’ll explain later) were rendering correctly or not… that nerd stuff.

I did play the native port of Valley, which strangely ran better on the laptop than it did the desktop. On my desktop install of Linux it seems to run sluggish, though I might have to double check my settings to make sure it wasn’t something like Motion Blur causing issues. A GTX 1070m should not be outperforming a Vega 64… especially when I know the game runs flawlessly under Windows.

Gaming / Vacation

Vacation Day 4:

So far Operation Not Detailing With Asshats has been a big success. I woke up early this morning and did brunch at the local Irish pub, then I came home and slept the breakfast and mimosa off (and I have plenty of leftovers for tomorrow). It was nice hot summery weather today, made iced tea and played around on my gaming laptop. Managed to get Spyro to work under the Linux. Maaaaan this vacation is going nicely.

Animation / Hobbies

Vacation Day 2: Rearranging The Digital Furniture

I spent the day doing a little “house” shopping as it were, for another video project. Finally settling on this map as our digital home headquarters. I’m not quite finished decorating yet, and I need to see if I can find a better door to fit that gap, but I’m digging the house and the hood it resides in. My imagination is already running wild at the idea of who might occupy this digital neighborhood. I’m thinking of getting started on the channel trailer tomorrow. I’m wanting to release that before doing the last two Skyrim videos for the saga.

Computing

Vacation Day 1: Mild Annoyances Are The Best Annoyances

Had to do my first ever factory reset on my Fire HD8 today. I’m not sure how I managed it, but once in awhile when I plugged in headphones Alexa would try to activate, and since I don’t have the tablet registered with Amazon it begs me to register. I usually just hit the Not Now button and get back to the apps I’ve installed outside Amazon’s eco system; but there must have been a FireOS update that took it out. I tried to close out the app, but to no avail. I managed to get back to the homescreen, went into Waterfox and found that the only button I had at the bottom of the screen was the Back button. I had no choice but to restart, and found that I couldn’t continue any further until I registered the device.

Of course… I’m too much of an asshole to give up that easily. 😛 Factory resetting it did the trick, at least for now. I’ve been trying to replicate the problem again but haven’t had any luck. I’m planning to do a little science experiment with a little help hopefully not too far long down the road that could help prevent this from happening again.

I also had to fix a couple things in Windows tonight too, went under there tonight to play and privately livestream DMC2 (don’t ask). I wanted to run OBS in the background but found that my drivers were out of date, as the AMD codec was missing. Updating the drivers fixed the problem but… when installing the driver I had to hit reset on my computer because all of a sudden all of my USB ports fucking died. Windows went into Recovery Mode… and failed. I booted in anyway and sure enough, everything was fine.

So yeah, vacation is off to a great start. 😛 Better to have it now than during a busy bork week. Think I’ll end the night with a game that doesn’t end in DMC2…

Hobbies

Late Night Open Thread

It turns out one Broforce session is enough for me to make a decent sized video footage wise. I’ll have to sleep on how I want to piece this one together, and talk over a good way to end the video, while at the same time I’m also thinking most of the video will be gameplay footage… these games pretty much do all the entertaining.

All in an Overlord's day / Computing

All Systems Go!

New monitor arrived! All pixels are good. Just in time too, since I start my vacation after work tomorrow! I played a little Portal 2 tonight, and also started chopping up Broforce footage. It’s a shame that I have to start from scratch again, but there are several improvements that have been made to Shotcut since I last chopped up footage for a fresh project. Different audio tracks now show each waveform if being separated from an mp4 or mkv multitrack recording, more filters and fine tuning, and the overall performance boost from adding more RAM, the 3900x and having Manjaro installed on NVMe makes all the difference. I actually feel like I’m moving through it much faster. I also have Source Filmmaker installed to my old Samsung 870 Pros (one SFM install for each operating system) to improve long load times in due part to all of the fucking assets I’ve accumulated over the years.

Well, that’s enough self indulgence for this eve…

Gaming

Some Penguin Approved Gaming And Chill

I kicked back today with a good breakfast, a little photo work, and lots of Linux gaming. Took a bit of a break from using Proton to play some native Linux TF2 and Dusk. Apparently in Discord it reads that I’m playing hl2_linux instead of TF2, that made me chuckle a bit. The last time I played TF2 under Linux it kept giving me stack errors, nice to see they’ve fixed it.

I prepped my laptop on the Linux side for some fun lunch time shenanigans tomorrow. Since DMC5 runs so well on my Manjaro desktop setup with pure AMD hardware I want to see how well it runs on my laptop with Intel/NVidia. I did a quick test launch and it automatically detected the best settings, always a good sign! It even sees the proper refresh rate (144hz). Should make for a fun, scientific lunch break. I also installed a few Portal 2 mods in case I wanted to do somewhat actual not actual science.

Gaming

Weekend Of Linux Stuffs

My attempts to try and run this game into the ground have been futile. Other than issues with FOV during cutscenes Devil May Cry 5 continues to run, and at decent framerates despite the eyecandy being cranked to max. My attempts to mod this game on the other hand have proven to be a bit of an issue… I can install and run Vortex, but it only renders as a black window. I can also run Fluffy Manager 5000 but for some reason it doesn’t see the mod folder. Modding will take further science, but aside from that I’m still impressed with how well Devil May Cry 5 performs.

I’m also happy to report that I finally finished the 4th and final part of the Skyrim saga! I’m going to work on the video thumbnails tomorrow, and from there work out release dates, and of course start project prep for the Broforce vids.

I think I have everything pieced together the way I like. I’m running xfce with two tool bars. The one on the bottom is my Linux studio tools. I even installed Photoshop for shits and giggles, and the once in a blue moon chance I decide to use it. It kinda feels mac-ish sitting there on the desktop like that, only cooler looking because I’m outside of their walled garden. 😛

Now… I wonder what would be good for a future Linux livestream. 😛