I guess Sony has decided to get on the “Lets make a miniature console” bandwagon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl2h8LDq_oI
I’ll admit it does look pretty cool, but considering I have a PS3 that can play PS1 games that I got for a fraction of the cost of this lil guy, the original PS1 with original dualshocks AND epsxe on all of my gaming computers I think I’m pretty good. :v:
My new NVMe arrived this afternoon! :happy: When I first plugged it into my laptop it ate my boot order for some reason. It was reading my new 970 Pro, and then where my 960 pro should have been there was “SM_NVMeROM” instead. Swapping slots seemed to fix this issue for me.
I underwent my Linux Mint install, and it started off well. Watching it install at super speed was incredible, then once I restarted things began to get tricky… I ran my updates just as you normally would on a new install, and tried to install the latest NVidia graphics driver as the one in the default repo is slightly out of date. I tried running the .run file directly from NVidia’s driver site and learned that it has to install at the CLI level… the fuck? I tried various tips and tricks from all over the internet but nothing seemed to work, then I saw someone mention installing a PPA and downloading the driver from choice from the driver manager… no dice.
With as easy as it was to setup Mint on my pure AMD desktop I was expecting flying colors on the greener side of the fence; after all I hear people crow all the time about how NVidia has THE BEST Linux drivers evar because they have tons of trained monkeys doing all of the programming!!!!11111… Why in the actual fucking hell do NVidia’s drivers have to be so difficult? It’s 2018… For fucks sake even AMD’s proprietary drivers have a working user interface… What’s NVidia’s excuse? Aren’t they the richer company? I shouldn’t have to search the four corners of the internet for obscure instructions on how to install a fucking graphics driver. As long as problems like these continue to exist on Linux it’ll continue make Windows look more attractive. :zorak:
At this point I can’t help but stare at my linux mint install with an angry glare… I wasted so many hours trying to get this to work, and now I’ll have to shelve it for another time.I’ll come back to it in a few days assuming I can muster up the nerve and set aside more time. Five fucking hours of my time that I could have set aside for a nap, a video, more game testing, gone… :zorak: I’ll have to start fresh again, fortunately I mainly focused on updates and drivers so no programs or files were copied over. Would suck to do that all over again. I’m going to try and get it up and running as I really want to test Linux on another set of hardware as well as see how the new SteamPlay performs… but if I can’t get this sorted I’ll reformat it and use it for something else.
I hope the open source drivers continue to improve… NVidia can go eat a bag of polyester cockwombles.
This time my streaming went ALOT smoother, and not just because of the new stream deck. There was one problem when I started however… For some reason my recording drive disappeared from my list of drives. It turned out my IcyDock wasn’t working for whatever reason. I swapped it to another slot and it worked fine. I did get the dock working again after the stream, for some reason even though the light on the device was on it wasn’t doing anything. Pressing the power button on the dock a couple more times got it to work again.
But anyways the stream went alright. Tonight’s victim was Dear Esther: Landmark Edition; a first person walker where you listen to narration… so basically a serious version of The Stanley Parable. I haven’t played Dear Esther in years, and felt the need to revisit it (that and Yutram suggested it last night and the idea stuck in my head ever since). It was probably the most boring let’s play I’ve ever done, but I somehow managed to have fun with it anyways. If you’re interested in watching it you can find my vid here. It’s a little over an hour if you have that kind of time to kill, and much like the Freedom Planet stream I will be working on a video highlighting the best moments… if there were any.
Once again I somehow manage to make it to the end of my work week without committing any sort of violent crime. That’s what I’ve decided hack n slash games are for, or perhaps my own variant of stress squeeze ball.
I’ve been replaying MGR under Linux to see if I could find any bugs (so far it still runs like a native version), but today during lunch I wanted to get back into DMC1. I defeated Phantom, a giant spider a second time. They’re not kidding about this series (aside from 2) as being hard. But now I somewhat understand how to defeat Phantom, its just getting my timing down and trying to get used to that Resident Evil style camera (its almost like they’re developed by the same company or something… :trollface: ). I guess it helps to be in the right mood, this was a rough week and I’ll enjoy the next couple days not having to endure another wretched fuckmuffin’s attitude problem. The weather is supposed to suck, not that I’ve really been getting out lately on the weekends lately (unless you count going two hours out of town to get your skin removed). I’ll get cozy and spin my roulette wheel to determine what creative brain child I’ll need to tackle.
Might also try to do another stream tomorrow, or perhaps play a multiplayer game, or both.
The last few days at work have been pretty rough. I came home today and immediately passed out after eating some leftover lasagna from dinner at a friend and former co-workers house. Today wasn’t as bad, but yesterday and Tuesday were crazy busy with no rhyme or reason. I played a bit of DMC1 today during lunch, that was fun. I also tried running DMC HD Collection in Mint today. The good news is that the launcher works perfectly, the bad news is that once you choose what game you want to play it’ll just crash to desktop. Of course you can still technically play it under Linux, but you’ll have to use an emulator instead and have the necessary ROMS or disks on hand.
I’ve been collecting video footage documenting my adventures with Proton, and plan on making an introductory video showing my desktop as well as games that work under Linux via SteamPlay. I watched a couple big YouTubers about the subjects, and I can tell they’re mainly making videos about Proton and Linux gaming just to garner attention and rake in the ad revenue. I can tell especially when I compare their videos to other YouTubers who actually do use Linux on a regular basis. For example I’ve been reading and seeing others try to add their Windows Steam Library straight from their Windows game drive, which causes the desired game to download in a loop over and over again, as well as potentially corrupt your game on the Windows side.
Even though Proton uses the same install paths as Windows you can’t install or mount games from a drive that uses the ntfs file system (you can thank Microsoft for not wanting their filesystem to work properly with other operating systems). Best results are achieved if you use ext4 instead. This is one the many things inspiring me to make my own Linux videos, plus YouTube could use more Tux love. :v:
The hardest part was trying to get it out of the mail box, the compartment my parcel was being stored in has a dirty or rusted lock. Had to use some WD40 and elbow grease to claim my new prized possession. I have it all set up for a future stream, those are my scenes and I also have a soundboard I put together. I’ll be adding more profiles and filling more buttons as the need rises. Unfortunately at this time there isn’t much support on the Linux side… But I have seen a toolkit developed for anyone else who has an interest in making this work in a Tux friendly environment. Until then this will have to be a Windows exclusive device. I would of liked to have done a stream today, but I was hella tired. I set this up, played Fallout 4 and at some point woke up in bed when I smelled dinner. Today was a rough day…
You can use this for more than just streaming too. I plan on programming it to use Shotcut keyboard shortcuts to make things a bit easier while editing, and perhaps make a default profile that launches programs. Between this and my G510 I’ll have macros for days. I’d like to do another stream soon, though tomorrow I won’t have much time. If I do stream it’ll definitely be a surprise to everyone including me.
Spent the earlier part of the morning going through my closet; it didn’t take me very long as things were already well sorted, then I had my stitches removed AND even got a phone call from my doctor telling me that I’m fine. That’s great news for me and bad for everyone else. 😛
I opted to play Hard Reset Redux in Mint today just to see if I could crash the game, made it to the 2nd level with no glitches or anything. It would still be nice if they made a native version considering the Shadow Warrior Linux Port runs quite decently given the beefy hardware. But it is nice to play the Windows version using Proton with impressive results. :happy:
I also tried a bit of Dishonored and a couple Sonic games; Dishonored works fine though it seems to pause while loading certain scenes. Sonic Generations however tried to rape my ear drums with corrupted audio, as well as possessing my controller to do weird voodoo bullshit, Mania worked fine, but the sound was a slowed down and distorted.
I’m going to be looking into getting another NVMe drive for my laptop, with how often I’ve been using Linux lately I’d like to dualboot it on my laptop and see how it performs on different hardware.
Last but not least I installed Borderlands 2 onto my laptop, thinking I’ll play it during lunch tomorrow. It’s a good thing I tested it out a bit, because for whatever reason it crashed like a drunken sailor numerous times. I think lowering PhysX may have fixed the problem, but considering that it has a 970m GPU in it that would be rather strange… I guess tomorrow will be my live test. I’ll be working full shifts every day this week, so my laptop is going to get some good usage. :happy:
