PC Gaming

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48112183

This month we received the new SpacemiT K3 board. Since its inception, felix86 wasn’t able to run on any of the out-of-order execution hardware, such as the SiFive P550 or the SOPHON SG2042. The former has no vector support, the latter has XTheadVector support. While initially there was consideration for supporting hardware without RVV 1.0 or hardware with XTheadVector, ultimately the decision was that we should instead focus on the future of RISC-V consumer hardware which will have RVV 1.0 due to it being mandatory in the RVA23 profile.

If you watched the felix86 talk at the RISC-V NA summit you might’ve seen a video of gameplay on K1 hardware. You would notice the lack of modern 3D games running on the emulator, because a lot of them would run at less than 5 frames per second. Now that we have much faster hardware, there’s more to show!

TLDW: Huge performance improvements over the K1, and RISC-V performance will only go up from here.

Coming from the business side of gaming - this Valve Linux VRAM fix story is genuinely interesting to me, but not for the technical reason. A Valve engineer quietly drops a kernel patch, and suddenly a 4GB GPU that was practically unusable in modern games goes from 14 to 41 FPS in Alan Wake II. No press release. No marketing. Just a fix that triples performance for budget GPU users. From a growth perspective, that's a massive retained audience - people who were about to give up on PC gaming because their hardware couldn't keep up. Question for the devs here: how much do you think about low-VRAM users when optimizing your games? Is it even feasible at an indie level, or is that something only studios with Valve-level resources can realistically address?

I'm looking to ask some questions about streaming steam from my PC to my laptop and tablet.

I can't find an answer anywhere I've searched.

Reddit has a sub for moonlight gaming.

But all my reddit accounts are perma banned. Even ones I hardly ever used so they seem to know my Microsoft account and have my whole deal banned. I guess I could go to a library but ...

Is there some place on lemmy I could ask ?

Basics of my situation.

PC has 12gb GPU 6700xt. AMD processor and GPU. Ryzen 7 , 7700 64gb ddr6 ram.

I'm trying to stream my PC steam to my laptop or tablet so I can play games through those. Specifically text heavy games. So the screen is closer to my face.

My main monitor hooked to my PC is my tv. 4k LG TV with HDR.

If I use steamlink on my Samsung tab 6 lite (10.4 inch 2000x1200 resolution) tablet I experience constant notifications of poor connection even though both the tablet and PC are in the same room as the router. Both on 5g network. The screen also turns off after 2 minutes even though I've changed it to 30 minutes. Turned off battery saver. Tried everything.

Almost like clockwork there is a hiccup lag in the image. Regardless of what I'm doing. This happened even outside of games just in the steam big picture. So thinking maybe tablet is just not going to work.

However, I tried downloading sunrise and moonlight to try that.

No more regular lags. Screen still times out 2 min but I get a new problem. Stream is only 720p resolution. Regardless of what settings I change in moonlight, it persistently stays at 720p. Even the mirror for the desktop is 720 (outside of steam app).

For the laptop. An Asus. 2 years old.14 inch screen. Supports hdr too. 1920x1080

I tried steam link with it. Resolution is good but does have lag occasionally. Too often to use.

I tried moonlight game streaming . Again, it will only transmit at lower resolution. Looks like 720p. Changing settings in moonlight do not appear to do anything. Even after restarting PC completely.

Resolution stays low. But there is not really any lags.

I tried changing my primary screen to the same resolutions as the tablet and Asus laptop. This didn't fix the low resolution in moonlight.

I've searched all over and can't find anyone else reporting this problem. The low resolution is present even outside of steam. The windows desktop icons and text are hard to read because of the low resolution (on the client device).

It's like the settings in moonlight aren't working or are being over written.

But steamlink creates proper client resolution. So why isn't moonlight ?

Also the color and brightness is bad too on the client (moonlight). But this might be caused by low resolution. It's good on steamlink though.

Turning off HDR on the host PC display settings helps with bad color and brightness but the client supports hdr so it shouldn't be a problem.

Just sharing some wholesome gaming. Taking a vacation soon and planning to game like I'm a teenager again.

The Wii motion controls got old real quick so I never got far in the game back at release. Might check it out now.

Caution: Massive spoilers for the game. This one goes deep...

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45740922

Portal 2: Community Edition (P2:CE) is a community-maintained version of Portal 2 that significantly enhances the way you make and play content, offering new capabilities such as a brand-new scripting system, an improved Hammer map editor and significantly increased limits over the original game.

Details of available improvements: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/440000/view/540007148061459264

Climb Lovecraftian mountains and recover cursed objects in turn-based roguelite Ascenders, which looks like Darkest Dungeon but vertical.

Bay 12 Games' co-founder talks playing The Planet Crafter, Beast, and more than 40 years of saved desktops.

I love these market sim games. Here is one set in the american west.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3690760/Wild_West_Supermarket_Simulator/

https://youtu.be/MUoJ7fAO27k