Thanks! I’ll try all of that around christmas.

I’m honestly not sure how I even installed mangohud now.

If you screw up your physx like I just did, do this. You can find the installer for it in the install setup folder in the ISO of the game if you’re in my situation… Make sure to set the paths correctly…

WINEPREFIX=~/Games/medal-of-honor-airborne/ wine ~/Downloads/PhysX_7.07.09_SystemSoftware.exe

Didn’t get anywhere today…will update when I find the issue. I have no idea what it wants right now…

Current options:

Idk :-/ Still doesn’t show anything and my hotkeys from goverlay don’t work. Also, I did press “Save” in goverlay.

This does at least limit my FPS! DXVK_FRAME_RATE set to 30

I just checked and that DXVK utility can show a bunch of metrics but not temperatures. If all else fails I’ll use that.

Some settings to use in the ENV variables as the above picture if you want, just as an example:

DXVK_HUD=fps,gpuload,cpuload,memory DXVK_FRAME_RATE=45

You can find more in the docs of the utility.

I didn’t need to install it on Mint, by the way. I only ever installed mangohud with all its dependencies and Goverlay. (Plus Lutris and whatever else)

I’m now thinking that it just takes a long while to calibrate. I’ve discharged it again and this time it went lower in % before shutting off.

I’ll keep going for a bit and see if my discharge profile adjusts. Will update :-)

Huh

It’s actually a KingSener battery haha. I guess I’ll message them and ask about this giving the details from above as well. Though I don’t really expect them to warranty it all the way from China for how cheap the battery was (40 euro shipping included)

Also yea the pads on the bottom of the battery are really nice whereas the ones on my laptop are visibly worn.

I fucking hate Trump. Send him to fight for Ukraine as a soldier so at least he can die doing something right.

People blame everything on whatever the last change was

Went to the mechanic for an oil change and now my AC doesn’t work? The mechanic must have fucked my AC while changing my oil!!! 1!1!1!1

Yea no frameworks up for grabs around here and even still, they would be expensive as hell.

And yup. The TUF line is definitely the worst from Asus. Had no idea when I bought it.

Also edited some more in there - what a lightning reply my dude haha.

Oh yea I’d definitely do that but he needs to carry it around Germany where he works in construction. Not really viable sadly, otherwise he’d get a desktop for sure. I’m very much against laptops myself.

I have the laptop I mentioned for work and I dread it. I also had a FX505DT and hated that one too. The bloody chassis cracked on that one, man, in like 5 or 6 places. I thought I damaged it while opening it at first…then pieces kept coming off by themselves for no reason. Never in my life am I ever buying a laptop marketed for gaming. That was some of the worst build quality I’ve ever seen in my whole life, and it’s marketed as being tough (“TUF”)…

I still can’t believe I sold that FX505DT piece of shit to a poor sod. The keyboard was dying, the chassis was destroyed, the thing ran on fans full blast all the time because the cooling was trash and the fan curve was ridiculous…told the guy everything upfront and he still bought it for 300 euro…I wouldn’t have touched that thing with a 10 meter pole.

I actually already have a motherboard, CPU, CPU cooler, and 2 GPU’s that I could use. I’d definitely do that if I could. but alas, it is what it is. I’d love to build him a PC at some point though, it’s very fun. I never bought a prebuilt and never will.

I tried finding something that’s comparably repairable to a desktop and the best I could find was this laptop that I linked. In the meantime I found out Thinkpads are fucking amazing.

Yea here’s hoping they work. I’ve dealt with drivers for a 1650 before but good point, I should check driver support for that GPU.

I see. So whereas on Windows the drivers are separate, on Linux they’re pretty much always packaged together, I take it?

I guess then the only problems can arise from proprietary stuff that NEED proprietary drivers. In the case of that Thinkbook I mentioned, their camera is a sort of custom model. If you don’t get the official Windows-only driver, it uses the “basic” driver (whatever that means), and that one can’t create video higher than 480p with massive smearing :-/

Man you just linked a whole gold mine, thanks, those are a lot of resources

And yea, if you code / script without using AI you have my damn full respect because I’m 100% tired of dealing with bugs written by AI.

hmm sure that’s probably the best way to know. I’ll try a few and check if any have issues, thanks man

Also, this is the laptop I’m looking at exactly https://www.pchouse.ro/lenovo-thinkpad-t470p-14-2k-i7-7820hq-8gb-ddr4-256gb-ssd-nvme-geforce-940mx-windows-optional-laptop-refurbished-grad-a.html#specificatii-tehnice