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[–] jack 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Nope, X and i3 here.

[–] jack 1 points 1 year ago

On Linux it's usually just X that completely crashes and I get kicked back to login, but I've had more than one hard crash.

Windows will usually just crash to desktop and close any hardware-accelerated applications. Have also had the odd hard crash here.

[–] jack 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've had over twenty crashes in BG3 at this point. Crashing soeems to be more prevalent in certain areas of the game - Grymforge, especially.

[–] jack 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It was inconsistently causing gamma flickering with certain fullscreen applications. I haven't seen it since disabling it on my monitor.

[–] jack 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (8 children)

I have an RDNA3 card (upgraded from a 1080) and am running a multi-boot triple-head setup with mixed refresh rates (60, 144).

Pros: most things work and work well. Installation of the physical card went without a hitch and it was relatively simple to install the drivers. No issues with web video, streaming, video encoding, or standard use.

Cons: mesa, amdgpu, and Windows drivers are all lacking significant features - I am still unable to reliably control fan curves/speeds, clock speeds, etc. FreeSync is unusable as well. I have also been experiencing regular crashes on certain games (BG3, Apex Legends, etc.) and support has been nonexistent, despite similar complaints from other users. When the card does crash, it usually results in a ring timeout and an accompanied total session crash. AMD does not seem to be responsive to these issues in either their official forum or any other space where people are lodging complaints.

The hardware seems fine; the drivers are the main issue. If I had to do it over again, I'd hold my nose and buy NVIDIA.

EDIT: regarding the cursor issue, I've had to switch to a software cursor on Linux. The hardware cursor wasn't showing up at all.

Regarding game-specific issues, it seems a lot of problems stem from either a greedy low power mode or DirectX issues. I've had to set udev rules to alleviate some of my issues, but it hasn't solved everything.

EDIT 2: For anyone who comes across this post, it seems like the vast majority of the crashes on linux have been resolved as of kernel 6.7. Still lacking fine-grained control over fans/clocks, but stability seems much improved.

[–] jack 7 points 1 year ago (25 children)

I've had a mixed experience with my newer AMD card, and that's being charitable.

[–] jack 3 points 1 year ago

Shoigu Prime ammo delivery is exactly two ~~days~~months

[–] jack 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Decent visibility, but weak to the wololo

[–] jack 3 points 1 year ago
[–] jack 4 points 1 year ago

The California Zephyr is a great way to get into the mountains from Union Station. Truly beautiful route, probably Amtrak's best IMO. More of a conventional train than a mountain train, but still a great route.

I remember the Royal Gorge is also a beautiful ride, though I haven't been for many years.

Apart from that, I hear great things about Durango - Silverton and plan to hit that someday. Durango has a lot of train stuff going on, might be worth considering.

[–] jack 4 points 1 year ago

Blue Man Group - Outback Tour 2023

[–] jack 31 points 1 year ago

Not explosions. "Special Civil Engineering Operations".

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