Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!
This post will be pinned in this community so you can always find it, and will stay for about a week until replaced by the next one.
It’s for talking about anything that might not justify a full post. For example:
Something interesting that happened to you
Something humourous that happened to you
Something frustrating that happened to you
A quick question
A request for recommendations
Pictures of your pet
A picture of a cloud that kind of looks like an elephant
Anything else, there are no rules (except the rule)
So how’s it going?
I wasted money buying something I didn’t need.
I have a good graphics card and I don’t play any graphically demanding games, but I saw a better graphics card on trademe going for pretty cheap $600. So I try to snipe this auction at the last minute but it’s gone up to $700 now. $700 is way more than I want to pay for this card but I can’t let someone get this card for $700 because they would be to good of a deal for them. So I place an auto bid of $810 thinking I’ll make them work for it and that’s a reasonable price. But I end up winning the auction for 750.
Now I have to find a new game to play that justifies the purchase and buy a cpu because my current cpu is bottlenecking the performance.
Time to experiment with running generative AI models!
I’ve done that a bit on my 2070s and they run quite well. But now I’m going to amd which have poor performance in Ai workloads because I think they’re missing on board aicores or some core tech Nvidia uses.
Ah right. Game time then. I don’t have recommendations for a GPU heavy game if you think CPU is a bottleneck, but Steam has a very generous refund policy so I’d just go find some new game that interests you from the last year or two, crank up the graphics, and see how it goes.
I’ve been enjoying Baldur’s Gate, which I’m having to run on low graphics settings, but I’m running it on a laptop that’s at least a couple of years old and it has integrated graphics so I don’t think I can judge it’s GPU requirements 😆
Also just realized I need a new power supply. My cope is that I need this gpu to move to Wayland even though I’ve been on Wayland for 5 days on my nvidia card and haven’t had any show stopper issues.
I think its finally time for me to play through cyberpunk 2044 that I brought on release and never played past when that poly dude died.(which was an hour or two in). Max graphics modded to hell and I’ll bust the bong out of my cupboard. It will be like I’m high-school again except not poor and not staying up past midnight.
Is my memory right that AMD tends to be preferred for Linux as I seem to remember people always being wary of Nvidia.
And are you talking about Cyberpunk 2077? I can’t seem to find a 2044. Is it good? I never played it, but remember launch reviews being bad.
I don’t normally play games at launch (relevant xkcd) so it’s about old enough for me to take a look. Baldur’s Gate was a bit of an exception for me, I didn’t get it directly at launch but was earlier this year, though as I understand it, it was in early access for years. Plus it had great reviews, it was reasonably priced, and was an AAA game that I could buy DRM free from GOG so a bit of a perfect storm to pull me in.