And that private equity is pulling off the same shit that they did with the housing market - buy up the global silicon waver production so costs go up, rent it back to you while externalizing costs for the data centers and electricity. This goes hand in hand with NVidia and the likes extracting money from the Pentagon and getting tax breaks, externalizing costs further. This is not about building your PC anymore, we are just the first ones to feel it - memory is in fucking everything, and it’s a market that’s easily cornered if you have a lot of money to throw around because of limited production capability.

Dungeon Warfare is a great tower defense series, just like you i can only recommend it - haven’t tried the third one yet tho.

They had to drop support because the chromium steam uses to display the store and many other things dropped support for those OS, so their hand was forced to fix security holes. I suspect a similar situation here - as long as the browser supports it, they will keep support for win10 alive.

Early access titles and games with workshop support i get on steam - EA titles have the tendency to not update timely on GOG, and i take workshop support over stuff like mod.io or manually browsing and downloading any day. Otherwise i prefer GOG.

Oh i am already running Nobara as a daily driver for a year now, which works fine with Nvidia cards (i expected more issues, but was pleasantly surprised at my smooth experience stability- and bugwise). But the 8 GB VRAM of the card is pretty reliably the bottleneck now - i can monitor usage while playing, and VRAM usage forces me to reduce quality in a lot of games, or live with degraded performance.

I switched over to Linux a year ago, i chose nobara, which doesn’t have any obvious issues with my setup - they even made a small GUI tool for switching between open and closed, stable and beta Nvidia Drivers with a few clicks, which is a lot more comfortable than anything i experienced on windows. So i can attest that if it’s done right, Nvidia cards do their job just fine under linux.

The limiting factor is my VRAM, which simply isn’t enough for 1440p if i want games to look good too. reducing the Resolution is doesn’t look too good :-/

Thanks for reassuring me! The more i upgrade this system, the more i am scared to make a misstep - this pc has grown a lot over the last year, and the GPU switch is the last thing i can reasonably change to max this AM4 platform out, everything else will need a new Mainboard/CPU/Ram, and with the current DDR5 prices this is simply not a sound financial decision.

I didn’t know about that site, thanks! it even mentioned both the necessary bios update for the cpu and that one pcie 4x slot gets deactivated when the M.2 slot is used - i knew that, but i’m impressed they implemented that.

That makes me pretty optimistic about my chances, thank you!

yeah i would like to know too, might wanna join in :-)

Ok now AMD has done it, i’m confused.

Exactly. A specifically trained model could even run locally on the GPU, no need for always online, but at the cost of increased hardware requirements, especially VRAM.

Well i must say that it is probably one of the applications where it makes the most sense; Hallucinations don’t matter if it’s in a game, and it makes characters more lifelike and less NPC. I can get behind that!

The market for a good middle class GPU at a normal price is wide open and Intel could make a lot of bank if they do it right. Alas, Intel has the tendency to fail to capitalize on such openings; they probably set the price for those cards way to high to be considered a contender.

I’m happy that i could help you find the solution to your issues, thanks for letting me know!

I used the Nobara Driver Manager to do it, so i can’t really tell you how it works on Mint. It might be that youi have to reinstall your video drivers too, since those functions are closely related in my driver manager. FWIW, you might wanna look at the available renderer options for vulkan.

This is where i can reinstall Mesa and my Drivers, maybe it helps:

I explicitely chose Nobara because it’s well documented that Nvidia Cards tend to cause issues, and Nobara makes handling the situation easy.

I do the same, but i know i have a game hoarding problem, and i don’t want to lose my grandfathered in “i get all games in the bundle” - perk. And Tbh, i didn’t have a month yet where i didn’t get at least my moneys worth; if anything, the games i didn’t know about prevented me from spending more.

• Atomic Heart is a trippy experience, i liked what i saw.
• V Rising is cool, so is the System Shock Remake!
• Cryptmaster is a great game, i really enjoyed it!

Regarding your game issues: i had that the last 2 times my nobara (fedora) updated, where Proton games suddendly used my CPU for rendering out of the blue, lagging out my system so hard i had to reboot. Keep an eye on CPU load; if it’s this reinstalling Mesa Vulkan probably fixes it. I’m running an NVIDIA card.