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  • XidetatoLinux Gaming@lemmy.worldVulkan or DirectX on Linux?
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    11 days ago

    OpenGL is a bit like Vulkan, but discontinued since… 2014, with a single update since then. It was actually stopped because Vulkan seemed better, and both API’s were maintained by the same organisation.

    In general it’s more likely to work on older devices, but would be less performant than Vulkan.


  • XidetatoLinux Gaming@lemmy.worldVulkan or DirectX on Linux?
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    DirectX is a Windows thing, so you’ll just have those calls translated to Vulkan under the hood (DXVK). You’ll probably get better performance from just setting it to Vulkan directly.

    Edit: As some others say, for BG3 specifically, DXVK does a really good job. My personal experience is that “the best” option is very patch dependent. At launch Vulkan was best, then after a few patches did DXVK ran better, but personally I’m back to straight Vulkan, for no other reason than wanting to be a +1 in the statistics.


  • She doesn’t say which, but I’m happy for her in any case. She said in the past, that if she was to join a corpo, she’d join Phase-Connect, not VShojo. But she did also meet up with Matara at Offkai and talked things over with her, who knows. The counterpoint is of course that Phase-Connect has open auditions around now, and she’s more than big enough to keep her current persona, something they only allow for quite established people.






  • XidetatoWarframe@dormi.zoneWeekly Warframe: Garuda
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    29 days ago

    Garuda is lovely in theory, with all the cool following features: infinite health, infinite energy, forced slash on any weapon, easy infinitely scaling damage, can fly using an ability loop, tonnes of iframes, one of the best (imo) melee weapons in the game.

    I’d probably main her if not for how she actually is when you play her. Her pseudo-excalted claws take up far too much screen space, and can’t be used on melee sorties. Also you can’t change their skin, so tennogen is hampered if you’re into that. Given so much of her kit is % scaling, she only needs a little strength, and massive range. Yet you’re still often finding yourself out of range, with no other option than to just die, or ignore her kit entirely. And whilst her 4 mostly works with the default cone targeting, the augment mod making it hit in a circle makes the ability actually feel good to press. Even if the range of the ability now feels very small.

    Still, she’s probably still my favourite frame for actually “trying”. All her synergies can be combo’d infinitely, but leave little downtime. Alt tabbing to search up a song, reply to a message, or do anything else is a death sentence. Comparatively I could just play Valkyr for mostly the same melee experience, and have the safety of her 4 to brain afk the entire map.




  • I’m happy she’s back. Could clearly tell from her PL twitter that she was feeling the waters after the whole Selen/Dokibird thing.

    Semi-related, but I found it a bit weird TVS publicly stated her PL account was actually her, along with Kiara and Fuwamoco. They tend to shy away from confirming past/private life accounts.





  • XidetatoWarframe@dormi.zoneAny tips for a returning player?
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    4 months ago

    Only semi-major change imo is the pet rework, scanning else comes naturally in missions. Even then, the pet rework is just that sentinels respawn, and all pet types get some cool new mods.

    Later in the story, you can unlock weapons that transform, incarnons, and they are currently the meta. How much you wanna gun for them is up to you, as you can do everything without them.