I had hella technical issues with this game.

• Don't use external framerate limiters. YMMV. EDIT: I turned my RTSS FPS limiter back on to 60FPS and now it works perfectly...I don't understand anything anymore.
• Disable VSync and make sure it's not forced from your GPU's control panel
• You can't fix the stutters in the city. At least not as far as I can tell.
• VRR / Freesync / GSync may give you issues as well, if your PC can handle the game you can probably just turn them off for this game only.
• Don't switch to DX12 using the advanced graphics settings. It makes things WORSE. Use Vulkan.
• Generally don't touch those advanced settings. Idk why they're even there if they break the game so much.
• Make sure Windows didn't install a GPU driver that doesn't even exist yet via Device Manager. Fuck Windows btw.
• You can't play the game without internet if you get it...officially. FYI. Do with this as you will.

I hope I saved you some headache. It took me getting all the way to 40% completion to figure out all this.

Game's awesome but the technical BS kinda ruins it.

EDIT: Also why the hell is every cougar that spawns a 1 star? Every time I find one, I scope it, and I see 1/3, god damn, I've found like 7 by now and ALL have been 1 star. It's getting to the point I'm not even bothering to kill them. I just want a nice outfit damnit.

Video with multiple angles and before and after shots:

• Archive.org: https://archive.org/download/map-sensor-clean
• Torrent from archive.org: https://archive.org/download/map-sensor-clean/map-sensor-clean_archive.torrent
• Direct archive.org video link: https://archive.org/download/map-sensor-clean/MAP_Sensor_clean.mp4
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x27Xi6P5Oac

I cleaned this thing using electrical contact cleaner. AFAIK that's the only thing safe on this sensor. I sprayed that stuff in there really closely on the inside and outside everywhere.

Then I let it dry for 40 minutes before installing, then I probably took a few hours installing it back in and putting the car back together. (I'm slow don't judge me.)

If you do this, be careful with the valve cover screws. 10 Nm is the torque spec on those.

Also be careful that you fully seat the screw that holds the airbox onto the throttle body. I didn't torque it enough at first and air was leaking into my throttle from around the airbox. Idk the torque spec, but do just a lil more than hand tight I'd say.

It's REALLY tight in there. And this is coming from a guy with tiny racoon-like hands. I tried moving the oil dipstick out of the way, but it wouldn't really budge even after I removed the screw that holds it on the engine. The rest are fuel tubes and injector wiring that I'm not comfortable touching.

My advice is:

• Do this while the engine is cold.
• Put a long driver almost reaching the screws.
• Get your fingers in there and feel the screw.
• Guide the driver in both from the outside past all the hoses and from the inside. I couldn't for the love of crap remove those screws any other way. I was at this for like an hour. Total was about 8 hours probably, minus the waiting.
• Don't use a wrench. You'll mess up the screws really fast.
• Don't take out the sensor wire out of the sensor. I personally don't even have a damn clue how to remove it because it wouldn't budge even while pressing on the tab. You also don't risk breaking the brittle plastic if you don't touch it.
• When you've unscrewed the sensor and go to pull it out, it's kinda hard to take out. Wiggle and pull. I think it's a bit difficult because of the gasket.
• Press in the sensor real well when you put it back. It has guides for fitment. Make sure it's in place before you lose your mind trying to put the screws back in.
• Don't touch or brush the inside of the sensor, where the actual sensing tips are. (This is just passthrough.)
• Spray the cleaner right in there. I don't think the spray itself can damage anything. Mine isn't clean fully even after spraying it right in there like 6 times with dry time of a few minutes in between.
• Don't let it get this way in the first place. Replace your oil separator every now and then. Idk how often exactly.
• It's a PITA to get to it and replace. In hindsight, I'd just replace the sensor.

I will update with whether it fixed the issue or not.

Symptoms were:

• P0172 (system too rich - latest, seen right before this cleaning)
• P0170 (generic fuel trim malfunction - cleared at some point and didn't come back even before this fix)
• Jerky acceleration especially in lower gears. I could always reproduce it climbing from 1800 to 2200 RPM in 3rd gear with AC off. Also in 1st gear.
• Hunting at idle (RPM goes slightly up and down by about 50-100 RPM, continuously, in this case)
• Pretty bad, visible engine vibrations. Much worse than I've seen on other 1.4's online.
• Sometimes it would even fail to start, but very rarely. Idk if it's related. I haven't had this issue in a long while now. Never happened twice in a row.
• All only happened after a few trips after clearing OBD codes. Right after clearing the codes, the car always felt mint. Hence why I think this sensor was reading bad data and the ECU was adjusting the fuel trims incorrectly.
• What I would call a pretty high fuel usage for this little twink engine: 5.67l / 100km inter-city (90kmph whenever possible on a long 300km+ trip) and 10l / 100km in the city (not combined). (No AC in both, both during spring or autumn, measured full to full tank when filling at around 10-15 liters probably, that's how much I usually put in.)

Seen previously:

• P0401 (EGR circulation insufficient - probably fixed by EGR system cleaning, it's been like 2 months I think)
• P0134 (Front lambda sensor no activity - replaced)

Already done, either to fix this or other issues:

• Replaced the fuel pump
• EGR system cleaned, EGR replaced and calibrated (I shouldn't have replaced it I think...a proper cleaning should've been enough but whatever...)
• Replaced spark plugs, cleaned the coils, throttle calibration
• Replaced oil separator (don't even try to clean it. It's a maze inside. You'll never get all the gunk out, it's a PITA, and it's just a cheap piece of plastic anyway.
• Replaced air filter, replaced damaged airbox parts, properly secure the oil separator -> airbox tube because it was loose
• Replaced a bunch of engine sensors that were leaking oil according to my mechanic (how the frick does that even happen?)
• Middle and final exhaust replacement (had mad holes)
• That's about it for the stuff relevant to this issue I think, tho I did others too.

Thanks for reading my rant. I found NOBODY online showing or talking about how to clean this specific sensor on this specific engine (AXP engine from VAG). I could find 1.9 TDI's, 1.6's, Skoda engines...whatever. But never this specific one. And it seems this one is a fair bit harder to get to because of the location.

I'll edit the post after a few trips and let you know if I get another check engine light. It will be a few months until then.

The cap was 1.5 euro.

The flashlight is a Sofirn SC13a.

The last mechanic I went to torqued these to hell...what are the chances he also tightened my spark plugs this much?

Never again...my other mechanic never overtorqued things this much.

Ignore the massive crack...I hate plastic body parts.

Thorough wash + Chemicalworkz (or in2detailing) DA9 polisher + blue small pad + Meguiars Ultimate Polish

Didn't even clay it, just went in there with polish. No finishing pad either. The blue is the 3rd most abrasive.

AFAIK that meguiars polish is very very light but it got the job done. Only like 3 passes were needed anyway.

There's still a bit of scratching left but I didn't want to sacrifice clear coat hunting for them.

The DA9 is really nice to use, I really recommend it so far. Used it a few times.

Everyone I've told about this said it was a waste of time because it will get scratched again. YEA, YOU CODGERS ARE THE ONES SCRATCHING IT WITH YOUR LUGGAGE! :-)

(the "didn't fill" from above are all from AFTER the fix)

I did this a long time ago but I only posted it now because I wanted to make sure the issue is gone. And it is!

I finally found the culprit that's been filling up my damn air filter, making the car run like shite and using oil like diddy.

It's this at #4, the oil separator.

This car hasn't had an oil change in a LONG time before I got it, gunked up the oil separator, clogged it, and the oil started going up instead of back down into the engine. Swapped, and you can see in the photo above how it was immediately fixed after. It's actually pretty easy to remove, it just takes time to take off the airbox first, or at least that's my mechanic told me. How he didn't figure it out when I asked why I had oil in my airbox is beyond me, but whatever.

The whole job is almost as cheap as the oil I had to keep adding.

If you have this issue, you will see oil coming out from this tube that goes in the airbox at #36.

You didn't ask for an auto troubleshooting tip? Well too bad!!!!

Mine's a Golf 4 1.4 petrol AXP by the way. Though, I think many cars have similar things.

If you know a community that could use this info lmk, I'm still trying to figure out lemmy.

Summary from the comments

I included everything from the comments as of time of writing. Everything is in here at least in honorable mentions.

For those looking just like me, here's a list from the comments, ordered by what piqued my interest more (depending on first impressions only):

• WolfQuest from @[email protected]
• Webbed from @[email protected] - I love this one, already played it, it's a puzzle game 2D platformer
• Snake Pass from @[email protected] - I loved this one, played it already! It's a puzzle game
• Endling from @[email protected] and @[email protected] - sad warning
• Giant list of bunny games (and others) from @[email protected] - jesus christ, brother loves bunners
• Stray from @[email protected] - not in nature but it looks really good, good reviews
• Little Kitty, Big City from @[email protected] and @[email protected] - 100% positive reviews, damn
• Timberborn from @[email protected] and @[email protected] and @[email protected] - Beaver city builder is impressively oddly specific
• Shelter and Shelter 2 from @[email protected] - both look really fun but the graphics are a bit eh
• Niche from @[email protected]
• Farewell North from @[email protected] - looks like it could make you tear up really good, not really focused on survival, though I guess I didn't mention that in OP
• Winter Burrow from @[email protected] - not really focused on animal-specific mechanics but looks good!
• Microtopia from @[email protected] - Robot ant factorio
• Cattails from @[email protected] - Stardew Valley with kitties?
• VORON: Raven's Story from @[email protected] - more focused on the mysticism
• Parkasaurus from @[email protected] - looks like jurassic park except it's indie
• Empire of Ants from @[email protected] - looks fun but held back by reviews about difficulty
• The Isle from @[email protected] - seems a bit convoluted, but dinosaurs = worth it
• Birb from @[email protected] - lol
• Animalkind from @[email protected] - how do devs even come up with this
• Unparallel from @[email protected]
• SimAnt from @[email protected] - a dos game??? cool!
• Catlateral Damage from @[email protected] - lol
• Necromonicat - lol
• Bad Mojo from Left as Center - what in tarnation

Honorable mentions:

• Oceans and Evolution from @[email protected] - board games
• Lead The Meerkats from @[email protected] - Wii game
• Eastshade from @[email protected] - you don't play as an animal but it looks like a really cute chill game
• Cat Quest series from @[email protected] - the animals are kinda just skins but I guess it fits in what I asked for haha
• Everything from @[email protected] - a fever dream of a game, played it, it was WEIRD bro lol
• Okami from @[email protected]
• Tanglewood from @[email protected]
• The Liar Princess and the Blind Prince from @[email protected]
• Overseer from @[email protected]
• Champions Online from @[email protected] - has a bunch of animal costumes

Thanks all for so many suggestions! Lemmy never disappoints!

Original Post

Do you know of any games in which you play as an animal? EDIT: preferably in nature, though Stray is still a really great recommendation!

I'm really looking forward to Migration.

I played one that had really good graphics, and you played as an ape, but it was so bad gameplay-wise that I gave up on it.

I also loved playing ant colony management games though I pretty much forgot their names.

Spore kind of fits the theme as well.

Dinosaur games included. Idk if I would count Jurrasic Park and Jurassic World but those kinds are welcome too.----___

I've just realized that in some countries in the EU you have to opt in to be able to donate organs in case of death. In others it's the default and they offer opting out.

I see that as an automatic opt in from my POV.

Are there any other such simple things we should be opting in for in Romania, or the EU in general?

I'll start: If you're Romanian you should choose an ONG to redirect 3.5% of your tax to, otherwise it goes to the semi-corrupt government.

Context: ~3.5yo Drupal / Prestashop / Plain PHP dev

I tried Cursor because our company paid for it, and it does bloody everything near instantly.

If I need to write a module for some custom data report UI, or a data importer of some variety, this thing just needs to know the detailed spec and it gets me probably 80% of the way to the feature in minutes. It's ridiculous. The rest is just me picking some UI libraries, fixing bugs, and probably optimizing the code a bit.

I really don't know what to do with the information that this thing can do what it took me so long to learn, in minutes, rather than hours, while I stumble around plugin declarations as if I just started to code.

Even the off-usage limit Cursor works really good. I can just keep coding with it past the $20 mark and it's fine.

Of course the code it generates is pretty shit and full of comments...but it works.

I've integrated it into my work almost entirely along with the rest of the team. We all spam it daily. We pretty much never write a feature ourselves anymore. From what Cursor says, most of our code in GIT from the past few weeks is AI generated (like 70-80%...)

Before you say it, yes, our codebase is shit, and was shit. We have practically no devops, no real team structure, and something is always on fire, though I'm under the impression that this isn't very uncommon nowadays.. (For context, we just wrote our first documentation for a project more than 4 years old, and it's all generated by Cursor, and there's more hardcoded shit in our code than configurable stuff)

I keep trying to manually write code that I'm proud of, but I can't. Everything always needs to be shipped fast and I need to move on to the next thing. I can't even catch my breath. The only thing allowing me to keep up with the team is Cursor, because they all use it as well. The last guy that refused to use AI was just excluded from the team.

How the hell do I deal with this information? Where do I go from here? I'm fucking terrified and I need some advice from somebody that isn't all up in the latest Opus model paying $80 (tax included) monthly to code with AI... I love my team, they're great people, but our obsession with AI is REALLY concerning.

PS: If somehow I leaked who I work for somewhere and this can be crossreferenced to my company please let me know. I don't want to be found talking about this, just because I don't know how they would react, but I really need a different perspective.

EDIT: Thanks all for the responses. You're confirming my fears. Idk how to feel about it...

EDIT2: I'm a bit overwhelmed by the attention haha. I'm trying to reply when I get free time. Thanks everyone

Before:

After:

Also changed the fans because they had no PWM and were driving me mad with the noise.

Does this qualify?

EDIT: DO NOT buy the Segotep Nova v1 Black. It's horrendous.

Hi again

I'm struggling with setting up mangohud now (or really any FPS limiter and performance overlay). Specifically, I can't limit my FPS or display my FPS (and other metrics) to even know what it is.

Any pointers? I've tried:

• Followed the mangohud install steps on github. I didn't install one of those demos because I needed to compile from source but I couldn't find any explicit tutorial or makefile..
• Tried switching between several Proton versions (GE just doesn't work for me I found)
• Tried a billion different ways to run it like with "mangohud" prefix and with variables. Nothing. I think gamescope also doesn't work, I'm not sure.
• Watched several Youtube videos about Mangohud and Goverlay, they weren't really useful.
• Tried Medal Of Honor Airborne on Lutris (local install)
• Tried Webbed on Steam (via steam install)
• Tried heaven benchmark (installed via their .run file)
• The FPS limit switch hotkey (shift F1) works on the goverlay demo cube thing
• The HUD toggle hotkey (shift F12) works on the goverlay demo

More screenshots with various things I tried:

I've been trying this for probably close to 12 hours...Idk what to try anymore :-/

I'm on Linux Mint 22.2, Cinnamon 6.4.8. The laptop is a Thinkpad T470p.

Not sure if this is the right community for this, lmk.

Hi again

I'm struggling with setting up mangohud now (or really any FPS limiter and performance overlay). Specifically, I can't limit my FPS or display my FPS (and other metrics) to even know what it is.

Any pointers? I've tried:

• Followed the mangohud install steps on github. I didn't install one of those demos because I needed to compile from source but I couldn't find any explicit tutorial or makefile..
• Tried switching between several Proton versions (GE just doesn't work for me I found)
• Tried a billion different ways to run it like with "mangohud" prefix and with variables. Nothing. I think gamescope also doesn't work, I'm not sure.
• Watched several Youtube videos about Mangohud and Goverlay, they weren't really useful.
• Tried Medal Of Honor Airborne on Lutris (local install)
• Tried Webbed on Steam (via steam install)
• Tried heaven benchmark (installed via their .run file)
• The FPS limit switch hotkey (shift F1) works on the goverlay demo cube thing
• The HUD toggle hotkey (shift F12) works on the goverlay demo

More screenshots with various things I tried:

I've been trying this for probably close to 12 hours...Idk what to try anymore :-/

I'm on Linux Mint 22.2, Cinnamon 6.4.8. The laptop is a Thinkpad T470p.

Not sure if this is the right community for this, lmk.

Hi all

EDIT / TL;DR / Solution: I think the calibration is working. I checked my measurement adaptation using the Power Statistics in Linux Mint and this is the new one now:

Seems like it's adapting, it's just slow. If this doesn't work, I'll update again. Cheers!

I just changed the external battery of this T470p I bought. The old one was at about 70% battery life and was smaller at 4.4Ah. New one is around 6.34Ah.

The battery lasts almost double the time now so it's great, but, the % reading in Gnome Power Manager (bottom right tray) is way off. The laptop dies at around 40%. Ofc the estimated time left is also way off.

I did buy the battery for around 30% cheaper than I find it here from Aliexpress: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32637096491.html (perhaps it's just weird, but it does last longer)

I tried

• Drained the battery by playing youtube then recharged over night.
• Installed and recalibrared with TLP (let it discharge with TLP running, plug in while off, leave it plugged over night) (this uninstalled power-profiles-daemon - I later uninstalled TLP and reinstalled that package).
• Checked BIOS for a battery recalibration utility. I found none unfortunately. I looked everywhere including Config (there was no Power menu there). I also looked in the hardware diagnostic software that I can access instead of booting into BIOS. I believe the key was F10.
• Checked the settings app, nothing.
• Checked online, everyone says use TLP or discharge manually repeatedly without charging partially in between.

This is what my discharge profile looks like

Laptop with old battery next to it:

These are my battery readings

marin@ThinkpadT470P:~$ acpi -i
Battery 0: Discharging, 84%, 04:45:31 remaining
Battery 0: design capacity 6282 mAh, last full capacity 6282 mAh = 100%

marin@ThinkpadT470P:~$ sudo tlp-stat -b
--- TLP 1.6.1 --------------------------------------------

+++ Battery Care
Plugin: thinkpad
Supported features: charge thresholds, recalibration
Driver usage:
* natacpi (thinkpad_acpi) = active (charge thresholds, recalibration)
Parameter value ranges:
* START_CHARGE_THRESH_BAT0/1:  0(off)..96(default)..99
* STOP_CHARGE_THRESH_BAT0/1:   1..100(default)

+++ ThinkPad Battery Status: BAT0 (Main / Internal)
/sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/manufacturer                   = LGC
/sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/model_name                     = 45N1738
/sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/cycle_count                    =      3
/sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/energy_full_design             =  74050 [mWh]
/sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/energy_full                    =  74050 [mWh]
/sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/energy_now                     =  59250 [mWh]
/sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/power_now                      =  13722 [mW]
/sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/status                         = Discharging

/sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/charge_control_start_threshold =      0 [%]
/sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/charge_control_end_threshold   =    100 [%]
/sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/charge_behaviour               = [auto] inhibit-charge force-discharge

Charge                                                      =   80.0 [%]
Capacity                                                    =  100.0 [%

I checked, I do not have an internal battery installed.

I also repasted the CPU and GPU when I opened it.

Thanks again for helping me pick a distro in my other post! Everything is up and running nicely with Linux mint. I even set up Lutris, Steam, and a bunch of utility apps. I still need to set an FPS limit somehow because this thing PULLS in old games.

PS I promise that trackpad is clean lol, looks so dirty in the piciture.

Hi everyone.

Can anyone guide me into choosing a Linux distro for this laptop (or laptops in general)?

I want to get it for my dad as a general browsing machine that can maybe also play some very old games. (think 2010 era)

How do I pick a distro? I tried checking the drivers page but it seems, at least from this page, that there are almost no drivers available on linux for this machine.

The same seems to be the case for many other laptops I looked at...I also have a ThinkBook 16 G7 IML as a work machine that I could not find proper drivers for (keyboard, camera, graphics card - I get artifacting very often)

Help? How do I research this?

EDIT: Thanks for the overwhelming support! What I took away is:

• Most drivers are packaged in the kernel in Linux so no dedicated drivers are needed most of the time
• Proprietary drivers are an issue (camera on the 16 G7 IML, Nvidia drivers)
• The 940MX may not have Linux support, I'll check
• It's a good laptop overall
• Consider Mint, Tuxedo OS, Zorin (for mac users), Ubuntu
• Consider A485 (AMD version of T480 with Vega 8), T470 (non-P - no nvidia driver issues), T480 (faster low power CPU than T470 high power CPU)
• Resources: DistroWatch.com DistroChooser Linux Hardware

Yes I've considered desktops and would build one in a heartbeat if it would be useful for my dad, but he 100% needs the portability. Thanks for the heads up.

This thread proves 100% that the linux community really is friendly as hell. I don't know where people get the impression that noobs are treated badly.

I just checked compatibility between Mint and the 940MX and it seems good. Here are some links. The ones with "computer" in the link are specifically T470 or T470P models. The site is very slow for some reason but it will load eventually. If you get a gateway timeout it's likely to succeed if you retry.

• https://linux-hardware.org/?view=search&vendor=Nvidia&name=940MX&typeid=graphics+card#list
• https://linux-hardware.org/?id=pci%3A10de-134d-17aa-2246
• https://linux-hardware.org/?computer=f4e6936f5da7
• https://linux-hardware.org/?id=pci%3A10de-134d-17aa-38e2
• https://linux-hardware.org/?id=pci%3A10de-134d-17aa-39c8
• https://linux-hardware.org/?id=pci%3A10de-134d-17aa-39ce
• https://linux-hardware.org/?id=pci%3A10de-134d-17aa-39f1
• https://linux-hardware.org/?id=pci%3A10de-134d-17aa-39f4
• https://linux-hardware.org/?computer=768a61add139
• https://linux-hardware.org/?computer=99a6c68e065d
• https://linux-hardware.org/?computer=846677ea455f
• https://linux-hardware.org/?computer=7598b7212af5

This is disguisting. Remember guys, no brand is worth fanboying over.

https://youtu.be/KsjjFr9mB7w thanks to [email protected] for letting me know the link doesn't work