"Underclock it" fucking broke me.

Speaking as someone who's only been playing ARC Raiders for about a week, this does happen pretty often. The game uses Aggression Based Matchmaking, so there is still PVP if you want it. But if you want to be friendly, team up and chat with randoms you meet, and generally coexist with fellow players, it's totally doable and actually happens fairly often.

Bumped into a guy on the map Blue Gate in a residential area. He was in a rush to get somewhere, but when I told him I was new to the game he stopped and gave me a couple blueprints for guns and a few tips for the map we were on.

I see, then yes: I installed steam with the built-in software manager. Thanks for the tip about Flatseal, I'll be sure to look into it after work!

I want to make this into an all purpose media machine: TV, movies, games, and internet/youtube. I know this thing isn't a power house, but I'm kind of annoyed that my games just worked better on windows. I mean come on, MGS5 on max settings?! On this teeny thing?!??! T.T

I'm not against distro hopping. If Bazzite turns out to be my fix, then I'll be thrilled for it!

Yup, it lists AMD radeon graphics as what's in use. The visuals all look fine, no glitching or artifacting, but even with the tuning I've done so far I can barely get the frame rate above 20fps.

I don't actually know what flatpaks are, honestly.. 😅

Games are downloaded and run from Steam, but I have no clue about the GPU acceleration. I'll have to check when I get home from work later.

Yes, I was having these same issues on mint. Literally everything else has worked fine, the most trouble I had was fixing the audio output, and that just took a few minutes.

I saw the power settings comment, when I get home I'm gonna test that and the graphics settings, just tinker with things to see if the suggestions I've gotten so far work. Switching distros will be my hail mary if all else fails.

I did actually go to AMD's website, and debated which of those drivers might help if at all! Instead of messing with those, I decided to ask for help. Glad I did! Lol

I'm positive about the graphics settings on windows 11: when I got the game I cranked everything to max just to see how the machine would handle it, and it went perfectly! I've read that windows apparently uses some kind of AI or something to optimize games as someone plays them, so that may be it. I'll double check with various setting when I get home today.

Been playing a lot of Silksong this week. Been dragging my feet on it a little, I only got to act 2 a couple days ago. (fucking Last Judge...) I like taking my time with metroidvania games, getting myself lost and exploring every nook and cranny.

Most of the updates I did were managed with the auto updater, but I did mess around with Proton for a few hours, making sure it was up to date and running properly. There was also some kind of kernel plug in or something someone suggested: Xander, Xanathar? Don't really remember, but it didn't seem to work and I wiped it when I switched to kubuntu anyway.

I'm very new to Linux, and adhd is a bitch lol

Sorry, I should have been clearer on that I guess. I'd kept reading that AMD drivers were already pretty much included with all distros, but the issue has been performance. At first Hi-Fi (my benchmark for this test) would run at a cool 5-6 fps, and after my tuning it's gone up to around 15-20 fps, but no better. I know this hardware can run this game, so I've been pretty confused.

I have read up on Bazzite, and I'm actually considering the KDE version for my main gaming computer. But I was still hoping to keep a desktop environment on this machine. Do you think KDE Bazzite would fix the issue?

A fair question, I don't honestly know. 😅 I hadn't thought to pull up in-game stats to check fps, but I've been gaming most of my life. What I called "flawless" was running a smooth 50-60 fps with no frame skipping or input lagging, no hiccups or issues. Now it feels like it's getting about 5-10 fps at best, it looks like a slide show, and input lag is at least a second.

Palworld. Eh, I don't hate it: farming, catching some pals now and then, idealic environments and weather. As long as I steer clear of the big legendary pals I should have no problems.

Ok cool, so will that rod2modman setup work on a headless RPi4 hosted server? I can figure out how to get client side mods to work given enough time, but how can I make sure they're set up right on the pi?

Hi-Fi Rush at max settings is my benchmark for this. It ran flawlessly when this was a windows 11 machine, so I'm trying to get it to hit that mark again.