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jumbodumbo, rok temu do gaming w This year's Call of Duty officially revealed as Modern Warfare 3

In 2019 modern warfare changed everything

Gawanoh, rok temu do gaming w Valve is now selling refurbished Steam Decks with up to £110 off

I got my valve cosmos elite refurbished, 200 bucks off. I love to buy refurbished so much, often it is hard to find.

Tywele, rok temu do gaming w Valve is now selling refurbished Steam Decks with up to £110 off

Less waste is good!

gsf, rok temu do gaming w Valve is now selling refurbished Steam Decks with up to £110 off

Really does look like a tempting deal. Also covered here theverge.com/…/valve-steam-deck-certified-refurbi…

zachary3752, rok temu do gaming w DirectX 11 vs Vulkan: which is best for Baldur's Gate 3?

On Windows 11 with an Intel CPU and Nvidia GPU I’ve had better luck with DX11 at the moment.

Vulkan has been slightly less stable for me overall, and has had more visual glitches.

Meanwhile DX11 has been largely flawless on my system.

I think if you’re using an AMD system Vulkan may be slightly better. But it definitely feels like DX11 is the current “default” option for a reason.

ono, rok temu do gaming w Valve is now selling refurbished Steam Decks with up to £110 off

I suspect Valve is truly refurbishing these, rather than blindly reselling returned units with a refurb label (as we sometimes see from certain retailers). Good for them!

Portable, Windows-free gaming just got more affordable. I love it.

laxsill, rok temu do gaming w Valve is now selling refurbished Steam Decks with up to £110 off

That’s actually pretty cool.

Fubarberry, rok temu do gaming w Valve is now selling refurbished Steam Decks with up to £110 off

And they come with the same warranty coverage as the regular steam deck, which should make them safer to buy than most refurbished products.

usrtrv, rok temu do gaming w DirectX 11 vs Vulkan: which is best for Baldur's Gate 3?

I’ve been using Vulkan in Linux with an AMD card. Seems mostly fine except the occasional black boxes during cut scenes (about 15% of the edge of the screen). I haven’t tried DX11 yet.

EnglishMobster, rok temu

I'm also in Vulkan on Linux with an AMD card. I don't get those black boxes.

The main menu has terrible framerate, but everywhere else is acceptable through Proton (45-50). DX11 has great framerate on the main menu, but like 8-10 FPS ingame (my Windows partition can hold a steady 60).

DmMacniel, rok temu

I have those strange black boxes as well (vulkan, nobara linux and amd) but when I tried DX11 today it doesnt show them anymore.

circuitfarmer, rok temu

I’m on Linux with AMD, but Vulkan is a crashy mess for me. Can’t keep the thing running more than a few minutes. It’s fine on DX11 (a few stutters here and there, but hasn’t crashed).

usrtrv, rok temu

Dang, I’ve only had one crash.

PrivateNoob, rok temu

In Linux doesn’t DX calls get converted to Vulkan calls?

usrtrv, rok temu

Yes which is why I chose Vulkan over DX11. But depending on the Vulkan implementation for a specific game, sometimes converting DX to Vulkan might function better.

entropicdrift, rok temu do gaming w DirectX 11 vs Vulkan: which is best for Baldur's Gate 3?

Linux with 6.1 kernel and Kisask-Mesa drivers on an RX 6700XT: Vulkan works better with fewer crashes/glitches for me. Also seems to load a little faster, but that could just be because I’ve used it more so there’s more cached shaders.

snowbell, rok temu do gaming w Valve is now selling refurbished Steam Decks with up to £110 off

Damn, I just bought one of these too XD

darkevilmac, rok temu do gaming w DirectX 11 vs Vulkan: which is best for Baldur's Gate 3?

Running on Windows 11 with a 6900XT and Vulkan and DX11 look effectively identical as far as I can tell but Vulkan runs a lot faster and doesn't stutter when loading a new area.

Unfortunately though it tends to crash on tab out which means I need to use DX11 because I play with friends.

circuitfarmer, rok temu

Yes. It’s not really meant as a visual improvement but as an efficiency improvement. Sadly it does seem (for some, myself included) that the Vulkan build needs a bit of work. For me it crashes all the time, and Larian themselves mentioned that it isn’t quite as stable as the DX11 build.

terminhell, rok temu do gaming w DirectX 11 vs Vulkan: which is best for Baldur's Gate 3?

I think this will vary too much between OS and hardware. For me, Vulkan feels better overall. Dx11 looks slightly better but less performant.

But I’m running all AMD hardware, Linux steam with proton.

croxis, rok temu

I'm on linux with hyprland. With vulkan i get large black boxes that flicker in the bottom third off the screen.

usrtrv, rok temu

That’s weird, I do get the black boxes as well, but a much smaller portion of my screen. What resolution are you running? I’m at 4K.

croxis, rok temu

1440 (whatever is between 1080 and 4k)

terminhell, rok temu

Fedora and Wayland for me. So idk.

GammaGames, rok temu do gaming w Valve is now selling refurbished Steam Decks with up to £110 off

Hell yeah, refurbished is awesome!

1stTime4MeInMCU, rok temu

Reduce, refurb, recycle!

Megaman_EXE, rok temu do gaming w Microsoft's £1/$1 Xbox Game Pass offer cut from a month to 14 days

I think once my current gamepass offer is up in a year and a half I’ll be using the service similar to blockbuster. Only grabbing a month when there’s a couple things I’m interested in trying.