#Failed to transfer Vulkan image to CUDA frame Generic error in an external library

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undone lodge
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I can even see the vr pov on my monitor, but in the headset it's all black

Quest 3s
ALVR streamer v20.12.0
NixOs
Nvidia GeForce GTX 3060ti
Driver Version: 565.77 CUDA Version: 12.7

Logs:

02:48:42.015 INFO Guessed window scale factor: 1.0833333333333333
SESSION Updated
02:49:22.537 INFO Server connected
02:49:54.097 INFO Initial socket buffer size: send: 87040B, recv: 131072B
02:49:54.232 INFO Initial socket buffer size: send: 87040B, recv: 131072B
02:49:54.232 INFO Set socket send buffer succeeded: 425984
02:49:54.232 INFO Set socket recv buffer succeeded: 425984
02:49:54.235 INFO Render Target: 4288 2240
02:49:54.235 INFO Refresh Rate: 72
02:49:54.235 INFO CEncoder::Run
02:49:54.237 INFO CEncoder Listening
02:49:54.240 INFO CEncoder client connected, pid 4714, cmdline /home/justinm/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/SteamVR/bin/linux64/vrcompositor
02:49:54.298 INFO Received new playspace with size: [1.2000008, 1.2000003]
02:49:54.398 INFO Using Vulkan device NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
02:49:54.673 INFO Using device path /dev/dri/renderD128
02:49:54.681 INFO FrameRender: Input size 4288x2240
02:49:54.710 INFO FrameRender: Output size 2560x1184
02:49:55.011 INFO Using NvEnc encoder
02:49:55.013 ERROR Encoder: cu->cuMemcpy2DAsync(&cpy, cuda_dev->stream) failed
02:49:55.014 ERROR Encoder:  -> CUDA_ERROR_INVALID_VALUE: invalid argument
02:49:55.014 ERROR Encoder: 
02:49:55.413 ERROR error in encoder thread: Failed to transfer Vulkan image to CUDA frame Generic error in an external library```
mental smelt
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not sure anyone got this working on nix, saw a few reports but no fixes

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the way it handles the gpu libraries is too weird

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something is interfering with the graphics and breaking the DRM

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some security related thing maybe

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are you able to run normal non-vr steam games? people also have vulkan errors trying that

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needs some special config

mental smelt
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@fast gorge can maybe helpe?

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@finite venture uses nix i think?

finite venture
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no

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tho you can try patching the alvr nix file with stuff from this

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should hopefully do the trick

mental smelt
finite venture
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probably moreso the cuda stuff

mental smelt
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from logs above cuda seems fine, its only when it tries to copy the data it has problem

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which is drm related

undone lodge
mental smelt
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software encoding does not really count as "working"

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ie its not good enough to actually play games with good quality and fps so noone will use that

undone lodge
undone lodge
mental smelt
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wow - well you are in for a big shock once your gpu works

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are you 100% committed to nix? you are some kind of masochist?

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us lazy people just run arch and dont give a fuck

finite venture
mental smelt
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i use OCI in work all the time for everything, but never used nix before

undone lodge
mental smelt
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you have tried proper vr in windows right? you know what its like when it works properly?

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we try our best to support linux - but windows is just better for this

undone lodge
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No don’t use windows except on my laptop for software I need for work sometimes

mental smelt
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yes i hate to boot windows as well, all my work is 100% linux

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but i do boot windows for certain things like running microsoft flight sim in vr and other weird things

undone lodge
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Nixos is great for software development. I might just setup a debian partition for gaming

mental smelt
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DEBIAN

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are you trolling us now?

undone lodge
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No, what’s wrong with debian 😂

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What do you suggest

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Oh arch right

mental smelt
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use tha LATEST

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that means rolling distro

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we are not saying arch - we are saying latest

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dont use ancient stuff - and then manually try to patch it

undone lodge
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Right rolling so nixos

mental smelt
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haha

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you are not wrong - but nix has its own complications

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i use flatpaks a lot on arch

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container technology is definitely the wya to go

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but sometimes the isolation causes problems

undone lodge
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Im well aware. I’ll look at the patches above and see what I can do. I still have some patience left

mental smelt
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you are obviously experienced linux user - so just use arch tbh

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or fedora or whatever

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for gaming

undone lodge
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Arch was my last distro

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But .nix files are goated

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For software development anyway

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That and desktop configs

mental smelt
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im not that experienced with it, but duck had me running some nix stuff on arch before

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(it didnt work lol)

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yes i use 100% oci in work

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i dont even get out of bed without using kubectl

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can u not have multi-distro, and just use arch for your vr?

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(tbh use fucking windows for your vr lol)

undone lodge
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I might just multi-distro

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I lost my window key somewheres

mental smelt
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you can just run regedit to fix that lol

undone lodge
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And I nuked the install because I tried installing updates took over an hour and still wasn’t finished

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So I just nuked it

mental smelt
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maintaining proper dualboot is not simple

undone lodge
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Was just using it to play league of legends anyway

mental smelt
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most people do not understand EFI boot

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all the guides online are garbage

undone lodge
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I used to dual boot with windows

mental smelt
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and autoinstallers just overwrite each other

undone lodge
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The dual boot doesn’t worry me

mental smelt
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you are experienced linux user - you have no excuse here - you are now the nix support guy

undone lodge
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Ok so you don’t want me to dual boot

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Sounds good

mental smelt
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we wnat you to figure out nix - and then submit a PR to the wiki documenting it

undone lodge
mental smelt
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this is oss-dev - stuff only happens because some random person was pissed off about something not working

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i was pissed off that my nvidia flatpak didnt work

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im still pissed off, because none of the games i actually want to play work on vr linux (but this is not alvrs fault lol)

undone lodge
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What were you trying to play?

mental smelt
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house of the dying sun doesnt work

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carrier command 2 loads up ok, but switches ot monitor when i hit new game

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reported bugs to proton github

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microsoft flight sim runs like shit on linux

undone lodge
mental smelt
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obscure games have many proton bugs

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AAA titles get good support

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obscure stuff gets nothing

undone lodge
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I see

mental smelt
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simple games with 2d graphics run like shit = shadow empire, command: modern operations

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no direct2d support in proton

undone lodge
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I was using bottles for those games, that and lutris

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Lutris is actually goated

mental smelt
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some of these games work fine on flatscreen, but not in vr

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that i am able to get working - or find by searching net

undone lodge
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Oh I see what you’re saying

mental smelt
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its very funny, because VR is such a niche

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and then you have VR on linux

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and i am literally hte only person in the world probably that ever tried to play this stuff in vr on linux

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but yeah beat saber works fine 🙂

undone lodge
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And that makes you better than everyone else, doubly so because you’re on arch

mental smelt
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im not better

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im just a middle aged software engineer

undone lodge
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No one needs to know

mental smelt
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i have no magic trick i just use proton like everyone else

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you want the real truth?

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all i do these days is play cyberpunk on windows with insane amounts of mods 🙂

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and not in vr either because those mods are rly not very good - and cyberpunk is too good to stream to a headset

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only cyberpunk supports AAAAAAAA of gaming - which means all the stupid nvidia stuff, and dolby atmosphere and dualsense haptics and everything else

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so if you have not played this properly then you are missing out - properly means with an oled monitor, dualsense controller, full dolby atmos setup with huge woofer and properly executed speaker placement with calibration for room

undone lodge
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I haven’t tried the game yet, all add it to the list.

And Ill add getting an amd card too

mental smelt
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amd does not have the "stupid nvidia stuff"

undone lodge
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Ill figure out this bug tho

mental smelt
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which only cyberpunk uses

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ie stupid path tracing that only a 4090 can do

undone lodge
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Oh no, nvidia has its own bullshit on nixos

mental smelt
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nvidia has bullshit everywhere

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but we put up with it because its peak pc gaming

undone lodge
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I’ll figure out how to make this work and then by the latest amd anyway

mental smelt
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get a payrise and buy the 5090

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quit fucking aroudn

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might as well buy a console otherwise

undone lodge
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Eh, we’ll see how many contracts I can get this year

mental smelt
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you buy a gpu these days, and then you build the rest of hte pc around it

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the pc only exists to shove data into the 4090

undone lodge
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Had the same motherboard for like 10 years now 😅

mental smelt
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definitely a masochist, i like you

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i think you can do better tho

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why not just run stuff on your phone?

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you can use box64 to emulate most windows games

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there are lots of phonevr users here

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run cyberpunk on your phone and stream that - then we can talk

undone lodge
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Interesting

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Why would you rather that instead of using a headset

mental smelt
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the neat part is when you strap the phone to your face

undone lodge
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Im listening

mental smelt
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the other guys know more about this than me

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go to the general channel and ask about "phone vr"

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it helps to have a very good phone as you can imagine

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(some of the new chipsets coming out are very powerful)

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you are right tho - if you have a headset you would NOT use the fucking phone

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the phone is for when you dont have a headset

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and you only have bits of cardboard - and a shitty phone

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this is cyberpunk as fuck when u think avbout it

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headsets like the quest have a very similar chipset to what phones use - they run android

undone lodge
undone lodge
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Does this warning mean anything to you guys?

❯ vulkaninfo | grep -i layer
WARNING: [Loader Message] Code 0 : Layer VK_LAYER_MND_enable_timeline_semaphore uses API version 1.2 which is older than the application specified API version of 1.3. May cause issues.
Layers: count = 11
VK_LAYER_ALVR_capture (ALVR display intercept layer) Vulkan version 1.0.68, layer version 1:
    Layer Extensions: count = 4
        Layer-Device Extensions: count = 1
...
finite venture
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no should be fine

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but what is the monado layer up to

undone lodge
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seems fine

VK_LAYER_MND_enable_timeline_semaphore (Monado enable timeline semaphore layer) Vulkan version 1.2.199, layer version 1:
        Layer Extensions: count = 0
                Layer-Device Extensions: count = 0
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But asking about monado is a good call.

I'm pretty sure this is a problem right? Pretty sure I had an open XR layer here when it used to work

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undone lodge
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But I could already build the server

undone lodge
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so yea it's just the cuda thing that's messing me up

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Although he doesn’t even have a gpu 😂

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It’s a known issue. Makes sense. I was probably just using software encoding and when alvr updated I lost my setting and saw the same error again

undone lodge
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Eh, I’ll just pawn off my Nvidia card I guess.

Was thinking about getting the 7900 xtx anyway

final edge
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my god I read this whole thing

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I only started using linux a week or two ago and setting up vr has been something else man

mental smelt
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this guy is using nixos - other people dont have it as hard

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but yes - your choice of distro matters a lot

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so dont use ubuntu or other awful choice

undone lodge
undone lodge
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Also use wayland. I don’t know why but steamv’s ui just craps out on x11. Usually x11 is reliable but not this time

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Im also using nvidia 🙃

final edge
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I'm using nix and Nvidia

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And it's been great!

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So far everything works perfectly, I can play all my games, and Iove configuring my system

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It's just vr being annoying now

mental smelt
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you think its "perfect" but you havent really pushed limits

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do you have hdr working in games?

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do you have variable refresh rate on monitor?

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do you have custom proton with all patches?

final edge
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My monitors are not hdr so I don't really care about it

final edge
mental smelt
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easy to get old stuff working - hard to get cutting edge features

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thats not what i mean

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no published version of proton has all the patches for legal reasons

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stuff like dualsense haptics

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or video codecs

final edge
mental smelt
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if you dont use dualsense or hdr you wont miss this

mental smelt
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im not willing to compromise in any way - linux has to deliver equivalent to windows - and this is difficult

final edge
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I mean I also come from windows so there is not much to miss yet XD

mental smelt
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try to get something like cyberpunk working with all the AAA features - this is tricky on linux

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new dlss 4.0 just came out for example

final edge
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I have been playing Marvel rivals and it's runs better than on windows for me

mental smelt
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yeah that can be the case

final edge
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Oke dlss idk about lol, but the older dlss works fine I'm games

mental smelt
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but only cyberpunk is AAAA - everything else is mickey mouse

final edge
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What makes it AAAA for you?

mental smelt
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it has everything - every possible modern feature you can think of, and demands the highest end hardware

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framegen, dlss, path tracing etc - and the game is fucking amazing as well ofc

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dolby atmos sound - ridiculous

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peak pc gaming - everyone should be playing this

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if you played it already - then play it again with v2.2 and DLC - its even better! might as well be new game

final edge
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I still have not played it, I should. But I als feel like many of these "features" like frame gen and dlss are just ways of patching a poorly optimized game

mental smelt
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you think wrong

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it makes the difference between being able to play at ultra quality and not being able to play

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the new patch seems to have increased fps a lot as well - maybe coz of dlss 4.0

final edge
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Maybe this is the case for cyberpunk, but many other games just don't optimize and slap dlss and frame gen on to call it a day

mental smelt
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thats true

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cyberpunk has no competition rly

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hold off on playing it until you have the ludicrous setup it deserves

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ive turned into a huge dualsense fanboy as well - after being a keyboard and mouse games for years

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i gotta have those haptics now

final edge
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I got a 3070 ti, with a i7 12000, would that be good?

mental smelt
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maybe

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id recommend that as sensible minimum

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important to have good oled tv/monitor and sound system as well

final edge
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I'm still running my old 24 inch LCD monitor, 3 of them. And I am waiting to move out for an upgrade

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I definitely wanna go 27 or larger and probably 3 16/9 again

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I like that over a big ultrawide

mental smelt
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if you are wondering whether these new OLEDs are worth it - yes they are

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you can get cheap ones as well now

final edge
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I definitely want oled yeah, I'm done looking at LCD for over like 11 years now XD

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I'm also a game dev and make art from time to time so I would also benefit my work

mental smelt
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me too (well normal dev now not gamedev)

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some people online say oled is not good for text - but text looks GREAT to me on it!?

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its pretty funny that i use a 4k240hz oled monitor just to display linux terminal with vim

final edge
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Ahahaha I feel that lol

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I have like 4 free weeks, so that's why I'm committing to fully running Linux for a month, so far I got to learn vim as well, it's quite nice but take some time. I feel quite slow with it still

mental smelt
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the number 1 question on stackoverflow = "how do i exit vim?"

final edge
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nha kids these days just ask it to chat gpt /s

undone lodge
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How did you get past the DRM issue????

undone lodge
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I gave up on getting it to work on nix so I just setup a single gpu passthrough VM that runs arch as a guest on my nixos machine

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Once I buy a amd card Ill try to make it work again on nix

final edge
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@undone lodge I'm like super close to getting it working now

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I mean I got it working

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using Wivrn and envision

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but I got it working like once, and now it just keep disconnecting

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sooo idk kinda disappointing