I didn’t. Sunday was broken up with all sorts of RL issues, and when I did have time, I spent it on Windows playing the game.

I’ll give it another shot tomorrow. Proton experimental looks like it should do the job with minimal fuss, assuming everything else is in place. It would be nice to move over fully to Linux. Even if it does mean accepting a lower FPS for a short while.

I had to remove Steam before lib32-nvida-utils would go - now Steam won’t reinstall

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Got it with --assume-installed lib32-vulkan-driver

Let’s see if it works :)

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Nope. Builds shaders (a little too quickly perhaps) and then stops.

Skyrim still works, which suggests that the problem is with version of proton and environment variables rather than the beta drivers. And at least I’m no worse off than before.

I might give this another go tomorrow - look at it with fresh eyes and all that.

Alas, no joy:

removing nvidia-utils breaks dependency 'nvidia-utils=535.113.01' required by lib32-nvidia-utils

Basically, the same problem I hit trying it from trizen. And Steam wants lib32-nvidia-utils

I tried installing nvidia-utils-beta, but that breaks because the old one is needed by nvidia-dkms, and I can’t seem to get yay to consider two packages at once.

I might jut wait for the full release.

Oh well, I’ll be happy if I can get 60fps at 1080p. One advantage of an aging rig - it doesn’t have to push as many pixels as a modern monitor would need :)

Thanks for the help!

Sounds good - I’ll give that a shot.

Did you do it to run Starfield? How was performance, if so?

Anyone familiar with arch/artix who can give me a quick rundown on how to move from nvidia-dkms (artix) to nvidia-beta (aur)?

I tried trizen, but everything depends on something else right back up to steam itself and I’m wary of uninstall too many packages at once without knowing what I’m doing.

I did one NG+ run where I took the cut down quest option and speedran the temples. That rang kind of hollow, so I’ve not done it since.

Currently new arrived at NG+4 and taking my time about things, I dunno if Ill get to 10, or if I’ll get bored and launch a whole new character, but I’m having fun at least.

Keep a save at NG+9?

Also a full capitalist system would not have invented the internet as we know it

We’d have had CompuServe, only bigger. Subscription only, walled garden environments.

Might have got something close to modern ubiquity with cable companies bundling search and forum functions in with the video, but it would still be heavily monetised and tightly controlled.

Get a broad spread of basics early. There’s a lit of Bethesda things you need to pay points for so get them, theft, stealth, pilot, targeting, boost, a couple of combat skills, maybe welless. Then start adding based on RP and what you want to do better.

Yeah, I do that too. Also in combat when I realise the CO2 is solid red.

Must admit, I always use keyboard and mouse. I’ve never tried to use the neuroamp on someone on the move, but adjusting power levels gets fluid enough after a little practice.

It is. On the other hand, I get a perverse satisfaction from the times I forget to wear the suit and almost suffocate on an airless moon somewhere before I remember to dress properly.

It doesn’t help that the “dying from no atmosphere” warning looks exactly the same as the one you always seem to get for too hot/too old/solar radiation/noxious fumes/high pollen count.

Of course, I’ve also been known to take the suit off on airless worlds just for screenshot purposes. Not generally without activating Personal Atmosphere though :)

Fucking Bethesda, what happened?

Speculating, I’m guessing this is a side effect from adopting The Forge for rendering and animation. I’ll bet those missing formids are now stored somewhere else, possibly outside the esp itself. Apparently something similar happens in the NIF format.

I don’t believe the formids are missing or the game wouldn’t run. They’re just stored somewhere a little counter-intuitive.

First time through, it was a bloodbath and I got told off back at Ryujin HQ.

Second time I did it, I sniped the turret and took the guards down with EM weapons. No problem after that and no complaints at HQ.

I confess, I rather enjoyed the Ryujin questline. The last two stealth missions were a bit of a nightmare, first time through, admittedly. One you know what you’re doing though [Starborn] they can be q lot of fun.

You could just take it off.

The game hides it, but you’re still wearing it.

Boost and Boost Assault can be good too. Take off as they approach, and with a bit of luck knock them down and set them on fire on the way up. Then slow time in mid air and shoot them from on high.

Failing that, get some Duelling skill and put that Painblade to proper use. I’m usually the one charging the enemy :)

What? Shocker!

Next thing you’ll be telling me Starfield isn’t Real Life at all, but just some elaborate computer game.

Yeah, the whole thing seems like they ran it past some focus group at the last minute, and someone said “ewww, I don’t like fuel. ewww.” and so they scrambled to rip out the offending code in an effort to appease the lowest common denominator.

Then again, the fact that so much supporting code was left in makes me think maybe they were leaving the foundations to replace the missing systems once the game was established/ I have hope :)