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johnny2k

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If you have an Nvidia card it seems like it's best to hold off on buying this. I was impulsive and regret that once again.

Tinker Steps:Custom Proton: GE, Set launch options, protontricks

%command% -nolauncher

protontricks 1817070 sound=alsa

No sound when using pulse with my 32 channel audio interface.

Audio:Borked

Audio was completely missing. With Proton logging enabled I could see it that pulse audio was reporting some errors so I switched to ALSA and then audio worked perfectly.

Switch to ALSA using this: protontricks 1817070 sound=alsa

Performance:Significant Performance Problems

My hardware is just slightly higher than the minimum requirement. On medium settings I thought it looked fine and I was happy with the framerate even though there was occasional stuttering.

After fixing the audio issue I was finally able to get past a freeze during the initial cut scene and get into the game. After this it would just freeze at some point.

The fartherst I made it was just after the server farm.

Instability:Frequently

Freezes pretty randomly.

Wait before buying this unless your hardware/software matches reports that recommend the game. The price is too high for the results a lot of Nvidia users are reporting.

Custom Proton: GE-Proton7-29

Distro:Ubuntu 21.10

Kernel:5.13.0-37-lowlatency

RAM:16 GB

GPU Driver:NVIDIA 510.54

GPU:NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

CPU:Intel Core i5-4440 @ 3.10GHz

Custom Proton: GE-Proton7-29

Distro:Ubuntu 21.10

Kernel:5.13.0-37-lowlatency

RAM:16 GB

GPU Driver:NVIDIA 510.54

GPU:NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

CPU:Intel Core i5-4440 @ 3.10GHz

1 month ago

Path of Exile 2

I imagine most people want to hear the game. I'm okay without the audio but it would be nice to hear the screms of my enemies.

1 month ago

Tinker Steps:Custom Proton: GE, Set launch options, protontricks

LD_PRELOAD="" %command% --nosound --nologo --waitforpreload

Try audio with both alsa and pulse. Most games I play require this or I get no sound. Sound "works" but stutters and the video frame rate is extremely unstable. Alternates between smooth and clunky at a regular interval.

Audio:Other

Stuttering audio. Frame rate seems very tied to audio so when audio drops for a few ms the fps drops as well. Disabling audio completely fixes the issue. Attempts to set audio volumes to 'false" in poe2_production_Config.ini were unhelpful.

Input:Responsiveness

Performance:Slight Performance Problems

My hardware is just slightly better than min. reqs so I didn't expect perfection but I should be able to do better than single digit fps.

Instability:Occasionally

Sometimes when picking up a very important quest item I've had the entire game just shut down. Others time the game slows to a crawl, the machine becomes unresponsive and I have to reisub.

The game plays fine on my Steam Deck but this isn't a game I want to play on a controller.

Custom Proton: GE-Proton9-20

Distro:Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS

Kernel:5.15.0-46-lowlatency

RAM:16 GB

GPU Driver:NVIDIA 515.65.01

GPU:NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

CPU:Intel Core i7-2700K @ 3.50GHz

Custom Proton: GE-Proton9-20

Distro:Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS

Kernel:5.15.0-46-lowlatency

RAM:16 GB

GPU Driver:NVIDIA 515.65.01

GPU:NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

CPU:Intel Core i7-2700K @ 3.50GHz

2 years ago

Tap Ninja

If you like idle games then this one isn't bad. It's pretty basic.

2 years ago

Control Layout:Switch To Official

Control Layout Customization:Grip Buttons

Changed the XYAB buttons to rearrange special attacks and normal attack
Configured back buttons to be toggles for turbo modes of the special attacks and autoslash
L1 configured to be toggle for turbo of slash attack

Battery Performance:

Reduced framerate while idling but I increase the framerate when doing challenges.

Difficult To Read Text:

Playing at the highest resolution makes reading the text difficult for me but I just hold it closer to read finer print.

Instability:Occasionally

Had to force quit one time in my 100+ hours of game time.

Native

Distro:SteamOS Holo

Kernel:5.13.0-valve10.1-1-neptune-02144-g7fffaf925dfb

RAM:15 GB

GPU Driver:4.6 Mesa 22.0.0-devel (git-676ccacebc)

GPU:AMD Custom GPU 0405 (vangogh, LLVM 13.0.0, DRM 3.45, 5.13.0-valve10.1-1-neptune-02144-g7fffaf925dfb)

CPU:AMD Custom APU 0405

Native

Distro:SteamOS Holo

Kernel:5.13.0-valve10.1-1-neptune-02144-g7fffaf925dfb

RAM:15 GB

GPU Driver:4.6 Mesa 22.0.0-devel (git-676ccacebc)

GPU:AMD Custom GPU 0405 (vangogh, LLVM 13.0.0, DRM 3.45, 5.13.0-valve10.1-1-neptune-02144-g7fffaf925dfb)

CPU:AMD Custom APU 0405

1 year ago

Victor Vran ARPG

Steam Deck: flawless, Desktop: some changes required but otherwise it's great.

1 year ago

Tinker Steps:Set launch options

OPENSSL_CONF=/etc/ssl/ %command%

Audio:Other

With Proton I needed to enable pulse audio with protontricks. Because of my 24 channel audio interface and using JackAudio all the time this is sort of a reoccuring problem but there are some games that don't require any change.

Windowing:Switching

When running with Proton the game can not alt-tab without it becoming unresponsive. It's not completely frozen because I can still open menus and interact with the game until I try to control the character. At that point I have to quit and restart.

The native version does not have this issue.

Performance:Slight Performance Problems

Instability:Not Listed

With Proton there are unpredictable game "freezes". It's weird because it's not completely locked up. The menus work but character controls do not. The mouse cursor can also sometimes be locked to the game so I'm unable to use the mouse in my desktop. At this point I kill the game from a terminal.

► Multiplayer

Overall (online):Excellent

The only issue that would prevent me from playing online is the "freeze" that I previously described. So far this is only when running with Proton. I'll update if I run into other issues with the native version.

Play on Steam Deck or run the game with Steam Linux Runtime 1.0 (scout) by selecting it from the compatibility menu.

Also run with the launch option "OPENSSL_CONF=/etc/ssl/ %command%".

What I found from attempting to run the native version on a modern system is that libgcrypt is too new for the game. It's possible to install the older version but I don't recommend doing that. Using the Steam Linux Runtime will fix that issue. At that point the game will still not launch because of an error related to OpenSSL. The launch option above allowed the game to start.

The native game sometimes stutters but that's much better than having to restart the game and potentially lose progress since the last save.

Native

Distro:Ubuntu 21.10

Kernel:5.13.0-37-lowlatency

RAM:16 GB

GPU Driver:NVIDIA 510.54

GPU:NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

CPU:Intel Core i5-4440 @ 3.10GHz

Native

Distro:Ubuntu 21.10

Kernel:5.13.0-37-lowlatency

RAM:16 GB

GPU Driver:NVIDIA 510.54

GPU:NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

CPU:Intel Core i5-4440 @ 3.10GHz