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Pixel Watch 3’s Loss Of Pulse Detection: The Algorithms That Tell Someone Is Dying in c/technology

[–] hypertown 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wonder how many false positives will happen.

When did Steam add "Kernel Level Anti-Cheat" notice to the store pages? in c/linux_gaming

[–] hypertown 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wait does it seriously need manual removal?
I guess I can just delete the wine prefix folder but still! This should be illegal. When I uninstall the game I don't want to have the most intrusive part of it still installed on my system.

What do you mean 2016 was 9 years ago? in c/[email protected]

[–] hypertown 8 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Holy shit you're right. In my head PS3 is no more than 10 years old. Closer to 5...

Ghostwire: Tokyo - high CPU usage / poor performance with RT on. in c/linux_gaming

[–] hypertown 1 points 1 week ago

This post is more of a loose question. I can play the game just fine without RT. But still if the hardware is there and performance (As I can see in Windows) can also be good then it might be worth trying to solve this issue.

Ghostwire: Tokyo - high CPU usage / poor performance with RT on. in c/linux_gaming

[–] hypertown 1 points 1 week ago

I tried AMDVLK but then the whole PC crashed when launching the game...
Fingers crossed for RADV then.

Ghostwire: Tokyo - high CPU usage / poor performance with RT on. in c/linux_gaming

[–] hypertown 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Thanks! Those are pretty ok numbers imo! For an AMD's first gen RT card 40 FPS in 1440p is very ok. Ghostwire should be less demanding so it also should have around 40 FPS or more.

Ghostwire: Tokyo - high CPU usage / poor performance with RT on. in c/linux_gaming

[–] hypertown 3 points 2 weeks ago

With Proton it should perform just as well

Exactly! It should, from what I heard Wine/Proton/Mesa developers strive to keep performance as close as possible to native or if possible even surpass it. So every time game doesn't run as well on Wine like it does on Windows there is something that can be improved.
I don't know anything about programming GPU drivers but I want to help with debugging as much as I can.

Ghostwire: Tokyo - high CPU usage / poor performance with RT on. in c/linux_gaming

[–] hypertown 4 points 2 weeks ago

The performance difference is way to big, and a weird CPU behavior. Most games run with very minimal performance impact on Linux. Some games can even run better on Linux than on Windows and I'm not talking about native versions. Most developers don't care about Linux at all.
Currently 100% of my gaming is done on Linux. I only switch to Windows partition to test, compare and diagnose issues with Proton/Wine.

Ghostwire: Tokyo - high CPU usage / poor performance with RT on. in c/linux_gaming

[–] hypertown 2 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Do you have Vulkan-radeon installed?

Yes:

$ pacman -Q | grep -i radeon                                                                                       
lib32-vulkan-radeon 1:24.3.4-1
vulkan-radeon 1:24.3.4-1

$ ls /usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/  
radeon_icd.i686.json  radeon_icd.x86_64.json

Any errors running vulkaninfo?

I'm not sure what do you mean, I can run vulkaninfo but I thought it's only for displaying info about vulkan. Can't see any errors there.

Your cpu is old, I wouldnt expect much more than 40 fps

True, but I'd be happy if I get even 30. Except I don't event get 15... Besides if CPU on Windows hovers around 40% and GPU is 99% then I'd guess that CPU is not a bottleneck. That weird 100% CPU spikes must be related to either configuration or driver issue.

I do have a 6700xt and can test with cyberpunk for RT if you want

Thanks, I tried some other games like Quake RTX. Portal RTX, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, and I feel like performance there is very similar to that on the Windows. Defienetly no CPU spikes or random freezes.
I don't have cyberpunk (waiting for PC upgrade) so I can't compere but you can post the results if you want, it can be useful.

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Ghostwire: Tokyo - high CPU usage / poor performance with RT on. (self.linux_gaming)

submitted 2 weeks ago by hypertown to c/linux_gaming

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Hello, for a while now I try to figure out very poor performance in Ghostwire: Tokyo when ray tracing is on.
I tried to run this game on both Windows and Linux and the RT performance difference is huge. (45 FPS vs 15 FPS).
My hardware is R5 2600 6c12t CPU and RX 6700 XT so not too old not too new. I was hoping for someone with the same GPU could confirm the same issue and/or maybe point to solution.
There's also a few very weird things I also noticed that happen when I turn on ray tracing:

When I move (or open game) the CPU spikes to 100% and game often freezes for a 2-6 seconds. CPU spike also happens when I break some objects or just environment changes. It feels like the issue is with textures loading but how could this be connected to ray-tracing?
Trying to just hold still for a few minutes will result in normal CPU usage. GPU goes to 99% but power draw is around 150W. (Card under heavy load can pull 195W and it does so in Windows). But still performance is bad. No more than 15 FPS compared to running game on Windows 45 FPS with same settings.
Very laggy in start menu. Like 4 FPS.

More detailed info about my system:

OS: Manjaro Linux x86_64
Kernel: Linux 6.13.5-2-MANJARO
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 (12) @ 3.40 GHz
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT 
Memory: 31.27 GiB
Mesa: 24.3.4-arch1.1
Proton: I tried GE, Experimental, Hotfix.

Google’s Unannounced Update Scans All Your Photos—One Click Stops It in c/privacy

[–] hypertown 4 points 2 weeks ago

https://github.com/daboynb/Safetycore-placeholder/releases/download/v3.0/Safetycore-placeholder.apk

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Google’s Unannounced Update Scans All Your Photos—One Click Stops It (www.forbes.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by hypertown to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26233189

"Android System SafetyCore’ claims to be a ‘security’ application, but whilst running in the background, it collects call logs, contacts, location, your microphone, and much more making this application ‘spyware’ and a HUGE privacy concern. It is strongly advised to uninstall this program if you can. To do this, navigate to 'Settings’ > 'Apps’, then delete the application."

If you don't want to navigate android settings you can also simply uninstall it from the Play Store https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.safetycore

Additionaly you can install this placeholder app to prevent Google from reinstalling it every time it updates: https://github.com/daboynb/SafetyCore-placeholder

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Google’s Unannounced Update Scans All Your Photos—One Click Stops It (www.forbes.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by hypertown to c/privacy

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"Android System SafetyCore’ claims to be a ‘security’ application, but whilst running in the background, it collects call logs, contacts, location, your microphone, and much more making this application ‘spyware’ and a HUGE privacy concern. It is strongly advised to uninstall this program if you can. To do this, navigate to 'Settings’ > 'Apps’, then delete the application."

If you don't want to navigate android settings you can also simply uninstall it from the Play Store https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.safetycore

Additionaly you can install this placeholder app to prevent Google from reinstalling it every time it updates: https://github.com/daboynb/SafetyCore-placeholder

Anyone that learnt Japanese after Chinese? in c/[email protected]

[–] hypertown 2 points 2 weeks ago

I get it so well. I try to spend more than 30 minutes a day learning Japanese but it's just so hard to do more than that. I honestly don't know why. But back in the day I couldn't do more than 15 minutes so I guess that's an improvement.