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Allways happy to help . Hope it gets sorted

i hope it helped , my x-fi sadly is no longer supported by windows so im stuck using it with linux but luckily i had no problems with it.

this article might help, it seems to touch on the same problem with the xonar and linux. https://delightlylinux.wordpress.com/2017/01/13/experience-better-sound-in-linux-with-the-asus-xonar-dx-sound-card/

sounds like some sound profile got activated. not familiar with the xonar cards though i hear they should be quite good. but on windows there is usually a control panel for advanced effects and such. on linux i have yet to see any besides the built in mixers. even my jurassic park old creative x-fi platinum does not have any.

hmm been mostly into newer winter nights / diablo style gaming for rpg's i really liked the witcher series and besides not being a fan of turn based games i adored baldurs gate 3. atm looking forward toThe Blood of Dawnwalker which is a game created by some veterans that split of from cd project red (witcher developers). it is a game about vampires and you play as one but can determine if you want to be on the side of good or bad. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3751260/The_Blood_of_Dawnwalker/

must be a sheepshot i guess . though i think it was ment seriously it kinda invites humorism .

hmm strangely or actually not so strange is that the 3070 runs games at <= 2fps in the pcie 2 slot compared to pcie 3. so it might actually be possible to make a really low price gamer with these components. it wont win any fps battles against the newer cards but as far as i could glean the 3070 is about the same speed as the 9060 xt. the 9060 xt has double the vram though. i have a spare 750W seasonic PSU 32 gb kingston black ddr3 and a pcie riser for fitting an nvme in it (tested and works as it should with a samsung 1tb nvme). my 3070 is used in another machine though so i might actually go for the 9060 xt. so i need the styx cabby plus a gfx card and perhaps a slim blueray burner (the styx has a slot for a slim drive) and some more ssd drives (1tb can fit a few games but with the sizes games have these days it will quickly become full). also have a i7 4790k devils canyon cpu which has more muscle than the i5 it is fitted with currently. damn ssd prices...

the phanteks case looks great but seems to have a bit of a boiler problem noted from the temperature measurements at techpowerup. ofc this depends on the hardware used but it's something to be on the lookout for. the Kolink looks fine to and seems to have good airflow. only got one machine using a micro-atx mainboard but it is pretty old (haswell) and it only supports pcie 2-x16 so not exactly material for a gaming machine (runs ok with my rtx 3070 though bottlenecks not withstanding). atm it is used as a mediacenter which it handles quite ok. the cabinet is a low price coolermaster and it shows. the threads on nearly all the screwholes got ripped when i assembled it and im very carefull so the metal used is thrash. i was planning on using the styx from rajintek for it.

i think the legs on the panslim are there to ensure airflow since the fans are mounted vertically, but maybe shortening or replacing them with some less obtrusive ones might do the trick. yeah the jonsbo cases are a bit overpriced for a nas cabinet. the N5 is also way bigger than the steam machine since it is full ATX, the N2 is pretty small though ITX but it seems pretty cluttered when hardware is added. Was mostly to show of some options that while not 100% the same form factor still might interrest people. tbh it might be a bit hard to make something as compact without specially crafted coolers gfx card risers and a well thought out fan assembly. but with some elbow grease you can come pretty close.

https://raijintek.com/pan-slim/ very compact. or this hehe https://mycherrytree.com/products/star-trek-picard-borg-cube-atx resistance is futile! jonsbo also has a nice one if it needs to be squared https://www.caseking.de/en/jonsbo-n5-nas-case-e-atx-black/GEJB-157.html this one is full e-atx though so probably to big for most but nice design. the silverstone cabby is the smallest (of the cubes) but if you just want a cube themed one there are plenty of nice ones out there . the bigger size is not allways a letdown either since the jonsbo has space for 16 ssd's you could make one with a rather hefty gaming library hehe. it also takes a 340mm gfx card which means you could actually pop in a radeon 9070 xt. a "scream machine" perhaps if you absoluteley need it smaller then jonsbo also has the N2.

not a cube but a classy cabby for steamos -> https://raijintek.com/thetis-classic/ also a model with a glass panel if you absolutely need to get a sleep disorder from all the lighting inside . this is one of the last producers who still make alu cases and they are top notch. rajintek also delivers a pretty brutal GPU cooler which can be used on multiple cards. the cabby despite being pretty compact has enough space to fit a pretty beefy gfx card (320 mm). it also comes with space for a 240 aio cooler which they also produce several models of. this model uses standard ATX format, if you want something even more compact they also have this version for itx -> https://raijintek.com/metis-plus/ or https://raijintek.com/styx/ for micro ATX

well atleast the idtech 3 engine was used for many great games but yeah a single player story would have been nice. hmm dunno about the gameplay being better but it was definatly more open world in Q2 where as Q1 mostly ran like a corridor shooter. The nehahra mod sorta put a plug in that by having some huge outdooor maps atleast opposed to what we were used to most of the time. in retrospect Q1 got popular because of its modding community not so much for its campaign. Q2 also had a somewhat large modding community but by no means as large as that of Q1. around Q3 it started going downhill in the modding community, there was still a few around who worked on it but it was mostly on the engine code, and only a few games or mods were made by the community. if i had to guess i would say Q1 got popular by modders because it was easy to work with and did not require a large team to make a game with (you could pretty much do it by yourself). atleast idtech 4 has had a good number of mods but as far as i know the dark mod is the only total conversion project and i guess you guys know better than anyone how much work had to be done before it got to this point

hehe yeah i did play it to the end but it newer really appealed that much to me. Q1 was my goto back in those days but probably mostly because i played deathmatches with my friends . Q2 is not horrible but the replay value was obviously not for me. i did play some mods created by the community for a good while on it.

guess you newer played nehahra it sorta delves into the lore off Q1 but with a humerous twist. originally developed by mindcrime lord havoc (or lady havoc as it turned out ) and a few others from the old quake community. theres even a live demo that plays as a video as a prelude to the game (warning it is very long). it is not 100% cannon but close enough . it can be a bit nasty to get the demo based story running on modern ports. the original nehquake.exe used a lot of hacks to allow playing demo captures as videos. the game itself does run ok with darkplaces just dont turn on realtime ligthing as it fucks up the game because of missing support files for it. Q2 lore was... well a bit out there. idtech was most famous for its engines not exactly for game lore.

huh i.c.h.i's post just dissapeared wtf ?.

damn newer played that much Q2 but the railgun was allways my favorite quake weapon. seems they tried to get the game to appeal to a bigger audience which while understandable just does not fit with it.

depends a bit on the distro, some can indeed seem very brittle if you are not an expert on unix based systems. i mainly use systemd based distros these days because i find them to be very stable and also a tad easier to work with. but depending on hardware windows can be just as brittle and in some cases even more so. over my many years i have seen pretty much all that can blow up your OS ranging from incompatibilities between certain hardware components to downright oddness which turned out to be a totally unrelated program crashing a driver over and over. some of it can be downright impossible to fix at first but then replacing a hardware component magically fixes things, or some program you might have installed for monitoring events messes up some driver related stuff by hooking the same adress in memory. i got pretty good over the years guessing what to look at and in time most people do but it can be rather annoying for new users who just want to use they're system. but in the end as long as we have computers built by multiple companies or private users with wildly differing hardware which might not allways work to well together, then we are sorta stuck with these things popping up from time to time.

interesting search engine a bit like in the olden days. btw if you want to add it to firefox search engines you can do it with this url "https://wiby.me?q=%s" normally it is "https://wiby.me/search?q=%s" but the page does not understand this syntax.

agh i just tried running the original bioshock on the nuveau driver with my 560 ti i get 1 fps in XP i get 167 fps. so i bit the bullet and popped in my old radeon x1900 and it runs bioshock at 57 fps on noveau and a bit more in XP. nvidia's driver model for linux in the old days was pretty horrid .(run files) and the drivers were newer updated for newer kernel models so even recompiling them will not work as much of the internal code is no longer supported so it just fails. so if you use an older nvidia card stay the hell away or braze for a lot of code fixing. amd on the other hand has been pretty supportive of the linux kernel models and uses a much better practice of driver installs by using the built in package managers. the radeon x1900 is a very very old card which only supports dx 9 and it works out of the box on the latest linux versions. nvidia has changed the driver models on more modern cards to be more in line with the amd model but older cards have newer had drivers updated to run on these kernels so its a clusterfuck to get older cards running on current versions. so if looking for a linux distro to use with pre pascal cards i would advise to use something like linux mint 19 which is one of the last to support these out of the box. but you might run into stability problems even so. also linux mint 19 is no longer supported so it wont recieve any updates, but you should still be able to get software that works on it.

hehe yeah linux memory management has allways been a complex beast mostly due to the kernel using memory mapping instead of simple malloc calls. my thought was allways that the mmap etc. functions were used to help alleviate the complexity to some degree it is still complex but atleast not as much as if you had to write the entire thing yourself. around gcc-4 / 5 they had to up the limits somewhat due to hitting constraints (the linux kernel used a pretty diminutive kernel stack) and it has grown worse since then with more complex programs and the advent of 64 bit. you can see some of the problems they encountered over time with blender which constantly brushed against the memory constraints. in retrospect this might also explain why so many of the devs who wanted new flashier features wanted to ditch 32 bit. there was a huge resistance to using things like LAA or PAE to get around the constraints because it added to some allready pretty complex code. linux devs being hobbyist by nature did not want to spend time developing workarounds for what was percieved as a natural limit of an architecture.

Last great winter here was in 1979 were denmark got hit by -30 " and wild snowstorms that literally covered most of where i lived at the time in several meter thick layers of snow and ice. It got known as the winter war and you could literally walk from denmark to germany via the gedser / rødby route. Thats about 45 km's of ice from rødby where i live now to puttgarden in germany (longer from gedser). I still have pictures from it where me and my sister is standing 15 km's from denmark on what used to be open water at the time. It was one of the last times we had to use icebreakers for our boats and even they had trouble breaking it cause the ice was so damn thick. We still had sorta normal winters up to about 2007 but after 2010 the snow we usually got in winter times turned into rain or at best mush. We do still get snow from time to time but far less frequent and a good deal shorter than back then and it usually newer hits -10 or lower which was still pretty common back in the 80's. Instead a hard winter is now -5. So a rather extreme variance from -30 in winter times which albeit uncommon (-20 was not) to -5 or even positive temperatures (before the 80's that newer happened).

They did exist but were far less common than they are today . Winters could be pretty brutal though and many died from pneumonia or vira. Global heat only started rising massively after the 1980's.

High ceiling houses were popular here also about a century ago though not for weather related reasons. Families back then were big! With upwards of 10 or more members who usually lived together. Not so much because they were that intimate but out of nessecity since most back then were pretty poor. These houses were not exactly hot in the summertime and damn cold in winter (not unusual that the walls inside were covered in ice). Insulation back then was not a thing this only started appearing around 1950 when our workers got better deals even so in 1988 many of these old houses from back then still existed in more or less the same state as of a 100 or more years ago. In the meantime we allready built new housing better geared for our at that time cold winters (yeah nobody really wondered about what was in stock for us a few decades on). So we got houses with big panorama windows and heavy insulation and double layer windows with only a minimum of circulation of air from the outside. In retrospect this was a mistake and our ancient clay lined and straw covered houses with small windows turned out to be better for the extreme conditions we have now.

same here. sadly most of our houses are from a time with much colder weather and are not built for the extremes we see now. in essence as biker points out they cannot get rid of excess heat easily. my own house usually ends up 10 " hotter inside than it is outside so without using my heat exchanger i end up with 47 " inside when it is 37 " outside and it takes a week for it to loose that excess heat so even when the temperature drops outside it stays toasty inside even if i leave all my windows / doors open.

on the note of climate change, europe just had one of the hottest presummers ever with temperatures ranging upwards of 47 degrees. in denmark we had 37 degrees which is higher than the highest ever measured temperature here which was in 1975 and hit 36.4 degrees. this is over a period of more than 2 centuries... so yah climate change is real and we know it. even though most european countries have invested heavily in green technology the worlds population has more than trippled since i was born which explains to some degree why we do not see temperatures dropping.