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GT2 with even more shitboxes? Sign me the fuck up!

I'm going to frontload a few links:
https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Main_Page Emulation Wiki(very good)
https://retrogamecorps.com/2022/10/16/steam-deck-emulation-starter-guide/ he has also a YT channel and lots of other guides

The emulator itself is RPCS3 but you can use probably frontends like Emudeck or Retrodeck to make things easier.
To obtain the gamefiles you either get them from your modded PS3 or you make a visit to r/roms.

I dont have a steamdeck so idk how well the GT games would run. It really depends on the game. Demon Souls or Skate 3 probably run just fine. MGS4 on the other hand is really taxing even on the newest desktop hardware. The GT games are probably somewhere in the middle. Check youtube, there are high chance somebody already uploaded steamdeck gameplay.

Otherwise i cant recommend the GT4 Spec II Mod enough. Upscaled GT4 still looks fantastic and even more so on a handheld screen.

I mean there is Forza Motorsport (2023). Personally i'm not a big fan of this particular iteration but its pretty much the only game which checks all your boxes on Steam.

Or you could check out PS2 Emulation with PCSX2 and the Spec II Mod for GT4. PS3 Emulation for GT5 and 6 still isnt perfect and pretty demanding for the hardware but also worth a look. I think there is the "master mod" to spice things up? Like why search for an imitation if you can have the original?

Tried the demo. Its 42gb to download, lmao. Its UE5. It runs like ass. Like my 5800X3D and 6900XT combo isnt the very best anymore. But it can handle every big AAA game with gorgoues graphics just fine. But Bus Bound seems to be the limit. Better upgrade to a 5090, i guess. Seriously i barely hit 60 fps on medium(without lumen for GI and reflections) and balanced(!) upscaling. The artstyle of the game doesnt even shine on 'epic'. But on medium it looks like a 10-15 year old budget title and still runs like ass. Also TSR/FSR/DLSS/XESS is a must. If you atleast want a clean image with low graphics: though luck. Temporal artifacting and smearing are on the table. Now eat shit.

The intro of the game is super low budget which isnt an issue but isnt a plus either. Driving physics are so barebones that i feel like its a barely touched UE5 premade physics asset. Collisions are laughably bad and worse then a lot of the PS1 racing games i played a few months back(this isnt an exaggeration). One time the busses(eseses?) collision box got stuck in the asphalt of a (slight) downward slope and the physics exploded. Amateur hour. Didnt make it to the managment aspect because i stopped caring.

Now to the positives: The game made me finally read into getting Optiscaler running on Linux to spoof FSR4 on my RDNA2 card. Its pretty solid for an upscaler. I will try it now with Control where the image quality always bothered me in the past.

Anyway: Fuck RPS and Saber Interactive for their misleading little adverticle.

Linux gaming is in a really good place and i say that as a VR and simracing player. My logitech wheel works perfectly after minuscule tinkering. With VR i have here and there some issues getting particular games running. But the vast majority of stuff just works which is pretty damn cool.

With that said Linux is still a learning process for me after a year. A lot stuff is straight up just better than on windows. Other things not so much. Audio over HDMI is flakey with my setup. It just stops working sometimes. Putting my PC to sleep and waking it up again breaks stuff regularly so i just stopped using the sleep function. Lots of other little issues pop up every other week. Sometimes it can be solved by googling for 2 minutes. Other times i needed to take hour long deepdives with the result of not beeing wiser after.

I dont regret the switch one bit. But in these kind of threads on lemmy you could easily walk away with the impression that the switch to Linux is a cakewalk. But it isnt. I was a Windows poweruser for 25 years. I never needed somebody to help me. I could fix my shit all by myself and a bit of googling. With linux a lot of stuff is familiar but for a lot of other stuff you start at square one. It can be exhausting at the beginning. But i say all that to just put you in the right mindset. If you expect a manegeable uphill battle you probably will be positively surprised how easy most of the gaming stuff is. But if you expect to just switch and everything working out without some involvement you will get frustrated sooner than later.

Probably came out of a easter lamb form for normally cake.

You pay more for less so the numbers go up.

Its just not your numbers.

Ditch your friends and play incremental games instead, i guess.

Why did i never came across this masterpiece?

Ooooh, because its the gayest movie i've ever saw. Its gay af.

But yeah, it holds up. Had a blast watching it after the trailer. It has the german je ne sais quoi i normally miss in german productions. Just the way people talk is already fucking refreshing. Its still scripted but not that stilted 'TV-language' nobody talks like in RL which surely is a phenomenon you know of from your mothertongue.

Apart from that its a greatly crafted intentional B-Movie with great sets, camera work, lighting, acting, premise, characters and script. IDK how the comedy hits for non-germans since its very german coded. But in a good way. Just tons of tiny tidbits of relatable punches at our culture unlike seen almost all of the time on our linear tv screen.

Oh yeah, motherfucking H.R. Giger was creative consultant on this movie. Like whaaaaat?! Also seeing fucking Iris Berben in this movie and ham her acting up to a perfect level was insane. Like i dont give a shit about the german movie landscape but Iris Berben is a name even I recognize.

Anyway. 9/10 Movie. Thanks @CubitOom@infosec.pub

edit: lmao, that james bond coded outro song about killer condoms while the credits role is also fucking great.

Why did i never came across this masterpiece? This might be very best trailer for a german movie i have ever seen. I hope the movie itself lives up to the trailer. Must be atleast a decade i was excited to see a german movie.

Thanks. Gonna check it out.

You can give Intel shit for a lot of stuff but they had a damn good run from 2nd gen I-Series till 14th gen for generational naming. Model naming especially when it comes to the details... Yeah but that seems to be the industry standard and their main competitor AMD is so much worse when it comes to naming consistency.

tbf it is a screenshot of a porn scene. i checked via reverse image search... for science and then i wanked either way. the penis touching is implied in the context of this meme. in the context of the scene it wasnt just "implied" "touching".

so yeah, its literally porn and my conclusion is thats a pretty valid use of the nsfw tag. while i'm not a prude i can think of enough situations where i would be glad when i dont have some explaining to do. i first didnt pick up on it and also thought of a stock photo. but the pretty visible underwear of the happy pumpkin lady can be a dead giveaway that its porn.

But YT definetly fucks something up when stable volume is enabled. My non audiophile ass can notice it instantly even with podcasts. It sounds significantly worse.