Software: On & Off the Web

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So the flickering hasn’t come back so I’ll open a bug report when I get the chance. 60 Hz is fine, would just be nice to have 144 Hz as an option is all since my monitor supports it 🙂

The Witcher now works again, still trying to figure out what’s wrong with Workers and Resources. It seems stuck in windowed mode, which could be the issue, with the option for full screen grayed out. Going to need to keep fiddling with it to see if I can get it working properly. Tired of not having the option to play games when I want to!

I’m not even sure what the state of hardware HDR is on Linux. 😛

The fullscreen issue does make sense: it has to load a new instance of the video each time and, generally, setting it to fullscreen only affects a single instance. For a standalone streaming app, it’d be able to handle it better since the the program would set itself to fullscreen and apply the same to the children.

Not overly familiar with video editing but Shotcut and OpenShot look like good options, even if they both use Qt. Looks like most, if not all, video editors use Qt for some reason. Should be fine, even if I personally avoid it 🙂

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Does Witcher launch in its own resolution or do they provide a choice?
Yes, sounds like some streamers have addressed it e.g. YouTube, obviously other cdn’s don’t care, and the browsers + extensions don’t provide a “streaming” dialog of user options. The browser people are aware of it, somehow a new instance of a video launched from a full screen window in a tabbed group is not doable. 🙁
ShotCut is at OpenHub (cool site), but their code is at Github as is OpenShot, thanks. 🙂

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The Witcher launches in fullscreen and I can choose the resolution from the in-game menu. It’s currently set to 4k, which is the monitor’s native resolution.

Haven’t used either one myself but I do see them recommended in the OSS circles. 🙂

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Sorry, did read Workers and Resources as a module/DLC of Witcher – somehow didn’t catch on to the mismatch in the naming. 😛
Some content on NexusMods as well. :”)
Are you playing it through Proton and Steam Launcher? There’s Windowed borderless which apparently reduces FPS, else ALT + ENTER according to this.
Still use Acemovi, reported some bugs via email a couple of months ago with no response yet. 🙁
Over here Solitaire Events is in a time warp – could it be aliens?

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Turns out it’s an issue with how COSMIC does compositing: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wayland#Input_grabbing_in_games,_remote_desktop_and_virtual_machine_windows

So basically, I can either drop PopOS, drop COSMIC, or wait for them to fix things.

Workers and Resources is great! Highly recommend it if you like realistic city builders 🙂

Running it through Proton. Due to the above issues with Wayland, Alt + Enter don’t work to make it fullscreen. I’ll need to see if I can find another way to force it. Adding -fullscreen to the launch options didn’t work either. Will try the INI file when I get the opportunity.

Could also be a rogue cosmic particle. They can get mad!

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