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User Zone / Re: Calling for gaming experiences

« on: November 12, 2022, 07:53:55 pm »

has anyone tried the ps3 emulator yet? I'm not sure if it will compile. I got my system today but i still need some other components to build it so I'm not able to try atm.

https://wiki.rpcs3.net/index.php?title=Help:Building_RPCS3

the ps3 used a powerPC cpu so maybe power9 can handle it better with proper implementation

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: Petite boot and encrypting /boot

« on: October 19, 2022, 12:37:20 pm »

oh I see. thanks for that clarification. For some reason I assumed it was already capable of doing that. Glad its an option now though. Id rather not use GRUB

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: Petite boot and encrypting /boot

« on: October 19, 2022, 10:50:44 am »

so is there no option for hard drive encryption when installing your OS?

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User Zone / Re: Calling for gaming experiences

« on: October 06, 2022, 11:26:26 pm »

Added Falcon-mkxp (emulator for RPG Maker XP / VX / VX Ace) to the wiki.  Works great with the AST2500 via LLVMpipe (well over 200 fps in brief testing, even though I had a CPU leak from another process at the time that was eating 90% of my CPU); kind of curious whether anyone else has found games that work well on POWER9 with AST2500.

probably anything that doesn't need hardware acceleration. Fallout 2 has an open source engine now. command and conquer is open source now as well. Maybe quake 1 and quake 2 software clients, not sure which ports still have those. I'm still waiting to get my system so i can start compiling some games for power9.

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Blackbird / Re: Issue with blackbird booting with GPU

« on: September 13, 2022, 05:38:34 am »

i think the wx7100 might have better support over the gamer cards. I don't know for sure though.

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Operating Systems and Porting / any user experiences with openSUSE leap?

« on: August 22, 2022, 06:22:25 am »

looks like the current 15.4 supports ppc64le, i don't see a lot of people discussing it though. mainly fedora or debian.

anyone here try leap 15.4 yet on power9?

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Firmware / Re: network card to reduce attack surface?

« on: August 14, 2022, 05:12:09 pm »

so to clarify, the BMC on the blackbird is isolated and not accessible if one has network access on the other two ethernet ports. correct?

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User Zone / Re: Rough edges and how I work around them (or not)

« on: August 14, 2022, 04:06:12 pm »

System stutter with any I/O activity on the main drive (could be the PCIe-NVMe adapter?)
   major I/O on the main drive (copying many large files to) makes the system nearly unusable

ever reach a resolution with this?

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User Zone / Re: Calling for gaming experiences

« on: August 13, 2022, 02:02:06 am »

You'll find some CSGO repos on GitHub like Kisak-Strike

this is cool, definitely going to try to have this going as a demo

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User Zone / Re: Calling for gaming experiences

« on: August 11, 2022, 12:16:20 pm »

I've never used vkquake. Just the ezQuake  quakeworld source port. I usually get a few thousand FPS in it.

as for stalker, i'm not sure what openxray has changed, im not a developer or a coder. So i'm not sure how much work it would take to compile it for ppc64le, as well as optimizing it for the architecture as well. Seems like UT4 ran okay. so I suppose it comes down optimization. another engine i'd like to try is quake3e and cnq3 when I acquire the system. ezQuake is also single threaded. openxray is somewhat multithreaded, but still favors single threaded performance.

Also, just for fun but couldnt one possibly get the 2017 CS GO source code leak to compile and run?

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User Zone / Re: Calling for gaming experiences

« on: August 11, 2022, 01:38:39 am »

Also, what kind of performance could one expect to get vs x86? would it be sufficient / "good enuff"

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GPU Compute / Accelerators / Re: Which GPU would *you* choose?

« on: August 10, 2022, 12:16:46 pm »

No I don't own any of these cards yet. I've never owned an ATi or AMD gpu in my life (always used nvidia, never had an issue with it on linux which is the only OS ive used for quite a bit now).

However I'm shopping for a GPU currently anyways, so one i can use in a power9 helps.

I'm waiting to sell a few things off before picking up a basic blackbird mobo and 4 core.

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GPU Compute / Accelerators / Re: Which GPU would *you* choose?

« on: August 10, 2022, 06:55:09 am »

for the least headache, should one go with a wx7100 currently, or would i be okay with an rx 580 or vega 64? looking for the easiest gpu solution. this is for desktop/games not so much workstation stuff.

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User Zone / Re: Calling for gaming experiences

« on: August 09, 2022, 12:40:10 am »

I wouldn't imagine any significant problems with connecting to an x86 server from a ppc64le machine, and I'm pretty sure it worked fine back in the day even with big-endian.

Enjoyed Stalker the movie, so I might have to try that when I get a free second.

Ive heard some ports have issues with it, but I didn't think so either.

if you've not played STALKER youre in for something. Looking to get a raptor POWER9 for my next desktop, so wondering how these games will compile and run.

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User Zone / Re: Calling for gaming experiences

« on: August 08, 2022, 05:17:20 pm »

has anyone tried a quake 3 port online? hoping there isn't an issue with connecting to an x86 server

also wondering how ezQuake runs as well (will need to be compiled from source)

Also, can anyone try compiling openxray to run STALKER call of pripyat?

https://github.com/OpenXRay/xray-16