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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