Easy fix! Simply do not open the epic games launcher ever again (and uninstall it while you’re at it)
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Calling out the bulkiest NVME drive I’ve ever seen.
The size of Warzone 2 makes it physically inflate.
nvme doesn’t have to be m.2 right? I swear I’ve seen 2.5" nvme drives.
Correct
I mean, no… but it still needs PCIe, and that usually isn’t getting cabled very far in a consumer machine
Oh right, I was of course thinking of server ssds.
Maybe it’s 2x1TB in a casing
Maybe it’s just one, and the casing works as cooler
Maybe it’s a u.2 or u.3 nvme Enterprise drive?
Certainly could be
Looks like an icydock sled
What is ‘Epic Games Launcher’
You are going to feel stupid when I tell you, but it’s the “Launcher” for “Epic Games”.
I don’t game, but I installed it once to play around with Unreal Engine once. The meme is quite accurate.
Back in my day we just double-clicked on executables or shortcuts to executables. I hate launcher bullshit that solves exactly zero problems with computing. Seen it pop up in non-game applications too.
I hate launcher bullshit that solves exactly zero problems with computing.
It doesn’t matter when you have like 5 games, but when you start to get into the hundreds… A launcher that can filter, group, hide, etc games is nice.
Isn’t it the thing that gives out free games that you never play, every now and then?
Death Stranding? Control? All the Batman and Tomb Raider games? Most games I play on PC were Epic freebies.
What’s the OP? Why has credit been removed?
I dunno if that’s worse or if they play sims on it
I know this is a meme but is it really that slow? Tried it like a years ago and I remember it being pretty slow for me.
Is heroic games launcher a faster, lightweight, feature-rich alternative?
Heroic is definitely faster. Though it’s buggy at times
I’ve never noticed it being slow. Steam takes longer to launch for me and constantly wants to run in the background and download updates.
I don’t like either one tbh. Launchers are silly to me.
That’s what you get for making apps with fucking Electron, aka “a Chrome browser that only opens a single website”
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IDK, my Steam client starts right away pretty much and my computer is not very fast or new.
It’s probably running in the background. You have to be very forceful if you don’t want it doing that
But I’m not a jedi, i can’t use force
Whatever happened with the hardware acceleration on Linux? I swear I read they made it fully work on Linux with the new interface but it still seems choppy, maybe even more than before
Hardware acceleration has worked fine on Linux for me but I had to enable it. There are several options for HA of various components in the settings in the new Steam UI.
What makes me confused is that the epic games website is a lot quicker than their app. I reckon they’re not using electron and maybe are using something much worse. Not sure if it was a joke but long ago I’ve heard someone suggesting it was actually unreal engine and not electron
You know those ad banners you get on mobile? What do you think they run on
My phone, duh.
Silicon and gold
Ad banners? I haven’t seen one since forever. I have no idea what you are even talking about.
That’s probably mostly Flutter, which is slightly different scope, though still Google
Nah most ad networks run full browsers
No idea what you’re talking about
Ad… banners? I haven’t seen an ad on my phone in years.
VS Code was made in Electron and opens pretty much instantly. The Epic Store just sucks ass.
Doesn’t Discord also use something similar?
Yes! It’s actually quite popular.
I just use Playnite as the frontend for everything and Epic loads a lot faster when the actual client doesn’t need to fully kick up. Same for Steam, Ubisoft, EA etc.
Sadly it only supports Windows.
Wouldn’t Heroic be a better option on Linux? It supports both Epic and GOG.
I find it to be a nicer library.
Yeah, Playnite certainly is super moddable comparatively.
Playnite looks very good. So it’s just a launcher and games manager that doesn’t also try to be a store, chat client, advertising platform, and social media site?
Amazing!
Fun fact: When the epic games launcher crashes it shows a unreal engine error window, hinting at the possibility that EGL might be an application made in Unreal Engine.
Giga chads use heroic launcher instead ;)
Now also supports Amazon Games. Get it while it’s hot.
what the hell is amazon games
Prime members get free stuff, including games, every week.
I had a chuckle at this because I know Amazon has a game division but for the life of me I can’t think of a single game they have.
new world I think? The mmo that was supposed to kill [insert mmo] but then was kinda bad
Speaking of killing. Didn’t it end up killing a bunch of graphics cards?
Yes, but if a game can kill a GPU the GPU is at fault. The game just has an inefficient loading screen
They also made another MMO, free to play, can’t for the life of me remember what it’s called.
Also can we just talk about how generic of a name New World is? Like, I wouldn’t be surprised to find half a dozen other MMOs from the 2000s with that name.
Not going to trade Valve for Amazon. Valve contributes so much to the Linux ecosystem
What do you mean? I certainly won’t be using Amazon gaming services for anything.
Fuck Epic Games launcher. All my homies use Heroic Games Launcher.
I expected they would put more money in it and actually make a worthy competitor… now it’s just another store.
That’s what happens when you make a basic GUI in a freaking game engine.
Yeah I know you want to demo your game engine, but I don’t need you to demo thermal throttling on my processor.
Lmao what? EGL uses unreal?
As far as I know yes.
The fuck
They most likely intended it as a way to showcase their game engine. Not sure how well that works considering everyone hates the Epic launcher, but you do you I guess.
That’s the perfect example of “Just use what your Developer know”.
Just because you can write something in a established technology doesn’t mean you should.
i got 32gb ram. today i needed to download more. https://github.com/Overv/vramfs
tf firefox needs more than 32gbs for compiling (actually linking but whatever)
It depends on your linker. By default, Firefox appears to use the LLD linker. There is a faster one available, which runs perfectly fine on my 16GB machine: https://github.com/rui314/mold. After installing, it can be enabled by setting —enable-linker=mold instead of —enable-linker=lld
Everyone gets it wrong with the RAM 🤦.
wdym?
There’s way too little RAM for that amount of cores.
*ammmount
Yeah, auto correct doesn’t work with Jerboa 🤷.
It’s working for me right now … but I’ve also noticed that sometimes, it doesn’t.
Nope, not working at all. Works in almost every other app, but not Jerboa… or any of the other apps for Lemmy. I use Gboard BTW. Apparently, SwiftKey works, but I tried it and it doesn’t have any options regarding auto-correct or suggestions, so it’s not a viable option for me.
it’s just a stupid meme bro
They also didn’t mention the clock speed so probably put no consideration into that either.
Side note: Open up task manager and make sure the RAM clock speed matches the one advertised on the box. If not you may have to override in the BIOS. May cause crashing and if so just lower it a setting at a time until it’s stable, it won’t damage your computer.
Yeah, yeah, I know, I work in IT 😂.
I imagined as much, was meant to be a PSA since a surprising number of people who pay extra for high-speed RAM have no idea to even check if it’s running full speed.
Yeah, to be honest, that is true. My colleagues don’t check that either and cosider themselves experts 😒… that’s OK, I just avoid conversations with them cuz they get lost when we do make converstaion… and then the conversation dies down anyway.
Don’t just manually adjust the speed, use XMP/DOCP/whatever your board/CPU manufacturer calls it (unless you know what you’re doing or are fine with crashes)
How so?
I do note it is a weird ratio of CPU cores to memory in this meme 🧐
maybe they’re running a weird dual socket opteron setup
That was my point. 32 cores with 32GB of RAM should be a crime.
The real crime is not having 32TB drive to go with it.
I don’t think they make 32TB drives… do they 🤔?
