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I made a recent post about sitting on the fence between waiting on a steam machine or building a dedicated rig for couch gaming on my 4k 120hz OLED TV.

Well, somebody suggested streaming from my current PC (Windows) to my TV instead. It was a good idea, I got Moonlight on my TV, Sunshine on my PC, and I managed to get 4k 60hz or 1440p 120hz without it shitting the bed. It felt good, almost native! The caveat was that I had to trail an Ethernet cable down the stairs into the living room.

So I thought well.. if I’m trailing an Ethernet cable, I may as well trail a HDMI cable instead. And after ALOT of settings tweaking on the TV, on Windows, on NVIDIA panel, I finally got it going at 4k 120hz, hoorah!

However, it didn’t last long. Whilst I was tweaking my tv sound settings to see if I can get my surround system working with the PC, I lost the display completely! What followed was a couple of hours of pain disabling and enabling different combinations of the settings..

Eventually I found that I had to delete 3 registry keys in:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\GraphicsDrivers\

Apparently windows caches a bunch of display stuff and so it was clashing with what I had.

So.. I thought I’d fixed it again, but then the display kept jittering, and fell back to 60hz. Changing to 120hz lost the display again. And that’s where I gave up and thought this is far too much hassle. It’s just not sustainable with all the settings changing, and then trying to keep my monitors connected and working too. And then if I wanted to move the hdmi to my partners PC to connect hers up there’d be issues again.

But the streaming was really nice, if I could get an Ethernet cable downstairs it would definitely be doable.

But honestly a dedicated Linux machine right next to my TV is appealing more than anything. Maybe I’ll stream until the steam machine releases and then reassess then.

Just a question, how is it achieving 4k 120hz on Linux, is Bazzite the best option (or SteamOS?). What about things like HDR and Dolby Atmos surround sound? Is all this possible?

Thanks!

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My hope is that the Steam Machine will cost between $449 and $499 and that the bundle will include the Steam controller and the most anticipated game of all time: Half-Life 3!

https://preview.redd.it/h48a3u2b6f2g1.jpg?width=2070&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2472aab36bcab6ddfee14c3820a7c2a38982c78f

Another thing Valve could do is send the customizable front cover of the Steam Machine as a collectible and numbered item, which would be from Half-Life 3, for those who pre-order the pack (Steam Machine + Steam Controller + Half-Life 3).

That would be absurd, it would be explosive!

According to the channel Moores l is dead, which specializes in assembling hardware for companies, he added up the factory values ​​of each part and got $425. His calculation wasn't based on guesswork; he did the best study on the most likely value of the device!

Another detail was that, according to him, Valve got the GPU very cheaply, making a very good deal with AMD, which needed to get rid of a large stock of the part!

Everything points to that!

For the Steam Frame, I thought it was very cool, and since I saw that it's not a high-end product, I believe it will come at a good price! But I don't have sources on the price of the parts!

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The transition to Linux has been going great, I've worked out almost all the bugs with PC and games run perfectly. One small nuisance has persisted however - whenever I boot my PC and launch Steam, I have to unmount and remount my Games disk to launch any games. Any pointers?

For context, my Games disk is a separate nvme m.2 disk from my OS disk, formatted in NTFS and using a Symlink for the Compatdata folder. It's >1TB and a carryover from my Windows install. Once I remount that partition, everything works 100%.

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I'm getting tired of windows and its AI bullshit. I've got rtx 4070 super and i5 13600kf. Which linux distribution do you recommend?

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Hey guys (new linux user here) I ask you please be patient. I am still learning LOL. I recently made the switch to linux because well windows is absolutely retarded. My one question is for gaming. Regarding games that require Anti-Cheat. Do most of you guys Run a VM or do you Dual boot? Realistic issues i may run into would be helpful too

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