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I did a simple fix for fo4. I had issues with gameplay being too “quick”. Turns out In game physics are run based on framerates. Anything over 60fps breaks it. So I used AMD software to cap that. Another issue I had was broken dialogue and quests. Turns out my save file of 130+ hrs was just not compatible with the latest release.. so I has to restart that.

FNV was a bit more difficult. I did a bit more reading and came across a couple Reddit and nexus mods posts with similar issues. All had different ways of dealing with the issue. What you mentioned did come up, followed by a patch file link that did work. The game runs smoothly but I was trying to have a go at graphic and environment mods, not having much success so far. I haven’t touched FNV in a few days tbf with other stuff going on.
 
Just came across this vid. Looks like a good debloater tool that I may try in the future.
 
As I've mentioned before I have a 14 year old 15.6 inch Asus laptop running Linux Mint. For its time it was a beast with some things you don't see such as wireless HDMI and connectability to 4G networks. Good 8-cell battery too. In 14 years I've only replaced the battery once. Well over $1000.00 USD new but I got for $429.00 USD refurbished. Pretty decent for a system I've been running for 14 years. ;)

Anyway, the only downside with the thing is the audio. There is just almost no volume. Decided to fix that so just ordered the following from Amazon. Only 10 watt, 2-5 watt drivers, but that will suffice quite well for my purposes. I'm not looking to rattle windows, I just want to easily hear with mild ambient noise. Connection is USB/USB-C. It also has a clip mount so I can mount it on the laptop lid. LOL! Not much of a sound system but should do me well on the laptop.

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jaylach said:
As I've mentioned before I have a 14 year old 15.6 inch Asus laptop running Linux Mint. For its time it was a beast with some things you don't see such as wireless HDMI and connectability to 4G networks. Good 8-cell battery too. In 14 years I've only replaced the battery once. Well over $1000.00 USD new but I got for $429.00 USD refurbished. Pretty decent for a system I've been running for 14 years. ;)

Anyway, the only downside with the thing is the audio. There is just almost no volume. Decided to fix that so just ordered the following from Amazon. Only 10 watt, 2-5 watt drivers, but that will suffice quite well for my purposes. I'm not looking to rattle windows, I just want to easily hear with mild ambient noise. Connection is USB/USB-C. It also has a clip mount so I can mount it on the laptop lid. LOL! Not much of a sound system but should do me well on the laptop.

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I like the fifo amps but unfortunately they have recently become ungodly expensive.
 
Got the speakers today. Quite a bit more volume than expected and better sound than hoped. The clip on mount isn't very strong but is fine on the top of the lid. For around $20.00 I can't complain at all. :) USB or USB-C powered. No setup or driver install needed with Linux Mint. Plugged it in and it worked but not with much volume. Restarted the system and there was more than enough volume... I won't be cranking it up. ;) This tells me that there was probably a driver install but it was done automatically.

To get an idea as to the size the display is 15.6 inch.

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OK, a question for Linux users...

I copied all my music to my Linux laptop and double clicking on a music file opens and plays fine with decent sound in VLC.

Problem is that my play lists don't work even though they work fine with VLC on my main Windows system. Just comes up with an unable to open source error. I'm guessing that the issue is that, on my main, my music folder is located on a separate data ( D : ) drive and the Linux errors are caused by a path issue in the playlists.

Is there any way that I can import to VLC (or another app) to solve this or do I need to create new playlists in the Linux VLC to fix. Haven't searched yet to see how but I'd be perfectly happy to shrink the Linux partition to make room for a D: drive if that is a possible fix and moving the music folder to the new D: drive. Problem there is that I have no idea as to how to do but I'm sure that I can search it out. It is that I'd like to know if this is a possible fix before going through the effort.

LOL! Keep in mind that I am barely a novice with Linux so any help would be appreciated.
 
That's an odd one. I use VLC too and haven't run across any issues, although I don't create playlists. The only thing I can think of is file incompatibility if it had been edited in Windows first. I don't have an answer for you but I'd definitely try creating a new list in Linux.
 
gimme30 said:
That's an odd one. I use VLC too and haven't run across any issues, although I don't create playlists. The only thing I can think of is file incompatibility if it had been edited in Windows first. I don't have an answer for you but I'd definitely try creating a new list in Linux.
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No issue playing music. The issue is strictly with a play list. Just doing a new list is likely the best option but is a pain as my general list isn't short. ;)
 
Well, I opened a playlist in a text editor and was a bit surprised that it was like a modified version of HTML or XML. Did see that there should be no path issues involved.

Don't really know why I care as the laptop will likely never leave the house and I'll stick with my main system and Yamaha sound for music. ;) If I take a system somewhere it would be either my Surface or Mac Book, likely both if traveling. The speakers were mainly for streaming. Especially with sports there may be a couple of events I want to watch. I'll have one on a TV and another streaming on the Asus as it has the largest display of my laptops/tablet. Actually I could watch 3 events at once... well, 5 if I count streaming on the Surface and Mac Book. LOL! with an internet down speed of over 400Mb/sec I could easily stream to all 5 but it would probably fry my brain trying to follow them all. ;)

Still copying all my audio to the Linux Asus gives me an additional backup. I AM a freak as to backups, especially data such as movies, audio and photos. Between my data drive, that does include my audio and photos, and 2 drives holding videos, I have about 7 TB of data. Backups are essential. Shoot, my larger video drive is currently holding 4.87 TB of videos. If I lost that drive it would take years or, at least several months, to restore. However it is duplicated on another desktop so I'd just swap out the backup drive and replace copying everything back to the new drive. Probably take a week to do but that is a LOT better than trying to restore from scratch.
 
I've never thrown away a drive for that very reason, even the old SATA 2s or IDE. Learned early on you could never have too much backup. For almost 10 years after I got out of the Navy I made my living as a photographer, and losing someone's once-in-a-lifetime memories could ensure you'd never get work again.
 
gimme30 said:
I've never thrown away a drive for that very reason, even the old SATA 2s or IDE. Learned early on you could never have too much backup. For almost 10 years after I got out of the Navy I made my living as a photographer, and losing someone's once-in-a-lifetime memories could ensure you'd never get work again.
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Well, hello, fellow squid. :) I'm medically retired US Navy since 1973 at 30%. LOL! I remember, when I lived in Texas, going on Carswell AF base in Ft Worth and a punk E5 guard mocked me for being retired as an E4 and wanted to know what I did to be so low. I just chuckled and said that I was medically retired and was only in for a bit over a year with 7 months of that in the hospital. Said, I made E4 in less than 5 months, how long did it take you? To be honest the E4 was due to automatic advances as I was a Nuke Puke. I went into boot as an E3 with no authority but got the pay. After boot I went to MM A school then what they called Academics. Talk about 'brain pain'! 6 weeks of 9 hours a day of math going from long division to physics and calculus. After acing that I was automatically E4.

Any way, as to drives, I honestly don't remember ever having one fail, just got too small. Shoot, the 1 TB drive in my Linux laptop is 14 years old and diagnostics still show zero errors. Still, the thing is, eventually there will be a drive failure. Especially spin drives are a combination of electronics and mechanical. It is not a matter IF they fail, but when. I think a major factor of my drive life is temperature. I keep my apartment, on average, 70-72F. I run my 2 desktops that hold the large drives with the side cover off. Heat is the enemy with both electronics and mechanical things such as bearings. I've actually tested this and, with the side covers off, temperatures are much lower than under the same situation with the side cover on.

Let's go back to my 14+ year old Asus laptop running Linux. Of course I can't run with a cover off but it is always on a good cooling pad with a large flow fan. I think this is a big factor with the thing running so long without ever having a fault. Again, heat is the enemy.
 
jaylach said:
.....and a punk E5 guard mocked me for being retired as an E4 and wanted to know what I did to be so low.
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LMAO! Seriously, was that a guard thing? I don't know anyone who served that hasn't experienced the same. I thought it was funny then and I still think it's funny now.😂

I've never had a drive fail either. I read somewhere that if an electronic device is going to fail, it's going to happen relatively quickly. Otherwise it's supposed to be good to at least the end of its service life. My ex used to kill them on a regular basis though. Maybe we're just lucky?
 
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