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wheeldawg Apr 6, 2025

Another EA issue

https://sh.itjust.works/post/35633214

Another EA issue - sh.itjust.works

I know the EA app has been a huge pain in the ass for deckers, but I’m hoping this part is easier to deal with. I currently have no problems running the app itself (for now). But I don’t think this issue is directly related. I’m trying to play “A Way Out” with someone, and it launches fine (but does look squished like the resolution is wrong even after changing it - nevermind seeing it to “windowed” or “borderless windowed” fixed that as I was typing this). The issue is I can’t seem to get the friends past to work to invite or accept invites. The friends UI is just great rounded rectangles that I can’t click on or interact with. All I can do is press escape to go back to the main menu. Any ideas? I don’t even have a guess what causes this. For what it’s worth, the EA app itself does the same thing on the right side. Looks very similar to how it does in game.

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wheeldawg Feb 25, 2025

Fair enough. Thank you sir/madam/other.

wheeldawg Feb 25, 2025

Question about (what I think are) gay selfies

https://sh.itjust.works/post/33423404

Question about (what I think are) gay selfies - sh.itjust.works

First, a little context. So this might have nothing to do with anything, but being ignorant about it, I’d like to at least make an attempt to figure out. I don’t actually know very many gay people in person. I have this one gay friend that lived near my childhood house. He’s like 10 years younger than me, he’s really more of my younger sibling’s friend than mine, but he’s often around when I see them, and we’ve had a bunch of weed sessions together. Anyway, I have him on snap because of this. On to the main question. He sends a lot of selfies to his story that have him with his tongue just hanging out as far as it goes. Given his flamboyance, I assume this means something gay, but I’m not sure. I feel like on Lemmy this goes without saying, but I’m totally supportive of that (in stark contrast to how I grew up), but this is such an odd quirk that I’ve never even heard mentioned in any other circumstance. I don’t necessarily think it’s a cutesy promiscuous thing, he’s had a boyfriend for a couple years now. Is this face gesture a thing? Or maybe it’s just a him thing…? Somebody here let me know.

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wheeldawg May 16, 2024

Edit- Game is still having problems even when launched from Steam.

I cannot get Battle.net to launch with any regular Proton version or Experimental. I also can only get it running with GE after version 8-26. (only 3 versions, 8-26, 9-1, and 9-5)

But every version up to 9-5 has the gray screen for a couple seconds, then the game closes with no error message.

wheeldawg May 13, 2024

Diablo 4 gray screen crash

https://sh.itjust.works/post/19254740

Diablo 4 gray screen crash - sh.itjust.works

So I’m getting the famous gray screen crash on trying to start the game. I have finally moved to Linux for my main machine and almost everything is running smoothly except this game in particular. I using Lutris to get to BattleNet. Overwatch 2 works great. But Diablo 4 just shows a gray screen for 2 or 3 seconds and then the window closes bringing me back to whatever was on the screen when it tried launching. I’ve seen a bunch of mentions of this issue, most are for the Steam Deck or are Windows-related, and I’ve seen a lot of posts about switching Proton versions and VKD3D versions, but I cannot seem to get a working combination to just get into the game. I don’t have a clue what is wrong or how to even diagnose what else to do here. All of the links I can find that mention anything. I had to stop after launch because my last machine only had 4GB of RAM and would choke after a few minutes, but this machine should not be having problems.

wheeldawg Sep 15, 2023

Nvidia issues

https://sh.itjust.works/post/5186013

Nvidia issues - sh.itjust.works

First of all, big surprise, right? Stuck with it for now, though. Not sure if AMD is actually any better at this point, but that’s a problem for a different time. So I’ve tried fedora now, (can list hardware later in post)and got it to install fine, did the system update, 4gb or so later, that’s good to go, so now I figure it’s time to get the GPU drivers working so I can make progress on making a daily driver out of this machine. There’s a lot of conflicting information and alternate routes to go with the drivers as I’ve gone to see, so that’s confusing enough already. So I’m on the KDE version of F38, since I would like to use Plasma. I found and installed the “latest” dkms driver via cuda. Haven’t made other changes at all yet. But at this point, it black screens after the grub menu. If I use nomodeset I can access the system, but I’m stuck in 1024x768. This is obviously terrible, I have a GPU for a reason and I would like it to work. Before installing these drivers I could at least use native resolution and native refresh rate. It’s defaulted to Wayland of course, which I hear can be another issue by itself, but I don’t know the pros and cons of it vs using X (or X11 it whatever is actually called). I also know the open drivers can have issues, but am not sure if they would be useful for me. Relevant hardware: MSI MAG Z790 i7 13700K RTX 3070 Ti So obviously these drivers don’t work for me, but I’m not sure what I need to do from here. Google got me this far, but there’s not a lot of mentioned of being forced to use nomodeset, and nothing relevant at all if how to get proper drivers installed properly. I did add the RPM Fusion repo, but haven’t used it yet. Or at least the free one, can’t remember if I added the non free one yet. Happy to find outputs of whatever you need, but I’m still very new to using a terminal, so I don’t know much about what I can do with it in general, much less what to do with it or try to look at in this specific case. I’ve picked up bits and pieces, but until I can get a working environment, learning is difficult.

wheeldawg Sep 5, 2023

Fresh newbie with a boot problem

https://sh.itjust.works/post/4425507

Fresh newbie with a boot problem - sh.itjust.works

Hello, Finally built a new rig, and wanted to ditch Windows. Got KDE neon up and running, booted into it, got my browser mostly back to how I like it, ran an update for my video card. I didn’t notice the screen blackout and come back like it normally would for a video update, but I don’t think that has anything to do with my current issue. I tried to restart to make sure it was running, and the update part of discover showed up and said I had a couple hundred updates to get, no big surprise there, since it is a fresh install. Then it hung on fetching updates, and while I could browse my list of programs, I couldn’t do anything else. So I did a hard shut down and powered back up. It sticks on some kennel warnings and won’t go any further. Obviously I can’t really do anything from there that I know of. I also can’t even get it to boot with the install media. That just sticks on a black screen. I can tell the monitor is actually showing black, as it doesn’t give the “NO SIGNAL” warning. I have no idea what to do from here since I can’t get it to react to anything, much less know how to fix anything if I could get in. As for what the warnings say, there are 6 or so lines saying the same thing: problem blacklisting hash (-13), and one more that says nvme2: failed to set APST feature (2) I haven’t put anything on nvme2 yet, I haven’t even formatted it yet, just the primary drive (nvme0). So I’m not sure what could possibly be wrong with it yet.

wheeldawg Jul 24, 2023

Is the crashing just me? It happens so often.

https://sh.itjust.works/post/1631938

Is the crashing just me? It happens so often. - sh.itjust.works

My game crashes VERY frequently. I can’t run any dungeons solo, because I will almost certainly crash while doing it, thereby losing my progress. I’m just trying to finish the thing, and not being able to grind reliably is killing my enjoyment of this game. It doesn’t happen predictably, and doesn’t happen when I’m doing any specific thing in particular. Not even able to guess based on time passed. Sometimes I can come back and rejoin my party and instant crash, every now and then I can get over an hour. It’s not a hardware problem or driver problem. I don’t even know what else to do about it. I had been hearing others had the problem, but that quieted down a few patches ago. It never got better for me. This has persisted since I got the game about a week or so after launch. Is it really just me now? I really want to make some progress, but side quests and cellars can only help so much and I don’t always have friends on. Playing a dungeon over and over in hopes it won’t crash this time is extremely frustrating. Can make it through maybe 1 out of 3 times. Even if it was just once out of ten it would be too much to want to keep trying.