It ain't stupid if it works

March 27, 2024 - 6 mins read

How I somewhat got around my shitty DSL download speeds Recently I reset my computer because it was unbearibly slow from time to time. I wiped all my harddrives and re-installed Windows 11. When I re-installed the first game from my Steam library, Baldur’s Gate 3 which clocks in at around 150 GB download size, it hit me: my internet sucks. With a measly 70 Mbps download, it would take me almost 5 hours to download the game and that is just one of the many games I wanted to install.

Remove Youtube Statement Banner

November 16, 2023 - 1 min read

How to remove the Statement / Theme Banners from YouTube After years of these super annoying YouTube banners, I hacked together a little script that removes them from the DOM upon finding one. To run this, you need to install something like Tampermonkey (available for Firefox and Chrome) and create a new userscript with the following code: // ==UserScript== // @name Fuck YouTube Theme banners // @namespace https://codef0x.dev // @version 1.

Import Witcher 3 Savegame Linux Proton

July 4, 2021 - 1 min read

Import Witcher 3 save games from GOG to Steam in Linux Proton I recently bought Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt on Steam and wanted to import my savegames from the GOG version. In Windows, that’s easy: install the Witcher 3 on Steam, boot it up and press continue; your savegames will be there, as they’re saved in Users\you\Documents\The Witcher 3 and both games use that location to store their savegames at.

Fix Lagging Darksouls3 Linux

June 28, 2021 - 1 min read

The issue Dark Souls 3 can be pretty laggy when running with Proton on Linux. According to my FPS counter, it would run at a constant 60 FPS (it’s locked to 60 by the game), but it didn’t feel like 60 FPS at all. Sometimes I even had very noticable lag spikes. The solution To fix this issue, create a file called dxvk.conf in the root directory of your Dark Souls 3 installation.

Fix Ark Proton Stuttering

June 17, 2021 - 1 min read

Foreword If you have an NVIDIA GPU, you can try my other fix for stuttering games under Linux Proton. Maybe that fixes it. If that didn’t fix it or you have an AMD GPU, keep on reading. Editing ARK’s launch options via Steam Inside your Steam library, do the following: right-click on ARK: Survival Evolved click on “Properties” paste RADV_PERFTEST=aco %COMMAND% in the input field below “Launch Options” close out the window with the x-button That should be it.

Steam Proton Shader Cashing

June 17, 2021 - 1 min read

Disclaimer: This only works for NVIDIA cards! When I first tried out Steam’s Proton support, I noticed that DOOM Eternal wasn’t running smooth at all. I would be at a constant 75 FPS according to my FPS counter, but I still experienced a lot of stutters / micro lags while playing. How I fixed the stuttering issue create a directory for the games to cache their shaders, e. g. /home/you/Shaders declare the following environment variables: __GL_SHADER_DISK_CACHE_SKIP_CLEANUP and set it to 1 __GL_SHADER_DISK_CACHE_PATH and set it to the path of your earlier created shaders directory However, this only fixes it for your current session.