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So prior to the mesa change what fps were you getting, was it about the same as the screen w/o the proton change? Just to be clear I'm talking about this mesa change: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/25060?commit_id=51eb072eb666aebf6b5342bfef0097f39f202b1c I'm not too familiar with gitlab so I had an aneurysm trying to figure where *the version you used is. But yea if those gains are from the proton change alone, and you had an increase from just the new mesa stuff before that,then the proton gains you got were more than expected. If your fps before the mesa changes was like ~40fps then the fps doubling claim seems a little more likely to be true, which is insane. I'm not even a Linux gamer but that would be awesome *edit: they->the

My understanding is that most of the perf gains will come from the recent mesa changes. Did the version you use have those? If so this seems like a pretty significant boost from just the proton change which is only expected to give a few percentage points. Also if you are on the new mesa changes, what was your perf before those?

If your claim about the fps is legitimate, the big performance gain is probably not coming from the vkd3d-proton changes. If you look at the pr comments the dev says that their change should only be a few percentage points. You can read more about how incredibly stupid that post is in this thread here. As the devs point out in the thread and on the github pr, the perf gains on linux are coming from a driver optimization in mesa/vulkan. Note that this optimization is something that the dev in the thread sees as the responsibility of driver devs, and not Bethesda. What is true though then is that microsoft needs to optimize their shit, and that this is a win for Linux/open source.

How likely do you think a BIOS update would cause problems?

The Problem: Following crashes Crashes/problems (restarting during a windows update, bad overclock causing crash, GPU crash etc), my BIOS will sometimes switch the boot order of my drives. I suspect my bios, boot loader, or windows install is corrupted but I do not know what the course of action should be. I've seen that BIOS updates have bricked computers or caused other complications so I am wary of trying that. I have also never reset my CMOS before however. I'd rather not do a fresh install ifif possible because that would be a bigger headache. Things to note: My motherboard bios (ASUS z170 ws) is not at the newest version Crashes/problems I've had in the past would also cause the intel rapid storage RAID menu to show up even though I've never enabled it and do not have any RAIDs setup; i.e it has only shown up following some crash or complication.

Thanks it worked! I can actually change the colors but I only want white light anyway. Though, the color temperature is a bit off from the white i want.. oh well good enough

So the voltages are compatible? The only thing is i wont be able to control the color of the fans

Connecting these won't blow out my fans will it?

I have these fans that came with my new case And I have two of these RGB lighting kits The power connectors for the strips and the fans look the same, and they are both 12 volt from what I can see, but I feel like connecting the fans to the power brick might blow something out. Is this likely to happen or am I good to go?