Getting Riff-Raff as my first joker activates all my dopamine receptors.

    • popcar2@programming.devOPEnglish
      9·
      2 months ago

      I got it from a Buffoon pack, but it’s still worth buying because it pays for itself. You get 2 jokers that are worth 1-2 dollars each, you can sell them if they’re not worth keeping and you can even get jokers like Egg and Mail-In-Rebate that gain you tons of money.

      It’s a life saver in ante 1-2

  • lemmyman@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 months ago

    Slightly OT, but my laptop sounds like a jet engine when I play Balatro. It’s a 2021 Precision 5650 (lightweight CAD workstation) with a Quattro GPU and integrated graphics. Power consumption roughly doubles and both my gpus are around ~40%. I have all settings to minimum.

    Same thing with many other games I’d think would be not too demanding. Thronefall, polybridge 2, etc

      • SagXDM
        9·
        2 months ago

        Yep Turn on VSYNC becuase Balatro FPS goes up to 500 to 1000 FPS even on Potato LOL

      • lemmyman@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 months ago

        Thanks for the tip. I just looked and I have vsync on. On my desktop machine, it uses about 10% gpu with vsync on and 40% with vsync off. On my laptop, it’s about 40% regardless of the setting.

        C’est la vie

        • lemmyman@lemmy.world
          4·
          2 months ago

          Update: turning on vsync in Nvidia control panel did the trick, now gpu is at ~10% on my laptop. Strange to me that it overrides the application settings but i guess I’m just getting out of touch with tech stuff

          • lemmyman@lemmy.world
            2·
            2 months ago

            One more update: I checked back later and vsync was off again. I had set it to “on” in Nvidia control panel, and after some time doing other things (not a reboot) I started Balatro and it was using a lot of GPU again - Nvidia control panel reverted to the “off” setting.

            There are various reports of other utilities taking over vsync and other graphics settings (a big one is f.lux but I don’t have thaty installed). I think that Dell Optimizer’s “Applications” settings might have reset it, so I turned that function off (that is one difference between my Dell laptop and my homebuilt desktop). So far so good.

    • SagXDM
      3·
      2 months ago

      You should repaste your CPU. It will reduce heating.