Hello fellow RTX 3080 users.
Has anyone tried to downvolt the 3080 FE using CoreCtrl?
Is Corectrl the recommended option for underclocking RTX'es, or are there other better alternatives out there (ideally within Solus repo)?
Additionally, does Solus Budgie work well with a 4K monitor setup?
Thank you.
snowee Additionally, does Solus Budgie work well with a 4K monitor setup?
Solus Budgie has indifferent (to say the least) fractional scaling capabilities, which might create issues with a 4K monitor, assuming that 100/200% isn't sufficient to meet your needs. Solus Plasma has excellent fractional scaling, in contrast. If you prefer Budgie to Plasma, try Budgie at 200%, and see if it works for you. If not, look into Plasma.
does fractional scaling affect gaming on Steam (Solus Budgie) ?
are there any screenshots or youtube videos on how fractional scaling affects typical desktop usage on Solus Budgie?
Thank you
murbert It has 100, 200 or 300%
300%? I haven't seen that one in Budgie yet. There are other distros that include the GNOME implentation of fractional scaling in their Budgie editions, though. Zorin is one, and I've seen others. They're scaled in increments of 25%, like 125%, 150%, and so on. In my experience, they don't work well, so if fractional scaling is needed, it's a lot better to use a KDE implementation like Solus Plasma.
tomscharbach
(edited my earlier post to indicate "the lack of" fractional scaling)
does the lack of fractional scaling affect 4K gaming on Steam (Solus Budgie) ?
are there any screenshots or youtube videos on how the lack of fractional scaling affects typical desktop usage on Solus Budgie?
Thank you
snowee This article gives a basic but reasonably clear explanation of how fractional scaling works. Display scaling -- the need for it or not -- depends on the size of your monitor and the acuteness of your eyes.
Like most people, I tend to view my computer screens from 24"-30" away. At that distance, 1920x1080 resolution is too small to comfortably read on my 13.5" laptop, marginal on my 15" laptop, but fine on my 27" desktop monitor. As a result, I scale at 150% on the 13.5" laptop display, 125% on the 15" laptop display and 100% on the 27" desktop display.
Scaling changes what you see on the screen, obviously. This is what I see on Plasma at different scaling at 1920x1080 resolution, using this page as an example:
100% (27" desktop)
125% (15" laptop)
150% (13.5" laptop)
Obviously, less content is displayed the higher the scaling, but it beats having a lot of content too small to read.
Scaling is universal, so Steam games display differently depending on the scaling selected. The issue you are most likely to encounter is that games are inconsistent with respect to supporting 4K. It is much better now than it was 3-4 years ago, but 4K scaling support isn't yet universal. Depending on what games you play, it is possible that you might run into a frame rate issue with a 4K display -- 4k pushes a lot more pixels than UHD -- but I doubt that given your GPU.
The lack of fractional scaling is no different for a game than it is for any other application, and a 4K monitor is no different than a UHD monitor in this respect, in the sense that what counts is what you can see comfortably on the display. The reason that Budgie's relative lack of fractional scaling (100%/200%/300% but nothing in between, like 125% or 150%) might present a problem is that you are less likely to find a combination of display size and scaling that works well for you.
I can't show you fractional scaling on Budgie because I use Plasma, but the screenshots above should give you an idea.
WetGeek Do you both use budgie-control-center?
WetGeek 300%? I haven't seen that one in Budgie yet.
I had the same thought, but I think I figured out the answer. We are both using UHD 1920x1080 displays, on which 300% would be useless. @murbert is using a 2560x1600 display, at which 300% is probably quite workable. My guess is that's why we don't see anything above 200% but @murbert does. Windows works that way, too. On my UHD computers, the stock Windows fractionals are 100/125/150/175, but when I go into the advanced settings, I can go up to 500% (read the screen one letter at a time, I guess). If I remember correctly, a 4K 17" XPS display I looked at the other day was set to "250% (Recommended)" and scaling stock sets went up to 400%.
WetGeek it's the Budgie fork of gnome-control-center, designed to be paired with Budgie.
https://github.com/BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-control-center
[deleted] it's the Budgie fork of gnome-control-center
In fact, I do have it installed on my Budgie VM. I must have done that in the past, when we discussed it here, and forgot about it. I can launch it, but as soon as I click the mouse on it, I get a segmentation fault. Having read @tomscharbach's answer, it makes total sense.
tomscharbach I'm thinking you've made a good hypothesis. It's a 32 inch monitor tho, so 100% scaling is perfect for me
WetGeek I can launch it, but as soon as I click the mouse on it, I get a segmentation fault.
Odd ... I noticed that VirtualBox's guest additions weren't installed on my Budgie VM, because with its display set to 1920x1080, it had scroll bars. So I installed the guest additions and rebooted, after which I was able to launch Budgie Control Center from the menu, and I could access it without any segmentation faults. Go figure!
Thanks for your detailed reply.
Having been used to Solus Budgie for some years, I am thinking if there is a workaround to using a 4K setup on Budgie. I prefer not to switch DE to Plasma just for the sake of 4K native support.
Here is my idea, do you think it will work?
snowee Can fullscreen applications change the res above the desktop resolution? Just wondering, I've never checked that.
