I’ve recently resurrected my partner’s old gaming PC by wiping the Windows install and putting Kubuntu on it. It’s a reasonably old machine at this point, but it’s still capable enough to play games like Red Dead 2 without any issues.

It’s running an AMD 8120 3.10Ghz CPU, with an Nvidia GTX 1060 GPU, with 16Gb RAM.

The GPU happens to be the minimum spec for Cyberpunk, which runs pretty well on it. I have the Nvidia drivers installed and everything seems ok in that regard.

The trouble comes when I try to stream it to, well, anything other than its own screen. With both Steamlink and Sunshine/Moonlight it’s unplayable. If/when a game does finally load, it runs at a good 5fps.

I’m pretty new to Linux gaming, so don’t really know where to start, so also don’t really know what questions I need to ask in the first place.

So yeah, which are the best guides to look at to figure out how best to optimise my setup?

  • Strider@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Thanks for your response to op, in my words answering him I would just sound like an elitist asshole 😁.

    There are just so many gaps to fill and it’s not an issue of the hardware as far as I can guess.

    • djdarren@piefed.socialOPEnglish
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      9 hours ago

      I have to admit, I’ve not replied to the previous comment because it came across as condescending. Helpful in its way, but condescending enough to be unhelpful.

      But I would like to respond to this one.

      I never actually stated there was a problem with the hardware, and I didn’t actually ask for any specific help with my setup. I’m aware of my own limitations as I’m new to both gaming PCs and Linux. What I actually asked for was if anyone knew of any useful guides I could browse to help me get an understanding of what I need to optimise. Perhaps I shouldn’t have offered any further context to what I’m trying to achieve, because that’s just served to allow three different people in the replies to criticise my ability to request support.

      I’m happy to admit that I don’t know what I’m on about here, but I am willing to learn, and I’m happy to take on board that maybe I need to be clearer in future. But the attitude from several in these replies has come across as almost gatekeeping. A weary sigh of a comment, a reluctant imparting of knowledge, for which the only payment is me knowing my place.

      • Strider@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        8 hours ago

        Thank you.

        I’ve been in IT for decades and also privately (non pro non esport - for fun!) gaming. So I know my stuff but also know that I don’t know everything.

        And I’m also Autist.

        So this in combination let’s me make statements which always arrive at neurotypicals as negative, how could it not? The reason not being that I want to hurt people, but rather that we communicate in content only and NT communicate between the lines; and that’s inserted automatically even if it’s not even sent. So yeah sucks for both sides (double empathy problem BTW).

        So what I see with a post like this is that the hardware is more than sufficient for many things, gaming works and… What? Streaming not? That’s basically the weakest in the equation.

        But then a lot of context is missing. Streaming TO or streaming FROM. Of yours the streaming from that device, encoding, that’s another thing. That might cause issues although picking the right encoding in hardware should also be OK.

        And streaming TO there should not be an issue at all.

        So I am left guessing. The hardware is fine (that’s where that conclusion, not underhanded ‘you said’ came from) and the issue must be with software or skills (again, not blaming, everyone including me has this all the time and might require more knowledge for this specific case).

        So, maybe I gave you some (also unexpected) insight in why I reacted like this.

        Also, nonwithstanding, autists can also be assholes aside from this. And techies especially, too. But having had some of our experiences with people that’s often very understandable, too.

        • djdarren@piefed.socialOPEnglish
          2·
          8 hours ago

          Yeah, it’s cool.

          I’m ADHD as fuck, my partner is autistic as fuck (with probably a large sprinkle of ADHD too), so I get the communication thing. But also, being ADHD, I tend to either comment with all the context anyone could possibly ever need (and more), or with broad strokes because I want to achieve something but also want to go off and focus on something else. I can be very difficult to live with. My partner is a saint.

          But yeah, I get that - as an IT professional - you come to support requests with a certain level of weariness. I work in engineering health and safety, so I know how thoughtless people can be.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      22 hours ago

      Yeah, its probably worth clarifying that being able to actually describe, in detail, the problem you are having… that in and of itself is a very, incredibly useful skill to have or to develop, if anybody wants to get more proficient with linux particularly, but really with any kind of complex thing or process at all.

      The better you get at asking for help, the better you get at recieving help, generating a useful discussion.