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Are there any guides on the most efficient way to set up a low-spec system? (piefed.social)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by djdarren@piefed.social to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world

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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?

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[–] djdarren@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

We have had the same PC streaming to Moonlight in the past, but that was back when it was running Windows. Also, we only had a 1080 TV then. Even downscaling Moonlight to 720 didn't really seem to make much difference.

Not being able to stream isn't really the end of the world, but it would be nice if I could work it out.

[–] BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

What resolution are you streaming to now? Make sure the game is being streamed at 1080p or 720p, and not aiming for the native resolution of your target device. Because if it's trying to stream at 4k for example it'll fail miserably.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

OK, now we know the hardware is capable. But there are still many other factors. I theorize it could be a driver. But for that it would be necessary to know distro, kernel version, hardware specs. It could be a kernel module that is not loaded on your distro version or it could be that the driver simply doesn't exist yet. It could be a configuration problem in moonlight. Explore those venues and report back with more info.