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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    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.