So, I changed my daily driver to linux several months ago and my gf a few weeks ago. I noticed 2 strange but good things after the change. For my system I have a onboard sound card (stereo) and am using 3 of the 5 speakers for my decade or so old Creative labs 5.1 speakers. Under win 10 most of my sound came from the left and centre speakers with base cannon doing its thing, under linux using the generic drivers included during install all 3 desktop speakers put out the appropriate sound. YAY!
My gf is using my old hand me down prebuilt. Under win 10 the fans on that thing would be kicking on and off constantly, I could hear the fans over the running water doing dishes. Now? 99% of the time is straight silence unless she is playing ESO.
Only issue left on her machine is having it be able to play ESO and be able to watch a yt vid at the same time. Right now it is ESO and nothing else, when she tries the whole system lags until she can move the mouse painfully slowly to the browsers X. forget which intel cpu is in there(it’s about 8-10 yrs old iirc), GTX 1060 6 3gb, and 16gb ram, Kubuntu 24.04, KDE. Are we asking too much of the system, did I misconfigure something? She was able to do this on windows
and my gf a few weeks ago
Most people loose their gf when switching to Linux. So congratz on your new gf too. :D
I was smart(mostly), tested everything on other systems, my laptop has a similar gpu, and left her an escape valve by buying a new m.2 and putting the old one in storage.
We been together 20 yrs, she trusts me. Maybe she turns into a stocking wearing cat-girl… hehe
I do this too btw, when installing new os I always put the old drive out as a backup. You could make a present with cat girl ears xD wish you good luck. And btw also good luck on Linux.
yeah probably hardware accelration on the browser. could also be the DE/WM you’re using on it.
What desktop environment and/or window manager is she using on the laptop?
We are both running Kubuntu 24.04 with kde desktop. Oh, she can run minecraft and watch yt no problem. ESO is through lutris
yeah try turning off the hardware accelration on the browser…which browser btw?
if the hardware accelration doesn’t work check the Lutris forums and/or discord to see if anyone has come across the issue. Have you tried running ESO via steam at all? potentially could also check it via protondb.com if you try to run it via steam.
Generally though there should be scripts with Lutris to install it correctly. But i’d still check with the Lutris forum/discord (they’re really nice and helpful dudes) if the browser thing doesn’t work.
it is Firefox(snap), she only has her account with the official site, not the steam version, I did find that wonderful script for ESO in lutris. I was just suggested gamescope to look at as well
Don’t run snaps. Download the .appimage/tarball of firefox and/or chrome .deb file, and try with that. The snap packages have weird restrictions that could create problems with other apps. Another thing to try is try another DE that allows more than 1 hw accelerated app at a time, the fastest to install and without conflicting with your kde, is xfce (use X11).
Yeah, I am finding I like snaps less and less, tho I do like the sandbox aspect (her grandson will be using this system from time to time so I feel some sand boxing would be appropriate). will I need to manually update her ff if its an appimage? The only appimage I am using right now is WLX overlay and other than “everything is there” I don’t recall if it will update itself.
No, it won’t update itself. This is just to try if the problem improves.
Ahh, thank you. Will try that as well
Right now it is ESO and nothing else, when she tries the whole system lags until she can move the mouse painfully slowly to the browsers X.
Maybe you should consider using
gamescope? This is what the steam deck uses internally to isolate games so that they fight with the window manager less often.On KDE Kubuntu, you should have no problem installing it if you’ve installed steam as a
.debfrom the website. Basically, install it either from source or repo (whichever is recommended for ubuntu) and then modify your steam game settings to something akin to the following:gamescope -f -- %command%This will launch the game in an isolated WM so that it interferes less with your existing window manager. There’s a tonne of settings, so
gamescope --helpmight give you more details.Steam is apparently working on making this easier to access by supplying it with all steam installations in the future, IIRC, but work there isn’t finished yet.
Oh nice, just read the page. I haven’t installed steam on her system yet as she doesn’t need it, she is running through lutris and this looks like it will work. I will definitely test this on sat when she isn’t home, thanks
Once gamescope even helped me recognizing my gamepad for a very specific game on Steam, which otherwise just didn’t want to. I think you can use gamescope without Steam too.
Let me know how it goes.
Another feature that might be useful in the arsenal is that you can purposely downclock the refresh rate of the gamescope session when the window is out-of-focus, which means you can put less burden on the computer when multi tasking. Obviously the game will run at a lower frame rate when focus is away, but this might be OK if you want to free up more system resources for watching videos.
But like the other use said, a good place to start is making sure hardware accel is on within Firefox (or whatever browser you’re using.)
what’s ESO?
google suggests it’s elder scrolls online, but i’ve never heard this before
Yes, shes been playing since launch
