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

  • otp@sh.itjust.works
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    1 hour ago

    So, I changed my daily driver to linux several months ago and my gf a few weeks ago.

    …

    So, I changed […] my gf a few weeks ago.

    How’s the new girlfriend?

  • MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    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 .deb from 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 --help might 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.

    • lost_faith@lemmy.caOP
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      2 hours ago

      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

      • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
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        43 minutes ago

        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.

      • MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        2 hours ago

        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.)

    • lost_faith@lemmy.caOP
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      3 hours ago

      I’ll need to dig deeper, but she is guarding her pc like a mother lion guarding a cub. I ran the commands - vainfo, vdpauinfo, and vulkaninfo | grep VK_KHR_video_ only vulkaninfo kicked back what it should have. I tried the same commands on my system with the same results and we are using the proprietary Nvidia driver NVIDIA driver (open kernel) metapackage 580 (proprietary, tested) only on her system it doesn’t say “device using recomended driver” so I need to find the recommended one for her but she is in the middle of minecraft and youtube and doesn’t want to reboot now, hopefully sat I can when she is at work

      • Richie’s Computer Stuff@lemmy.ca
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        2 hours ago

        You said this happens during Elder Scrolls Online, right? Maybe have her close the game’s launcher while the game is running. In my case, I noticed jittery performance in everything, including moving the cursor, until I closed the launcher. May or may not be the issue, but it does sound similar to what happens to me when I leave that game’s launcher open.

        • lost_faith@lemmy.caOP
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          2 hours ago

          She does close it as even on windows she found it made the system laggy, and it appears hardware acceleration is on in firefox but I think the snap is installed (thought I installed the flatpak same install on my system), every setting is the same as mine.

  • rozodru@pie.andmc.caEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    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?

    • lost_faith@lemmy.caOP
      2·
      4 hours ago

      We are both running Kubuntu 24.04 with kde desktop. Oh, she can run minecraft and watch yt no problem. ESO is through lutris

      • rozodru@pie.andmc.caEnglish
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        2 hours ago

        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.

        • lost_faith@lemmy.caOP
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          2 hours ago

          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

  • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
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    6 hours ago

    and my gf a few weeks ago

    Most people loose their gf when switching to Linux. So congratz on your new gf too. :D

    • lost_faith@lemmy.caOP
      3·
      3 hours ago

      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

      • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
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        3 hours ago

        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.

  • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    what’s ESO?

    google suggests it’s elder scrolls online, but i’ve never heard this before