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?
16 GB RAM is sufficient, though with an FX 8120, Kubuntu might be a bit steep… if you want an Ubuntu, I would strongly suggest Lubuntu for the lightweightness, unless you absolutely need Wayland.
As for the Moonlight problem, make sure you have the nvidia drivers installed, and you also use nvenc to encode in h264 or h265.
Last I saw kde was less resource intensive? Been a bit tho
1.6 GB RAM KDE vs 500 MB RAM LXqt last I checked