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Hey folks,

I just finished my Arch setup with:

• CachyOS + sched_ext
• scx_lavd (big thanks to u/htejun , u/ptr1337 , u/multics69 and u/Byte_Lab for doing a great job here!)
• X11 (root mode) + KDE (no composition)
• Disabled CPU mitigations
• Disabled Watchdogs etc. etc.

Next I would like to have a look into CPU isolation for gaming.
I know that I need to set nohz_full=1-9 to tell the kernel not ticking my last 9 cores (I guess RCU Callbacks are set properly then as well rcu_nocbs=?), but I'm struggling to setup my housekeeping core (0) properly with systemd and running the process in the right cgroup.

To move IRQs I'm using:

# Migrate irqs to CPU 0 for I in $(ls /proc/irq) do if [[ -d "/proc/irq/$I" ]] then echo "Affining vector $I to CPUs 0-6" echo 0 > /proc/irq/$I/smp_affinity_list fi done

I guess I can automate that step later with a proper irqbalance config and the systemd service.

Now the part I'm struggling with:
To move the processes to the housekeeping core I tried part 3.1 of this guide, in plain sysfs.
I guess it worked for the kernel threads but not for the processes and I have the feeling it's systemd controlling the processes' cgroups.

So I tried to move all processes to core 0 by using:

systemctl set-property system.slice --runtime AllowedCPUs=0 systemctl set-property init.scope --runtime AllowedCPUs=0 systemctl set-property user.slice --runtime AllowedCPUs=0

But now if I want to create a new slice for steam, wine or proton it's being created under user-1000.slice which is part of user.slice.

Does anybody have experience with CPU isolation for gaming and some more ideas?

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So many times, usually the first launch of a game in Steam it will first give a window of processing vulkan shaders. And that can take a really long time for some games, like 45 min easily.

And with CSGO2 I also noticed it again, but I never let it finish because I just wanted to play and I had an option to skip it. But what does that even mean? And does it not matter if I skip it? does it change visuals of a game in any way? Like will the game look better if I do let it finish?

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Okay, I'm gonna go ahead and need Iron Gate to make a Valheim anime now. The Valheim: Ashlands update has landed and the trailer is simply awesome.

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So, I've more or less settled on using CachyOS as distro, though it offers many DE, in which I know KDE is a safe choice. I do wonder how good would behave UKUI, or what impact it can have on framerate in gaming. Or on everyday use.

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Manjaro 24.0, based on Arch Linux, has been released pulling in a whole lot of upgrades across every part of the system.

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Ready for more strategy games with a blending of RPG mechanics? Broken Alliance from the Death and Taxes dev gives strong Heroes of Might and Magic vibes.

i have GTA 5 Game raw copy which is the whole game by itself not tied in a launcher , i use arch Linux how do i run it in my Linux

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Here's an upcoming sanbox horror game that has an amusing idea. You've been cloned! And you need to take out your clone before you're killed.

While we have Wine and Proton nowadays, they're not always the best solution and one developer decided to get RPG Maker MV/MZ games on Linux.

So i've just installed Homeworld 3.
Its been 21 years and yet no worthy replacement of the masterpiece that is homeworld..

While the 3d navigation seems to be more intuitive now i cannot feel like some depth of tactical decisions have been stripped from this one.

• you cannot store fighter wings in you carriers to protect them from flack
  -run and gun is gone

-the pathing is suspiciosly 2d (in the same plane), and your units colide with objects in the environment.
-ships roles seem to not matter so much.

Is it just me? I am looking now at some other titles worthy of space combat rts. Are there any?

distro: Garuda (arch) / nvidia3060 64gb ram overall the games runs great and flawlessly perfomance wise.

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Recently the Aleph One team released the classic Bungie shooter Marathon on Steam, as I covered previously, but it's only officially for macOS and Windows despite it supporting Linux. Now you can use Luxtorpeda for it.

Well, Nintendo aren't going to be happy about this one are they. A developer going by Mr-Wiseguy released an open source tool for bringing Nintendo 64 titles to any platform, and released a PC port of Zelda: Majora's Mask.

So I'm kinda new to Linux and installed Nvidia drivers on fedora. I have been experiencing some sort of screen tearing? It looks like whenever I'm running graphically intense games it just in between frames where it renders the next frame, showing it and jumping to the last frame again and the whole experience feels pretty laggy. I already had this issue back on windows but I fixed it by turning off G-Sync. But I am unable to disable it or even know wheter or not it is even turned on because although I have the drivers, the settings are pretty lackluster. They just show some system information. Does anyone have a fix for this?

https://preview.redd.it/ityt85wisc0d1.png?width=712&format=png&auto=webp&s=704034ce053ff166aae3adddb44474e8a8fa4a59

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Glorious eggroll got to go on the destination linux channel/podcast

They discussed about cheating on linux and how it would be a lot more harder to create cheats under a proton game as it would require the cheat maker to know how wine and proton works, windows works aswell and linux in general with development to get it working. glorious also says that wine is VERY finicky and if you dont know what your doing wine can break easily, overall its not worth the time and effort for creating cheats on linux

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first time linux user here and wanted to play some apex. installed it and now am just stuck on initalizing. . .been on it for about 15 min wondering if i need to install something or if i just wait. btw using dual boot and have apex on windows aswell

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Post here so we can get a notification when it's spotted in the wild.

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