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The Murderous Cop:
is it possible to use a lightweight distro on a stuffty PC to make some games run better?
ex. Lubuntu + TF2 + lower graphix cfgs + other settings = faster than winDOS?
Steve5451²:
--- Quote from: The Murderous Cop on March 12, 2017, 04:22:41 PM ---is it possible to use a lightweight distro on a stuffty PC to make some games run better?
ex. Lubuntu + TF2 + lower graphix cfgs + other settings = faster than winDOS?
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If it's got low ram then there's a fair chance it will. It really depends on the game though. If it was originally made with DirectX and ported to OpenGL it'll likely have worse performance.
If you plan on using Wine then you'll get much worse performance.
d:
--- Quote from: The Murderous Cop on March 12, 2017, 04:22:41 PM ---is it possible to use a lightweight distro on a stuffty PC to make some games run better?
ex. Lubuntu + TF2 + lower graphix cfgs + other settings = faster than winDOS?
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Probably. Assuming you have less stuff running with the proper drivers ( nouveau, proprietary, mesa, etc. ) it should run just fine.
The Murderous Cop:
--- Quote from: Steve5451² on March 12, 2017, 04:27:46 PM ---If it's got low ram then there's a fair chance it will. It really depends on the game though. If it was originally made with DirectX and ported to OpenGL it'll likely have worse performance.
If you plan on using Wine then you'll get much worse performance.
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in the case of TF2, it runs natively on linux. however, i'm unsure if there's any way to use it on dx8/9 or something. unsure what it even uses.
the computer also has like 2GB of ram, so that's something.
d:
--- Quote from: The Murderous Cop on March 12, 2017, 04:42:52 PM ---however, i'm unsure if there's any way to use it on dx8/9 or something.
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What do you mean by this? DirectX is not a Linux compatible thing.. you can still use -dxlevel [number], but it only does minor changes. Team Fortress uses OpenGL on Linux.