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You will want to force your CPU into high performance mode for Vulkan games on Linux
23 Mar 2017 at 1:09 pm UTC
23 Mar 2017 at 1:09 pm UTC
Quoting: buenaventuraHow do you do this? Entering bios with F2 during boot, I see no option to turn Turbo on/off. Perhaps it is not supported by my "AMD A8-6410 with Radeon R5 Graphics (up to 2.4ghz)". However, in bios it says that my computer has only 2000mhz cpu freq, so clearly the CPU is not turboin :PIt might be throttling down some GHz as it doesn't need them in BIOS.
You will want to force your CPU into high performance mode for Vulkan games on Linux
23 Mar 2017 at 1:03 pm UTC
Maybe giving suid root to the called executables would make a smaller security hole.
23 Mar 2017 at 1:03 pm UTC
Quoting: HailToTheGrailYou could give setuid a try. Make a shell script as root, and then:Of course, this gives root access to somebody able to login as you (and edit the script).chmod u+s script.sh
You should be able to run it as a user with it's owner rights, which are root.
Maybe giving suid root to the called executables would make a smaller security hole.
You will want to force your CPU into high performance mode for Vulkan games on Linux
23 Mar 2017 at 11:38 am UTC
23 Mar 2017 at 11:38 am UTC
Quoting: M@GOidFor a more easy way to change the settings, install the package "indicator-cpufreq"("sudo apt install indicator-cpufreq" for those of you in Ubuntu). It will show a icon in your taskbar were with 2 mouse clicks you can change to the Performance governor and back. I use it for both AMD and Intel CPUs for years and it works great, for any DE.Sounds good, thanks!
You will want to force your CPU into high performance mode for Vulkan games on Linux
23 Mar 2017 at 10:42 am UTC
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTM3NDQ [External Link]
The reality is that such control algorithms are CPU specific, the notion of a generic "for all cpus" governors is just outright flawed; hardware behavior is key to the algorithm in the first place....
23 Mar 2017 at 10:42 am UTC
Quoting: poisond@liamdaweI'm not 100% sure, but AFAIK, I found powersave and performance the only states implemented for my i3570K when I looked.
Uh, powersave isn't the default governor, at least it shouldn't be. powersave will run your CPU at the minimum freq.
You want ondemand.
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/cpu-freq/governors.txt [External Link]
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTM3NDQ [External Link]
The reality is that such control algorithms are CPU specific, the notion of a generic "for all cpus" governors is just outright flawed; hardware behavior is key to the algorithm in the first place....
You will want to force your CPU into high performance mode for Vulkan games on Linux
23 Mar 2017 at 10:03 am UTC
23 Mar 2017 at 10:03 am UTC
Quoting: buenaventuraHmm, does this setting the CPU governor to performance impact games otherwise you think (like, with OpenGL on a weak CPU?).It's worth a try. I had to do it - strange enough - for Limbo to work in the correct speed. :)
I have a AMD quadcore A8-6410 ("up to 2.4 ghz) on my laptop, and I struggle to play Shadow Tactics (and other unity games) on lowest settings, sometimes I think my CPU is at fault as much as my GPU. top reports around 250% CPU usage (which means 2.5 cores used I guess) for Shadow Tactics. Is it possible to increase that usage, you think?
The Whispered World Special Edition is now available for Linux
22 Mar 2017 at 8:30 pm UTC Likes: 1
Had to try, though. :-)
22 Mar 2017 at 8:30 pm UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: JudasIscariotThat one's a wee bit beyond my pay grade :P Points for effort, though :DThanks for your efforts at any rate! You're making penguins happy.
Had to try, though. :-)
The Whispered World Special Edition is now available for Linux
22 Mar 2017 at 8:05 pm UTC Likes: 3
22 Mar 2017 at 8:05 pm UTC Likes: 3
Quoting: JudasIscariotIt seems you forgot to add Witcher 3 for Linux as well, could you fix that, please? ;)Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoThe Linux download is not yet available on GOG...That's going to be rectified shortly, we just got done preparing it :)
edit: and now it's added :)
The Whispered World Special Edition is now available for Linux
22 Mar 2017 at 5:03 pm UTC
22 Mar 2017 at 5:03 pm UTC
Surprised by the reviews. Would have expected around 90%...
Yaakuro shows off SteamVR on Unreal Engine 4 using Vulkan on Linux
22 Mar 2017 at 2:01 pm UTC
Two of them, actually.
And an incredible experience.
22 Mar 2017 at 2:01 pm UTC
Quoting: lucifertdarkA VR headset is, among other stuff, a very fast very low latency high definition monitor.Quoting: bubexelVR is the future, when headset will be sold by 250 euros everybody will play with them, linux should be from begin.They'll have to be a lot cheaper than that to convince the masses.
Two of them, actually.
And an incredible experience.
Star Citizen to use Vulkan instead of DirectX 12 and drop DirectX 11 eventually
22 Mar 2017 at 2:01 pm UTC
It wasn't new then, obviously.
Or it wasn't legal.
22 Mar 2017 at 2:01 pm UTC
Quoting: lucifertdarkMonkey Island cost me £10 brand new in a box with a proper printed manual.Great.
It wasn't new then, obviously.
Or it wasn't legal.
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