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pelinio
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 Posted: Sun May 27, 2012 3:06 pm Post subject: Desktop enviroments & gaming |
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Hi im new user on gentoo and i want to ask do desktop enviroments play a good role on gaming??? (better fps etc...) and bad english of course  |
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audiodef
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I don't believe so. What you need are the libraries a game might require, xorg-server, and your video drivers. I'm inclined to think that the lighter your desktop, the more resources will be available for the game.
I used to want to run all my Windows games in Wine, but ended up deciding to dual-boot instead. The only thing my Windows partition gets used for is games.
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hasufell
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The only thing I can think of is the increased ram usage when using big desktop environments.
Sometimes compositing stuff can make trouble, but that is switchable like in KDE.
In general I wouldn't expect much of a difference. |
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PaulBredbury
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| Posted: Sun May 27, 2012 4:12 pm Post subject: Re: Desktop enviroments & gaming |
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| pelinio wrote: | | desktop enviroments |
Yes - choose one that uses less memory. I use XFCE.
I compile xorg-server with --disable-composite.
Probably more important than the desktop environment, is what widgets you're running, e.g. to show CPU activity - remove those.
Run the game with a heightened priority (both for CPU and I/O). Here's my list of tweaks. |
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chrisyu
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| Posted: Mon May 28, 2012 2:22 am Post subject: Re: Desktop enviroments & gaming |
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| PaulBredbury wrote: | | pelinio wrote: | | desktop enviroments |
Yes - choose one that uses less memory. I use XFCE.
I compile xorg-server with --disable-composite.
Probably more important than the desktop environment, is what widgets you're running, e.g. to show CPU activity - remove those.
Run the game with a heightened priority (both for CPU and I/O). Here's my list of tweaks. |
I'm using gnome 3 now, I couldn't switch to other program using alter-tab when I am running a fullscreen game. How is it in XFCE?
It could be done before, about gnome 2.2's time (maybe earlier than that, not very sure). |
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PaulBredbury
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Alt+Tab isn't something that I care about.
I just tried with ut2004, and Alt+Tab doesn't work (is recognized as a tab in ut2004's main menu). Alt+Enter will turn ut2004 into a small window, but the mouse pointer doesn't leave ut2004's window.
However, I run most wine games in a separate X session (because that's easiest to *kill* them when they misbehave), using e.g. xinit, and then one can Alt+F7 (etc.) between the separate X sessions. |
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pelinio
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| Posted: Mon May 28, 2012 2:28 pm Post subject: |
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| OK thanks for the replies so what do u recommend openbox, xfce or gnome 2 ? |
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PaulBredbury
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| pelinio wrote: | | what do u recommend openbox, xfce or gnome 2 ? |
Personally, I would choose XFCE. It's a proper desktop (a "full environment"), in active development (4.10 is out), and I know it works OK.
I would not choose Gnome 2, due to lack of maintainership (just the Linux Mint devs AFAIK). |
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chrisyu
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| Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 2:06 am Post subject: |
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| PaulBredbury wrote: | Alt+Tab isn't something that I care about.
I just tried with ut2004, and Alt+Tab doesn't work (is recognized as a tab in ut2004's main menu). Alt+Enter will turn ut2004 into a small window, but the mouse pointer doesn't leave ut2004's window.
However, I run most wine games in a separate X session (because that's easiest to *kill* them when they misbehave), using e.g. xinit, and then one can Alt+F7 (etc.) between the separate X sessions. |
OK, thanks.
Will try the separate X session way. |
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pelinio
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It's a glorified ad for Ubuntu.
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