Running Kubuntu atm but looking to see if I can get more out of my hardware. I booted up Cachy last night from ISO and it took barely any of my ram, 3gb I think, for the test I was going to install Steam and link to my existing game library mounting my kubuntu drive. My VR experience is quite acceptable at the moment, but it could be better. I get occasional stutters and sometimes I am put into the steamVR environment for a second if I turn too fast, I am hoping a more up to date kernel could help. Using the steam system monitor shows that when this happens my CPU/GPU/RAM are never close to being at 100% often at or less than 75% usage each, though the FPS is often around 40 - 60 (og vive headset, on windows rarely went above 50fps often down to 30). Hardware is Ryzen9 9950X and Radeon RX 9070XT OC. So the questions are:
- Will everything just "work" as stated? Install steam, link to steam library for games (I expect these to just work, downloading for a one off test will take a long time on a problem game of 15+gb) and steamvr (this is my kinda concern, though it should be small enough to install in ram if necessary)?
- I have 64gb ram, will this run similarly to being properly installed on an m.2 drive?
- Is there anything I should look out for when doing this?
Any tips, suggestions, or links would be appreciated. I am not at my pc but should be able to answer most questions.
Asking here as this IS gaming related, but if another place would be better I will move the post there.
In general I was thinking; If you keep your steam library to a seperate partition you can easily mount that in the same matter as you would now, making the Steam migration very easy, while making your root and home partition(s) fresh otherwise
I'm not sure about migrating a single game, Steam is keeping a database (VDF-something if I recall correctly) of what you have installed, so it might get a bit confused if it suddenly only finds a single game.
If you have sufficient space on your drive(s) you could:
I think this blog covers the topic
EDIT: ArchWiki on sharing drive with Windows
I didn't think of launching the kubuntu installed steam but to install fresh in the ram, I have a second m.2 2tb that just needs to be installed in my pc if I am going to install Cachy, but since I took 0 security precautions on my install I didn't think there would be an issue seeing the .steam folder.
I'll check that link
I didn't bother with windows on this machine, my last was dual boot
Thank you
The mounting the partition with the current Kubuntu install was just to ensure that the data migration was working as-is, i.e. a sanity check.
And the ArchWiki link was more for the general concept of sharing drive between OSes, you can ignore the Windows specifics
Good luck with the setup, it should be doable :)
Thank you