How to boost gaming performance?

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Sure everyone can make their mind.

Still i’m not wrong at all, you just operate from a very different perspective of ideal platonic forms of “normal use”.

I on the other hand speak on very specific worst case scenarios, because they’re much more important in my view, with a mindset of avoiding any potential of SSD thrashing situation like a plague, and offering a quick test conditions to see that i’m not wrong on how much thrashing can be caused.

You simply can’t guarantee from worst cases with classic disk swap, nobody can, some OOM or other type of crap will happen eventually - swap will thrash and you may be late to the party, i don’t like even idea of that, i value my SSDs.

Therefore if you choose to use swap at all (still in my view debatable on desktop system, absolute must on server / production system) - zram is definitely a better option in every way, RAM doesn’t care of how much and how fast you’ll write under some desperate conditions, it’s just healthier.

[mihalycsaba]

1. try steam-native
2. check protondb
3. radv is usually faster than amdvlk, there are only a handful of games that need amdvlk
4. maybe the zen kernel is faster
5. some games will run better with older proton versions

• bonus probably snake oil tips: try proton-ge and/or compile proton-ge with -march=native

[mihalycsaba]

just tried irqbalance, made things stutter regularly. didn’t do any configs though.