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Valve Developer Improves The Linux Gaming Experience For Limited vRAM Hardware (www.phoronix.com)
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[-] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

It's on the AUR but you need a patched kernel which you can grab from catchyOS

Instructions are in the developer's blog post: https://pixelcluster.github.io/VRAM-Mgmt-fixed/

Q: I use another Arch-based distro! What now?

The dmemcg-booster and plasma-foreground-booster utilities are available in the AUR as well (plasma-foreground-booster carries the package name plasma-foreground-booster-dmemcg), so you can install them from there.

For the kernel side, you can either use the CachyOS kernel package on a non-CachyOS system by retrieving the package from their repository, or you can compile your own kernel. Installing linux-dmemcg from the AUR will compile the development branch I used to develop this. Being a development branch, this carries the risk of some stuff being broken, so install at your own risk!

If you want to apply the kernel patches yourself, you need these six .patch files: [links in blog]

I’m not sure how easily they apply on specific kernel versions, but feel free to leave a comment if you run into issues and I’ll try to help out.

[-] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Thank you for looking into, appreciate the help. I wanted to read the article later to figure out the details. I think a custom Kernel goes a bit too far for my taste, so will then wait until its officially integrated.

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