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How to diagnose/fix TF2 performance issues, despite good FPS?

I'm running Ubuntu 13.04 with an AMD 6630M and the AMD 13.4 drivers. I run Team Fortress on Windows on the same machine, and despite getting 30-40 fps, the game is quite playable, very smooth and ...
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Many games stuttery - nvidia

Many games I play are stuttery, (run at a fine fps, but pause randomly every second or so). This happens both when running a native game such as Amnesia, and a game through wine like LoL or WoW. ...
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How to remove performance lags while playing Ragnarok on Wine?

I have just installed Wine and PlayOnLinux. Its performance is very lagging when I run the game (Ragnarok) and type my username and password. How can I improve the performance and remove any ...
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Non-symmetric core load when playing a game

I play Serious Sam 3 on Ubuntu 12.10 amd64 with AMD Phenom II X4 955 processor. And all time I play it there was fully loaded only one core. Command mpstat 1 1500 -P ALL after some time gives ...
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Fglrx 13.1 weird performance behaviour

Recently I installed Ubuntu 12.04.1 on my laptop with an ATI Radeon HD 5450. The open-source drivers perform well for the desktop environment, but not so with games. I just switched because I thought ...
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Measure FPS of the game

I'd like to find analogue of Fraps or any other fps counter on Ubuntu 12.10. After some googling I found 2 solutions: 1) To use Mumble (I found it from this discussion). This solution didn't work ...
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Minecraft runs really weird in Ubuntu 12.10

When I have Vsync on my framerate is capped to 30 instead of 60. Also, when I go fullscreen the mouse seems to have really fast acceleration and the game looks really jumpy. I could run this on ...
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Will unity stop being a plugin for Compiz?

I ask this as with the Unity Desktop running , when I try any games with my Ubuntu 12.04.1 I get so much frame rate drop with Unity and Compiz. If I switch to Gnome-Classic which uses mutter, I get a ...
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Dragon Age: Origins with PlayOnLinux have low fps

I successfully installed Dragon Age: Origins with PlayOnLinux on my Ubuntu 12.04 but the game is too slow, frame per second(fps) is too low. I played this game so many times in Windows with the high ...
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What packages/programs should I install to get better graphics and performance on gaming?

So, I want to install some packages/programs to get better graphics and performance while playing a game on Ubuntu 11.10. What packages/programs you guys recommend to me?
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I am not able to run 12.04 properly

I am unable to run 12.04 properly in my computer. I have a 1GB RAM currently and Intel G31 family chipset (Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz). The Ubuntu system does not seem to run properly in my system as it ...
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how to specify .sh file to optirun ? PLEASE [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to optirun .sh file? It's been 5 days I've installed ubuntu over my windows 7 since I didn't know how to dual boot it. Before ubuntu I've ran all games like a ...
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What to do against game performance drop in 12.04 when using unity (3D)?

I experience a huge drop in game performance since my fresh install of ubuntu 12.04 My PC consists of an Nvidia Geforce GTX 460, AMD Phenom II X4 965 CPU and 4GB of RAM and I use nvidias proprietary ...
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How to reduce TCP latency for gaming?

I use Ubuntu for gaming. In competitive gaming every millisecond matters. I know that many people who use Windows use something called Leatrix Latency Fix which is basically a script that modify ...
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What would be the recommended kernel configuration for a gaming machine?

I have read a lot of talk about how OpenSUSE is using a "Desktop" kernel. This kernel utilizes a 1000hz timer and full preemption among other things. The feature request here goes into more detail ...