I just stumbled this fork that seems focused on giving Linux hosts a good boost. It promises no-headache Virtual Display support out of the box, and Bazzite seems like the primary target.

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[–] 24 points 5 months ago (7 children)

I started using games on whales a while back and never looked back

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Just checked out the website and this looks really cool.

    What games or types of games do you typically use it for?

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 5 months ago

    While it’s a very cool project, running a gaming setup on a Docker container felt very clunky to me. Somehow I fear it would add latency (input or output), then again even if so it should be negligible.

    Then can you walk us around the maintenance, like what do you do when there’s a GPU driver update, do you rebuild the image?

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    Very cool, hopefully will iron out some of the issues I've been having with sunshine.

    FWIW, I found dumping my screens EDID firmware and adding it to boot args + assigning to GPU port worked best for headless display set up

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Yooo I was looking for this exact solution, thanks for sharing!

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)

    Any momentum on this front gets me excited, even if it doesn't personally apply.

    Since it's cost-effective to combine gaming requirements with AI server requirements, I have my multi-modal language model stuff running on my (admittedly seldom-used) Windows gaming desktop. That means running most GPU-related tasks (aside from encoding/decoding/simple object recognition, which uses a separate server containing an Arc A380... purchased before A310's were available) in docker running under Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2). Running stuff as background services just makes one assume that it should be a logical step to just make it multi-user. Easier said than done, I guess, just like multi-user stable diffusion.

    Getting Games on Whales running under WSL2 has taken me down the familiar but unwelcome rabbit hole of recompiling Linux Kernel modules, which I've experienced is more straightforward on bare metal than WSL2.

    The more attention and excitement about this topic, the better.

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    [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    Virtual display? So it doesn't have to use a physical one while my partner is doing work? Hell, that's my only dealbreaker, I'm in

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    I never got Bazzites baked in / Yafti / Portal-Sunshine to actually let me play my desktop on my Vanilla Steam OS deck....and I'm supposed to use brew to install it now? /blarg.

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