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you're just putting the finishing touches on your brand-new gaming rig cables organized graphics card in side panel on and you're about to get going fast but then what is this I'm sorry you need what no I'll just turn all this stuff off here we go wait a minute some of this stuff isn't even optional and making matters worse this is just the stuff that Microsoft is telling us about I mean all I wanted to do was get some frags not join the freakin botnet Hey I think I know something that might help with that oh my god Wendell from level one text how they're going what are you doing in my closet so long story oh you know what no never mind since you're here can you help me with my sponsor spot I know but I can't help you fix your gaming problem okay well hey let's give it a shot and while we're at it you know what else is worth a shot Origin PC Origin PC offers beautiful custom desktops and laptops such as their evil 15 s that weighs only 4.3 pounds and is under an inch thick featuring smooth 144 Hertz 1080p or 4k displays in an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 max Q be sure to check them out at the link below I don't know if I messed it up because I wasn't sure what I supposed to do so I went back in the closet the last time I checked the graphics driver in particular situation on Linux was abominable and when it comes to wine I mean any newer titles pretty much anything requiring DirectX 10 or DirectX 11 was a total mess like has any of that changed actually the everything you said was wrong what we referring to as Linux is actually news flash Linux or as I've recently taken to calling it the new plus Linux and the driver situation has improved dramatically you know both AMD and NVIDIA have put a lot of work into their drivers AMD has got a really amazing open-source driver in the very latest Linux kernels and on the wine side of the things we've got DX VK which is a real-time DirectX translation layer to Vulcan so you can play games like The Witcher 3 in terms of performance we Vegas 64 and a 1080 Ti were competitive with one another in some titles socially Linux titles with Linux optimized titles natively at the beginning of the year but Nvidia driver updates and things like that have led to other optimizations so it's leapfrog give again and freesync is not quite ready yet in the newer linux kernel's from AMD so that's still a little bit of a problem with the very very bleeding edge kernels but the situation's really changed and improved okay so I'm gonna let you drive because you're running an AMD graphics card we're gonna update the Linux kernel to something a little newer than what who Bunty supports by default now if you're running an Nvidia graphics card you wouldn't need to do this but you would definitely need to get the binary driver from Nvidia in order to you know take advantage of the latest and greatest ruin your 1080 or 1080p eye or whatever recent graphics card so we've got the bunch of kernel upgrade utility basically all we have to do is paste some stuff into the command line so with the Ubuntu kernel update utility installed yeah we can just do UK you you and at the time of this video I think four point seven point five four point seventeen point five is going to be the most recent version for running seventeen point four because we were messing around the system a little bit before but you just hit install and you'll have to put in the password and this is going to go and get a newer version of the kernel Budhan previous blah-blah-blah-blah-blah okay now this one are we gonna do is reboot and it'll use the newer kernel by default so by default we've got two bun two but if we do Advanced Options we can see that we've got all of our kernels so we started out on 4.15 and then we get 4.7 yep another we're on the newest kernel we need to update the other the other sort of side of things the kernel gives us the driver but we also need Mesa updates and that sort of thing so there's another PPA for that which is an extension to bun too so we're gonna do the same thing and add a repository which will give us Mesa Mesa and OpenGL or sort of the other side of the graphics drivers feel like you need to bottom half for the hardware and the top half for the software side of it for games with the PPA installed you can see that there's a ton of stuff that's gonna get updated so this is all stuff that doesn't really matter for you until X Server org now you wouldn't need to do this if you were just gonna run steam games native steam games sure this is just for wine and the xbk and getting the bleeding edge out of that so let's this we've got gallium 9 which I'm not gonna install because we we don't really need it per se but I'll mention it because it will let you run DirectX 9 titles it's older it's not as supported there are other options but this is the options that you have for plugging stuff into wine so that you can get more functionality out of wine so we should probably explain what wine is for the uninitiated wine is not an emulator it's like an emulator but it's not an emulator and see wine stands for wine is not an emulator see that's the joke and it's it's terrible I'm one is a reemployment ation of certain windows api's to make applications available on linux and so you can run a Windows application under Linux and the Windows application thinks windows is there but not all the windows is there you know sometimes even windows own utilities don't know that it's not Windows and so you can use that to run some windows games but not a lot and we've got Lou trous which will give us runners or script for scripts for running games like The Witcher 3 okay so hopefully y'all have been keeping up if not don't worry we're gonna have links to all of these sources and also to web mills forum down in the video description so the worst is over it actually gets a lot easier from here so easy that I could do it definitely really really put okay fine okay let's just do this so we've got loot rasol ready can you kind of explain what Lutra sties so it's a lot to ask a user to manage all the different versions of wine and the command line BS and I would agree that that's not really the best user experience right people have written scripts to make it easier because when you think about The Witcher 3 you can't just run The Witcher 3 because you probably also need to steam and so but it's not our Linux version of steam you need the Windows version the steam so that has to run under wine or some kind of emulation layer as well so lootus gives you a script you just hit an install button on the webpage and some person has gone through the hell of developing that before you hit install what's that a lewd scene oh never mind I thought that was a raised rump you know okay so continue install this is so easy I can do it here we go so our steam accounts logging in and there it is and this is the Windows version of steam windows steam the only thing that doesn't work under one is the copy protection now witcher 3 works fine with copy protection right but that's not true of every title like Far Cry 5 interesting there it is okay The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt so I just click play let's hope can I get a can I get a finger cross hey there are a couple of bugs here and there in the game but it it's pretty much ok it's rendering you know if I would have told you a year ago that we could have real-time DirectX translation to Vulcan you'd probably call me a crazy person hey why can't I just go into the menu in the middle of a cutscene new modern game developers like holy fuck what's happened with games is that they've made far more assumptions about the amount of cooking time that I have like if my baby starts crying I don't want to miss the cutscene I'm gonna be able to pause maybe gaming hasn't changed maybe it's me maybe I have a life so this is really cool sore it's our DP kaor DX DX VK just make DirectX to volcán total GameChanger Linux gaming is better than ever but like come on how many times have we heard no no really really Linux gaming is better than ever that's a fair point I mean if you need something right now and you just don't want to think about it and you don't want to mess with the libraries you can run a full virtual machine you can run a full Windows virtual machine and do all your gaming that way can I alt f4 out of again cool actually closes a lot faster yeah that's one thing that I've always loved about anything that's not Windows so why don't you tell us about using a vm if you want to use a vm you will need to pass through a second graphics card okay so do we have one we do somewhere ahh so we'll need to shut this down cuz that's hot plug graphics cards it's not a thing yet are you sure are you sure I'm not did you watch my video no I didn't there it is it's a thing if you go it's a thing no it's a thing it's finally becoming a thing because laptop users need it not the enterprise which is fine oh we should probably it together monitor AMD and NVIDIA in the same system this is heresy sorry you want the other one okay so then this is not that dissimilar to what I've setup before with unrated so this is just Red Hat KVM yep running in Ubuntu yep and then we've got an extra SSD for Windows an extra graphics card to pass through yep and an extra keyboard and mouse because why not because why not okay so what do we do we've just boot up the virtual machine yeah the configuration we just set it up we do the iommu groups for pass through and we tell it the graphics card we go into USB devices and find a keyboard and mouse and map them and then we just let the Machine boot up so this is it this is just the full fat Windows experience yep now overhead wise from what I've seen in the past we're looking at anywhere from as little as two or three percent to as much as you know 10 percent or more in terms of performance it but any is there anything else I should be aware of about running it this way it shows up as an AMD epoch processor just there is a performance it in some scenarios but mostly it's okay some things are faster like superposition interesting now you got the Nvidia drivers installed in spite of the infamous code 43 error code 43 is a thing that shows up when in VT Nvidia drivers detective running is a virtual machine so you have to set a configuration option in the can in the virtual machine on the Linux other things to hide the fact that the machine is virtualized and then code 43 goes away right which is kind of annoying and silly right cuz they just want you to buy a Quadro or better right now it's also kind of annoying and silly that this monitor that you could use for things other than gaming not on windows on linux but you know it's not super convenient so there's also a lookingglass one of our forum members jeff at host fission he's put a lot of work into it I've put a lot of work into it you may need to go run it okay oh cool look at that how's the latency oh not bad yeah this is a direct memory to memory copy using the direct X capture API so the same capture that you get so even just then it was actually faster than your native monitor to handle the mug switch interests and so this way you could run your Windows VM with full hardware acceleration but as fast as we can copy the frames from the guest to the host you can run it and how do I make it fullscreen I think there's a command line option for that and honestly like we don't know what we're doing as far as OpenGL programming goes so if there's if there's any OpenGL programmers that want to contribute to the project out there you are more than welcome it's open source it's on github what more could you ask for ah full screen that's a command line yeah I think I saw a hiccup there that I'm not sure if I saw over on the other side either yeah there will be some it's not perfect but we're getting there it's not bad for alpha software it's not bad at all so there you have it I hope this was a fun and enlightening look at just how far the humble pain has come in the last couple of years guys we're gonna have links to Wendell's channel it's level one text we'll have that down below as well as their amazing looking-glass software and more information on how to get something like this running for yourself but in the meantime just let us know in the comments below if you're running something like this what kind of challenges you've run into and if there's any other great educational resources that you can provide for people who are into gaming on Linux disclaimer though the experience off camera was not as perfect and smooth as we you know made it out to be I mean fair point you've been working on this for how long now quite a while help us do this video which by the way thank you so much happy to do it and the step-by-step gotta have the guys that's pretty much it guys thanks for watching unless unless you're a small business owner or freelancer in which case stick around because 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