ksp 64 bit Ubuntu

[rvgmofficial]

i set up a VM for ksp on Ubuntu 15.10 I'm getting terrible performance i am new to Linux  any suggestions

[DuoDex]

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[Padishar]

49 minutes ago, rvgmofficial said:

i set up a VM for ksp on Ubuntu 15.10 I'm getting terrible performance i am new to Linux  any suggestions

Gaming in a VM is a rather optimistic thing to do.  Do you really mean a virtual machine?

[rvgmofficial]

yes i am use it for optimization 64bit Linux I've only had it up and running fot today since I max out the windows ksp 32 bit

[rvgmofficial]

I can't seem to download Steam 

[rvgmofficial]

i the vm has 6 vcpus 10gbram 30gb storage 

Edited March 31, 2016 by rvgmofficial

[soulsource]

It doesn't matter which guest operating system you are using, gaming inside a VM will always yield terrible performance, mainly due to partially emulated graphics. The only way around would be to pass through the PCIE GPU to the guest OS, and as I don't use Windows, I have no idea if this is even possible there.

[Stone Blue]

I guess I dont understand why you even need to run KSP in a VM on Linux, when theres an actual Linux version of KSP?

[steve_v]

7 hours ago, rvgmofficial said:

i set up a VM for ksp on Ubuntu 15.10 I'm getting terrible performance i am new to Linux  any suggestions

If you're trying to get out of installing Linux on a real disk... Stop now, you will likely not succeed. This is the nature of VMs, I don't know of any virtualisation software that was designed with games in mind.

If you want to run the GNU/Linux build, run it in a real GNU/Linux install, on bare metal - set up a dedicated partition/disk and dual-boot. Cheating with a VM has been tried several times, performance is horrible.

If you're running KSP in a GNU/Linux VM, on a GNU/Linux host... that's crazy talk, Just run it directly on the host OS.

6 hours ago, soulsource said:

It doesn't matter which guest operating system you are using, gaming inside a VM will always yield terrible performance, mainly due to partially emulated graphics.

What you said

6 hours ago, soulsource said:

The only way around would be to pass through the PCIE GPU to the guest OS, and as I don't use Windows, I have no idea if this is even possible there.

It is, but only if you have 2 or more GPUs, and setting it up is well beyond the scope of this forum.

 

 

[soulsource]

9 hours ago, steve_v said:

If you want to run the GNU/Linux build, run it in a real GNU/Linux install, on bare metal - set up a dedicated partition/disk and dual-boot. Cheating with a VM has been tried several times, performance is horrible.

It's also possible to install Linux to an external HDD or USB drive, so you don't need to touch your internal HDD at all. I don't know how well this works when using (U)EFI (as all my computers are so old, they still use BIOS based firmware), but with BIOS (or BIOS compatibility mode in (U)EFI, often called "legacy mode" or "CSM") you can simply install the Linux bootloader to the external disk's MBR, and tell BIOS to boot from it (but beware: the ubiquity installer used by Ubuntu and I think also Mint will only ask you where to install the bootloader if you use manual partitioning).