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Linux-Gaming-Notes

These are my notes to make my laptop run my favourite games on Linux Mint 20 with Cinnamon

Laptop is running i5-4200H and GTX 850M

• Install Lutris from lutris website (apt one is older)
• Install wine-ge as a runner https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/wine-ge-custom
• Build mangohud from source https://github.com/flightlessmango/MangoHud
• Install winetricks and install all VC libraries (might be required for different games)
• In Lutris set the wine prefix to the one you installed your VC libraries into

Have butter smooth gaming experience. Before doing these options I had lag at high FPS

• Disable compositor -> start menu -> general.
• Do not use cpupower to limit CPU -> directly limit it via /sys/.
• Close battle.net launcher before running WoW!