MarriNikari Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 I just got a brand new Dell XPS running Ubuntu 24. I have an Intel Core Ultra 9 processor and 32 GB memory and yet the game is just stunningly, unplayably slow. I've turned off the Steam overlay and made sure it's not running in a weird compatibility mode, but no dice. Any tips please? I miss my asteroids... Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/169700-any-ubuntu-advice/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
gigamoi Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 My personal rig currently runs on some ubuntu based distribution and I have no such problem. That being said, the CPU is from AMD. I suspect your issue might be caused by some/all of your game's threads being scheduled to run on your CPU's intel "economy" cores. I've heard old stories about this behaviour being hard to correct. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/169700-any-ubuntu-advice/#findComment-1850561 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Developer nome Posted February 3 Developer Share Posted February 3 Also make sure you've got your GPU drivers installed. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/169700-any-ubuntu-advice/#findComment-1850575 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sebastiangperez Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 1 hour ago, nome said: Also make sure you've got your GPU drivers installed. This and make sure that you have a good GPU but with an I9 and 32 GB you must have a Good Nvidia GPU Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/169700-any-ubuntu-advice/#findComment-1850577 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Developer nome Posted February 3 Developer Share Posted February 3 You shouldn't need an amazing GPU for ONI but you will see some big slowdowns if you have none (or effectively none because the drivers aren't working) 1 Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/169700-any-ubuntu-advice/#findComment-1850593 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarriNikari Posted February 4 Author Share Posted February 4 Looks like Ubuntu 24 doesn't have native support for my Intel GPU and I had to switch to the HWE kernel but "dig into GPU drivers" was in fact the thing that helped me track this down so thanks all! Seems to be running well now. 1 Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/169700-any-ubuntu-advice/#findComment-1850608 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sebastiangperez Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 11 hours ago, MarriNikari said: Looks like Ubuntu 24 doesn't have native support for my Intel GPU and I had to switch to the HWE kernel but "dig into GPU drivers" was in fact the thing that helped me track this down so thanks all! Seems to be running well now. Your Dell has an Intel GPU and not a Nvidia o AMD ? strange model. Witch model of dell are you using? Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/169700-any-ubuntu-advice/#findComment-1850641 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarriNikari Posted February 16 Author Share Posted February 16 Dell XPS 13, picked it up on Black Friday. Specs say the processor is "Intel(R) Core(TM) Ultra 9 processor 288V Series 2 (12MB Cache, 8 cores, up to 5.1 GHz)" so probably the Intel Arc graphics card is partnered to that. They do have a Snapdragon processor + Qualcomm Adreno graphics build available but I thought the Intel build would be more flexible, and I didn't see Nvidia or AMD builds. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/169700-any-ubuntu-advice/#findComment-1851640 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KittenIsAGeek Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 (edited) On 2/3/2026 at 10:24 PM, MarriNikari said: Looks like Ubuntu 24 doesn't have native support for my Intel GPU and I had to switch to the HWE kernel but "dig into GPU drivers" was in fact the thing that helped me track this down so thanks all! Seems to be running well now. Linux isn't that great with intel GPUs. I suspect that the issue is deals Microsoft has with Intel, but I don't know for sure. What I _do_ know is that I've never managed to get an intel GPU to perform well under linux. I don't know about Ubuntu specifically, but Mint has an install option to use proprietary drivers if you enable UEFI and Secure Boot. Right now I have an old Dell Latitude E7440 with an Intel i5-4301 CPU @ 2ghz and it is using the Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics controller to run hardware accelerated OpenGL and Vulkan rendering. I just installed it last week when I was refurbishing a stack of old laptops. Out of 5, I managed to get 3 functional. Sorry, got off track. Anyway! I have not tried ONI on it, since I use my desktop for gaming. Maybe I'll install it and see how things go. That said.. AMD and NVidia work quite nicely. I ran ONI easily on a laptop years back that had an NVidia GPU and AMD CPU. Edited February 19 by KittenIsAGeek Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/169700-any-ubuntu-advice/#findComment-1851945 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KittenIsAGeek Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 Update with the Latitude E7440: Steam installed just fine. ONI installed just fine. Graphics were mostly OK, though the intro video got glitchy here and there. Its playable, but it was NOT happy. Heh. CPU and RAM were pretty much maxed out, but there wasn't a lot of lag. *shrug* Ran at 14fps until the CPU fan kicked into top speed, then fps dropped to 12. Playable. No problems queuing tasks, didn't look choppy and the screen moved smoothly when dragging it around. I'd say this old laptop is probably bare minimum. I did the system install selecting the option for proprietary drivers which required me to set the BIOS to UEFI and Secure Boot. System Information says: Linux Mint 22.3 - Cinnamon 64-bit running kernel 6.17.0-14-generic on an Intel Core i4-4301U CPU @ 2.00GHz x2 (2 cores, 4 total threads) with 16GB RAM. GPU info says: Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller driver i915. Hardware Acceleration: OpenGL, OpenGL ES, Vulkan: enabled. Video Playback: Enabled (VA-API). Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/169700-any-ubuntu-advice/#findComment-1851948 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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