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Who uses linux? + Cake's awesome CPU booster for ET

the whole cake

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Hello fellow cakers
I have computer that run linux for my gaming delight. Who uses linux on their computer too? And what troubles/hacks have you come up with to increase your pleasure in game?
I have script which awaits ET to run and then boosts it to super non-nice CPU level. It also turns off compiz. It also uses the awesome ALSA hack which Matt Murdoch nicely gave to me.

U run it and get prompted for super-user password (gksu). And and then it will kill compiz and launch ET. About 2 minutes later (delay set on purpose) you will hear a beep and the CPU priority will be bumped up to maximum. You will see an instant jump in FPS.

I present for you teh code now. It is in 3 separate scripts because it makes use of AT to delay execution. U replace the string in your shortcuts with this instead of the normal ET. It will copy all parameters given to it to the regular ET. I has it set up to my game browser's settings for Wolf ET. Please place these all in the same folder and use etlaunch.sh as the file to run for ET.
 

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noobItUp

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Hai Cake - wot distro you running?

I must say that noob is considering linux-ification of the noob PC at some point in the future. My reason: being p!ssed @ micro$oft for Vista. I bought an OEM of Vista with my new pewter about 12 months ago. This puts me out of the free upgrade to windows 7 which ppl who bought a month or 2 later get. This makes noob angry.

I have downloaded vmware workstation and have been looking at ubuntu 8.10. I really think that my next OS will be a freebee. Cant wait to look at what google put out in chrome OS.
 

the whole cake

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noobItUp said:
Hai Cake - wot distro you running?

I must say that noob is considering linux-ification of the noob PC at some point in the future. My reason: being p!ssed @ micro$oft for Vista. I bought an OEM of Vista with my new pewter about 12 months ago. This puts me out of the free upgrade to windows 7 which ppl who bought a month or 2 later get. This makes noob angry.

I have downloaded vmware workstation and have been looking at ubuntu 8.10. I really think that my next OS will be a freebee. Cant wait to look at what google put out in chrome OS.
:) Welcome to the world of computers. Cake runs Ubuntu 9.04 at the moment on his desktop (what I play ET on). And I also run Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.10 on my Dell Mini 9.
To be honest I actually run a lot of systems. My UNIX shell in the states is FreeBSD - which I use all the time. And my other UNIX shell that I do all my server programming on is Debian (shellium). The beautiful thing is that they all run the same software despite being totally different systems.

Gotta love the nix world :) It really seems once you jump the Microsoft ship, computers are fun again. I am at your disposal for any help or advice. Just shine your torch into the sky and I will come running flapping my arms.
 
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