Gaming Mode in Windows and Performance Differences

There is a gaming mode in Windows that can improve performance by running at 28 FPS, which is kind of like setting the screen resolution to 28. This mode works best with modern games and hardware. It's also a good idea to turn on VSync (Vertical Sync) to limit power draw and prevent screen tearing.

Unlocking Performance for High-End Games

To unlock performance for high-end games, it's essential to experiment with different settings and configurations. Some games perform better than others when running at lower resolutions or with specific graphics settings enabled. For example, Spider-Man Miles Morales can be played at 800p low settings with FSR (Fast Shadow Rendering) set to Balanced, while Doom Eternal performs well at 1080p medium settings without resolution scaling.

Optimizations for Integrated Graphics

Integrated graphics can be a significant bottleneck for gaming performance. However, some games are more optimized than others on this hardware. For instance, God of War runs smoothly at 800p low settings with FSR set to Performance, while Hogwarts Legacy achieves similar performance at the same setting. Cyberpunk 2077 also takes advantage of newer updates and optimizations to deliver excellent performance on integrated graphics.

Performance Benchmarks for Various Games

The Last of Us Part One is a notable example of a game that performs well on Linux, especially with FSR enabled. Running the game at 800p low settings with FSR set to Performance yields an average frame rate of around 42 FPS indoors and 60 FPS in certain areas.

Handheld Gaming and Linux Optimizations

The performance differences between desktop and handheld devices are significant. The Steam Deck, for example, can't achieve a steady 30 FPS with the same game settings as on desktop. However, the gaming experience on these handhelds can be improved by optimizing TDP (thermal design power) adjustment.

Chimera OS Support for the iNeo Geek

The iNeo Geek, an integrated graphics-based handheld device, has recently gained support from Chimera OS. This operating system allows users to test and experiment with various games and configurations on their device. With Chimera OS now supporting the iNeo Geek, enthusiasts can explore its capabilities and push its performance limits.

Overall, optimizing performance for Linux gaming involves experimenting with different settings, configurations, and hardware optimizations. The use of FSR and other graphics technologies can help improve frame rates, while turning on VSync and managing TDP adjustments can also enhance overall system performance.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: encyberpunk 2077 it's one of those games that always impresses me on these handouts I mean we're getting an average of 71 FPS running Chimera OS here what's going on everybody it's ETA Prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at Chimera OS running on the ieneo geek this will also work with the ineo 2 with the latest update built-in controls and special feature buttons are fully supported with the latest update and I've been messing around with this for the last couple days it is really awesome I've actually got it installed on the geek and the eye Neo 2. I've just been messing around with it quite a bit trying to see what kind of performance I can get out of this and as you can see we've got a steam deck UI interface here so basically what I've done here is just turn this thing into a more powerful steam deck and if you're not familiar with Chimera OS you can actually head over to their website they've got a lot of great information I would check out the docs section right up here at the top but uh this is actually a really awesome operating system been updated quite a bit in the last few months and now we've got a you know the steam deck UI here right out of the box plus they've added a desktop interface recently I did a video showing this off on a PC a cheaper PC and it performs absolutely amazingly it's based on Arch and with the latest update here they've added support for the ine02 and ieneo gee so I've been messing around with it on both of these and the developer has quite a bit planned for this operating system so I definitely uh at least give it a shot go ahead do a little bit of research if it's for you you can definitely try it out in your handheld PC or even laptop I've got Chimera OS installed on the two terabyte nvme SSD that came with the ineo geek I have here and just going down the settings you can see that we've got that 6800u this model actually has 32 gigabytes of RAM it's LP ddr5 running at 6 400 megahertz and obviously we've got that Radeon 680m R DNA 2 based igpu now one thing that's been holding a lot of people back from installing Linux on a handheld like this is TDP control and special button functions special button functions are programmed into Chimera OS for the ine02 and the geek but when it comes to TDP control you can use something called Simple TDP control by a developer over on GitHub goes by the name Aaron Lee there's a specific package that you can download for Chimera OS it also works with other distros so if you want to install it with Hollow ISO you can always test it out but this has been one of the easiest ways that I've found recently to kind of get TDP control on these handhelds and you can set this up as a non-steam app and launch at any time it'll give you a readout of how you have it set up we can set a a minimum and a maximum and even a start TDP so if you're looking for control this is a really awesome application to try out so I've got the TDP on this set at 5 Watts up to 25 watts so it's going to try to go up to 25 if it needs to and with all of the games that I'm going to be testing that's exactly how I've got it set up I'll have the on-screen overlay and everything like that so we can see what's going on with this system but I wanted to get into some gameplay to show you how this performs okay so here's Horizon zero Dawn 800p low settings FSR set to balance we're getting an average of around 68 FPS so this is more than playable and in some cases it does jump up into the 80s and remember we've got the TDP set at 25 watts 28 is kind of gaming mode in Windows and it would perform a bit better at 28 and remember with all of these games it's best practice to go ahead and turn vsync on just to kind of limit that power draw but with everything I've got to unlock just to see how high we can go with it next on the list we've got Spider-Man Miles Morales and this is one of those games that's really hit or miss I can boot this up on the same exact system here next time I start the unit up and it might perform better it might perform worse it's just really odd when it comes to Linux on a dgpu does a really good job but with integrated Graphics I've had it kind of all over the place right now we're at 800p low settings and FSR set to balanced foreign Doom Eternal very well optimized game this is one of my favorite ones to play in Linux because it just works really well we're at 1080p medium settings no resolution scale at all from the operating system or even the game settings and we're getting an average of 73 FPS I really do wish that more games use the same engine here because it does perform really well on integrated graphics here's God of War at 800p low settings FSR set to Performance now we can actually get a steady 60 out of this if we take FSR to ultra performance but uh I really don't like the way it looks like that but with it set up like this I mean we're getting really close I got an average of 56 FPS it's right there on the edge with a little more wattage thrown at this Apu we could probably get a steady 60 out of it at least turn v-sync on at around 28 Watts Hogwarts Legacy 800p low settings FSR set to Performance looking about the same as God of War here I mean it's just right there it's so close to getting us a nice steady 60 out of it now obviously this is performing much better than it does on the steam deck but we are pulling more wattage here and obviously we've got a more expensive unit cyberpunk 2077 always amazes me on these integrated graphics with these newer updates that CD projekt Red has put out we're getting amazing performance 800p steam deck preset we can get an average of around 71 FPS with this game I mean this is one of those that's really playable on the 6800u and it still looks great at 800p with that steam deck preset and finally here at The Last of Us Part One a lot of people been complaining about the PC performance of this game and I completely understand I did a video showing it off running on the steam deck day one we couldn't really even hit a steady 30 with it but with this setup here same exact settings I was using 800p low FSR set to Performance we're getting an average of around 42 FPS indoors we can reach 60 with it but that doesn't really tell us anything because we're not indoors all the time with this game so yeah for a first release that supports the eye and Neo this is performing really well and it's super easy to install you could actually run this from an external drive just to test it out you could even run it from a USB drive if you wanted to but uh caching those shaders while you're starting up a game would take a while on a USB drive one thing I'd love to see from any of these Linux distros that works on these handhelds is some type of automatic TDP adjustment we do have that in windows with the ineo and a lot of other 6800u handhelds on the market but nothing in the Linux yet and I think that's one of the main things holding these handhelds back just kind of the optimizations for this chipset or the handheld in general when it comes to Linux taking the TDP up to 25 watts is great and all and it will go from you know 5 Watts or even 3 Watts up to 25 when it's needed but having that automatic adjustment to kind of keep us at that 60 FPS mark would be absolutely amazing but that's going to wrap it up for this video I was really excited to see that Chimera OS now supports the ine02 and the ineo geek so I figured I'd go ahead and make a quick video and if you're interested in testing it out I'll leave a link to the website in the description below all the information you need get it up and running on your handheld or PC is over there on the website so definitely check it out but uh if you've got any questions or you want to see anything else running with Chimera OS on the ineo geek or the eye neo2 let me know in the comments below like always thanks for watchingcyberpunk 2077 it's one of those games that always impresses me on these handouts I mean we're getting an average of 71 FPS running Chimera OS here what's going on everybody it's ETA Prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at Chimera OS running on the ieneo geek this will also work with the ineo 2 with the latest update built-in controls and special feature buttons are fully supported with the latest update and I've been messing around with this for the last couple days it is really awesome I've actually got it installed on the geek and the eye Neo 2. I've just been messing around with it quite a bit trying to see what kind of performance I can get out of this and as you can see we've got a steam deck UI interface here so basically what I've done here is just turn this thing into a more powerful steam deck and if you're not familiar with Chimera OS you can actually head over to their website they've got a lot of great information I would check out the docs section right up here at the top but uh this is actually a really awesome operating system been updated quite a bit in the last few months and now we've got a you know the steam deck UI here right out of the box plus they've added a desktop interface recently I did a video showing this off on a PC a cheaper PC and it performs absolutely amazingly it's based on Arch and with the latest update here they've added support for the ine02 and ieneo gee so I've been messing around with it on both of these and the developer has quite a bit planned for this operating system so I definitely uh at least give it a shot go ahead do a little bit of research if it's for you you can definitely try it out in your handheld PC or even laptop I've got Chimera OS installed on the two terabyte nvme SSD that came with the ineo geek I have here and just going down the settings you can see that we've got that 6800u this model actually has 32 gigabytes of RAM it's LP ddr5 running at 6 400 megahertz and obviously we've got that Radeon 680m R DNA 2 based igpu now one thing that's been holding a lot of people back from installing Linux on a handheld like this is TDP control and special button functions special button functions are programmed into Chimera OS for the ine02 and the geek but when it comes to TDP control you can use something called Simple TDP control by a developer over on GitHub goes by the name Aaron Lee there's a specific package that you can download for Chimera OS it also works with other distros so if you want to install it with Hollow ISO you can always test it out but this has been one of the easiest ways that I've found recently to kind of get TDP control on these handhelds and you can set this up as a non-steam app and launch at any time it'll give you a readout of how you have it set up we can set a a minimum and a maximum and even a start TDP so if you're looking for control this is a really awesome application to try out so I've got the TDP on this set at 5 Watts up to 25 watts so it's going to try to go up to 25 if it needs to and with all of the games that I'm going to be testing that's exactly how I've got it set up I'll have the on-screen overlay and everything like that so we can see what's going on with this system but I wanted to get into some gameplay to show you how this performs okay so here's Horizon zero Dawn 800p low settings FSR set to balance we're getting an average of around 68 FPS so this is more than playable and in some cases it does jump up into the 80s and remember we've got the TDP set at 25 watts 28 is kind of gaming mode in Windows and it would perform a bit better at 28 and remember with all of these games it's best practice to go ahead and turn vsync on just to kind of limit that power draw but with everything I've got to unlock just to see how high we can go with it next on the list we've got Spider-Man Miles Morales and this is one of those games that's really hit or miss I can boot this up on the same exact system here next time I start the unit up and it might perform better it might perform worse it's just really odd when it comes to Linux on a dgpu does a really good job but with integrated Graphics I've had it kind of all over the place right now we're at 800p low settings and FSR set to balanced foreign Doom Eternal very well optimized game this is one of my favorite ones to play in Linux because it just works really well we're at 1080p medium settings no resolution scale at all from the operating system or even the game settings and we're getting an average of 73 FPS I really do wish that more games use the same engine here because it does perform really well on integrated graphics here's God of War at 800p low settings FSR set to Performance now we can actually get a steady 60 out of this if we take FSR to ultra performance but uh I really don't like the way it looks like that but with it set up like this I mean we're getting really close I got an average of 56 FPS it's right there on the edge with a little more wattage thrown at this Apu we could probably get a steady 60 out of it at least turn v-sync on at around 28 Watts Hogwarts Legacy 800p low settings FSR set to Performance looking about the same as God of War here I mean it's just right there it's so close to getting us a nice steady 60 out of it now obviously this is performing much better than it does on the steam deck but we are pulling more wattage here and obviously we've got a more expensive unit cyberpunk 2077 always amazes me on these integrated graphics with these newer updates that CD projekt Red has put out we're getting amazing performance 800p steam deck preset we can get an average of around 71 FPS with this game I mean this is one of those that's really playable on the 6800u and it still looks great at 800p with that steam deck preset and finally here at The Last of Us Part One a lot of people been complaining about the PC performance of this game and I completely understand I did a video showing it off running on the steam deck day one we couldn't really even hit a steady 30 with it but with this setup here same exact settings I was using 800p low FSR set to Performance we're getting an average of around 42 FPS indoors we can reach 60 with it but that doesn't really tell us anything because we're not indoors all the time with this game so yeah for a first release that supports the eye and Neo this is performing really well and it's super easy to install you could actually run this from an external drive just to test it out you could even run it from a USB drive if you wanted to but uh caching those shaders while you're starting up a game would take a while on a USB drive one thing I'd love to see from any of these Linux distros that works on these handhelds is some type of automatic TDP adjustment we do have that in windows with the ineo and a lot of other 6800u handhelds on the market but nothing in the Linux yet and I think that's one of the main things holding these handhelds back just kind of the optimizations for this chipset or the handheld in general when it comes to Linux taking the TDP up to 25 watts is great and all and it will go from you know 5 Watts or even 3 Watts up to 25 when it's needed but having that automatic adjustment to kind of keep us at that 60 FPS mark would be absolutely amazing but that's going to wrap it up for this video I was really excited to see that Chimera OS now supports the ine02 and the ineo geek so I figured I'd go ahead and make a quick video and if you're interested in testing it out I'll leave a link to the website in the description below all the information you need get it up and running on your handheld or PC is over there on the website so definitely check it out but uh if you've got any questions or you want to see anything else running with Chimera OS on the ineo geek or the eye neo2 let me know in the comments below like always thanks for watching\n"