please tell me if you know, or can speculate: technical specifications of hardware required to play elite dangerous, max resolution on 4800x2560, and never suffer a framerate drop into a perceptible range / slower than the monitor refresh, in GNU/Linux.
i realise that last stipulation amplifies the challenge, given there's no official support yet, and thus likely involves use of [not]emulation, virtualisation, or some proprietary games shopware distribution, or even a combination of these, and that there doesnt appear to be a native linux version of elite, not even on the horizon (?? please correct me if wrong there), and that different methods would require different technical specifications of hardware to meet target.
so as well as just the spec, inherent to the question is also how, with regard to the software.
so in a sense, the question could be reframed, boiled down to, in contrast to another thread's gist of "is there elite on linux provisioned to us yet", more instead "how to get elite in linux" for ourselves. (and what kind of performance gains or losses may be incurred by such methods)
some of you may keenly watch: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=16405
given the consistent garbage rating presented there so far (despite rumours of unreported better success stories), i suspect virtualisation may be a route to take... for those of us who want to play elite, and not have to go through the torture of rebooting, leaving linux and all the comforts therein to go to a likely much disliked, distrusted, despised operating system like windows, just for elite. i do have elite installed on a drive with windoze... i just cant bring myself to go play. the horror. i really dont want to run windows (at least not as main/native os). :/ lifetime supporter... not playing yet.
pleas for elite on linux are falling on deaf ears within Frontier Dev it seems. so, it's up to the community for now, to come up with our own janky work arounds, n run a shrieking and a bad-mouthing how bad elite is on linux. :/ i dont want that... but it's the best tenuous hope i have left. [edit, lest me saying that goads some frontier developers into releasing their secretly already developed elite for linux.]
even if just in qemu or virtualbox... anyone got it working?
how beastly a rig do you have in order for it to run smooth at high res through virtualisation of windows/xbox/mac/whatever?
how does the performance contrast with running it in native (not virtual/emulated) windows?
ok, i thought i was going to ask one question and i seem to have gone through a process of finding out i really am asking another. changing what i thought the title was going to be too.
as simple as it gets, past all my waffle, n personal hardware specific goals, n curiosity about performance and hardware requirements...
How to run get Elite to run in Linux.
Elite in Linux. How?
P.S.
BSD?
i realise that last stipulation amplifies the challenge, given there's no official support yet, and thus likely involves use of [not]emulation, virtualisation, or some proprietary games shopware distribution, or even a combination of these, and that there doesnt appear to be a native linux version of elite, not even on the horizon (?? please correct me if wrong there), and that different methods would require different technical specifications of hardware to meet target.
so as well as just the spec, inherent to the question is also how, with regard to the software.
so in a sense, the question could be reframed, boiled down to, in contrast to another thread's gist of "is there elite on linux provisioned to us yet", more instead "how to get elite in linux" for ourselves. (and what kind of performance gains or losses may be incurred by such methods)
some of you may keenly watch: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=16405
given the consistent garbage rating presented there so far (despite rumours of unreported better success stories), i suspect virtualisation may be a route to take... for those of us who want to play elite, and not have to go through the torture of rebooting, leaving linux and all the comforts therein to go to a likely much disliked, distrusted, despised operating system like windows, just for elite. i do have elite installed on a drive with windoze... i just cant bring myself to go play. the horror. i really dont want to run windows (at least not as main/native os). :/ lifetime supporter... not playing yet.
pleas for elite on linux are falling on deaf ears within Frontier Dev it seems. so, it's up to the community for now, to come up with our own janky work arounds, n run a shrieking and a bad-mouthing how bad elite is on linux. :/ i dont want that... but it's the best tenuous hope i have left. [edit, lest me saying that goads some frontier developers into releasing their secretly already developed elite for linux.]
even if just in qemu or virtualbox... anyone got it working?
how beastly a rig do you have in order for it to run smooth at high res through virtualisation of windows/xbox/mac/whatever?
how does the performance contrast with running it in native (not virtual/emulated) windows?
ok, i thought i was going to ask one question and i seem to have gone through a process of finding out i really am asking another. changing what i thought the title was going to be too.
as simple as it gets, past all my waffle, n personal hardware specific goals, n curiosity about performance and hardware requirements...
How to run get Elite to run in Linux.
Elite in Linux. How?
P.S.
BSD?
