So I’ve been playing Icarus with the wife and the optimization is hot garbage. Wife is hosting and pulling 10 fps with a Nvidia 3070TI

We enjoy the game so I start doing research. Turns out once you’ve played enough the database on the host just gets too big and chokes out the CPU threads since it can’t use more than 2 cores.

Answer is to migrate your world to a sepf hosted dedicated server. Say no more.

So now I got an excuse (wife approved) to setup a computer as a server and keep it running. I have an old HP SFF i5 16GB RAM with an SSD I’ve reimagined a few times for a home server.

Flashed it with Debian and setup the Icarus server in docker. Runs like a champ.

Bonus points. I hooked up a wattage meter and it idles at 1~2 watts!
I used to run an old gaming computer as a home server and it felt like $30 a month in electricity.

Now I can start throwing more stuff on there once I figure out backup for the game world incase I bork it.

  • Landless2029@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    10 days ago

    I eventually intend to start some funny stuff I wanted a full OS for.

    If I shift my end goal to run in a container then that would make more sense.

    I initially went for Debian because I had a deadline for us to get back to gaming together.

    I’ve seen loads of people use proxmax. As a windows admin I wanted a OS as a stepping stone.

    I run Brazzite on my gaming rig and mint on my daily driver laptop now. Getting there.

    • Zikeji@programming.devEnglish
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      10 days ago

      Honestly I left proxmox/virtualization OSes a while back for simple RHEL. I have Docker for most everything and the few things I need full virt for the features Cockpit provides are more than enough. If I ever get back into clustering I’ll look at proxmox again.

    • anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      10 days ago

      If you want a webui for the debian server that gives you logs, services, ssh terminal and more then I can recommend checking out Cockpit
      https://cockpit-project.org/

      If you decide you want to you can install KVM/Qemu on the debian host to get into full virtualization that way. The webui can be used to configure and manage the VMs too with https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit-machines

      edit: Cockpit also has a Docker manager, though I feel it isn’t full featured yet. I mostly used it to stop and start dockers from my phone.
      https://github.com/chrisjbawden/cockpit-dockermanager

    • adeoxymus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 days ago

      Totally fair. I also started with Debian for a Minecraft server, at the request of my partner. I might try out Icarus, is it cross platform?