… The end result means far better game performance loss protection on Linux, especially on 8GB and lower VRAM. Related Wine has been translating Windows games to Linux since 1993, but Proton is what made it effortless Wine is the foundation that makes gaming on Linux possible.
… "Installing zram-generator & preload, configuring zstd compression, disabling disk swap, and cranking swappiness to 180 for snappy responsiveness." Swappiness, for the record, can go up to 200 on modern kernels, so 180 is technically valid. …
… My system only had 8GB of memory, and I’d assigned 5GB to the LXC, which would end up starving it for RAM, and the 512MB of swap file didn’t help, either. So, I upped the RAM to a whopping 7GB before tossing an additional 3GB swap allocation. …
… This way, you can run MoE models with limited VRAM and still get reliable token generation speeds. Thanks to the MoE offload technique, I was able to get 20+ tokens/s when prompting Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my RTX 3080 Ti – an outdated GPU with merely 12GB of VRAM. …
… Related Throwing away your old GPU? — You might just be running out of VRAM Your VRAM capacity can artificially limit your capable graphics card Your operating system is hogging your speeds Save your speeds for important tasks Technically speaking, an operating system drive is never truly at rest. …
… It works comfortably with the VRAM limits of a mid-range GPU with some quantization adjustments, infers quickly, and reasons across all entities without losing the thread. The 27B parameter models handle complex queries better, but VRAM demand scales up as well. …
… VRAM decides which models you can run. …
… Even using an RTX 4060 Ti with 16GB of VRAM was largely overkill. …
… The first two models I downloaded turned out to be too big for my GPU's 12GB VRAM , meaning I had to undo almost an hour of downloading and once again find out which model would deliver the closest results to what I wanted on the "limited" VRAM I had. …