grAfterburner VS MarquesasServer

For the last year, I have been focusing on different parts of a project I have wanted to perfect for a long time - building a VM dedicated and optimized for gaming. With the fundamental parts of the project functioning very well (it can currently play most modern games at High settings while maintaining a stable 60FPS, I also use it to play all my VR titles via my Quest 2), I decided to spend the last couple weeks focusing on monitoring, integrating as much as I could in to my current Grafana setup. I found a great project (https://github.com/RafhaanShah/grAfterburner) which utilizes collectd to grab metrics from Afterburner and its remote server, which is then available to Graphite / Grafana. Since my server rack lives in a detached garage I wanted a quick and easy way to check the current temperature of the GPU, which this setup does great.

grAfterburner

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Not the same one but I used https://github.com/RafhaanShah/grAfterburner because I wanted fps/frame time.

Primarily I have been focused on transforming this machine in to an emulation device, for all my old games on different platforms. I'm using Launchbox as the frontend, and found a really helpful plugin (https://github.com/fpdavis/MarquesasServer) which has a JSON API for querying the current details for the selected game in Launchbox. With all of this in place, I usually connect to the VM via Moonlight / Parsec (I have recently switched over to Moonlight as the quality and latency feel better) from a Dell Optiplex 7050 which lives under the entertainment center in my living room. This lets me play any title I want, with full controller support, from the comfort of the couch. Latency has not been an issue outside of rhythm games which I am still looking in to.