Performance tweaking for Ubuntu 12.04 that worked for me
1-Install java 64 bit. Available at the java website and on ubuntu software center.
2-Open the spiral knights desktop icon (spiralknights.desktop) with a text editing software.
3-Change the "Exec=/javafolderpath"
4-go to /home, press ctrl+h
5-find /.getdown folder. go in, and go in spiral folder
6-create new file "empty document"
7-name it extra.txt
8-Paste the following inside:
-Xverify:none
-Dsun.java2d.accthreshold=0
-XX:LargePageSizeInBytes=8m
-XX:+AggressiveOpts
-XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=128m
-XX:CompileThreshold=1800
-server
-Xincgc
-XX:+UseParNewGC
-Xms1g
-Xmx1g
If you have a discreet (Nvidia) graphics cardhttp://bumblebee-project.org/install.html
2-Open the desktop icon "spiralknights.desktop" with a text editing software
3-Change "Exec=/javapath" to "Exec= optirun /javapath
Enjoy a smoother game!
(note: the reason you have to do all this is because linux does not support dynamic switching, which is switching between intergrated and discreet graphics card. you have to manually tell the OS to use it.)
Any contributions to be made will be greatly appreciated!
Coward....