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Starsector (formerly “Starfarer”) is an open-world single-player space-combat, roleplaying, exploration, and economic game. You take the role of a space captain seeking fortune and glory however you choose.

Installation

Install starsector by adding following into your NixOS config:

  environment.systemPackages = [
    pkgs.starsector
  ];

Tips and tricks

To change the amount of memory, the starsector game can use, add the following command to NixOS.

  environment.systemPackages = [
    # overrides the NixOS package, starsector, see: https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Starsector
    (pkgs.starsector.overrideAttrs ({ ... }: {
      postInstall = ''
        cp ${dotfiles/starsector/settings.json} $out/share/starsector/data/config/settings.json

        substituteInPlace $out/share/starsector/.starsector.sh-wrapped \
          --replace-fail "Xms1536m" "Xms8192m" \
          --replace-fail "Xmx1536m" "Xmx8192m"
      '';
    }))
  ];

This commands takes the settings.json and changes the commandline parameters:Xms Xmx to take 8192m or 8GiB of RAM.

@@ Line 12: / Line 12: @@
    environment.systemPackages = [
      # overrides the NixOS package, starsector, see: https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Starsector
-     (starsector.overrideAttrs ({ ... }: {
+     (pkgs.starsector.overrideAttrs ({ ... }: {
        postInstall = ''
          cp ${dotfiles/starsector/settings.json} $out/share/starsector/data/config/settings.json
@@ Line 23: / Line 23: @@
    ];
 </syntaxhighlight>This commands takes the <code><code>settings.json</code></code> and changes the commandline parameters:<code>Xms</code> <code>Xmx</code> to take <code>8192m</code> or <code>8GiB</code> of RAM.
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