GameMode, the tool for Linux originally from Feral Interactive, has version 1.8 released with some new features to tweak your system performance for gaming.
Feral designed it originally to help with their older Native Linux ports, as a stop-gap solution to problems with the Intel and AMD CPU powersave or ondemand governors but it continued on to pull in more optimisations to configure to get the best out of your system.
From the 1.8 changelog:
- Add CPU core pinning and parking capability (#416)
- Allow disabling the Linux kernel split lock mitigation (#446)
- Fix building when pidfd_open is available (Fixes build with glibc 2.36) (#379)
- Unify privileged group configuration between pam, systemd, & polkit (#375)
- Various other bugfixes and improved default configuration
Some of the features it offers for optimizing include:
- CPU governor.
- I/O priority.
- Process niceness.
- Kernel scheduler (
SCHED_ISO). - Screensaver inhibiting.
- GPU performance mode (NVIDIA and AMD), GPU overclocking (NVIDIA).
- CPU core pinning or parking.
- Custom scripts.
See more on GitHub.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Quoting: sonic2kkIt seems I was wrong either way, but they're not easy tools to get mixed up.Really easy to get mixed up, they're both "Game + (syllable with an 'o', ending in 'e')".
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Quoting: Purple Library GuyReally easy to get mixed up, they're both "Game + (syllable with an 'o', ending in 'e')".
In name only maybe, but not from a functional perspective. If one hasn't heard of one or both of the tools then I could see you're point.
EDIT: Although they're both maintained by separate authors, and the article here specifically notes Feral GameMode. I'm not sure it would be as easy to mix up that Gamescope is maintained by Feral Interactive...
Last edited by sonic2kk on 7 December 2023 at 6:00 pm UTC
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Quoting: Xpanderi dont really know whats the point of this.
I use it for the
QuoteCustom scripts.but if there's some particular tweak that someone wants done it's nicer to have one tool to apply those tweaks (and remove them again at the end of the game) than manually poke values into pseudofiles.
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Quoting: XpanderIs this still even needed? The cpu governors used to be an issue like 6-7 years ago, but these days amd has amd_pstate and intel has its intel_pstate which are boosting correctly on the default governor so i dont really know whats the point of this.
I haven't noticed any difference when benchmarking stuff with this on or off at least.
Cyberpunk 2077 benchmark and Unigine Superposition.
It probably doesn't make a difference with my CPU, but it does things like keep my monitor from going to sleep while I'm using a controller.
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