How To Install & Use Feral Gamemode In Linux

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This video covers installing and running Feral Gamemode, which can increase performance when running games on Linux.

https://github.com/FeralInteractive/gamemode#gamemode

GameMode is a daemon/lib combo for Linux that allows games to request a set of optimisations be temporarily applied to the host OS and/or a game process.

GameMode was designed primarily as a stop-gap solution to problems with the Intel and AMD CPU powersave or ondemand governors, but is now host to a range of optimisation features and configurations.

Currently GameMode includes support for optimisations including:

CPU governor
I/O priority
Process niceness
Kernel scheduler (SCHED_ISO)
Screensaver inhibiting
GPU performance mode (NVIDIA and AMD), GPU overclocking (NVIDIA)
Custom scripts

Step 1. Install Gamemode.

Feral Gamemode should be available in a wide range of Linux distribution's repositories.

For example, to install on on Ubuntu Based distributions, run the following Terminal command.

sudo apt install gamemode

Or for Arch based distributions, install the following two libraries:

gamemode
lib32-gamemode

Alternatively you can build the application from scratch.

https://github.com/FeralInteractive/gamemode#install-dependencies

https://github.com/FeralInteractive/gamemode#build-and-install-gamemode

Step 2. Using Gamemode.

To use with Steam games, add the following launch options:

gamemoderun %command%

Alternatively for games launched by Lutris, simply enable the toggle by right clicking on a game, and navigating to System options / Enable Feral Gamemode.

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