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[#]: subject: (GameMode – A Tool To Improve Gaming Performance On Linux)
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[#]: via: (https://www.ostechnix.com/gamemode-a-tool-to-improve-gaming-performance-on-linux/)
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[#]: author: (sk https://www.ostechnix.com/author/sk/)
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GameMode – A Tool To Improve Gaming Performance On Linux
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======
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![Gamemmode improve gaming performance on Linux][1]
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Ask some Linux users why they still sticks with Windows dual boot, probably the answer would be – “Games!”. It was true! Luckily, open source gaming platforms like [**Lutris**][2] and Proprietary gaming platform **Steam** have brought many games to Linux platforms and improved the Linux gaming experience significantly over the years. Today, I stumbled upon yet another Linux gaming-related, open source tool named **GameMode** , which allows the users to improve gaming performance on Linux.
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GameMode is basically a daemon/lib combo that lets the games optimise Linux system performance on demand. I thought GameMode is a kind of tool that would kill some resource-hungry tools running in the background. But it is different. What it does actually is just instruct the CPU to **automatically run in Performance mode when playing games** and helps the Linux users to get best possible performance out of their games.
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GameMode improves the gaming performance significantly by requesting a set of optimisations be temporarily applied to the host OS while playing the games. Currently, It includes support for optimisations including the following:
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* CPU governor,
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* I/O priority,
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* Process niceness,
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* Kernel scheduler (SCHED_ISO),
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* Screensaver inhibiting,
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* GPU performance mode (NVIDIA and AMD), GPU overclocking (NVIDIA),
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* Custom scripts.
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GameMode is free and open source system tool developed by [**Feral Interactive**][3], a world-leading publisher of games.
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### Install GameMode
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GameMode is available for many Linux distributions.
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On Arch Linux and its variants, you can install it from [**AUR**][4] using any AUR helper programs, for example [**Yay**][5].
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```
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$ yay -S gamemode
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```
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On Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint and other Deb-based systems:
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```
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$ sudo apt install gamemode
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```
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If GameMode is not available for your system, you can manually compile and install it from source as described in its Github page under Development section.
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### Activate GameMode support to improve Gaming Performance on Linux
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Here are the list of games with GameMode integration, so we need not to do any additional configuration to activate GameMode support.
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* Rise of the Tomb Raider
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* Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia
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* Total War: WARHAMMER II
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* DiRT 4
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* Total War: Three Kingdoms
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Simply run these games and GameMode support will be enabled automatically.
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There is also an [**extension**][6] is available to integrate GameMode support with GNOME shell. It indicates when GameMode is active in the top panel.
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For other games, you may need to manually request GameMode support like below.
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```
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gamemoderun ./game
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```
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I am not fond of games and I haven’t played any games for years. So, I can’t share any actual benchmarks.
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However, I’ve found a short video tutorial on Youtube to enable GameMode support for Lutris games. It is a good start point for those who wants to try GameMode for the first time.
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<https://youtu.be/4gyRyYfyGJw>
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By looking at the comments in the video, I can say that that GameMode has indeed improved gaming performance on Linux.
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For more details, refer the [**GameMode GitHub repository**][7].
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* * *
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**Related read:**
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* [**GameHub – An Unified Library To Put All Games Under One Roof**][8]
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* [**How To Run MS-DOS Games And Programs In Linux**][9]
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* * *
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Have you used GameMode tool? Did it really improve the Gaming performance on your Linux box? Share you thoughts in the comment section below.
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via: https://www.ostechnix.com/gamemode-a-tool-to-improve-gaming-performance-on-linux/
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作者：[sk][a]
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选题：[lujun9972][b]
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译者：[译者ID](https://github.com/译者ID)
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[a]: https://www.ostechnix.com/author/sk/
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[b]: https://github.com/lujun9972
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[1]: https://www.ostechnix.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Gamemode-720x340.png
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[2]: https://www.ostechnix.com/manage-games-using-lutris-linux/
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[3]: http://www.feralinteractive.com/en/
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[4]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gamemode/
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[5]: https://www.ostechnix.com/yay-found-yet-another-reliable-aur-helper/
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[6]: https://github.com/gicmo/gamemode-extension
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[7]: https://github.com/FeralInteractive/gamemode
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[8]: https://www.ostechnix.com/gamehub-an-unified-library-to-put-all-games-under-one-roof/
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[9]: https://www.ostechnix.com/how-to-run-ms-dos-games-and-programs-in-linux/
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