Gamemode
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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.
Installation
Install gamemode and lib32-gamemode.
Configuration
Create and configure a gamemode.ini
file. An example gamemode.ini file can be found here. Save it in /etc/
, $HOME/.config/
or /usr/share/gamemode/
.
You may want to make sure that desiredgov
is set to performance
and maybe increase the renice
to 10 or so for higher priority for your game.
Usage
To run games with gamemode start it like this:
$ gamemoderun ./game
When you have started your game you can verify that gamemode is running with the command:
$ gamemoded -s
Steam
To make sure Steam starts a game with gamemode, right click the game, select Properties...
, then Launch Options
and enter:
gamemoderun %command%