Ananicy VS gamemode

For anyone using CPU or IO intensive programs, you can also keep using your desktop, with Cachy OS kernel or Bore scheduler/kernel and Ananicy or ananicy-cpp. Happy gentoo user here, compiling for hours while listening to music/browsing without hiccups.

You might want to get ananicy. It's a daemon that automatically sets the niceness values of processes for better realtime performance. Basically sets the priority of processes you probably care about (like your DE/WM) higher than that of those you probably don't (like a compiler).

https://github.com/Nefelim4ag/Ananicy Ananicy (ANother Auto NICe daemon) — is a shell daemon created to manage processes' IO and CPU priorities, with community-driven set of rules for popular applications.

Having taken a look at the daemon, it actually reminds of Ananicy. I'm not familiar with 'Gamemode' so I cannot compare but anyways, this seems to be focused in laptops primarily, something that Tuned isn’t either. It’s going to be a nice thing to have around.

You can enable Ananicy with the command systemctl enable --now ananicy.service so that the service always runs, even after a reboot of the computer. The tool then applies the existing rules (https://github.com/Nefelim4ag/Ananicy/tree/master/ananicy.d/00-default) to various programmes such as Steam. If necessary, you can also create or adapt your own rules.

Check out https://github.com/Nefelim4ag/Ananicy

There is also ananicy, billed as, er, 'another auto-nice demon'.

You might want to get ananicy/nohang, or a system oomd killer to better optimise cpu processes and priorities to prevent this.

If you want to automatize this you can use ananicy,it has rules for each program and when you open a program (a game for example),it applies the nice values and IO bounds automatically,you can modify the .rules and create in case the program you have doesn't exist.

According to the GitHub page:

A performance optimiser, GameMode by Feral Interactive. It’s not required for anything to launch (unless maybe you’ve configured something to run via gamemoderun and GameMode isn’t actually installed on your system!)

EDIT: Nevermind, fixed it. Just create a file called gamemode.ini in $HOME/.config/, and copy inside this.

Thinking about running "gamemode" https://github.com/FeralInteractive/gamemode.

oh, you're referring to gamemoderun.

The ArchWiki has some tips that can help tuning your system to squeeze more performance: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/gaming

This launcher does help too: https://github.com/FeralInteractive/gamemode

On top of that, you can use a patched kernel like: https://xanmod.org/

You can check support status for games here: https://www.protondb.com/

If you run games via Proton with DXVK, you can use the environment variable DXVK_HUD=1 to show a HUD with an FPS meter. Some others prefer mangohud.

Setting your CPU frequency scaling governor and GPU to performance mode also helps.

Here's a link, looks like they are indeed working on it: https://github.com/FeralInteractive/gamemode/pull/416

Didn't include your OS but if you are on Ubuntu people reported before missing some 32-bit libraries as seen here https://github.com/FeralInteractive/gamemode/issues/254