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Linux gaming has really become a thing in the recent years. 80% of the reported games on ProtonDB are marked as working on Linux, thanks to Proton, wine, and a host of other libraries like DXVK. Even with all of that progress, there can still be a performance gap between Windows and Linux on some games. Fortunately, there is a way to reduce that gap, and that's Gamemode.

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00:00 Intro 01:41 What is Gamemode 02:52 Benchmarks 06:25 Install Gamemode 07:21 Use Gamemode

Gamemode is a little program, developed by Feral Interactive, which you might know as the company that tends to port games to Linux, such as Total War Warhammer 2, or the Tomb Raider games.

What it does is try to optimize your system to give as much performance to the game you're running, and return to normal once the game is closed. It can do quite a bit, including giving more CPU priority to the game, more disk priority, inhibiting the screensaver while the game is running, using the GPU performance modes for AMD and Nvidia, when available, and even using overclocking on NVidia GPUs if it can.

Gamemode has been around for a while now, but it's still something that is rarely included by default, and needs to be installed separately.

The end result of running a game with Gamemode? You'll get more out of your hardware, and get better performance. The improvements will vary from game to game, but in general, the more a game is taxing for your hardware, the more gamemode will make a difference.

Gamemode doesn't come preinstalled on many distros, but it's pretty easy to install anyways. Gamemode is available in the repos for Ubuntu, Debian, Solus, Arch, Gentoo, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Mageia, so you can just install it through your regular package manager, for example a quick "sudo apt install gamemode" on Ubuntu.

If Gamemode isn't available on your distro of choice? If you're on an older version of Ubuntu, like 18.04 LTS, there is a PPA, you'll find the command to add it here:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:samoilov-lex/gamemode

If that doesn't suit your needs, you can always compile Gamemode from source, you can find the instructions in the github page of the project, I'l ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZb1v4EM-2U