Games compatible with GameMode are able to ‘request’ that a specific set of tweaks are applied to the host system and/or the game process(es) for a short period. It’s not a GUI app there’s no multi-button dashboard, no toggle-fest, and no real feedback on how it’s running. So behold a short primer on what Feral GameMode is, what it does, and how you can install Feral GameMode on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (and up) to (hopefully) benefit from improved gaming performance on your system! What is Feral GameMode?įeral GameMode is a discreet background utility that aims to improve gaming performance on Linux distributions like Ubuntu. Asking me for help with modern Linux gaming is like asking your mum about Linux - yeah, that bad!īut I figured I’d write a couple hundred words on Feral GameMode here and if no-one cares, no-one cares: at least I can go away feeling a little more “with it” 😉. Problem is, when it comes to gaming I’m about as “current gen” as a Game Boy camera. For example, to get better performance out of Super Tux Kart on Linux, you’d run the following command in a Linux terminal window.A few readers have mailed in to ask me how to use Feral GameMode on Ubuntu. GameMode can run video games installed on a Linux computer via the command-line. man gamemoded Run GameMode on non-Steam games When the build/installation process is complete on your Linux PC, you will be able to access the GameMode manually by typing the command below.
Do so, as the script needs it to gain sudo access during the build and installation process. Upon running the “bootstrap.sh” script on your Linux PC, you’ll be asked to enter the password for your user. To run the script, run the execution command below in a terminal window./bootstrap.sh The GameMode application is easy to build on any Linux PC, thanks to the “bootstrap.sh” script. Move the terminal session into this folder by using the CD command below. Once the cloning process is complete, a folder with the name of “gamemode” will appear in your home directory (~). To do this, we must make use of the Git program, and it’s clone feature. Now that the dependencies are taken care of, the source code for GameMode must be downloaded. sudo dnf install meson systemd-devel pkg-config git dbus-devel Download the source code However, you run into issues, ask the developer directly on this page. That said, the Fedora ones should work fine. The developer doesn’t explicitly outline the correct dependencies required to build the software on OpenSUSE. sudo dnf install meson systemd-devel pkg-config git dbus-devel OpenSUSE sudo pacman -S meson systemd git dbus Fedoraįedora Linux users looking to compile GameMode on Linux must install Meson, Systemd-devel, Pkg-config, Git, and Dbus-devel. Arch Linux users only need to install 4 dependencies to get GameMode built.
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