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FeralInteractive
gamemode
C2018–2023
FeralInteractive / gamemode

gamemode

Optimise Linux system performance on demand

3Distinct people
4Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
6.1KGitHub stars
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Optimise Linux system performance on demand

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 12:54:37 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-04-10 13:46:54 UTC to 2023-07-04 23:32:40 UTC.

0122018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 2 submissions, 0 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC220
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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The short answer is that you can squeeze some significant extra performance if you are clever, and make it run very close to Windows. If you do absolutely nothing, the baseline is often fine. The ArchWiki has some tips that can help tuning your system: 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 a FPS meter. Some others prefer mangohud. Setting your CPU frequency scaling governor and GPU to performance mode also helps. In some obscure cases, removing unused network interfaces will make Windows games that use certain Windows AP
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Is run significantly faster. Proton is known to interfere with controller support so disabling steam input + overriding DirectInput DLLs can be helpful in some cases.
In Bottles – Easily run Windows software on Linux

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