How To Install gamemode on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gamemode on CentOS 8.
What is gamemode
GameMode is a daemon/lib combo for GNU/Linux that allows games to request a set of optimizations be temporarily applied to the host OS. GameMode was designed primarily as a stop-gap solution to problems with the Intel and AMD CPU “powersave” or “ondemand” governors, but is now host to a range of optimisation features and configurations, like tweaking various settings kernel scheduler, the GPU performance mode and gpu overclocking (NVIDIA). It can also excute custom scripts when launching games.
We can use yum or dnf to install gamemode on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gamemode.
Install gamemode on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install gamemode using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install gamemode
Install gamemode on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install gamemode using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install gamemode
How To Uninstall gamemode on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the gamemode package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove gamemode
gamemode Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/gamemoded
/usr/bin/gamemoderun
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/04
/usr/lib/.build-id/04/6548d92cab4f5c8e7d8a6584991be156368962
/usr/lib/.build-id/28
/usr/lib/.build-id/28/ca68b55451056153199c4eabf72cb9cdcf4bdb
/usr/lib/.build-id/a8
/usr/lib/.build-id/a8/38ae95c17ae0a07f2d905b85ef57d4f6dd9cd7
/usr/lib/.build-id/c3
/usr/lib/.build-id/c3/4b1a0102aacc1755f9d9eadf4292a5f7c8ea61
/usr/lib/.build-id/c3/e6bbb2a2578e162756d322f1bd4901ad9df52d
/usr/lib/systemd/user/gamemoded.service
/usr/lib64/libgamemode.so
/usr/lib64/libgamemode.so.0
/usr/lib64/libgamemode.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib64/libgamemodeauto.so
/usr/lib64/libgamemodeauto.so.0
/usr/lib64/libgamemodeauto.so.0.0.0
/usr/libexec/cpugovctl
/usr/libexec/gpuclockctl
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/com.feralinteractive.GameMode.service
/usr/share/doc/gamemode
/usr/share/doc/gamemode/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/gamemode
/usr/share/licenses/gamemode/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/man/man8/gamemoded.8.gz
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/com.feralinteractive.GameMode.policy
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gamemode on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.