How To Install gamemode on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gamemode
on Fedora 34.
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. gamemode 1.6 2.fc34 x86_64 97 k gamemode-1.6-2.fc34.src.rpm fedora Optimize system performance for games on demand https BSD 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 Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gamemode.
Install gamemode on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 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 Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 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 Fedora 34
To uninstall only the gamemode
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove gamemode
gamemode Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/gamemode-simulate-game
/usr/bin/gamemoded
/usr/bin/gamemoderun
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/19
/usr/lib/.build-id/19/634b5560bd7abca72d5441b9ee0744655ee072
/usr/lib/.build-id/5e
/usr/lib/.build-id/5e/7d9ed2aaf796c4eef6e10af50a8e5d13b7cc37
/usr/lib/.build-id/99
/usr/lib/.build-id/99/ac84bae17bc785d05917056c08d4aa7bb89663
/usr/lib/.build-id/a3
/usr/lib/.build-id/a3/0487796aaa7ed86c027bcd01d5ba0e3a08820c
/usr/lib/.build-id/c1
/usr/lib/.build-id/c1/9739665261e309ea7adc799d3d0f0aa3d9642d
/usr/lib/.build-id/d5
/usr/lib/.build-id/d5/2d5977f336c21f9e8437097a36bf3a7adf19db
/usr/lib/libgamemode.so
/usr/lib/libgamemode.so.0
/usr/lib/libgamemode.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/libgamemodeauto.so
/usr/lib/libgamemodeauto.so.0
/usr/lib/libgamemodeauto.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/systemd/user/gamemoded.service
/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/gamemode/gamemode.ini
/usr/share/licenses/gamemode
/usr/share/licenses/gamemode/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/gamemode-simulate-game.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gamemoderun.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/gamemoded.8.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/io.github.feralinteractive.gamemode.metainfo.xml
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/com.feralinteractive.GameMode.policy
/usr/bin/gamemode-simulate-game
/usr/bin/gamemoded
/usr/bin/gamemoderun
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/25
/usr/lib/.build-id/25/5edff1e671d99e777bf27e229683b89a211915
/usr/lib/.build-id/3d
/usr/lib/.build-id/3d/5147875e9804429ec2e4b4d04fec8a9cf45cdc
/usr/lib/.build-id/41
/usr/lib/.build-id/41/e6851aa3f923f61ddaa2fc0120c03db909c314
/usr/lib/.build-id/4e
/usr/lib/.build-id/4e/970961b6ed7e61b23bbfe5352a9a92c3e5d0a8
/usr/lib/.build-id/8e
/usr/lib/.build-id/8e/99f02c8fb664ee902fbe5b3f68e9bdad9b7f8e
/usr/lib/.build-id/94
/usr/lib/.build-id/94/a48810a9a22d389f9edd5a07694c083a0b808f
/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/gamemode/gamemode.ini
/usr/share/licenses/gamemode
/usr/share/licenses/gamemode/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/gamemode-simulate-game.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gamemoderun.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/gamemoded.8.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/io.github.feralinteractive.gamemode.metainfo.xml
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/com.feralinteractive.GameMode.policy
References
- [gamemode website](https://github.com/FeralInteractive/gamemode https://github.com/FeralInteractive/gamemode)
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gamemode
on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.