Gamemode/CHANGELOG.md

1.6

Changes

• Created new manpages for gamemoderun and the example, now called gamemode-simulate-game
• Add ability to change lib directory of gamemoderun
• Add option to use elogind
• Copy default config file to the correct location
• Allow LD_PRELOAD to be overridden in $GAMEMODERUNEXEC
• Various minor bugfixes
• Improvements to dependency management

Contributors

• Stephan Lachnit @stephanlachnit
• Rafał Mikrut @qarmin
• Niels Thykier @nthykier
• Stéphane Gleizes @sgleizes

1.5.1

Changes

Minor changes for Debian and Ubuntu packaging:

• Use the preferred logging system rather than defaulting to syslog.
• Prefer the system installation of inih.

Contributors

• Sebastien Bacher @seb128
• Stephan Lachnit @stephanlachnit

1.5

Changes

• Introduce a new pidfd based set of D-Bus APIs (#173)
• Dynamically change governor on integrated GPUs for improved performance (#179)
• Various other fixes and improvements.

Contributors

• Alex Smith @aejsmith
• Christian Kellner @gicmo
• Jason Ekstrand @jekstrand

1.4

Changes

• Add new D-Bus methods/properties for use by external tools such as the GameMode GNOME Shell extension (#129, #155, #161).
• Fix I/O priority and niceness optimisations to apply to the whole process rather than just the thread that requests GameMode (#142).
• gamemoded will now automatically reload the configuration file when it is changed and update optimisations on current clients (#144).
• Add support for using the client library inside Flatpak by communicating with the daemon via a portal (#146).
• Client library now uses libdbus rather than sd-bus (#147).
• Fix gamemoderun to use the correct library path depending on whether the app is 32-bit or 64-bit.
• Support the GAMEMODERUNEXEC environment variable to specify an extra wrapper command for games launched with gamemoderun (e.g. a hybrid GPU wrapper such as optirun) (#159).
• Various other fixes and improvements.

Contributors

• Christian Kellner @gicmo
• Marc Di Luzio @mdiluz
• Matthias Gerstner @mgerstner
• Minze Zwerver @ysblokje
• Stephan Lachnit @stephanlachnit
• Timo Gurr @tgurr

1.3.1

Changes

• Change permission of gamemoderun in source tree so that it is correctly installed with execute permissions on older Meson versions (such as that included with Ubuntu 18.04) (#115).
• Enable more compiler warnings and fix issues highlighted by these.

Contributors

• Christian Kellner @gicmo

1.3

Changes

• Disable screensaver when the game is running (can help when playing with gamepad or joystick).
• Add a gamemoderun helper script to do the necessary setup (set LD_PRELOAD) to enable GameMode on games which do not support it themselves.
• Support for overclocking on NVIDIA GPUs (experimental, use at your own risk). See example/gamemode.ini for further details.
• Support for configuring performance level on AMD GPUs (experimental, use at your own risk). See example/gamemode.ini.
• Increase I/O priority of game processes.
• softrealtime and renice options are no longer enabled by default since they require extra system configuration. See example/gamemode.ini.
• Add supervisor API which allows requesting GameMode on behalf of another process.
• Add tests for GameMode functionality (run with gamemoded -t).
• Various other minor fixes and improvements.

Contributors

• Marc Di Luzio @mdiluz
• Kai Krakow @kakra
• Matthias Gerstner @mgerstner
• Suvayu Ali @suvayu
• Térence Clastres @terencode

1.2

Changes

• Store the initial governor state on mode enter.
• Config now supports defaultgov and desiredgov.
• Add soft real-time scheduling support on kernels supporting SCHED_ISO (softrealtime config option) and support for renice-ing games to a higher priority (renice config option) (contributed by Kai Krakow).
• Make service D-Bus activated rather than requiring it to be explicitly enabled in systemd (contributed by Christian Kellner).
• Make libraries properly versioned (contributed by Christian Kellner).

1.1

Changes

• Cascaded config file loading.
• gamemode_query_status function.
• -r (request) and -s (status) for gamemoded.
• User defined script plugins in the config file.
• User defined reaper thread frequency.
• Various code refactors and fixes.
• systemd status messages.
• release management scripts.
• inih moved to a git submodule.

1.0

Changes

• Fixed and cleaned up README file.
• Config file parsing.
• Man page.
• Example PKGBUILD file.
• Bug fix for missing pthread_rwlock_init.

0.2

Changes

• Updated meson build to improve compatibility, configuration and development.
• cpugovctl now uses polkit.
• Fixed potential threading issues.
• Added option to use the system d-bus for the daemon rather than systemd.
• Various code style and standards related improvements.

0.1

Initial release.