Feral's GameMode 1.5 Now Supports Changing The CPU Governor Differently For iGPUs

[audi.rs4]

did you configure a gamemode.ini file? by default gamemode uses the powersave governor, but Ryzen seems to perfer the shedutil governor.

if you haven't already done this, there should be an example file at /usr/share/doc/gamemode/example/gamemode.ini set defaultgov=schedutil and save to /home/.config

the file is also accessible here: https://github.com/FeralInteractive/...master/example

I can't remember the exact moment when gamemode started to work fully on my new Zen 2 system, but it was definitely after doing these things

also it's interesting that you have so many governor options, I only get performance and schedutil.

what is the result of running

gamemoded -t

I already had the gamemode.ini setup. When performance was manually set as the governor, it gave no error. When I put schedutil as the governor, I got the following output from gamemoded. I also checked, to see if with performance on, when launching Dirt 4, if when I quit, it would switched it to schedutil, but It did not.

audi@Ryzen5:~$ gamemoded -t
: Loading config
Loading config file [/home/curtis/.config/gamemode.ini]
: Running tests

:: Basic client tests
:: Passed

:: Dual client tests
gamemode request succeeded and is active
Quitting by request...
:: Passed

:: Gamemoderun and reaper thread tests
...Waiting for child to quit...
...Waiting for reaper thread (reaper_frequency set to 5 seconds)...
:: Passed

:: Supervisor tests
:: Passed

:: Feature tests
::: Verifying CPU governor setting
ERROR: Governor was not set to performance (was actually schedutil)!
::: Failed!
::: Verifying Scripts
::: Passed (no scripts configured to run)
::: Verifying GPU Optimisations
::: Passed (gpu optimisations not configured to run)
::: Verifying renice
::: Passed (no renice configured)
::: Verifying ioprio
::: Passed
ERROR: :: Failed!
: Tests Failed!

[nranger]

Do Intel CPUs still boost sufficiently with the powersave governor? On my last AMD APU laptop (Mullins 15W), setting the governor to "powersave" downclocked the CPU to 1 Ghz on all cores and pretty much locked it there even under load with only occasional boosting to 1.8Ghz (short of the normal 2.4Ghz boost). The "conservative" governor seemed much more responsive, and still saved considerable power (more of a "race to sleep" approach).

[HenryM]

I already had the gamemode.ini setup. When performance was manually set as the governor, it gave no error. When I put schedutil as the governor, I got the following output from gamemoded. I also checked, to see if with performance on, when launching Dirt 4, if when I quit, it would switched it to schedutil, but It did not.

audi@Ryzen5:~$ gamemoded -t

:: Feature tests
::: Verifying CPU governor setting
ERROR: Governor was not set to performance (was actually schedutil)!
::: Failed!

so that confirms that gamemode lacks the privileges to change governor settings, something I'm pretty sure sudo/root is normally needed to do and the it's the same problem I encountered. does the output of

groups [I]user[/I]

include gamemode?

annoying how fickle this usually is. I'm on Arch and I moved between gamemode-git and the normal gamemode release via the AUR before it started to work, which may or may not have been a factor.
the extent of my bash_history when I got gamemode working includes only

systemctl --user enable gamemoded
systemctl --user start gamemoded
gamemoded -r

cat /etc/group

sudo groupadd gamemode
sudo gpasswd -a [insert username here] gamemode

[audi.rs4]

so that confirms that gamemode lacks the privileges to change governor settings, something I'm pretty sure sudo/root is normally needed to do and the it's the same problem I encountered. does the output of

groups [I]user[/I]

include gamemode?

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I removed the Ubuntu gamemode package and just downloaded the 1.5 version from Github. It works now. Perhaps the Ubuntu package is just broken. I'll go submit a bug report for it to Ubuntu, if one doesn't exist for it already.

Thanks for the help! Now, with a working gamemode, I'm off to play some Dirt 4.