Gaming on Linux (updated 8/2018) | Level One Techs

[FurryJackman]

Frequent FPS dips could be resolved by 1. Changing the CPU frequency governor to performance and 2. Using an “esync” Wine Staging build from Lutris.

This wiki page shows you how to setup an esync build, as it requires you to modify /etc/security/limits.conf

lutris/lutris

And I have ways to permanently turn on performance CPU governor in this thread:

The Ubuntu 18.04 CPU Frequency Governor Fix

So before, in Ubuntu 16.04 and below, /etc/init.d/ondemand was responsible for changing the CPU frequency to “ondemand” which caused issues while gaming with the processor downclocking. This is why Feral Interactive created Linux “GameMode” which sets the frequency governor to “performance” Trouble is, the fix is extremely simple… Just change echo -n ondemand > $CPUFREQ to echo -n performance > $CPUFREQ Ubuntu 18.04 relocated this script to instead of being in /etc/init.d/ondemand to instead be a script that is called upon by a ondemand.service in /lib/systemd/set-cpufreq A glance at /lib/systemd/set-cpufreq makes it look practically identical to the previous /etc/init.d/ondemand! How do we set the CPU Governor to “performance?” Starting from Line 37: echo "Setting $GOVERNOR scheduler for all CPUs" for CPUFREQ in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor do [ -f $CPUFREQ ] || continue echo -n $GOVERNOR > $CPUFREQ done ... Change to echo "Setting performance scheduler for all CPUs" for CPUFREQ in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor do [ -f $CPUFREQ ] || continue echo -n performance > $CPUFREQ done ... Save the file and reboot. That’s literally it. Don’t change anything before line 37 and past done. The file you have might have different indentation than the example I gave so this is only for reference. DON’T COPY AND PASTE THE EXAMPLE. Once again, modify /lib/systemd/set-cpufreq to change the governor in 18.04. (Those that saw this early, Tab spaces don’t work on this forum…)

I still recommend you stay on LLVM git. That’s what DXVK tests.