Essential utlities for gaming and streaming on Linux

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What the title says, let me begin:

 

Gaming

• Mangohud -> FPS Counter and System Info Overlay
• vkBasalt -> Use some of the Reshade shaders natively on Linux (can be enabled globally for all Vulkan Apps)
• Goverlay -> GUI manager for the 2 aforementioned utilities
• Gamemode -> Set the CPU and GPU for maximum performance
• Gamescope -> Compositor that may help with some games not starting, as well offering other extra features (like HDR and FSR 1.0 for all games)
• ProtonUp-Qt - Mainly to manage custom Proton/DXVK/Wine for Steam/Lutris 

 

Streaming

• OBS -> Video recording and Streaming App with amazing FFMPEG Encoding in Linux starting from OBS 30 and above.
• OBS Background Removal -> No Green Screen? This will save you.

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Mangohud can be used to limit FPS too. "Why would I do that" you might ask, well slightly lower FPS is better than frametime spikes, and some games limit your choice of "FPS limit" to fractions of your vsync freq.

 

EDIT: If you set a config file for mangohud, and edit said file whilst it's "live" it updates too, a bit like conky does, useful for diagnostics.

 

[xAcid9]

Can you use Pascal's RTGI shader with vkBasalt now? I recalled a lot of shaders didn't work with vkBasalt so I stick with Reshade. 

 

• ProtonUp-Qt - Mainly to manage custom Proton/DXVK/Wine for Steam/Lutris 

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22 minutes ago, xAcid9 said:

Can you use Pascal's RTGI shader with vkBasalt now? I recalled a lot of shaders didn't work with vkBasalt so I stick with Reshade. 

 

• ProtonUp-Qt - Mainly to manage custom Proton/DXVK/Wine for Steam/Lutris 

I highly doubt that although never tried.