MangoHud performance overlay for Linux v0.8.2 released

The excellent and incredibly useful Linux performance overlay MangoHud has released version 0.8.2 after being in testing for a few weeks with new features. Want to learn how to use it properly? Check out the GamingOnLinux guide for MangoHud.

Here's how it looks by default giving you a basic readout of CPU, GPU and FPS along with frame timings:

You can configure it to give all sorts of different information. And the latest release 0.8.2 brings more features and fixes.

All the latest changes:

Fixes

• LLVMPIPE crash where mangohud would check vsync status
• X11 crash when $DISPLAY was not set
• ImGuI content width was incorrectly calculated in some cases
• GPU/CPU load did not respect alpha option
• XNVCTRL was not working without nvml
• Adressed multiple cases where the mangohud would crash on close
• Keybinds were not working in some cases on wayland
• Large scale fixes on OpenGL. Missing hud, flickering hud, games not starting and more.
• Mangoapp would sometimes crash when x11 disappeared
• Feral launcher not starting game with mangohud (as long as exec option is not used)

Changes

• GLEW and nlohmann deps have been removed
• Added cpu mhz to logging
• Blacklisted all gtk-4 apps
• Panfrost GPU support
• RAPL can be used with AMD CPU power as well
• Added qualcomm KGSL support
• Added APM XGene support
• Blacklisted Marvel Rivals launcher
• mangoapp can now check for vkbasalt and gamemode
• Added amdgpu v3_0 gpu_metrics, this supports more recent amd APUs

Parameters

• gpu_efficiency Display GPU efficiency in frames per joule
• cpu_efficiency Display CPU efficiency in frames per joule
• flip_efficiency Flips CPU and GPU efficiency to joules per frame
• gpu_power_limit Display GPU power limit
• horizontal_separator_color Set the colors for the horizontal separators (horizontal layout only)
• core_type Display CPU core type per core. For Intel, it shows which cores are performance and efficient cores, for ARM it shows core codenames like A52, A53, A76, etc...
• proc_vram Display process' VRAM usage
• ftrace Display information about trace events reported through ftrace
• font_size_secondary Customizable font size for secondary metrics. Default is 0.55 * font_size
• MANGOHUD_FPS_LIMIT env to set FPS limit for app
• fps_limit can now take decimal values
• dx_api attempts to show the underlying directx api (work in progress)

Here's a shot with the latest version on a horizontal layout, with the new "proc_vram" listed at the end and the separators set with "horizontal_separator_color" to a light blue (00FFFF) which looks great:

Pictured - ARC Raiders, doing a night raid to test MangoHud

See more info on the GitHub.