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If you're confused:
- MangoHud - an overlay to display things like FPS, frame timings, temperatures and a lot more.
- vkBasalt - a Vulkan post processing layer to enhance game visuals.
- OptiScaler - bridges upscaling/frame gen across different GPUs,
The developer just released Goverlay 1.7.0 that replaces the "Global Enable" option with a new FGMod-based "Auto Enable" system. There's also a new "Proton Tweaks" tab with dedicated one-click features for various options like simulating a Steam Deck, enabling Wayland support, GameMode, custom environment variables and so on.
For the Optiscaler support there's also a new FP8 emulation toggle for older GPUs and more.
Nice to see this open source app continue to evolve to add even more useful features. Certainly beats hand-editing various different config files if you like to mess around with advanced options when gaming on Linux.
Source: GitHub
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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benjamimgois a day ago
Goverlay started as a GUI for overlay (mangohud), but the scope got broader. I'm thinking about rebrand the project. Maybe some community feedback / suggestions would be cool.
BrandonGene 24 hours ago
Quoting: benjamimgoisThanks for the post Liam ! GamingonLinux recognition makes a lot of difference.I like the word conductor for an app like this, as it's managing many parts of a performance. Game Conductor is the obvious choice if that word is included, but I'm sure there are other variations that would work too. I'll admit, Goverlay was a technical enough sounding name that I did not do the research I should have when hearing it for the first time. I assumed this was something lower in the stack that I wouldn't be interested in configuring, but it's quite the opposite and I'll be trying it out immediately!
Goverlay started as a GUI for overlay (mangohud), but the scope got broader. I'm thinking about rebrand the project. Maybe some community feedback / suggestions would be cool.
Quoting: benjamimgoisThanks for the post Liam ! GamingonLinux recognition makes a lot of difference.Rebranding could throw people off for a time, though here are some crappy names I came up with:
Goverlay started as a GUI for overlay (mangohud), but the scope got broader. I'm thinking about rebrand the project. Maybe some community feedback / suggestions would be cool.
FrameUtils
PerforSuite
GUISuite
GaminGUI (yes i know)
GamersNexus (LOL, cause it's a collection of tools, :P)
UtiGUI (utility gui)
SynerGUI
Familiar but probably also terrible ??:
GUItils
GoUtils
Go-Overlay
TheLinuxPleb 3 hours ago
Also the Proton Tweaks environment variables got removed after closing the app and opening it up again.
Went back to the repo version and Mangohud works again plus saving the configs.
Last edited by TheLinuxPleb on 13 Jan 2026 at 11:31 am UTC
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