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Quoting: DolusThe technical improvements are welcome, but I hope their writing has improved since they gave the BG games the "Enhanced Edition" treatment.

Hopefully they didn't add any writing at all, even with Chris Avellone's help. Beamdog couldn't match the level of writing in BG and the writing in Planescape: Torment is an order of magnitude greater, any story bits Beamdog themselves would add would massively stand out from the rest of the narrative.

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Quoting: M@yeulCUh? "powersave" shouldn't be the default. I think "interactive" is. It provides some sane balance between power usage and performance.

I would generally advise "powersave" only when battery life is a problem, to maximize its capacity (and bear with a bit of stuttering/other), maybe lower the settings a bit as well to minimize the power draw.

Now, on desktop, I think that "interactive" is the default, which is a good one IMO. I would be curious to see some comparison with "performance" on Vulkan, but I don't expect it to change the result by more than 0.5-1%, and you might have much higher idle power draw. I personally never bother to change it.

You might also want to avoid "conservative", which might have lower performance than "powersave".

That's if for the basic performance governors, but I want to point out that, while performance governors and schedulers might seem "dumb" (probably because they are well-documented, and generally don't try the one-size-fits-all approach), they are well-proven and battle tested, from small embedded devices, to Android phones, to supercomputers.

There is also more to scheduling than performance governors, and the schedulers can have a role to play as well, but I don't think that gaming is the most complex scenario to handle, so this should make little difference, except for special cases.

My Manjaro system doesn't even have an interactive governor

cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_governors
performance powersave

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Quoting: poisond@liamdawe
Uh, powersave isn't the default governor, at least it shouldn't be. powersave will run your CPU at the minimum freq.
You want ondemand.

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/cpu-freq/governors.txt [External Link]

Not exactly. AMD chips use ondemand, as well as some really old Intel chips. Newer Intel chips use powersave as the intel_pstate driver takes care of the scaling.

Edit: Ninja'd

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Thanks for the heads up, Liam. I made two files, called gov_perf and gov_psav and copied the short scripts into them, then made them executable and copied them to usr/bin. That way I can issue the commands from any directory with a single word typed. I'm sure I could add gov_perf to launcher scripts of games so that the process is auto-magic. Now to figure out a way to make games trigger gov_psav upon exit...

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**** yes!

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I'm definitely interested.

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Aaaaand I failed the elusive target mission, as expected. I did manage to kill the target, but I failed to escape. Dude just had security all over him like a cheap suit at all times, I couldn't figure out a way to kill him unnoticed. Oh well, I'll try to do better on the next elusive target.

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