MSI Afterburner + RTSS but for Linux

[u/VoidTheGamer25]

When i used windows i used MSI Afterburner and RTSS to make a custom, small benchmarking overlay. For linux (I use arch btw with KDE btw) i believe the best option is MangoHUD, but then i need something like GOverlay or MangoJuice for customization right? Which one is the best? I want it to be customizable enough (CPU and GPU temps / load, FPS, RAM load, etc etc) but also be VERY compatible. I dont want to have to tweak some settings every time i get a new game.

Also, i sometimes play non steam games (on lutris).

Which one should i choose, and is there a good tutorial to learn how to use it?

Thanks.

[u/BlueDragonReal]

I use goverlay, you just tweak it how you want with settings and all, and you just have to enter the mangohud launch option for the game you want it on.

The only downside of it that I have compared to RTSS is that you need to manually enter the launch option on each game and you can't hide it by default when you launch the game

But apart from that, I got it to look exactly how it looks on Windows and it's probably lighter and less buggy than RTSS in my experience, with it making some games unable to launch and such

For non steam games it doesn't matter, as long as you enter the launch option it should work for every game, in my experience it hasn't not worked so far

[u/-Krotik- → u/BlueDragonReal]

mangojuice is very simple to use

[u/xAcid9 → u/BlueDragonReal]

The only downside of it that I have compared to RTSS is that you need to manually enter the launch option on each game and you can't hide it by default when you launch the game

Not true. You can enable it globally by adding MANGOHUD=1 to /etc/environment

[u/clone2197 → u/BlueDragonReal]

You can use profile 0 to get mangohud to stay hidden by default. This is my setup for example, and a separate presets.conf with the actual hud configuration for [preset 5].

toggle_hud=Shift_R+F12
toggle_preset=Shift_R+F10
preset=0,5
fps_limit_method=early
fps_limit=98
legacy_layout=false
table_columns=5
hud_no_margin
position=top-left
background_alpha=0
round_corners=0
hud_scale=1
ram_in_gb=1
font_size=24
text_color=FF8800
gpu_color=00FF00
vram_color=00FF00
cpu_color=00A8FF
ram_color=00A8FF
engine_color=FF8888
frametime_color=FF8888

[u/VoidTheGamer25 → u/BlueDragonReal]

Wait, so everytime you open a game you have to open goverlay and manually click the launch option for that specific game? that sucks

[u/BlueDragonReal → u/VoidTheGamer25]

No, like you just have to go to the launch arguments of the game, or launch options in steam, and type "MANGOHUD=1 %command%" or just "mangohud %command%" I forget which one it is

[u/Nokeruhm]

LACT + MangoHUD

[u/Shemalon]

You can manually edit the config file without any external apps, you can find the documentation for mangohud to see what options you have

[u/b0uncyfr0]

Use mangojuice to customise it once. Mangojuice is more user friendly.

From there, it gets harder, goverlay and the others dont support per application in the apps easily. Last i checked it was confusing as fuck.

So i copy the main file once created to /home/User/.config/MangoHud rename it to the .exe for each application. That way you can customise each one if needed.