Bug 1694938

Summary: gamemode is not working (activated) for games that still use plain libgamemode.so
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Mikhail <mikhail.v.gavrilov>
Component: gamemodeAssignee: Christian Kellner <ckellner>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Mikhail 2019-04-02 06:19:25 UTC 
Description of problem:
For some games I see warning "Current CPU governor may impact performance" even when package gamemode is installed

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
# rpm -q gamemode
gamemode-1.3-1.fc31.x86_64


How reproducible:
Reproducible every time .


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Just launch the game "Rise of the Tomb Raider" from steam launcher.
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Expected results:
No "Current CPU governor may impact performance" warning when I launch the game.


Additional info:
The other Feral game "DiRT 4" not affected and with installed gamemode not show this warning.
Comment 1 Mikhail 2019-04-02 06:26:42 UTC 
Created attachment 1550887 [details]
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Comment 2 Alex Smith 2019-04-02 07:57:30 UTC 
Looking at the Fedora package contents, it seems there isn't an unversioned library link for the client library (should have /usr/lib*/libgamemode.so linked to libgamemode.so.0).

Before we started using versioned libraries in GameMode (https://github.com/FeralInteractive/gamemode/commit/77d4d0ad237ecb28f772fce979b5126c42cf338f), the client header only attempted to dlopen libgamemode.so, rather than trying libgamemode.so.0 first. Rise of the Tomb Raider was compiled against that older header, so without libgamemode.so, it won't make a request to GameMode.

A libgamemode.so link is created when installing from source so I think this is an issue with the Fedora packages.
Comment 3 Christian Kellner 2019-04-02 08:21:29 UTC 
As per the packaging guidelines the ("unversioned") libgaemmode.so is in the -devel package (i.e. gamemode-devel). @Alex, I guess there is no plan to update the "Rise of the Tomb Raider" (or there any other games?) to use the versioned one? I am tempted to move the libgamemode.so link from the -devel package to the main package. For the time being installing the gamemode-devel package is a work-around that should make it work.
Comment 4 Alex Smith 2019-04-02 08:43:33 UTC 
From us, Total War: Thrones of Britannia is also affected. No plans for patches to either game right now unfortunately.
Comment 5 Christian Kellner 2019-04-08 14:14:29 UTC 
Ok, I have consulted a few others (Bastien, Richard, Peter) and the consensus was that this is unfortunate; and we are just going to ship the libgamemode*.so in the main package for the time being. Alex, it would be great if the games could maybe be updated eventually so we don't have to have that work-around forever ;)

Build is here: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=1246712
Comment 6 Kenna Anna 2024-01-12 14:30:04 UTC Comment hidden (spam)