Gameboost is a simple shell script to tweak FreeBSD settings for running games. It is inspired by gamemode for Linux. It is designed to set some tweaks to the system before execute the selected command and restore them after. The script should be run by normal users, not the root user. Also, it may require to write some configuration to it. Please, read further to get more details about it. If you read this file on GitHub: please don't send pull requests here. All will be automatically closed. Any code propositions should go to the Fossil repository.

At this moment the script support only Nvidia graphic cards tweaks. Any help with Intel or AMD GPUs is welcome.

Currently, the script tested with a few Windows games, and it can reduce or even prevent some problems like random freezes and boost FPS a little.

Dependencies

If you use Nvidia graphic card:

• Nvidia driver proper for your graphic card, for example, the newest: pkg install nvidia-driver
• Nvidia settings utility: pkg nvidia-settings

The script has also its own dependencies:

• zenity package for ask for password and show notifications: pkg install zenity
• sudo package, installed and configured, so the user can create a virtual device, pkg install sudo and visudo and proper changes in the configuration.

Installation

• Put the gameboost.sh script when anywhere it will be accessible by the selected user.

Configuration

There are a few things to configure, before using the script. Please, open it with your favorite text editor and read the first lines of the script, where the configuration section is. There is everything explained.

Usage

To execute the selected command with gameboost.sh, enter the command as the argument for the script. For example, if gameboost.sh is in PATH, to execute game mygame you can type in terminal: gamemode.sh mygame. If you want to execute mygame with additional arguments, put everything in quotes (as one argument for the script): gamemode.sh "mygame --somearg --anotherarg".

As the tweaks in the script can depend not only on your hardware but also on the command to execute, it is recommended to experiment a bit with the settings in the script. If you open it in your favorite editor, each tweak should have a proper description. If not or it is unclear, feel free to report the issue.

License

The project is released under 3-Clause BSD license.

TODO

• Suppport for Intel GPUs
• Support for AMD GPUs
• More tweaks
• Rewrite it as a GUI program (someday)

That's all for now, as usual, I have probably forgotten about something important ;)

Bartek thindil Jasicki