Does the flatpak version of bottles include gamemode package?

[Raj2032]

I installed the flatpak version of bottles on my arch-based linux system.

With this "Feral GameMode" setting:

do I need to actually install gamemode from my arch based system and configure it to run or its not needed as installing bottles through flatpak already includes gamemode?

[EmoonX]

We had a quite recent discussion about this on Discord. The overall conclusion is that, while Gamemode libraries are in fact bundled with Bottles and it does work in some form, you need it installed on your host system to take full advantage of system-wide optimizations (like CPU governor and process niceness).

So just install gamemode through your package manager and Bottles should be able to communicate with it for maximum performance.

[Raj2032]

Hi, thanks for your comment, if bottles is sandboxed under flatpak, then how does it interact with the gamermode one that is installed on host machine?

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[EmoonX]

It seems do so by a so-called XDG desktop portal: https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/docs/doc-org.freedesktop.portal.GameMode.html

[Raj2032]

@EmoonX Makes sense!