Apple claims it gives a game highest priority CPU and GPU access, and reduces Bluetooth input and audio latencies too. Does it, though?
Summary
Game Mode is turned on automatically by putting a recognised game into Full Screen mode; there’s no alternative method. A game is taken out of Game Mode automatically by returning it from Full Screen mode, or (possibly) manually in its menu in the menu bar. Game Mode is controlled by gamepolicyd. Game Mode results in RunningBoard making some services, including gameconsole, critical, and suppressing other background servics. These could improve the game’s access to CPU cores, but this seems unlikely to have much effect on performance. Game Mode appears to increase GPU load by the game, although it’s not clear whether this is significantly greater than would be achieved by Full Screen mode alone. Game Mode puts Bluetooth into Low Latency mode, reducing input latency from game controllers, and audio latency to output devices.
Watch video linked from Mastodon to hear the difference due to the bug.
Bug still exists in Sonoma
Full thread: https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/111160426488046610
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What makes you think I’m a bot? And is this a repost? I didn’t notice an earlier post
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Pulling back the curtain on design philosophy.
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From $79 to $99
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Winter typically means Jan-Mar for anime, this could suggest it comes early next year, but who knows.
I just tried on my Mac, and Option-Command-C worked. Unsure whether this is a reliable solution
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I want aware that this report function existed. I can start doing my part to report errors, so thank you for sharing!
Wow. It really ended. Was entertaining watching this update regularly.
I found this very insightful, thank you for sharing!
We have Avelon now, an amazing native app that I feel can surpass Apollo with time
On iOS, Avelon is the best Lemmy client I have ever used (in my opinion even better than Apollo was), though some features are still missing. Smooth, fluid, beautiful, functional!
I love how the name of this community looks like cPython, Python’s reference implementation
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Just tried it, works really well! Added most of its recommendations to my library
More info:
https://asahilinux.org/2023/08/fedora-asahi-remix/
https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/110825522690584932
Some key points:
- We aim to officially release the Fedora Asahi Remix by the end of August 2023.
- Very soon after Asahi Linux started (well before our Arch ARM-based release), Neal Gompa joined our IRC channels and we started talking about working towards integrating our work into Fedora... The Fedora Asahi project started in late 2021, and work began in 2022 alongside the Arch ARM release.
- Working directly with upstream means not only can we integrate more closely with the core distribution, but we can also get issues in other packages fixed quickly and smoothly. This is particularly important for platforms like desktop ARM64, where we still run into random app and package bugs quite often.