How to enable gamemoded mode

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Hello. I ran a gamemoded test in the terminal and unfortunately it ended with an error. Is there any way to improve the result by configuring the hardware settings?

:: Gamemoderun and reaper thread tests
...Waiting for child to quit...
...Waiting for reaper thread (reaper_frequency set to 5 seconds)...
:: Passed

:: Supervisor tests
:: Passed

:: Feature tests
::: Verifying CPU governor setting
ERROR: Governor was not set to performance (was actually powersave)!
::: Failed!
::: Verifying Scripts
::: Passed (no scripts configured to run)
::: Verifying GPU Optimisations
::: Passed (gpu optimisations not configured to run)
::: Verifying renice
::: Passed (no renice configured)
::: Verifying ioprio
::: Passed
ERROR: :: Failed!
: Tests Failed!

And this is my hardware configuration:

# Raport informacji o komputerze
---

## Szczegóły raportu
- **Data utworzenia:**                             2026-02-02 12:13:26

## Informacje o sprzęcie:
- **Model sprzętu:**                               HP HP Pavilion Gaming Laptop 15-cx0xxx
- **Pamięć:**                                      16,0 GiB
- **Procesor:**                                    Intel® Core™ i5-8300H × 8
- **Grafika:**                                     Intel® UHD Graphics 630
- **Grafika 1:**                                   NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
- **Pojemność dysku:**                             500,1 GB

## Informacje o oprogramowaniu:
- **Wersja oprogramowania sprzętowego:**           F.29
- **Nazwa systemu operacyjnego:**                  Zorin OS 18 Pro
- **Identyfikator systemu operacyjnego:**          (null)
- **Typ systemu operacyjnego:**                    64-bitowy
- **System okien:**                                X11
- **Wersja jądra:**                                Linux 6.14.0-37-generic

Thank you and best regards.

2

Have you tried to add your user to group gamemode? Then logout and login again.

sudo usermod -aG gamemode <yourusername>

Replace <yourusername> with your username, e.g.
sudo usermod -aG gamemode rashSE

3

I did as you wrote, but with no results. Maybe my laptop is just too weak and doesn't support it?

4

Make sure it's your nvidia card that is enable instead of the intel when running the test and when gaming.

sudo prime-select nvidia
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Thank you very much! The test was a success :slight_smile:

: Loading config
Loading config file [/usr/share/gamemode/gamemode.ini]
: Running tests

:: Basic client tests
:: Passed

:: Dual client tests
gamemode request succeeded and is active
Quitting by request...
:: Passed

:: Gamemoderun and reaper thread tests
...Waiting for child to quit...
...Waiting for reaper thread (reaper_frequency set to 5 seconds)...
:: Passed

:: Supervisor tests
:: Passed

:: Feature tests
::: Verifying CPU governor setting
::: Passed
::: Verifying Scripts
::: Passed (no scripts configured to run)
::: Verifying GPU Optimisations
::: Passed (gpu optimisations not configured to run)
::: Verifying renice
::: Passed (no renice configured)
::: Verifying ioprio
::: Passed
:: Passed

: All Tests Passed!
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