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| -rwxr-xr-x | extra/meson_post_install.sh | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/overclock.c | 4 |
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/extra/meson_post_install.sh b/extra/meson_post_install.sh index bef7a4a..a93f27b 100755 --- a/extra/meson_post_install.sh +++ b/extra/meson_post_install.sh @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ # process and if the session token is stolen by another application then it will ignore the session token as it wasn't that # application that created the session token. # --- -# This is needed to allow gpu screen recorder to run faster than a heavy games fps, for example when trying to record at 60 fps -# but the game drops to 45 fps in some place. That would also make gpu screen recorder drop to 45 fps unless this setcap is used. +# This is needed (for EGL_CONTEXT_PRIORITY_HIGH_IMG) to allow gpu screen recorder to run faster than the heaviest application on AMD. +# For example when trying to record a game at 60 fps and the game drops to 45 fps in some place that would also make gpu screen recorder +# drop to 45 fps unless this setcap is used. #/usr/sbin/setcap cap_sys_nice+ep ${MESON_INSTALL_DESTDIR_PREFIX}/bin/gpu-screen-recorder diff --git a/src/overclock.c b/src/overclock.c index 2cba623..df2ae66 100644 --- a/src/overclock.c +++ b/src/overclock.c @@ -4,12 +4,10 @@ #include <string.h> #include <stdlib.h> -// HACK!!!: When a program uses cuda (including nvenc) then the nvidia driver drops to performance level 2 (memory transfer rate is dropped and possibly graphics clock). +// HACK!!!: When a program uses cuda (including nvenc) then the nvidia driver drops to max performance level - 1 (memory transfer rate is dropped and possibly graphics clock). // Nvidia does this because in some very extreme cases of cuda there can be memory corruption when running at max memory transfer rate. // So to get around this we overclock memory transfer rate (maybe this should also be done for graphics clock?) to the best performance level while GPU Screen Recorder is running. -// TODO: Does it always drop to performance level 2? - static int min_int(int a, int b) { return a < b ? a : b; } |