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MangoHud

Performance overlay for checking whether encoding is costing you frames.

Works on WaylandMIT

Install

Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Pop!_OS

sudo apt install mangohud

Fedora, RHEL, Nobara

sudo dnf install mangohud

Arch, Manjaro, EndeavourOS

sudo pacman -S mangohud

openSUSE

sudo zypper install mangohud

NixOS, or Nix on any distro

nix profile install nixpkgs#mangohud

The diagnostic tool for the most common streaming complaint: “the game got worse when I started streaming.” MangoHud shows GPU load and frame times in-game, which distinguishes an encoder that is stealing GPU time from a CPU that is simply saturated.

If GPU load sits near 100% only while streaming, the fix is usually dropping the encoder preset or resolution rather than buying hardware.