MangoHud

A Vulkan and OpenGL overlay for monitoring FPS, temperatures, CPU/GPU load and more.

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• MangoHud
  • Installation - Build From Source
    • Dependencies
    • Building with build script
  • Installation - Pre-packaged Binaries
    • GitHub releases
    • Arch-based distributions
    • Debian, Ubuntu
    • Fedora
    • Solus
    • openSUSE
    • Flatpak
  • Normal usage
  • OpenGL
  • Hud configuration
    • Environment Variables: MANGOHUD_CONFIG and MANGOHUD_CONFIGFILE
  • Vsync
    • OpenGL Vsync
    • Vulkan Vsync
  • Keybindings
  • Workarounds
  • MangoHud FPS logging
    • Multiple log files
    • Log uploading walkthrough

Installation - Build From Source

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If you wish to compile MangoHud to keep up to date with any changes - first clone this repository and cd into it:

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/flightlessmango/MangoHud.git
cd MangoHud

Using meson to install "manually":

meson build
ninja -C build install

By default, meson should install MangoHud to /usr/local. Specify install prefix with --prefix=/usr if desired. Add -Dappend_libdir_mangohud=false option to meson to not append mangohud to libdir if desired (e.g. /usr/local/lib/mangohud).

To install 32-bit build on 64-bit distro, specify proper libdir: lib32 for Arch, lib/i386-linux-gnu on Debian-based distros. RPM-based distros usually install 32-bit libraries to /usr/lib and 64-bit to /usr/lib64. You may have to change PKG_CONFIG_PATH to point to correct folders for your distro.

CC="gcc -m32" \
CXX="g++ -m32" \
PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/lib32/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig" \
meson build32 --libdir lib32
ninja -C build32 install

Dependencies

Install necessary development packages.

• gcc, g++
• or gcc-multilib, g++-multilib for 32-bit support
• meson >=0.54
• ninja (ninja-build)
• glslang
• libGL/libEGL (libglvnd, mesa-common-dev, mesa-libGL-devel etc)
• X11 (libx11-dev)
• XNVCtrl (libxnvctrl-dev), optional, use -Dwith_xnvctrl=disabled option with meson to disable
• D-Bus (libdbus-1-dev), optional, use -Dwith_dbus=disabled option with meson to disable

Python 3 libraries:

• Mako (python3-mako or install with pip)

If distro's packaged meson is too old and gives build errors, install newer version with pip (python3-pip).

Building with build script

You can also use build.sh script to do some things automatically like install dependencies, if distro is supported but it usually assumes you are running on x86_64 architecture.

To just build it, execute:

./build.sh build

You can also pass arguments to meson:

./build.sh build -Dwith_xnvctrl=disabled

Resulting files will be install to ./build/release folder.

If you have compiled MangoHud from source, to install it, execute:

./build.sh install

You can then subsequently uninstall MangoHud via the following command

./build.sh uninstall

To tar up the resulting binaries into a package and create a release tar with installer script, execute:

./build.sh package release

or combine the commands, although package should also call build if it doesn't find the built libs:

./build.sh build package release

If you have built MangoHud before and suddenly it fails, you can try cleaning the build folder, execute:

./build.sh clean

Currently it just does rm -fr build and clears subprojects.

NOTE: If you are running an Ubuntu-based, Arch-based, Fedora-based, or openSUSE-based distro, the build script will automatically detect and prompt you to install missing build dependencies. If you run into any issues with this please report them!

Installation - Pre-packaged Binaries

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GitHub releases

If you do not wish to compile anything, simply download the file under Releases, extract it, and from within the extracted folder in terminal, execute:

./mangohud-setup.sh install

Arch-based distributions

If you are using an Arch-based distribution, install mangohud and lib32-mangohud with your favourite AUR helper. mangohud-git and lib32-mangohud-git are also available on the AUR if you want the up-to-date version of MangoHud. These can help fix issues with the hud not activating when using older releases from pacman!

If you are building it by yourself, you need to enable multilib repository, by editing pacman config:

sudo nano /etc/pacman.conf

and uncomment:

#[multilib]
#Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

then save the file and execute:

sudo pacman -Syy

Debian, Ubuntu

If you are using Debian 11 (Bullseye) or later, Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish) or later, or distro derived from them, to install the MangoHud package, execute:

sudo apt install mangohud

Optionally, if you also need MangoHud for 32-bit applications, execute:

sudo apt install mangohud:i386

Fedora

If you are using Fedora, to install the MangoHud package, execute:

sudo dnf install mangohud

Solus

If you are using Solus, to install MangoHud simply execute:

sudo eopkg it mangohud

openSUSE

If you run openSUSE Leap or Tumbleweed you can get Mangohud from the official repositories. There are two packages, mangohud for 64bit and mangohud-32bit for 32bit application support. To have Mangohud working for both 32bit and 64bit applications you need to install both packages even on a 64bit operating system.

sudo zypper in mangohud mangohud-32bit

Leap doesn't seem to have the 32bit package.

Leap 15.2

sudo zypper addrepo -f https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/games:tools/openSUSE_Leap_15.2/games:tools.repo
sudo zypper install mangohud

Leap 15.3

sudo zypper addrepo -f https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/games:tools/openSUSE_Leap_15.3/games:tools.repo
sudo zypper install mangohud

Flatpak

If you are using Flatpaks, you will have to add the Flathub repository for your specific distribution, and then, to install it, execute:

For flatpak:

flatpak install org.freedesktop.Platform.VulkanLayer.MangoHud

To enable MangoHud for all Steam games:

flatpak override --user --env=MANGOHUD=1 com.valvesoftware.Steam

Normal usage

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To enable the MangoHud overlay layer for Vulkan and OpenGL, run :

mangohud /path/to/app

For Lutris games, go to the System options in Lutris (make sure that advanced options are enabled) and add this to the Command prefix setting:

mangohud

For Steam games, you can add this as a launch option:

mangohud %command%

Or alternatively, add MANGOHUD=1 to your shell profile (Vulkan only).

OpenGL

OpenGL games may also need dlsym hooking. Add --dlsym or MANGOHUD_DLSYM=1 env var to your command like mangohud --dlsym %command% for Steam.

Some Linux native OpenGL games overrides LD_PRELOAD and stops MangoHud from working. You can sometimes fix this by editing LD_PRELOAD in the start script LD_PRELOAD=/path/to/mangohud/lib/

Hud configuration

MangoHud comes with a config file which can be used to set configuration options globally or per application. Usually it is installed as /usr/share/doc/mangohud/MangoHud.conf.example or get a copy from here.

The priorities of different config files are:

1. /path/to/application/dir/MangoHud.conf
2. Per-application configuration in ~/.config/MangoHud:
   1. ~/.config/MangoHud/<application_name>.conf for native applications, where <application_name> is the case sensitive name of the executable
   2. ~/.config/MangoHud/wine-<application_name>.conf for wine/proton apps, where <application_name> is the case sensitive name of the executable without the .exe ending
3. ~/.config/MangoHud/MangoHud.conf

Example: For Overwatch, this would be wine-Overwatch.conf (even though the executable you run from Lutris is Battle.net.exe, the actual game executable name is Overwatch.exe).

If you start the game from the terminal with MangoHud enabled (for example by starting Lutris from the terminal), MangoHud will print the config file names it is looking for.

You can find an example config in /usr/share/doc/mangohud

GOverlay is a GUI application that can be used to manage the config

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Environment Variables: MANGOHUD_CONFIG and MANGOHUD_CONFIGFILE

You can also customize the hud by using the MANGOHUD_CONFIG environment variable while separating different options with a comma. This takes priority over any config file.

You can also specify configuration file with MANGOHUD_CONFIGFILE=/path/to/config for applications whose names are hard to guess (java, python etc).

A partial list of parameters are below. See the config file for a complete list. Parameters that are enabled by default have to be explicitly disabled. These (currently) are fps, frame_timing, cpu_stats (cpu load), gpu_stats (gpu load), and each can be disabled by setting the corresponding variable to 0 (e.g., fps=0).

Variable	Description
alpha	Set the opacity of all text and frametime graph 0.0-1.0
arch	Show if the application is 32- or 64-bit
background_alpha	Set the opacity of the background 0.0-1.0
battery_color	Change the battery text color
battery_icon	Display battery icon instead of percent
battery	Display current battery percent and energy consumption
benchmark_percentiles	Configure which framerate percentiles are shown in the logging summary. Default is 97,AVG,1,0.1
blacklist	Add a program to the blacklist. e.g blacklist=vkcube,WatchDogs2.exe
cellpadding_y	Set the vertical cellpadding, default is -0.085
core_load_change	Changes the colors of cpu core loads, uses the same data from cpu_load_value and cpu_load_change
core_load	Displays load & frequency per core
cpu_load_change	Changes the color of the CPU load depending on load
cpu_load_color	Set the colors for the gpu load change low, medium and high. e.g cpu_load_color=0000FF,00FFFF,FF00FF
cpu_load_value	Set the values for medium and high load e.g cpu_load_value=50,90
cpu_mhz	Shows the CPUs current MHz
cpu_power gpu_power	Display CPU/GPU draw in watts
cpu_temp gpu_temp	Displays current CPU/GPU temperature
cpu_text gpu_text	Override CPU and GPU text
custom_text_center	Display a custom text centered useful for a header e.g custom_text_center=FlightLessMango Benchmarks
custom_text	Display a custom text e.g custom_text=Fsync enabled
engine_version	Display OpenGL or vulkan and vulkan-based render engine's version
exec	Display output of bash command in next column, e.g custom_text=/home , exec=df -h /home | tail -n 1. Only works with legacy_layout=false
font_file_text	Change text font. Otherwise font_file is used
font_file	Change default font (set location to .TTF/.OTF file )
font_glyph_ranges	Specify extra font glyph ranges, comma separated: korean, chinese, chinese_simplified, japanese, cyrillic, thai, vietnamese, latin_ext_a, latin_ext_b. If you experience crashes or text is just squares, reduce font size or glyph ranges.
font_scale=	Set global font scale (default=1.0)
font_scale_media_player	Change size of media player text relative to font_size
font_size=	Customizeable font size (default=24)
font_size_text=	Customizeable font size for other text like media metadata (default=24)
fps_limit	Limit the apps framerate. Comma-separated list of one or more FPS values. 0 means unlimited.
fps_limit_method	If FPS limiter should wait before or after presenting a frame. Choose late (default) for the lowest latency or early for the smoothest frametimes.
fps_only	Show FPS only. Not meant to be used with other display params
frame_count	Display frame count
frametime	Display frametime next to FPS text
full	Enables most of the toggleable parameters (currently excludes histogram)
gamemode	Shows if gamemode is on
gamepad_battery_icon	Display gamepad battery percent with icon. Enabled by default
gamepad_battery	Display battey of wireless gamepads (xone/xpadneo/ds4)
gpu_color cpu_color vram_color ram_color io_color engine_color frametime_color background_color text_color media_player_color	Change default colors: gpu_color=RRGGBB
gpu_core_clock gpu_mem_clock	Displays GPU core/memory frequency
gpu_load_change	Changes the color of the GPU load depending on load
gpu_load_color	Set the colors for the gpu load change low,medium and high. e.g gpu_load_color=0000FF,00FFFF,FF00FF
gpu_load_value	Set the values for medium and high load e.g gpu_load_value=50,90
gpu_name	Displays GPU name from pci.ids
histogram	Change FPS graph to histogram
io_read io_write	Show non-cached IO read/write, in MiB/s
log_duration	Set amount of time the logging will run for (in seconds)
log_interval	Change the default log interval, 100 is default
media_player_format	Format media player metadata. Add extra text etc. Semi-colon breaks to new line. Defaults to {title};{artist};{album}.
media_player_name	Force media player DBus service name without the org.mpris.MediaPlayer2 part, like spotify, vlc, audacious or cantata. If none is set, MangoHud tries to switch between currently playing players.
media_player	Show media player metadata
no_display	Hide the HUD by default
no_small_font	Use primary font size for smaller text like units
offset_x offset_y	HUD position offsets
output_folder	Set location of the output files (Required for logging)
pci_dev	Select GPU device in multi-gpu setups
permit_upload	Allow uploading of logs to Flightlessmango.com
position=	Location of the HUD: top-left (default), top-right, middle-left, middle-right, bottom-left, bottom-right, top-center
procmem procmem_shared, procmem_virt	Displays process' memory usage: resident, shared and/or virtual. procmem (resident) also toggles others off if disabled.
ram vram	Displays system RAM/VRAM usage
read_cfg	Add to MANGOHUD_CONFIG as first parameter to also load config file. Otherwise only MANGOHUD_CONFIG parameters are used.
reload_cfg=	Change keybind for reloading the config. Default = Shift_L+F4
resolution	Display the current resolution
round_corners	Change the amount of roundness of the corners have e.g round_corners=10.0
show_fps_limit	Display the current FPS limit
swap	Displays swap space usage next to system RAM usage
table_columns	Set the number of table columns for ImGui, defaults to 3
time time_format=%T	Displays local time. See std::put_time for formatting help. NOTE: Sometimes apps may set TZ (timezone) environment variable to UTC/GMT
toggle_fps_limit	Cycle between FPS limits. Defaults to Shift_L+F1.
toggle_hud= toggle_logging=	Modifiable toggle hotkeys. Default are Shift_R+F12 and Shift_L+F2, respectively.
upload_log	Change keybind for uploading log
version	Shows current MangoHud version
vkbasalt	Shows if vkbasalt is on
vsync gl_vsync	Set vsync for OpenGL or Vulkan
vulkan_driver	Displays used vulkan driver (radv/amdgpu-pro/amdvlk)
width= height=	Customizeable HUD dimensions (in pixels)
wine_color	Change color of the wine/proton text
wine	Shows current Wine or Proton version in use
picmip	Mip-map LoD bias. Negative values will increase texture sharpness (and aliasing). Positive values will increase texture blurriness (-16 to 16)
af	Anisotropic filtering level. Improves sharpness of textures viewed at an angle (0 to 16)
bicubic	Force bicubic filtering
trilinear	Force trilinear filtering
retro	Disables linear texture filtering. Makes textures look blocky

Example: MANGOHUD_CONFIG=cpu_temp,gpu_temp,position=top-right,height=500,font_size=32 Because comma is also used as option delimiter and needs to be escaped for values with a backslash, you can use + like MANGOHUD_CONFIG=fps_limit=60+30+0 instead.

Note: Width and Height are set automatically based on the font_size, but can be overridden.

Note: RAPL is currently used for Intel CPUs to show power draw with cpu_power which may be unreadable for non-root users due to vulnerability. The corresponding energy_uj file has to be readable by corresponding user, e.g. by running chmod o+r /sys/class/powercap/intel-rapl\:0/energy_uj as root, else the power shown will be 0 W, though having the file readable may potentially be a security vulnerability persisting until system reboots.

Vsync

OpenGL Vsync

• -1 = Adaptive sync
• 0 = Off
• 1 = On
• n = Sync to refresh rate / n.

Vulkan Vsync

• 0 = Adaptive VSync (FIFO_RELAXED_KHR)
• 1 = Off (IMMEDIATE_KHR)
• 2 = Mailbox (VSync with uncapped FPS) (MAILBOX_KHR)
• 3 = On (FIFO_KHR)

Not all vulkan vsync options may be supported on your device, you can check what your device supports here vulkan.gpuinfo.org

Keybindings

• Shift_L+F2 : Toggle Logging
• Shift_L+F4 : Reload Config
• Shift_R+F12 : Toggle Hud

Workarounds

Options starting with "gl_*" are for OpenGL.

• gl_size_query = viewport : Specify what to use for getting display size. Options are "viewport", "scissorbox" or disabled. Defaults to using glXQueryDrawable.
• gl_bind_framebuffer = 0..N : (Re)bind given framebuffer before MangoHud gets drawn. Helps with Crusader Kings III.
• gl_dont_flip = 1 : Don't swap origin if using GL_UPPER_LEFT. Helps with Ryujinx.

MangoHud FPS logging

You must set a valid path for output_folder in your configuration to store logs in.

When you toggle logging (using the keybind Shift_L+F2), a file is created with the game name plus a date & timestamp in your output_folder.

Log files can be uploaded to Flightlessmango.com to create graphs automatically.

You can share the created page with others, just link it.

Multiple log files

It's possible to upload multiple files when using Flightlessmango.com. You can rename them to your preferred names and upload them in a batch. These filenames will be used as the legend in the graph.

Log uploading walkthrough