Games Don't Start with MangoHud

[SinCanDory]

Hello everyone. I just reinstalled Linux as my secondary OS but now the games don't start with MangoHud enabled.

If it helps:
CPU: r9 7900
GPU: Rx 7900xt
OS: EndeavourOS
DE: Gnome (Wayland)

Installed Steam via pacman and MangoHud from GitHub. Games start with no issue if I start them without MangoHud, but if I put the "MangoHud %command%", button turns blue and says "pause/stop" but then instantly turns back to green "play" button.

Any idea why it is?

Thanks in advance for the help

[✠ NightKnight ✠]

PUT " mangohud %command%

[SinCanDory]

Neither works sadly. "Mangohud %command%" doesn't let the game start. On the other hand games start with "mangohud=1 %command%" but nothing shows from MangoHud

[Long]

Originally posted by SinCanDory:

Hello everyone. I just reinstalled Linux as my secondary OS but now the games don't start with MangoHud enabled.

If it helps:
CPU: r9 7900
GPU: Rx 7900xt
OS: EndeavourOS
DE: Gnome (Wayland)

Installed Steam via pacman and MangoHud from GitHub. Games start with no issue if I start them without MangoHud, but if I put the "MangoHud %command%", button turns blue and says "pause/stop" but then instantly turns back to green "play" button.

Any idea why it is?

Thanks in advance for the help

MangoHUD is available on the pacman manager as well (aka from Arch's official repository, and some other Arch-based distros' as well which includes EndeavourOS.)

Which method did you use from the github repository?

[Thiesen]

Originally posted by SinCanDory:

Hello everyone. I just reinstalled Linux as my secondary OS but now the games don't start with MangoHud enabled.

If it helps:
CPU: r9 7900
GPU: Rx 7900xt
OS: EndeavourOS
DE: Gnome (Wayland)

Installed Steam via pacman and MangoHud from GitHub. Games start with no issue if I start them without MangoHud, but if I put the "MangoHud %command%", button turns blue and says "pause/stop" but then instantly turns back to green "play" button.

Any idea why it is?

Thanks in advance for the help

Linux is VERY case sensitive... "mangohud %command%... or was that a typo?

But yeah... games that use the Source engine doesn't seem to work with Mangohud... HL2 starts but Mangohud do not show up... same goes for Black Mesa...

[Long]

Alright, I tested it on Half-Life 2 and have very good desirable results!

You need to configure the mangohud conf file.
But instead of going through the configuration file, you can use goverlay which is
ALSO ON THE OFFICIAL ARCH REPOSITORY!

So install that goverlay package, and then you can edit the settings!

After that, put in the following run arguments for the game you want to use mangohud on:

mangohud %command%

[Long]

Also, I think you might also need the 32-bit libraries for mangohud in order for it to work:

lib32-mangohud

install that through your package manager (in this case pacman)

[Long]

Finally made a clip. Okay so here's it in action:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deBX8OD_phg

[SinCanDory]

Sorry for replying late, I believe the issue was OS itself I think. I gave LTS version of EOS from grub a try and it worked without issues. Thanks a lot for all the help and suggestions

[Bedna]

Originally posted by Long:

Also, I think you might also need the 32-bit libraries for mangohud in order for it to work:

lib32-mangohud

For for example Half-Life 2, this is required.
Weather you set the variable: MANGOHUD=1 %command%
Or call the application: mangohud %command%
Does not matter, both works, but the 32-bit libraries are required for this game.

On arch:

sudo pacman -Syu lib32-mangohud