GPU and Graphics Tweakerage Tools?

[Simon]

I am looking for the Linux equivalent of what I suppose is called a DirectX management tool. I know we use OpenGL, Xorg, X-Server, etc.. I will present some examples from Windows.

Universal Modding Engine (uMod) is a program that grabs the textures of any application as it passes through the DirectX and injects user mods in place of those images.

3D Ripper DX is a capture program, again snags texture but also 3D mesh as well. The webpage does reference some OpenGl links but the items listed either lack documentation or are for experts. The items listed are; GLIntercept and OGLE.

3D Analyze is a program to analyze and test the efficiency of your 3D card, and improve it noticeably for 3D gaming.

Just looking for similar tools.

[vinnywright]

humm I just came across this

vinny@vinny-Bonobo-Extreme:~$ apt show driconf
Package: driconf
Version: 0.9.1-4
Priority: optional
Section: universe/x11
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Original-Maintainer: Python Applications Packaging Team <python-apps-team@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 336 kB
Depends: python-gtk2 (>> 2.4.0), x11-utils, python (>= 2.7), python (<< 2.8), python:any (>= 2.7.1-0ubuntu2)
Recommends: libgl1-mesa-dri
Suggests: mesa-utils
Homepage: http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/DriConf
Download-Size: 83.8 kB
APT-Sources: http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages
Description: DRI configuration applet
 Driconf is a configuration applet for the Direct Rendering Infrastructure
 (DRI). It allows customizing performance and visual quality settings of OpenGL
 drivers on a per-driver, per-screen and/or per-application level.
 .
 Driconf is implemented in Python. It uses the GTK+ toolkit bindings and the
 xdriinfo program (from the xdriinfo or xbase-clients package) to retrieve
 configuration information from OpenGL drivers.

and thought of this post ,,,,,,,,

VINNY

[Simon]

Great find Vinny, I went to the webpage at: https://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/DriConf/ when I tried the Download link for the tarball I got, 403 Forbiddn: You don't have permission to access /~fxkuehl/driconf/driconf-0.9.1.tar.gz on this server.

They said, it is hosted at SourceForge.

I found this screen shot...



Which looks great, but no files!

This looks very much what I would like to find, is some shenanigans or jiggery-pokery for some of the graphics settings.

Thanks!

[Snowhog]

Well, driconf (package) is available in the universe repositories for Precise through Yakkety:

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/driconf

And an article on phoronix.com states:

DRIConf Is Still a Mess & Leaves A Lot To Be Desired

It's 'dated', having been written back in 2013.

[Simon]

Thanks Snowhog, I am still running the Trusty Tahr, but mine is on the list too. I tried to use the Catalyst Control Center on my AMD/Raedon GPU and it just seems to mess it up. Mesa is handling most things but I am curious about adding some flexibility to the GPU. Just fiddling with the settings... that seldom gets me into trouble eh?