MangoHud

O que é o MangoHud?

MangoHud started as a fork of the now‑discontinued NVIDIA‑Hud project in 2019, adding support for Vulkan, OpenGL, and DirectX via Proton. It is maintained by a small community of contributors and is available in major distro repos, making it easy to install.

The tool is aimed at gamers and developers who need instant performance feedback without the overhead of a full‑fledged experience manager. It works by injecting a small shared library into the game process, so it runs in the background and updates the screen in real time.

Compared with NVIDIA GeForce Experience, MangoHud is lean and configurable. It lacks the social features and driver‑update wizard, but it gives you the raw data you need to tweak settings and track bottlenecks, all without leaving the game window.

Ideal para: Gamers and developers who want instant performance metrics without a full‑fledged experience manager.

Principais recursos do MangoHud

• Real‑time FPS, GPU, CPU, memory, and temperature readouts
• Supports Vulkan, OpenGL, and Proton games
• Configurable via a simple .ini file
• Can overlay on top of any X11 or Wayland session
• Supports custom fonts and colors
• Allows logging to a file
• Can be toggled with a hotkey
• Works with both NVIDIA and AMD GPUs

Dicas para quem vem do Windows

If you’re coming from NVIDIA GeForce Experience, you’ll notice that MangoHud doesn’t manage drivers or game libraries. Instead, you’ll install it via your distro’s package manager (e.g., sudo pacman -S mangohud on Arch). Enable it by adding mangohud to the launch command of a game, or set a global hotkey. The overlay uses the same hotkeys as the Windows tool (e.g., F12) if you configure it. File formats are the same as any other Linux app; no special formats are required. Workflow shifts from a GUI wizard to a text‑based config file, so you’ll need to edit ~/.config/MangoHud/MangoHud.conf for custom settings.