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PenguinBurner: GPU tuning tool released in version v0.8.0

PenguinBurner has been released in version v0.8.0.

PenguinBurner is a tool for managing and optimizing GPUs on Linux, focused on power management, undervolting, and performance tuning. It follows shortly after version v0.7.9.

The headline feature is a new Game Library that brings Steam and Lutris together with background discovery, launcher badges, and sorting, letting you assign a unique power profile per game, including adaptive ones. The release also adds smoother Auto-UV curves, per-tier controls for voltage, clock, memory offset, and power limit, and automatic recovery after failed settings.

Thanks to @Ernold11 for the new Game Library, bringing Steam and Lutris together with background discovery, launcher badges and sorting.

Per each game you can have a unique power profile including the adaptive one!

  • Smoother Auto-UV curves stay consistent throughout scanning, final verification and profile saving.
  • Per-tier controls expose voltage, target clock, memory offset and power limit for Efficiency, Balanced and Performance.
  • Lower custom clocks are tested after voltage descent, with bounded searches for GPUs without preset targets.
  • Automatic recovery retries eligible safer settings after failed candidates or final checks while respecting crash blacklists.
  • Partial results remain available when a later tier fails.
  • Adaptive per-game profiles handle FPS caps more consistently and avoid unnecessary tier increases, thanks again to @Ernold11.

Other fixes:

  • Clearer profile metrics: absolute FPS/clocks; power percentages against the factory limit.
  • Correct live-profile display with the HUD hidden and accurate startup-profile state.
  • Stable Auto-UV tab sizing and adaptive timing independent of overlay refresh rate.
  • Better Q2RTX installation recovery and Lutris NVAPI-shim handling.
  • Preserve game logs and quoted or manually edited launch options.
  • Improved distro packaging checks.

Auto-UV scan in PenguinBurner

Source: GitHub

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