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The412Banner 1b3814a587 Hold games to the frame limit in Performance mode (#1609)
A frame limit only paced what reached the screen: a game without vsync
kept drawing hundreds of frames a second that were thrown away (AIO at
a 60 fps limit drew 155 to 2,446 fps), so the limit saved no power.

With Performance mode on and a frame limit set, the session now sets
gamescope's per-game limit over gamescope_control (gamescopectl
debug_set_fps_limit). gamescope's limiter then has its WSI layer hold
Vulkan games, DXVK and VKD3D included, to the limit. gamescope's own
--framerate-limit option is reset on its first frame in 3.16.29, and
Steam resets the per-game limit while it starts, so the session watches
gamescope's limiter state file and sets the limit again whenever it is
off (a once-a-second check with shell builtins, no process started).
With Performance mode off, a limit paces the screen only, as before.

The session also gives gamescope a fixed limiter state file path, so
gamescope stops leaving a new one behind on every start, and removes
the old ones.

Device-proven on the AYANEO Pocket FIT (Turnip, AIO D3D11, 45 s runs on
battery, three runs each): at a 60 fps limit the game held exactly
60.0 fps and the device drew 7.08 W instead of 9.45 W, with 1.3 instead
of 2.6 busy cores and 5 instead of 11 % GPU load. No limit: unchanged.
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