Steam games are not being reniced about ananicy HOT 1 OPEN

Had the some problem, but figured out why and how to fix it.

First, find your game's PID (ps, htop, pgrep), then run ananicy dump proc | grep -A 10 '(<pid>' to see internal process map the way Ananicy sees it (it uses the /proc tree).
You should see the output similar to this:

 (255763, 255841, 'wine64-preloader'): {'autogroup': {'group': 945, 'nice': 0},
                                        'cmd': 'wine64-preloader',
                                        'cmdline': ('Z:\\home\\john\\.local\\share\\Steam\\steamapps\\common\\Get '
                                                    'To The Orange Door\\Get '
                                                    'To The Orange Door.exe',
                                                    '',
                                                    '',
                                                    '',

Notice that cmd is not the game's exe name, but wine64-preloader. The game's name (with its full path) is the parameter - don't get confused with parameter being split multiple lines, notice that first two do not have comma at the end - so they'll be concatenated together.

Now, if you write a rule such as:

{ "name": "wine64-preloader", "type": "game"}

this'll apply the rule to all wine processes - which is not what you want.

You need to use cmdlines parameter (as explained in documentation) and add the game's full path as a parameter. This is the rule I've created for "Get To The Orange Door" and it works.

# https://store.steampowered.com/app/541200/GTTOD_Get_To_The_Orange_Door/
{ "name": "wine64-preloader", "cmdlines": ["Z:\\home\\john\\.local\\share\\Steam\\steamapps\\common\\Get To The Orange Door\\Get To The Orange Door.exe"], "type": "game"}

Now, the question that I can't answer - is /this/ the process that needs to have its niceness upped, since its a wine process? Does wine need upping priority too?
Can't anwer these, but GTTOD used to drop to 43FPS for me and have few stutters when loading - niceing it to -20 fixed all of that, and now it runs at stable >60FPS..

Fun fact:
I've checked about 50-60% of wine rules in the 00-defaults - and they're all wrongly set up, ie. neither one will work.

Scratch that - Fallout76.exe works by default config, and the dump proc output returns same value as for GTTOD. I wonder if spaces in the title make a difference...

from ananicy.