Ensemble drives your processor, graphics card, fans, lighting and your Steam library from the same panel. On top of the daemons you already trust: LACT, CoolerControl and OpenRGB.
Every subsystem has a page of its own with the controls the daemon underneath it really supports. Where a setting is root-owned sysfs that no daemon offers, the screen shows the state with the reason — not a control that answers "Permission denied".
Cores, sensors and the frequency policy on one page, and the honest word about what the kernel keeps to itself.
The same tuning LACT does, in the same window as the rest of your machine.
A fixed duty or a curve to drag, per channel, with the working point drawn on the line.
Every device, every zone, one colour choice — or a colour that follows your temperature.
Launch options composed instead of typed, with the whole line on screen underneath — because nothing here can be read back out of a running game.
Drag points, double-click to add one, and see on the curve exactly where your machine sits right now. Per channel its own temperature source and its own floor, pump included.
AMD ships a Graphics tab in its driver; Linux has no such layer, so every one of those settings is a decision taken when the game starts. Ensemble reads your Steam library and composes that line for you — tick, save, play.
PROTON_FSR4_UPGRADE=1 ENABLE_LAYER_MESA_ANTI_LAG=1 ENABLE_VKBASALT=1 MANGOHUD=1 game-performance %command%
Free, without an account and without telemetry. Pick the package for your distribution — the daemons you already have are reused, the missing ones come along as a dependency.
Debian 12+, Ubuntu 24.04+, Pop!_OS, Mint
Download sha256 —Fedora 40+, openSUSE Tumbleweed, RHEL 9
Download sha256 —Any distribution, without installing
Download sha256 —Arch, Manjaro, EndeavourOS, CachyOS — into your own home
Download sha256 —sudo apt install ./ensemble_26.9.0_amd64.deb sudo dnf install ./ensemble-26.9.0-1.x86_64.rpm tar --zstd -xf ensemble-26.9.0-x86_64.tar.zst && ensemble-26.9.0/install.sh Ensemble writes nothing to your hardware itself: it speaks to the daemons that are already there, over their own interfaces, as your ordinary user.
Yes. Ensemble is free to download and to use, privately and at work. There is no account, no trial period and no paid version with extra features behind a lock.
No. Ensemble is a panel on top of their daemons. Your existing profiles keep working and you can leave the separate apps open beside it — what you change in one shows up in the other.
No. The window runs as your ordinary user; the four daemons already run as root and do the privileged work on your behalf. That is also why the governor, EPP and the frequency bounds are read-only here: those sit in root-owned sysfs and no daemon offers them, so the screen shows the state with the reason instead of a control that fails. CoolerControl is the only one that asks for a password of its own, once, and it is kept in your keyring.
The processor page, the sensors, the fans and the lighting work on any modern x86 machine. For the graphics card AMD is the fullest, because that is where LACT has the most controls; the SMU telemetry card needs the out-of-tree ryzen_smu driver and simply stays away without it.
Because AMD overdrive is off. Without it `pp_od_clk_voltage` does not exist and the card accepts no offsets. Monitoring, the power cap, the performance level and fan control all work regardless. The screen says so and carries the button that turns overdrive on through LACT, which needs no sudo — after that, a reboot.
Only where you change something yourself, and never behind Steam’s back. Steam reads its configuration once at start-up and writes it out when it quits, so Ensemble refuses to write while Steam is running and hands you the line to paste into Steam’s own dialog instead. A launch-options line Ensemble did not write is left alone entirely — it is there for a reason. Every write leaves the previous file beside it as a backup. Lutris and Heroic are not read.
No. No telemetry, no crash uploads, no update check carrying your hardware along. It speaks to your own daemons on localhost and to files on your own disk.
Free to use, on as many machines as you like. No registration, no subscription.
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