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Nyrna

Similar to the incredibly useful sleep/suspend function found in consoles like the Nintendo Switch and Sony PlayStation; suspend your game (and its resource usage) at any time, and resume whenever you wish - at the push of a button.

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Install from the command line

  • winget install -e --id KristenMcWilliam.Nyrna
  • flatpak install flathub codes.merritt.Nyrna

Be careful what you paste into a terminal. Check what a command installs before running it.

What is Nyrna?

Similar to the incredibly useful sleep/suspend function found in consoles like the Nintendo Switch and Sony PlayStation; suspend your game (and its resource usage) at any time, and resume whenever you wish - at the push of a button. Suspend Games

Pause cutscenes to read the subtitles, examine the scene, answer the door, etc. Pause games that can't normally be paused (single-player games like Dark Souls, Elden Ring, etc) Suspend games whose pause screens keep the system running hot or playing unwanted music Suspend inbetween checkpoints (example: Hollow Knight)

Suspend Applications

Nyrna can be used to suspend normal, non-game applications as well. For example:

3D renders video encoding software compilation

The CPU and GPU resources are being used by said task - maybe for hours - when you would like to use the system for something else. With Nyrna you can suspend that program, freeing up the resources (excluding RAM) until the process is resumed, without losing where you were - like the middle of a long job, or a gaming session between save points.

Nyrna works on Linux with X11 and Microsoft Windows.

Nyrna Website Disclaimer

Modifying running applications comes with the possibility that the application will crash.

While this is rare, it is a known possibility that Nyrna can do nothing about.

Please make sure to save your data or game before attempting to use Nyrna.